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Kshama Sawant Explains Why Seattle Is So Over Capitalism Right Now
A specter is haunting America, and it rhymes with “hopeful prism.”
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Bernie Sanders Is the Right Choice, Right Now
We wholeheartedly support the Vermont Senator in the March 26 Washington state Democratic caucuses.
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A New Encampment Is Challenging the Anti-Drug Dogma That Rules Homeless Services
Nickelsville began in 2008 as a field of bright, neon-pink tents erected in protest against then-mayor Greg Nickels’…
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Using Nature as Inspiration, Architects and Designers Are Building Seattle’s Biofuture
“Look at that bamboo out there.”
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Paul Allen Can Help Start an Honest Conversation About Football and Brains
With the NFL admitting football is connected to chronic brain injury, Seahawks owner Paul Allen must speak up…
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Op-ed: Weekly Editorial on City Light CEO Larry Weis Was a Dim Take
The process of approving Mayor Ed Murray’s nomination for CEO of Seattle City Light, Larry Weis, proved to…
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Why a White Lady Is Championing Reparations in Seattle
Earlier this year, Bernie Sanders was asked whether he would support reparations for slavery in America.
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Is the Charter School Fix a Fix?
On March 10, lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill aimed at salvaging the 2012 charter-school law that the state…
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Amidst Homeless Crisis, Compassion Seems to Be in Fashion
For 20 years, homeless people and the public have gathered weekly at the ROOTS Young Adult Shelter in…
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Spare a Coffin for the Homeless, Sir?
Some Seattle innovators want to put homeless people in coffins—but in a good way.
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‘App-artheid’ and Gluttony at Google’s Delicious, Nauseating New Kirkland Cafeteria
Back when Google Kirkland was just one complex, the “new” cafeteria served things like mushroom rigatoni and Israeli…
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As Former Nickelsville Site Gets Cleared, Homeless and Their Providers Face Off
Seattle’s homeless crisis took a dramatic—if not entirely unexpected—turn Friday morning as police cleared the former Nickelsville encampment…
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The Campaign Against Larry Weis Feels Like a Lot of Hot Air
The climate movement’s salvos against the nominee for CEO of Seattle City Light, while promising very little by…
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How Amazon and Vulcan Bought Their Way into City Hall This Year
Last year’s City Council election was, in the parlance of the Republican presidential front-runner, yuge.
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How the Cheap, Creepy Robotic Hand from UW Will Change the Way We Work
Last month, two researchers at the University of Washington gave the world a hand.
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In West Seattle, a Yard That’s Magical, Whimsical, and Not Up to Code
Out of a small backyard in a cheery West Seattle neighborhood near California Avenue Southwest and Southwest Charlestown…
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Chief Seattle’s Grandson and the Dawn of the ‘Forgotten Indian’
The Indian’s night promises to be dark.
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Visual Arts – Openings & Events Bill Ball Inspired to paint three
Visual Arts – Openings & Events Bill Ball Inspired to paint three years ago at Burning Man, he…
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Stage Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live
Stage Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see thecancan.com…
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Classical Compline Services A half-hour meditation each week with the eight-voice Renaissance
Classical Compline Services A half-hour meditation each week with the eight-voice Renaissance Singers. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1245…