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Unfit for human habitation? The city shut down Eric Hilton's Wallingford rooming house.

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Poor, poor landlord

A notorious Seattle landlord pleads poverty.

Workers: We can't buy a break

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News Clips— Praying for Salvation

THE SALVATION ARMY’S Catherine Booth House, a shelter and resource center for abused women and their children, is…

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News Clips— Rainier erupts

AS THE SEATTLE City Council tiptoes through a thorny stretch of negotiations with the city’s public housing agency,…

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News Clips— New vista?

BURIED UNDER a sea of acronyms like MOA, HUD, OH, and NOFA (don’t even ask) was a rare…

Ain't it quaint

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Ain’t it quaint

A New York girl braves the boonies.

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Was last week’s primary election a referendum on Seattle’s tolerance for taxes? More than 55 percent of the…

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CAMPAIGN 2003 UNDER WAY Tenants’ maven Judy Nicastro is drawing opponents like Madonna draws paparazzi. Two realtors have…

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Would you vote for a new monorail if it meant tearing down the old one? A group of…

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On Tuesday, King County Superior Court Judge James Doerty granted the Elevated Transportation Company (ETC) a broad exemption…

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Civil Rights, the Monorail, and City Hall

CIVIL RIGHTS Westlake Mall security guards picked on the wrong demonstrator in February, when they singled Beth Sanders…

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News Clips— Cleansing action

MORE ACTION, less process. That was the message from five of eight Seattle City Council members on Mon.,…

Fare and Loathing

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Fare and Loathing

A commuter reveals the seamy underside of riding the bus.

The Sept. 11 attacks shut down the shelter at the old Federal Building.

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News Clips— Shelter storm

IS THE CLOSING of two downtown shelters testimony to Seattle’s indifference toward the homeless, or evidence of a…

Preservationists, not the congregation, want to save this church.

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Save First Methodist!

Preservationists start campaign to save 94-year-old sanctuary.

The $10 billion question

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The $10 billion question

The current plan to widen I-405 won't reduce traffic, costs too much, and will savage the environment.

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CITY HALL Seattle’s impound ordinance, which allows the city to seize cars driven by people with suspended licenses,…

Up to 22 percent of apartments in Belltown are vacant.

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Renters’ market

Belltown suffers from a glut of high-end rentals.

Bug trouble

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Bug trouble

Will clearcuts and pesticides solve pest problems?

Tenants Union director Arlen Olson says the feds pulled the rug out from under his organization.

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Money vanishes

Feds' infighting hurts local housing groups.

Easy She Ain't

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Easy She Ain’t

A study that fails to pierce the myth of the slut.