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- Homelessness: Too many groups, not enough leadership
- Police reform: Crisis assistance a proven model
- Capital-gains tax: ‘Creating an equitable tax code’
- Free Press: What about Israel?
- Stop new rental regulations to preserve housing supply
- Homelessness: Create state department
- Champion free press at Biden democracy summit
- Keep N95 masks handy: Despite state cash infusion, a wildfire summer looms
- Take it away, D.C.: Let’s give our Washington a new name
- U.S. minorities: The trap of acronyms
- Alcohol: ‘Insidious effects’
- Inslee and Republicans never agreed on COVID shutdown necessity
- Black students overwhelmingly are not receiving the education they deserve
- ‘It’s not a cure — yet’: My grandfather with Alzheimer’s reflects on new drug
- The left needs the ACLU to keep defending awful speech
- Allowing poor children to go hungry would cost society more than Biden’s child tax credit expansion
| Homelessness: Too many groups, not enough leadership Posted: 11 Jun 2021 03:00 PM PDT  Re: "King County promised to end youth homelessness by June 2021. It didn't" [June 6, Project Homeless]: There are two major failures at play. First, there are far too many activists, organizations, committees, etc., working on this problem. It is too easy to duplicate efforts and compete for dollars and control, thereby losing focus of […]  |
| Police reform: Crisis assistance a proven model Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:15 PM PDT Rather than trying to defund police departments, a smarter approach would be to decrease confrontations in the first place using a combined medical/behavioral team. In 2019, Olympia started sending crisis responders to nonviolent incidents instead of police. This approach is based on the Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS) model created 30 years […]  |
| Capital-gains tax: ‘Creating an equitable tax code’ Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:13 PM PDT Re: "Legal or not, remember shady road to capital-gains tax" [June 1, Opinion]: Investing in child care through a capital gains wealth tax, a proposal that had widespread public support this year, was not "rushed" or "shady," as The Seattle Times editorial board members wrongly claimed. Proposals to tax capital gains have been debated by […]  |
| Free Press: What about Israel? Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:11 PM PDT As The Seattle Times' Free Press initiative continues to expose the serious nature of closing newspapers across the U.S., please lift up the crisis in Israel, as it continues to attack reporters who seek to expose war crimes and colonial violence. While a cease fire has been declared against the carpet-bombing of Gaza, Israel continues […]  |
| Stop new rental regulations to preserve housing supply Posted: 11 Jun 2021 02:08 PM PDT  Mayor Jenny Durkan should veto three newly-passed bills that would undermine the economic stability of landlords within Seattle, particularly the owners of few units. Seattle needs housing, not incentives for landlords to sell their rentals.  |
| Homelessness: Create state department Posted: 11 Jun 2021 01:48 PM PDT I worked for 20 years in King County as a Chemical Dependency Professional (CDP) with the mental-health department for the recuperation of alcoholics and drug addicted persons, many of them homeless. Now I am retired. Based on my experience, I suggest to legislators the creation of a homelessness department for an experimental period of five […]  |
| Champion free press at Biden democracy summit Posted: 11 Jun 2021 12:40 PM PDT  President Joe Biden's promised democracy summit should include discussion of ways to strengthen press freedom and sustain local news organizations, which are essential to preserve democratic institutions.  |
| Keep N95 masks handy: Despite state cash infusion, a wildfire summer looms Posted: 11 Jun 2021 12:32 PM PDT  Wildfire season brings serious risks for life on both sides of the Cascades. Long-range state efforts won't end the chance smoke blankets Puget Sound again during this summer's driest stretches, columnist Derrick Nunnally writes.  |
| Take it away, D.C.: Let’s give our Washington a new name Posted: 11 Jun 2021 12:30 PM PDT  If Washington, D.C., became a state, maybe it's time to change the name of Washington state. How about Cascade?  |
| U.S. minorities: The trap of acronyms Posted: 11 Jun 2021 10:53 AM PDT Re: " 'BIPOC' erases by omission Latinos like me" [June 5, Opinion]: I believe contributor Carlos B. Gil has made a good point about how using portmanteau acronyms such as BIPOC puts us in peril of not properly recognizing all minorities within our country. I waited for someone to speak up after Donald Trump's infamous […]  |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2021 10:51 AM PDT Re: "Breaking free from American drinking culture" [June 5, Opinion]: Kudos to Laura Partridge Yoo. But we need to do more than just break free, and Yoo doesn't go far enough. She should condemn American drinking culture outright for its insidious effects. Smoking is condemned while drinking is not. Drinking is often celebrated. Alcohol is […]  |
| Inslee and Republicans never agreed on COVID shutdown necessity Posted: 11 Jun 2021 10:15 AM PDT  Gov. Jay Inslee has announced that, after more than a year of lockdowns aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19, almost all restrictions will be terminated by the end of June — probably, maybe, if all goes well. Inslee has been abundantly cautious in his pandemic strategy, generally erring on the side of safety, so […]  |
| Black students overwhelmingly are not receiving the education they deserve Posted: 11 Jun 2021 10:01 AM PDT  As a Black parent raising my son in Washington's public education system that has not treated him fairly, we have experienced first-hand the trap doors that lead to the school-to-prison pipeline.  |
| ‘It’s not a cure — yet’: My grandfather with Alzheimer’s reflects on new drug Posted: 11 Jun 2021 10:01 AM PDT  It's not a cure, but FDA approval of the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm is a cause for excitement for millions of families who have witnessed loved ones descend into darkness.  |
| The left needs the ACLU to keep defending awful speech Posted: 11 Jun 2021 08:01 AM PDT  It's pretty clear there's a generational split over free speech, both in the ACLU and in liberalism writ large.  |
| Allowing poor children to go hungry would cost society more than Biden’s child tax credit expansion Posted: 11 Jun 2021 08:01 AM PDT  The United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's wealthiest nations. One in seven children lives in poverty. That's 11 million kids. The child poverty rate is 1½ times higher than that for adults.  |
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