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County's mentally ill fade into the system
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By Carol Smith : November 17, 2008 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| The things they left behind: a houndstooth jacket slung over a chair, a boom box, a battered bike helmet. They left a romance novel, an algebra text, a brochure on knee surgery. They left clutches of hangers and empty prescription bottles, and leaning in the hall, a primitive painting of two staircases -- one going up, one down, a round smiling face hovering at the intersection between the two. |
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Crowds keep the peace so police don't have to
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By Casey McNerthney : November 6, 2008 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Across Seattle, on Web sites, in bars and in coffee shops, people were still abuzz about Tuesday's historic election and the celebrations that spilled into streets in Seattle and elsewhere after Barack Obama was elected to become the 44th president of the United States.
The thousands who took to Seattle's streets Tuesday night also gave police something to appreciate: There were no arrests and no reports of vandalism. |
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Obama Elected President as Racial Barrier Falls
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By Adam Nagourney : November 5, 2008 : New York Times
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Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.
The election of Mr. Obama amounted to a national catharsis - a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Mr. Obama's call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country. |
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Seattle apartment building fire kills man
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By Staff : October 27, 2008 : The Seattle Times
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The only person in an old apartment building scheduled for demolition was killed in two-alarm fire in Seattle, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Fire Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick says the man died at the scene.
[The Seattle Times was wrong, the man who died in the fire had committed suicide and was not killed by the fire. Seattle On The Hill]
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A long wait for Seattle P-patches
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By Peter Lewis : June 21, 2008 : Crosscut
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| A heightened desire to commune with nature, a need to get your hands dirty, exercise, saving money. All help explain the keen pursuit by a larger-than-ever segment of Seattle to lease a piece of land to produce veggies, grow flowers, and otherwise work the earth. |
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Artist again defends proposed sculpture
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By Kery Murakami : June 12, 2008 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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After facing nearly unanimous disdain for his proposed sculpture that depicts chopped up fighter planes, the artist, Mike Ross, tried again to explain Wednesday night.
Ross, a Brooklyn, N.Y., artist hired by Sound Transit to create the artwork inside the future Broadway light rail station, said at a forum on Capitol Hill on Wednesday night that his sculpture plays with the idea of transforming industrial power into natural power. |
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Unsustainable Seattle
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By Knute Berger : June 9, 2008 : Crosscut
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| When you consider the carbon footprint of new construction, this city promotes growth and development policies that are wasteful, destructive, and myopic. Greens and historic preservationists need to find common cause in creating a truly sustainable urban landscape. |
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SLUT comes to Capitol Hill
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By Alexa Hunt : May 28, 2008 : City Collegian
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| Four potential new streetcar routes have been proposed by the Seattle Department of Transportation, or SDOT. All four would be expansions of the South Lake Union Trolley, commonly referred to as the SLUT. One of these routes is slated to go up from South Jackson Street and Fifth Avenue to Boren Avenue and Broadway. This particular proposal is part of a voter-rejected transportation ballot measure that could be put in another Sound Transit expansion proposal. |
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That Nasty Toilet on Broadway is Going Away
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By Associated Press : May 19, 2008 : My Northwest
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Seattle's test program with high-tech public toilets came to an end Monday with a unanimous vote of the city council.
It was, Council President Richard Conlin said, "an experiment that we tried, one that I think was an important attempt to try and address significant questions in our city, but unfortunately, one that didn't turn out to work as well as we had hoped it would." |
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Mayor Nickels Installs Video Cameras at Cal Anderson Park
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By Keith Vance : May 19, 2008 : Capitol Hills Times
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| Most people weren't paying attention in February when Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels had three video surveillance cameras installed at Cal Anderson Park. The mayor did so despite efforts by the Seattle City Council to stop the mayor from putting the cameras in the park. Now the mayor is asking the council to lift its ban on installing video cameras in parks because he wants to expand the surveillance program to three more parks. |
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Getting ready for the Big One
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By Knute Berger : May 19, 2008 : Crosscut
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| Events in China have nudged earthquakes closer to the top of our minds. Here in Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is calling for seismic retrofitting of nearly 1,000 of the city's older brick buildings, which are at risk in the event of a major quake. Seeing the devastation in southwestern China, it's hard not to wonder what could happen here. We're told, a major quake is just a matter of time. How would we fare? And what would the aftermath look like? |
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