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Posted on Author Economic Opportunity Institute
Corporate and billionaire giving helps their image more than it helps us January 19, 2019 By Matthew CaruchetReprinted from Economic Opportunity Institute Microsoft announced this week that it will spend $500 million to offset the lack of affordable housing and combat homelessness around Lake Washington. The money will be dispensed through loans and grants to […]
The Big Squeeze
Posted on Author Tom Barnard
Skyrocketing rents by real estate developers and stagnant wages by employers equal pauperized workers and displacement to low-income suburbs. How do we reclaim our city? If you’ve lived in Seattle for more than a few years, the city you know is disappearing. It’s being replaced by the “Lords of Concrete” – an alliance of real […]
Drinking Liberally: get local, get real
Posted on Author admin
Monday night I attended the local Drinking Liberally meetup in Newport Hills, Bellevue. DNC super-delegate Sharon Mast made a good case that Democrats need to field more candidates for local positions, such as school boards, planning commissions, and various tax districts commissions. These positions are unglamorous but they’re the way that activists can get name […]