Category Archives: hard times
helping haiti
Hearing about Haiti’s latest catastrophe, with homes and hospitals reduced to rubble, mountains of corpses decomposing in the 90-degree humidity, dwindling food and clean water supplies — who doesn’t feel compelled to hop on an airplane headed for Toussaint Louverture … Continue reading
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homeless in alaska
Dan Sullivan, Republican mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, recently announced that he’s hiring an executive staff member to reduce chronic homelessness. Check out my editorial supporting his plan, which was published in today’s Anchorage Daily News.
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tent city
Every city had shantytowns known as Hoovervilles during the Great Depression. The one below was located where Seattle’s Safeco Field is today. It’s probably no surprise to you that shantytowns are making a comeback lately. Also not surprising is that … Continue reading
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buried but not forgotten
As everybody knows, the Seattle P-I stopped printing earlier in the month. So I keep up with the online edition, because P-I writers file stories you can’t get any other way. Today’s top headlines included one about the 209 deceased … Continue reading
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