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Articles by Adam Hyla

City’s Sweeps Remove Campers’ Belongings, Leave Trash

by Adam Hyla | October 31st, 2007

“Proactive” approach to clearing out visibly homeless people

Doug McKeehen steps off the sidewalk and into the notched dirt steps of the path heading up Queen Anne Hill. We brush past the laurel; ivy fringes the mud beneath our feet. A right bend, then a left, and at the edge of a clearing not 50 feet from Aurora...

Tree of Smoke

by Adam Hyla | October 31st, 2007

Book Review: Tree of Smoke By Denis Johnson

Tree of Smoke By Denis Johnson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover, 614 pages, $27 : A G-man on his first assignment stops in at a Catholic Church on a Philippine island. It is 1965, and the young spy is growing his hair out in emulation of his martyred...

Change Agent Oct 3, 2007

by Adam Hyla | October 3rd, 2007

Presidential contestant Ron Paul got thunderous applause at a Republican presidential candidate's forum last week with the following statement: "We don't have to have more courts and more prisons, we need to repeal the whole War on Drugs." The warm reaction...

Day labor site targeted

by Adam Hyla | September 26th, 2007

The public discussion about CASA Latina’s future home got a little more heated this week, as a Washington D.C. legal group made known its desire to halt development of the publicly funded job and community center in the Central District. Judicial Watch,...

Just Heard Sep 26, 2007

by Adam Hyla | September 26th, 2007

Boomtown: busted Two years since it closed its Pioneer Square storefront restaurant, Boomtown Café is gone for good. After a series of financial disappointments, treasurer David Hill says the board concluded that “This was a business model that’s not...

Zoned Out

by Adam Hyla | September 26th, 2007

September 20 hearing brings out contradictory opinions on the proper uses of Ballard, Interbay, and SODO industrial areas

Doug Dixon had little reason to be happy when he arrived at City Hall for the evening meeting. The shipyard that he manages needs hundreds of thousands of dollars in stormwater management and other upgrades. To pay for them, he mortgaged an employee parking...

An Accident Waiting to Happen?

by Adam Hyla | September 12th, 2007

Despite Metro’s engineering changes, transit operators ask: Is the remodeled transit tunnel safe?

One of the advantages of driving a bus for a living, says Dee Wake- night, is that your supervisor isn't constantly looking over your shoulder. But the open road is not entirely free; someone had to plot the lanes and pour the concrete. And the road and its...

Just Heard Sep 5, 2007

by Adam Hyla | September 5th, 2007

The littlest uninsured A record 47 million Americans did not have health insurance last year, while the percentage of children without insurance rose for a second consecutive year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released at the end of August. The...

Saving Seattle’s Industrial Areas

by Adam Hyla | September 5th, 2007

Ballard-Interbay and the Duwamish industrial centers should stay industrial, says a city report — except where Starbucks needs room to grow

What is the future of Seattle's industry? Warren Aakervik, Jr., wants to know. The second-generation owner of Ballard Oil Co. fuels home furnaces and the engines of the Alaska-bound fishing fleet from his dock on Salmon Bay. But episodic clashes -- with...

Dishing up Katrina, with Brownie for dessert

by Adam Hyla | August 29th, 2007

The full scope of wrack and ruin caused by Hurricane Katrina is hard to imagine. So it's helpful to come across a gloss on the current state of housing, employment, and public housing in the storm-damaged region by the Institute for Southern Studies. The...