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Table of Contents
March 19, 2008, Vol. 15, No. 13
Headlines:
- Help for the $100K set. Former mayor Charlie Royer is tackling the lack of homeownership opportunities for middle-income households. Affordable housing for the middle class “is going to have a public subsidy…Market-rate developers aren’t going to do that.” Page 5
- Making it Pay. Legislature expands money for social services. Page 4
- Change Agent: Gail Savina. Page 3
- Vendor of the Week: Glynda Goodness. Page 6
- Peek-a-boo! Just because you can’t see the homeless doesn’t mean they’re not there. Page 2
Table of Contents:
Playing peek-a-boo with people’s lives. Rules closing off public space are meant to shoo people without housing out of the city – or scoop them into jail by Paul Boden, Page 2
Director’s Corner by Timothy Harris, Page 2
Change of Agent: Gail Savina by Rachel Rubinstein, Page 3
Just Heard…by Cydney Gillis, Page 3
- Lobby Loophole [Registering Lobbying activity]
- Drug testing dropped [Stop testing students]
- Parks camera watch
Public campaign finance considered by Stephen Perry, Page 3
County equity discussed by Stephen Perry, Pages 3, 6
Lawmakers step up for poor. A little something for everyone by Cydney Gillis, Pages 4, 6
Campaign casts Seattle’s middle class as ‘housing poor’. Former mayor stumps for families with $61-$122K annual income by Cydney Gillis, Page 5
Poem: Rain by Elizabeth Romero, Page 5
Vendor of the Week: Glynda Goodness, Page 6
- Story and photo by JP Gritton
School lunches to get healthier by Corey Kahler, Page 6
Picture: A Page from the Survival Handbook, Page 6
Real Change vendor Steven Schmidt registered his opposition to the city’s sweeps of homeless encampments Thurs., March 13, near the Pike Place Market. The Real Change Organizing Project concluded a day of downtown actions with a rainy campout outside City Hall; an estimated 154 people spent the night.
The Rules of War. Psychologist Heidi Squier Kraft on life lessons from combat hospital. Interview by Robin Lindley, Pages 7, 11
- Picture: Clinical psychologist Heidi Squier Kraft spent eight months in Iraq in 2004 treating physically and psychically wounded troops.
- Photo by Karen Lovecchio
Our Bodies, Our Scales. Book Review: Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin. Review by Sean Hughes, Page 8
Poem: Cost Benefit Analysis by Catherine Hunt, Page 8
Adventures in Irony: Another Happy Camper by © Dr. Wes Browning, Page 9
Faith, Culture, Politics: Wealth but no heart by Rev. Rich Lang, Page 9
Street Watch. Compiled by Emma Quinn
Letters to the Editor: Camping is fun by Paul Rather | Seattle
Poem: Chorus by anonymous, Page 11
Calendar, Page 12
Copy of issue was obtained from microfiche in the University of Washington Suzzallo Library.