by Cliff Cawthon
Seattle City Council unanimously adopted Got Green’s Green Pathways Resolution on Monday to support the development of green careers for young people of color, both in city government and Seattle’s private sector. Continue reading City Council votes to approve Got Green’s Green Career Pathways Resolution
by Kelsey Hamlin
UPDATE (10/05/16, 7:31pm): John L. Little, the assistant curator & research team leader at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, confirmed with us in an email Oct. 5 that “injecting vegetable oil into an airplane’s hot exhaust flow is done all the time at air shows.” White smoke is produced by many types of vegetable oil, but primarily Canopus oil. An agricultural airplane could easily do this, “but doing so to compensate for an inoperative radio is definitely not a standard procedure in aviation.”
UPDATE (10/01/16, 2:30pm): South Seattle Emerald was informed by one of our freelance photographers that Long Range Acoustic Devices — used to create high-pitched noise for crowd control — were used by law enforcement on the protectors as they prayed by the pipeline.
Thursday afternoon, the South Seattle Emerald received a call from Jennifer Fuentes – one of the protectors who traveled from Seattle to North Dakota to stand against the North Dakota Access Pipeline.
Fuentes said protectors were leaving a site by the pipeline after having gathered for prayer when 21 of them were encircled and arrested. Fuentes, who participated in the NoDAPL march in Seattle, was not arrested. But South Seattle resident Bob Barnes was. Continue reading Peaceful Protectors, Native Americans Arrested at the Dakota Access Pipeline
Seattle-based nonprofit Invest in Youth is looking for volunteers from around the South End area to help tutor local elementary school students.
Their specific goal is to pair volunteers with about 100 students at Daniel Bagley Elementary, Madrona K-8, Thurgood Marshall Elementary, Beacon Hill International School, and Roxhill Elementary.
Continue reading News Gleams: Seeking South End Tutors, Grants for Safe Route to Schools, and Setting the Record Straight On Skyway Incident
by Antonio Foster
Rumors about a 16 year old girl being fatally shot on Thursday evening in the West Hill area began swirling almost immediately after King County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report of shots fired near the Arborwood apartments on the 6200 block of 129th Street. Continue reading Rumors Fly, But No Fatal Injuries in Skyway Incident
by Cliff Cawthon
Most every millennial is familiar with the “work experience required (preferred)” barrier keeping them from gainful employment.
Seattle City Council’s Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee took a huge step on Friday in addressing such impediments to jobs in Green employment fields by passing Got Green’s “Green Pathways” legislation through committee. Got Green, a South Seattle based environmental justice organization, has been lobbying for the legislation for the past several months.
Continue reading City Council Votes to Approve Got Green’s Green Pathway Legislation
by Kelsey Hamlin
Once Seattle City Council’s Monday meeting reached items on the agenda involving a new North precinct (‘the Bunker’), demonstrations were held, tensions rose, and the meeting was adjourned — which wouldn’t be the first time. But before all that, Seattle Council Security confronted Block The Bunker activists in what was described by activists involved as “a physical assault.” Continue reading City Council Meeting Erupts with Block the Bunker Protests, Altercation with Security Guards
by Kelsey Hamlin
“Every single tribe, they’re gems to our community and to our state” said Peggen Frank of Northern Arapaho and Oglala Lakota Tribes. “There’s no media coverage. They’re missing the point, not showing the real pictures. [The North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and supporting Native Americans] are not protesters, they’re protectors.” Continue reading Seattle and Washington Tribes March for Standing Rock, Sign Resolution
by Kelsey Hamlin
In a turn of events, Mayor Ed Murray officially announced yesterday that the new North Seattle Police Precinct — otherwise known as ‘the Bunker’ — will be put on hold.
Initially, the project had a price tag of $160 million, despite many in the community very clearly finding a new precinct unnecessary and unwanted. After some public outcry, the cost was then reduced to a still-hefty sum of $149 million. Continue reading #BlockTheBunker Succeeded, Momentarily
by Kelsey Hamlin
This is the first of a three-part series analyzing last week’s reports on Seattle’s homelessness crisis coming from City Hall. This week looks at Barbara Poppe’s recommendations (70 pages long), next week will look closer at Focus Strategies’ data findings (134 pages), and the following week will hone in on the Pathways Home report (68 pages) that was produced by the Human Services Division. South Seattle Emerald feels each document deserves the time to be combed through and scrutinized such that it may be reported on properly.
The recent recommendations on homelessness call for a complete overhaul of Seattle’s system. This means some drastic changes, program cuts, and new forms of evaluation. Though that sounds grim — and it very well may be for some — it’s needed. Continue reading Homelessness Report Calls For “Narrowing the Focus”
Collected by Antonio Foster
Riders of Metro Routes 106 and 107 will find their buses charting new courses beginning next Saturday (Sept 10). The changed bus routes will see extended services from Rainier Beach to Beacon Hill, and Georgetown. Continue reading News Gleams: Changes to Routes 106 & 107, Columbia City Labor Rights Center Opens Legal Clinic, and New BBQ Joint Coming to Hillman City
