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Stories for June 10, 2008
Social progress in White Center
The neighborhood is the focus of several programs designed to boost test scores, encourage early learning, improve living conditions, and provide a positive example of community pride and success that can be applied elsewhere. Part 2
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Ruby and Shirley
Before Hillary, there were Ruby Chow and Shirley Bridge, here fondly remembered by a woman inspired by their early examples of setting a high bar for civic leadership.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWPolimedia lunch links, gun-ban edition
According to Sen. John McCain, local voters are most concerned about the war. Meanwhile, The Seattle Times wonders if McCain will even bother with Washington voters. ...
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe weather situation is worse than you think
Mossback's already weighed in on this, but there just can't be too much coverage of the June-uary weather. It's not widely known, but the news media control the weather. At least they used to. Clearly, something is up, because on Saturday morning, June 7, both The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer tried to improve the weekend's weather by doing prominent stories about how lousy the weather has been. It used to be that putting a weather story on the front page, especially a predictive one, ensured exactly the opposite weather would occur by the time the presses rolled. But that's no longer working. We had mostly bad weather over the weekend, despite the fact the dailies wrote about how bad the weather has been.
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The animal-waste problem is, and is not, a load of crap
Researchers in Snohomish County estimate that pets there account for waste equivalent to a city of 32,000. That's a lot of nasty bacteria in surface-water runoff.
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSBirthing behind bars
Reading the recent article in The Seattle Times about doulas in the state prisons, I wasn't sure whether to feel proud or ashamed of my state. It's a horrible thing for babies to be born in prison — horrible for the mother and boding horribly for the child — made worse by the inhumane ways most prisons treat laboring women (some states actually handcuff women to the bed during labor, and prison health care is rarely good).
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Gentrifying White Center
White Center is an unincorporated neighborhood and cultural melting pot, sandwiched between Seattle proper and the suburb of Highline. Despite grappling with urban crime and the difficulties of providing subsidized housing for low income residents, both Seattle and Burien believe there is hope. Part 1
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