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Articles by Ashley Archibald

Trump’s 2021 budget among the melee of national politics

by Ashley Archibald | February 12th, 2020

As White House watchers waited for the Monday drop of the Trump administration’s 2021 budget, the questions on the minds of policy wonks wasn’t whether the White House would try to slash the social safety net. It was how and by how much. The results were...

Coronavirus, locally

by Ashley Archibald | February 12th, 2020

Public health officials reported Feb. 11 they are awaiting results on one patient in King County possibly infected with the deadly coronavirus although risk of catching the virus in the area appears low. According to the Washington state Department of...

Senate time, and the bills are jumpin’

by Ashley Archibald | February 12th, 2020

The Washington state legislative session is in full swing and state lawmakers are debating several pieces of legislation that would directly impact homelessness in King County. Some didn’t make it far. Senate Bill 6109 would have established a pilot program...

Confronting a WoLF at the public library’s door

by Ashley Archibald | February 10th, 2020

A Seattle Public Library event drew a crowd of protesters on a Saturday night, Feb. 1, to confront the organizers’ message, which denies transgender identities, and call into question the library’s expressed commitment to transgender people. Word broke in...

Taxing the rich

by Ashley Archibald | February 10th, 2020

The executives of Seattle and King County applauded a bill that, if passed, would raise more than $120 million per year to tackle the root causes of the homelessness crisis. The Washington House of Representatives bill 2907 and its Senate companion bill...

Community responses to downtown shootings differ

by Ashley Archibald | February 10th, 2020

King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay stepped up to the podium in the New Holly Gathering Hall to address a room packed with his constituents. They had asked for the meeting in the wake of a mass shooting downtown that injured seven and killed one. The...

State republicans pitch their plans to fix homelessness

by Ashley Archibald | January 29th, 2020

In the gray period when Thursday night bled into Friday morning, volunteers led by people with lived experience of homelessness spanned King County to conduct the annual point-in-time count. The results, which won’t come out for months, are used as data to...

New federal policy on food assistance will affect hundreds of thousands

by Ashley Archibald | January 29th, 2020

As presidential hopefuls vying for the Democratic ticket offer the American people free college, free child care and better health insurance, the Trump administration is altering the social safety net to knock vulnerable people off government assistance...

Get in line

by Ashley Archibald | January 29th, 2020

The King County Housing Authority (KCHA) will open its waitlist for housing vouchers for two weeks in February, allowing people a shot at subsidized housing in the unincorporated parts of the county and 37 cities in the county. Housing Choice Vouchers, also...

Leilani Sallier, Summer Machado and Georgia Carter march.

The 2020 dream

by Ashley Archibald | January 22nd, 2020

Making strides toward Martin Luther King's vision

Upturned signs lined the Garfield High School gymnasium entrance in a veritable thicket, awaiting hundreds of marchers who would fill the space to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Those were emblazoned by the year’s logo, a drawing of...