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Table of Contents
March 22, 2001, Vol. 8, No. 7
Headlines:
The April Fools’ Issue
- Pigs Fly
- Hell Freezes Over
- Moon Turns Blue
- Sidran, tenants join hands for Bush
- Tent Villagers reveal secrets of financial success
- From trash to art: Artwalk under I-5
- Stranger than fiction
Table of Contents:
Mayor Paul Schell Endorses Tent City. “It saves lives. What’s the problem?” by members of StreetWrites, Real Change and SHARE/WHEEL’s Tent Village, Pages 1, 10
- Picture: It was during one of Paul Schell’s numerous trips to a Tent City when he first realized that, finally, he had discovered the place where he truly belonged.
- Photo courtesy of SHARE/WHEEL
- Picture: In Touch with the People: Not content to simply talk about how great Schellvilles are, Seattle Mayor Paul Schell can’t resist joining one himself, bringing along his own tent for the occasion. Isn’t he swell?
Mailbag, Page 2
- Honorable firing by Bruce Tripps | Tacoma
- You can’t win by Brandi Swieck
- Shake-up cover-up? By Auf Muck | Germany
Opinion: Trickle-Down’s Return. Bush tax plan is rent relief in disguise by John Shaw, Page 3
| Three cheers for Bush tax cuts!
- Quote by Seattle City Attorney Mark Sidran
This Just In! By Bob Redmond, Page 3
News You Can Use! Close to Home, Page 4
- Tent City turnaround by Adam Holdorf
- Repentance, reconciliation, renewal
- Picture: Hundreds of people took to Seattle’s downtown streets on Sunday afternoon, March 11, 2001, in memory of Kris Kime, the 20-year-old man fatally injured in the midst of Pioneer Square’s Fat Tuesday riot. Organized by the Church Council of Greater Seattle, the march and vigil wound from Plymouth Congregational Church, at Sixth and University, down to First and Yesler, where Kime was killed on February 27, 2001.
- Photo by Casey Kelbaugh
- Duty derelict? By Adam Holdorf.
- Picture: Peter Steinbrueck. No rubberstamping from this man
- Bilking the state by Adam Holdorf
- Separated at birth? Seattle’s Mark Sidran vs. Simpson’s Mr. Burns
The Run-Around. New law toughens relief application process for quake-damaged agencies by Adam Holdorf, Page 5
| Tough law for earthquake-riddled agencies
Policy Watch by Nancy Amidei, Page 5
| Energy, foster kids, and welfare
Survival of the Smartest. Singing the praises of Tent Village: Why live anywhere else? By Anitra Freeman, Page 6
| Praising life in a tent
Not Satire: Feeding off the Feast by Matthew Perrin
| Free feeds provide more than just food
- Picture: Sinan Demirel tests the day’s feast
- Photo by Matthew Perrin
Coming to Light. Gallery owners, state agency see art under the bridge by Molly Rhodes, Page 7
| Art under the bridge
- Quote by Geoffrey Palmer
- Picture: Notice how residents of this encampment chose the post-modernist wheelchair to contrast against the art-deco 99 onramp and the neo-capitalist SODO district.
- Photo by George Hickey
Adventures in Poetry with ©Dr. Wes Browning, Page 8
Poetry, Pages 8, 9
- In Profit by Stan Burriss
- Pathogenesis by Michael Magee
- Exact Change by Mercedes Lawry
- hands in the sky by Etabu Etabui
- What it means to be poor in America by Chris Knaus
Best Preys. The Weak in Review by Ephermera Harris, Page 10
Tenant Talk. Educate. Agitate. Organize. By Mark Chattin, Legal Action Center, Page 11
Notes From The Kitchen. Eating around the Pacific Rim by Liz Smith, Page 12
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 13
Seattle Timeline. From the Files of HistoryLink, Page 14
- Pictures:
- Seattle Stanley Cup Champions
- King County’s Timber Industry begins
- Seattle’s first streetcar on the Second Avenue line
Classics Corner by Perfess'r Harris (Timothy Harris), Page 14
Calendar. Compiled by Kristen Alexander, Page 15
Citizens Participation Project. ACT NOW!, Page 16
Support Tenants Right to Organize
- Issue: On March 26, Seattle City Council will vote on the landlord retaliation ordinance. This ordinance gives tenants the right to organize in their homes for decent affordable housing and gives them remedies when landlords retaliate against them for asserting their rights.