Uphill Slog: Reforming DSHS to keep foster kids safe
One panel of experts has spent nine years overseeing foster care fixes. How far have they come?
Judy Lightfoot
Judy Lightfoot writes about how the region's people confront a variety of challenges. She often draws on her weekly one-on-one coffees with individuals sharing our public spaces who are socially isola
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Independent panel: Seattle Times unfair to psychologist
A panel of media experts and public citizens ruled the Times unfairly portrayed a forensic psychologist in a series last winter.
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5 ways to end youth homelessness
Recession woes, funding cuts and Congressional budget fights underscored a recurrent theme at the National Alliance to End Homelessness conference in Seattle last week: Doing More With Less.
Best of 2012: 'Hard, scary, sad': life at a highway rest stop
Unaffordable rents, says a new national report, keep many Americans homeless. Some who are living in their cars at a rest stop off a major highway attest to the challenges.