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    Articles by Casey Jaywork
    Illustration by Leo Zarosinski (detail)
    Aiming for Crime, Hitting the Homeless
    By Casey Jaywork • April 13, 2016 1:30 am

    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?

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    Did SHARE Close Its Shelters Just to Make a Point?
    Did SHARE Close Its Shelters Just to Make...
    By Casey Jaywork • April 6, 2016 1:30 am

    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].”

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    Statehouse Vacillates On Whether to Fund Homeless Student Funding
    Statehouse Vacillates On Whether to Fund Homeless Student...
    By Casey Jaywork • March 31, 2016 1:30 am

    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?

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    Sheriff: Safe Drug Site Users Would ‘Not Be Arrested By Any of My Deputies’
    Sheriff: Safe Drug Site Users Would ‘Not Be...
    By Casey Jaywork • March 31, 2016 1:30 am

    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.”

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    Today: Learn About Safe Drug Sites, In Person
    Today: Learn About Safe Drug Sites, In Person
    By Casey Jaywork • March 31, 2016 1:30 am

    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.

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    15 Homeless Shelters to Close Thursday Morning
    15 Homeless Shelters to Close Thursday Morning
    By Casey Jaywork • March 31, 2016 1:30 am

    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.

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    Illustration by Joshua Boulet (detail)
    Was It Wrong to Laugh at #ManInTree?
    By Casey Jaywork • March 30, 2016 1:30 am

    We interview @Man_In_Tree and contemplate whether it’s okay to take pleasure in a mental health crisis. Welcome to your digital future.

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    A New Encampment Is Challenging the Anti-Drug Dogma That Rules Homeless Services
    A New Encampment Is Challenging the Anti-Drug Dogma...
    By Casey Jaywork • March 22, 2016 4:10 am

    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.

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    People--now available in a tube! (detail)
    Spare a Coffin for the Homeless, Sir?
    By Casey Jaywork • March 16, 2016 7:00 pm

    A local mad scientist wants to bring capsule hotels to Seattle’s homeless.

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    In this March 3 photo, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is given a tour of Amazon headquarters in Seattle. DoD photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Tim D. Godbee/Flickr
    How Amazon and Vulcan Bought Their Way into...
    By Casey Jaywork • March 11, 2016 4:30 am

    A new report shows how developers got their voice heard in the 2015 election.

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    Lisa Herbold at this morning's council briefing on homeless encampment clearings. Screenshot via the Seattle Channel.
    The Seattle City Council is not happy with...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 19, 2016 3:25 pm

    The Seattle City Council is not happy with Mayor Ed Murray’s efforts to clear unpermitted homeless encampments, if this morning…

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    A Black Lives Matter banner outside Uncle Ike's pot shop at 23rd and Union. Photo by Casey Jaywork.
    Monday afternoon, Uncle Ike’s parking lot was overflowing...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 18, 2016 8:13 pm

    Monday afternoon, Uncle Ike’s parking lot was overflowing with people. But they weren’t customers buying pot. They were black liberationists…

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    Left to right: lawyer Nikkita Oliver, activist Marissa Johnson, random white dude, activist Mohawk Kuzma, and photographer Jay Trinidad. Photo by Casey Jaywork.
    This morning, black lives advocates assembled outside Uptown...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 18, 2016 11:59 am

    This morning, black lives advocates assembled outside Uptown Espresso in South Lake Union to decry the treatment of #BlackLivesMatter protesters…

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    Photo courtesy of Brady Walkinshaw.
    In December, state representative Brady Walkinshaw announced that...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 14, 2016 4:52 pm

    In December, state representative Brady Walkinshaw announced that he’d run against 45-year incumbent Jim McDermott for his seat in the…

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    Teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian. Photo by Jose Trujillo.
    Last year, teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian broke...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 11, 2016 5:06 pm

    Last year, teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian broke the Internet—but not in a good way. On Martin Luther King Jr….

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    This map, created by the mayor's office, shows in yellow where pot stores are allowed under current distance requirements of 1000 feet.
    You’re a consumer. Maybe you like to get...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 11, 2016 9:44 am

    You’re a consumer. Maybe you like to get stoned with friends on the weekend, or maybe your sister smokes CBD…

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    A conceptual image of the proposed Amazon plaza.
    Monday, Seattle City Council will vote on whether...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 7, 2016 5:45 pm

    Monday, Seattle City Council will vote on whether to give an alley near South Lake Union to Amazon, which wants…

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    At first, the four members of La Luz were afraid to tell
    When Nick Licata was first elected to the...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 7, 2016 11:07 am

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    When Nick Licata was first elected to the Seattle City Council in
    When Nick Licata was first elected to the...
    By Casey Jaywork • January 4, 2016 1:26 pm

    When Nick Licata was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 1997, Amazon was happily headquartered in SoDo, the…

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    Carbon Washington, the group behind the state legislature initiative to institute a
    Carbon Washington, the group behind the state legislature...
    By Casey Jaywork • December 31, 2015 3:41 pm

    Carbon Washington, the group behind the state legislature initiative to institute a supposedly revenue-neutral tax on carbon, last week submitted…

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