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Table of Contents
March 8, 2001, Vol. 8, No. 6
Headlines:
- Going Postal on the Homeless
- Homebuilders Say Less Red Tape
- More Housing
- Confessions of a Rent-a-Cop
- Spineless Democrats
Table of Contents:
Our Hero? Sound Transit Greg Nickels is pulling to be our next Mayor! Interview by Peter Bloch Garcia, Pages 1, 10
| A chat with mayoral candidate Greg Nickels
- The Nickels File
- Picture: Greg Nickels’ support for light rail has never wavered
- Photo by Rick Dahms
Mailbag, Page 2
- Sales Pitch by Brett Landgraf | Seattle
Opinion: For Equal Access. Postal Service continues discrimination against homeless people by Anitra Freeman, Page 3
This Just In! By Bob Redmond, Page 3
News You Can Use! Close to Home, Page 4
- Shaken, then shut by Adam Holdorf [RE: Shelters damaged by earthquake on February 28, 2001, Robert Demalvilain]
- Morrison pencils out by Adam Holdorf
- Picture: The Morrison Lobby
- Photo by Dan Caplan
- Tent Village drops out by Adam Holdorf [RE: Kevin Terry]
- The drug bug by Troy Skeels [RE: Norm Maleng]
- Picture: One of the speakers who let a rally to reform the criminal justice system, including the treatment of non-violent drug offenders, on Martin Luther King Day, January 15.
- Photo by George Hickey
Snake Oil Solution. In the name of affordable housing, homebuilders take aim at the Growth Management Act by Mark Gardner, Pages 5, 6
| Is affordable housing hurt by limited growth?
- Quote: Jon Gould, Low Income Housing Congress
- Quote: Tim Trohimovich of 1,000 Friends
- Graphic by Blythe Hovis
Policy Watch by Nancy Amidei, Page 5
| Energy, housing and Human Services Day
Spineless. Democrats play dead for Bush Administration by Paul Rogat Loeb, Page 7
- Picture: Discussing Attorney General John Ashcroft’s blocking of voter registration in St. Louis wasn’t a gratuitous personal attack but an honest assessment
- Picture: Keeping an eye on John Ashcroft without taking him on appears to be all Democrat leaders like Sen. Edward Kennedy are willing to do
Adventures in Poetry with ©Dr. Wes Browning, Page 8
Poetry, Pages 8, 9
- backtrack by Stan Burriss
- “Negra Pena” by Earle Thompson
- When I Was Ten Years Old by Carol Leno
- Poem by Liz Smith
- Inside Myself by Reneene Robertson
- Easter Rising by Michael Magee
Essay: In the Git-Along Gang. My Life as a Safety Ambassador by Tom Buckley, Page 11
Notes From The Kitchen. The National Dish of the Lone Star State by Liz Smith, Page 12
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 13
Seattle Timeline. From the Files of HistoryLink, Page 14
- Picture: Seattle was home to the first female executive of a major American city, Bertha Knight Landes, in the 1920s.
- Hooverville, Seattle’s own 637-resident shantytown during the Great Depression
Classics Corner by Perfess'r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 14
Calendar. Compiled by Kristen Alexander, Page 15
Citizens Participation Project. ACT NOW!, Page 16
Protect the state Housing Trust Fund
- Issue: Don’t let the state legislature approve Governor Gary Locke’s proposed budget plans to reduce the Housing Trust Fund by $15 million