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Real Change Newspaper
Table of Contents
April 19, 2006, Vol. 13, No. 17
Headlines:
- Cable Spar. Before the city pens a deal with Comcast, voters still have a chance to speak their minds. Page 2
- Poison Cloak. A researcher, returning from Iraq, finds that war has left the country riddled with toxins. Page 3
- Rainier Rally. A potential Columbia City housing facility for the mentally ill raises hackles of some residents. Page 4
- Market Shares. Pike Place Market seniors find their life stories transformed into theater. Page 5
- Crystal Malice. Illustrator Harvey Pekar in a biography of Michael Malice draws a fine line between Ego & Hubris. Page 6
Table of Contents:
Eighty-six This. Local Initiative hopes to nix recruiters’ presence on campuses. By Rosette Royale, Pages 1, 12 [RE: Kate Johnson, I-86]
- Picture: Chris Mobley, volunteer coordinator for College Not Combat Coalition’s drive to get anti-recruiting initiative on the ballot.
- Photo by Ken Dean
Renegade Rendezvous: Isolated in-home child care providers organize for better pay. By Amy Roe, Pages 1, 12
- Picture: Kathy Yasi, here with her daughter Alicia, runs a daycare from her Central District home. Yasi says the state’s child-care assistance to working parents has failed to keep up with the cost of living: “People spend more money to have their dog in day care then the state pays to have subsidized day care.”
- Photo by Mark Sullo
Editorial: People Power, Channeled. There’s still time for public input on the city’s deal with cable giant Comcast. By Jonathan Lawson, Page 2
Change Agent: Nicole Kistler and Sarah Kavage by Adam Hyla, Page 3
- Picture: Nicole Kistler and Sarah Kavage, alongside their habitat surrogate art installation. RE: The Living Barge, an art and landscape installation
- Photo by Mark Sullo
Iraq’s Silent Spring. Wartime pollution threatens public health, says researcher. By Elliott Wilson, Page 3 [RE: Dr. Wajdy Hailoo, Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the State University of New York in Stony Brook.
Just Heard…, Page 3
- Bug out by Rosette Royale [RE: Gov. Christine Gregoire, pandemic flu]
- Inking it by Adam Hyla [RE: SHARE/WHEEL, Patricia McInturff, DESC, Archdiocesan Housing Authority, Salvation Army]
- People’s progress by Adam Hyla [RE: The People’s Lodge, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles]
Block Watch. Rainier Valley residents question housing for mentally ill. By Cydney Gillis, Page 4 [RE: Bill Hobson, executive director of DESC]
Short Takes, Page 4
- Coffee at the cottage? By Cydney Gillis [RE: Rich McDonald, Belltown P-Patch program manager]
- Latino marchers reinstated by Jason Siegel [RE: Steve Bloom, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Laitala Enterprises, Terry Laitala, Washington State Jobs with Justice, Mauricio Martinez, King County Executive Ron Sims, Jorge Quiroga, The Committee for General Amnesty and Social Justice, Bob Barnes]
- Blessings on your journey by Joseph Gamm [RE: Nyer Urness, Rick Friedhoff, Compass Center director, Cindy Jackson, Steve Rhoades]
Market Weaving. Passionate storytellers inform improv theater celebrating Pike’s elders. By Laura Peach, Page 5
| Quote by Zoë Freeman, Pike Market Senior Center activities coordinator
Interview: True Stories. Underground comics writer Harvey Pekar on Malice and living a charmed life by Adam Hyla, Pages 6, 7
RE: American Splendor. Ego & Hubris, the Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar.
Slaying Them in the Isles. Book: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. Review by Timothy Harris, Page 8
In the Zion’s Den. Film: The Protocols of Zion. Directed by Mark Levin. By Lester Gray, Page 8
- Picture: Mark Levin debates in the Protocols of Zion
Adventures in Irony: More Kittens, Please. By Dr. Wes Browning, Page 9
Bus Chick, Transit Authority. Bus Fouls. By Carla Saulter, Page 9
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn, Page 9
Letters to the Editor, Page 10
- Immigrants and Hillary’s wastebasket by Joe Winkler
Classified Ads, Page 10
Calendar, Page 11
Director’s Corner by Timothy Harris, Page 11
First things First. Get Involved. Take Action., Page 11
Keep our Promise to Abuse Survivors
- Issue: Congress’ unanimous reauthorization of the expanded Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) this past December was cause for celebration. However, without adequate funding, the legislation won’t do much to protect victims from family violence. For the fifth year in a row, President Bush has not requested full funding for VAWA programs in his budget. What’s more, because the bill wasn’t passed until late last year, no funding at all has been proposed for new VAWA programs.
Copy of issue was obtained from microfiche in the University of Washington Suzzallo Library.