January 29th, 2010
More than 970 volunteers strode streets, scaled hillsides and shone flashlights into dark spaces this morning as part of the annual One Night Count of homeless people in King County. The project counts the number of homeless in the county including those in shelters, but this morning the search was for “unsheltered”
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January 19th, 2010
Councilmember Mike O’Brien and I are attending the final meeting tonight of the Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee. This has been a hard-working, sometimes stressed out, outspoken group of neighborhood and community representatives committed to making neighborhood plan update work successful. They’ve met monthly (plus sub-committee meetings) for a year and produced an
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January 11th, 2010
I don’t know what exactly will come of this, but a few of us at Council are interested in allowing parking near light rail stations at least as a temporary use for a few years. The city has been following the law by issuing “notices of violation” to parking lot operators around
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Posted: January 11th, 2010 under
Transportation.
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January 4th, 2010
The New York Times Sunday edition carried this wake-up piece about the record high number of people using food stamps. The piece notes that the surge has happened under the radar which seems hard given the numbers cited in the article: The public development authority model for coordination of action is interesting
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