City leaders want to make it easier for poor families to enroll in the Utilities Discount Program.
The ACLU threatens to sue, Murray doesn’t like the word ‘sweeps,’ and a camper says clearing the Jungle ‘sounds right.’
Some councilmembers agree with them.
Coming this week at City Hall.
After nearly a year of legal wrangling, Carol Burton is back with her students.
“This is a friggin’ waste of time and resource. You would have to build a Berlin Wall …to keep people out of there. And an army to patrol it.”
It took a years-long legal battle, a lot of red tape, and a 170-mile drive.
After years of fighting between boosters and neighbors, City Council has the final say.
Despite a ruling that Carol Burton should have her job back, Seattle Public Schools is keeping her out of the classroom and leaving it to students to run the Garfield choir program.
The report, Healthcare Denied: Patients and Physicians Speak Out About Catholic Hospitals and the Threat to Women’s Health and Lives, recounts instances where doctors at Catholic-affiliated hospitals have been prohibited from caring for their patients due to theologically-based rules.
Kshama Sawant wants Bernie Sanders to break away from the Democratic Party. Pramala Jayapal thinks he can change more from within.
A first person account of this year’s May Day melee.
Anarchist activist Shon Meckfessel explains why someone might feel like breaking a window.
The city council is considering action on a new audit that shows police abuse of the overtime system.
Local congressional candidate Pramila Jayapal is one of three congressional candidates Bernie Sanders is supporting in an effort to make the Democratic Party more liberal.
A week and a half ago, sacked teacher Carol Burton won an appeal to get back her job teaching choir at Garfield High School. But according to her lawyer Kevin Peck, Burton still hasn’t returned to the classroom. This afternoon, Burton and her supporters will ask the school board to fix that.
The journalist and social entrepreneur dishes on his fledgling news blog’s first two years.
Ballard tent city residents accuse the homeless service of hording bus passes to funnel people to an ongoing protest downtown.
The day before April Fools, a city employee donated several dozen ORCA transit passes to the campers at Tent City 5 in Ballard. An elected camp leader distributed them to campers. Hours later, word came from SHARE’s central leadership that the passes were to be re-collected and brought to the SHARE office.
The Community Police Commission wants poor people to have somewhere they can legally drink.
