The Neighborhood Safety Alliance is growing in influence. But will it be driven by fear or love, pull the city up or down in its prolonged quest to move transient crime out of Seattle’s neighborhoods?
Asked if he thought SHARE was playing politics with the closure of shelters for the needy, a city official was unequivocal. “I do,” he says. “It’s directly connected to a request they’re making to the county [for money].”
Earlier this month, legislators in Olympia approved a plan to direct state dollars toward homeless student services via a competitive grant program. But will they fund that funding?
Last night, speaking on a drug policy panel at Seattle University, Urquhart came even closer to an outright endorsement of safe drug sites in Seattle. “I guarantee you,” said Urquhart, “that if you’re going into a safe injection site, you will not be arrested by any of my deputies, period.”
Today, proponents of bringing safe drug sites to Seattle launch their public education (or propaganda, depending on your political leanings) campaign, to let the rest of us know the details of and rationale behind such sites.
Operators of the homeless advocacy and service group SHARE say that they’ll be forced to close down 15 shelters holding about 450 people Thursday morning, because they’re out of money.
We interview @Man_In_Tree and contemplate whether it’s okay to take pleasure in a mental health crisis. Welcome to your digital future.
Former residents of Nickelsville have started a new group that aims to have a more democratic approach to tent cities and, perhaps more controversially, want to offer an open door to drug addicts.
A local mad scientist wants to bring capsule hotels to Seattle’s homeless.
A new report shows how developers got their voice heard in the 2015 election.
The Seattle City Council is not happy with Mayor Ed Murray’s efforts to clear unpermitted homeless encampments, if this morning…
Monday afternoon, Uncle Ike’s parking lot was overflowing with people. But they weren’t customers buying pot. They were black liberationists…
This morning, black lives advocates assembled outside Uptown Espresso in South Lake Union to decry the treatment of #BlackLivesMatter protesters…
In December, state representative Brady Walkinshaw announced that he’d run against 45-year incumbent Jim McDermott for his seat in the…
Last year, teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian broke the Internet—but not in a good way. On Martin Luther King Jr….
You’re a consumer. Maybe you like to get stoned with friends on the weekend, or maybe your sister smokes CBD…
Monday, Seattle City Council will vote on whether to give an alley near South Lake Union to Amazon, which wants…
When Nick Licata was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 1997, Amazon was happily headquartered in SoDo, the…
Carbon Washington, the group behind the state legislature initiative to institute a supposedly revenue-neutral tax on carbon, last week submitted…
