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Since November 27th Seattle Poet Mimi Allin has been living as the Poet In Residence at Tent City 3 , one of Seattle’s migratory homeless e...

I joined about 200 people at the South Park monthly community meeting last night to hear about the fate of the South Park Bridge. South Park...

Tye Doudy writes a weekly column for Portland's Street Roots newspaper about life on the streets as a heroin addict. The incredibly p...

Tomorrow, April 30th, the Race/Knowledge Project is holding a critical dialogue on the planned $220 million Seattle municipal jail project ...

The American Medical Association just published a study examining one year in the lives of the chronic street drunks who have been given pe...

Exactly 90 years ago this week, the city of Seattle held the first city-wide labor action or “general strike” in American history. The strik...

Once again I was asked to be the media coordinator for the annual One Night Count of the Homeless in King County. The Count is quite an im...

The last few months have brought some harsh crackdowns on Pittsburgh graffiti artists. Just before Christmas, two young men, "Sine One...

Through a lucky series of events, we had a cup of tea on Spuistraat in one of the last remaining squats in Amsterdam. From the early 70'...

Last night I headed out to Nickelsville to lend a hand and take a look around. Nickelsville is a homeless camp that appeared early in the m...

Very interesting story in the NYTimes today about the transit system in Rochester, New York. It seems the Rochester transit system just cut...

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels recently rolled out his latest proposal to increase development in the City of Seattle while ostensibly benefiti...

After a brief lull, the City of Seattle's aggressive attack on homeless encampments is raging forward once again. This morning, a crew o...

I was up all night on the 25th, writing the press releases for the Annual One Night Count of the Homeless , and transcribing the stories of...

Gurldogg is one of the 700 volunteers who will be out on streets on the early morning of January 25th in an attempt to count the number of h...

Local scribe Clark Humphrey, the redoubtable Seattle scholar behind Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story and the essential Seattle blog misc...

A rapidly evolving story in the City of Seattle has been the stepped-up campaign to rid the city's greenbelts and parks of homeless enca...