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City is starting property transfers to resident organizations

by Ashley Archibald | September 23rd, 2020

It took more than a decade, but it finally happened. The Seattle City Council is poised to approve the transfer of former Fire Station 23 to Byrd Barr Place, a social services organization that has been operating in the Central District for more than 50...

Read more in the Sept. 23-29, 2020 issue.

Lowering the Barr

by Ashley Archibald | September 23rd, 2020

United States Attorney General William Barr asked federal prosecutors to explore whether or not they could levy charges against Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan for “allowing a police-free protest zone” in June, according to explosive reporting by the New York...

Read more in the Sept. 23-29, 2020 issue.

Kshama Sawant marches for Seattle University adjunct professors in 2016. On Sept. 15, the council decided the city will fund her defense of a recall effort; on Sept. 16, a judge ruled the effort can move forward against her. File photo by Jon Williams

City Councilmember Sawant faces scant recall fueled by process

by Ashley Archibald | September 23rd, 2020

A district judge ruled that a recall effort against Councilmember Kshama Sawant could move forward, making her the second elected official in Seattle to face recall in two months. In his decision, presiding Judge Jim Rogers found that the four claims...

Read more in the Sept. 23-29, 2020 issue.

Zelda Norman and Maryanne Decena wait for students to pick up meals at Rainier View Elementary School. The program is open to families of all income levels because of a federal government waiver that expires at the end of the year. Photo by Ashley Archiba

Schools step up to fill the void in student nutrition with meals program

by Ashley Archibald | September 16th, 2020

When a young man got out of a car and approached Rainier View Elementary School, Zelda Norman hailed him before he could even cross the threshold of the school. He approached a cart that was laden with prepared meals and snacks, and flanked by silvery...

Read more in the Sept. 16-22, 2020 issue.

Bob’s your uncle | Scoot scoot boogey | Just. Vote.

by Ashley Archibald | September 16th, 2020

Bob’s your uncle When Bob Woodward calls, maybe don’t pick up? That’s a lesson President Donald Trump could learn from last week, when reviewers got their hands on Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage,” a tell-all that purports to lay bare the Trump administration...

Read more in the Sept. 16-22, 2020 issue.

A resident walks in sodo, just south of downtown, Sept. 13 through the multi-fire smog hanging over Seattle. Photo by Mark White

Puget Sound enduring smoke from fires all down the West Coast

by Ashley Archibald | September 16th, 2020

The West Coast burned, but no one was fiddling. Wildfires raged over the weekend and into the week, claiming lives and choking people with thick, acrid smoke. Government officials urged people to stay inside. Most masks people would wear to protect them...

Read more in the Sept. 16-22, 2020 issue.

John T. Williams’ brother Rick attends the 10-year memorial of the killing of Williams by Seattle police officer Ian Birk there, near the intersection of Boren and Howell streets. Photos by Susan Fried

What’s changed?

by Ashley Archibald | September 9th, 2020

10 years after the killing of John T. Williams

A crowd gathered near the Space Needle in the early afternoon of Aug. 30, precisely when John T. Williams, an Indigenous woodcarver, was killed by a Seattle police officer 10 years ago. There stands a totem pole erected in Williams’ honor by his family amid...

Read more in the Sept. 9-15, 2020 issue.

Diaz carves up police force in an effort to get more cops on the street

by Ashley Archibald | September 9th, 2020

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz announced a shakeup in the police force on Sept. 2 that would put 88 more cops on the streets, even as advocates for alternatives to policing seek to reduce funding to the department as a whole...

Read more in the Sept. 9-15, 2020 issue.

Lawless and blue | Investigation, lacking

by Ashley Archibald | September 9th, 2020

Lawless and blue President Donald Trump signed a memo on Sept. 2 to begin the process of withholding federal funds for Seattle and other Democratic cities that have moved to defund police and refuse “to protect their communities from rioting, looting and...

Read more in the Sept. 9-15, 2020 issue.

Due to the unconstrained coronavirus, Lillie lost their housing at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They will also soon lose the small monthly income they receive from Washington state’s extended foster care program. Distance learning has affec

Washington foster care stretched by covid education measures

by Ashley Archibald | September 2nd, 2020

Lillie long dreamed of going to St. John’s College, a unique school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that bases its curriculum on what it calls “The Great Books.” History, language, math, philosophy, you name it — all are taught through foundational texts that...