February 6th, 2013
I participated in the annual One Night Count of unsheltered people in King County in the early morning hours of Jan. 25. Hundreds of volunteers participate each year to count and witness. Each year I’ve done the Count I’ve been dispatched with other volunteers to city streets, green spaces, parks and under-passes.
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October 11th, 2012
The recent launch of the See It, Send It campaign by the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau Street Scene Task Force has generated a new run of debate over Seattle’s attitudes and responses to disorder Downtown. “Disorder” takes many forms depending upon your threshold. So far the campaign has forwarded eight (as
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September 12th, 2011
Over the weekend I zipped down to visit my mom who is suffering through pneumonia. I didn’t have to miss work, but I also didn’t stress about whether I might miss work. Last year I had pneumonia and missed almost two weeks of work. I stressed about what I wasn’t getting done
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Posted: September 12th, 2011 under
Housing, Human Services, and Health.
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March 30th, 2011
Growing up my mom would take my sister and me to see Dr. Whittemore for regular check-ups. The office he started is still there on N.W. Lovejoy Street in Portland. He could hear the pneumonia in my chest over the phone in the night when I was five. I was a lucky
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December 16th, 2010
What’s vaping, you ask? That’s the lingo for users of electronic cigarettes. Instead of smoking users of e-cigarettes vape. At the King County Board of Health meeting today we voted to regulate this new world of electronic cigarettes much like we regulate the world of old-fashioned cigarettes. No selling e-cigs to minors,
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Posted: December 16th, 2010 under
Housing, Human Services, and Health.
June 1st, 2010
I wanted to blog about the Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Schools meeting we held Tuesday night at Eckstein in Northeast Seattle with members of the Council’s Committee on the Built Environment, members of the School Board’s Operations Committee, but the video of the meeting hasn’t been posted by Seattle Channel yet. I’ll wait
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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 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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November 19th, 2009
Is there a worse blow to your karma than robbing a food bank the week before Thanksgiving? I guess it could be worse if you rob a food bank in the part of Seattle with the lowest incomes. I guess that would be a worse blow to your karma. The Rainier Valley
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September 18th, 2009
I toured the University of Washington South Lake Union building near Mercer and 9th this morning with Councilmembers Drago and Rasmussen and saw things both cool and creepy. The main reason for the visit was to better understand their use of their existing South Lake union buildings and to understand their proposal
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