'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.
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
Latest work
Kathleen Flenniken makes poetry out of Cold War Hanford
A sad young heart's disillusionment with America holds this collection together. It's a thin personal thread for the weighty subject of Hanford during the Cold War and after.
'Making Mends' at BAM: healing and more
Visiting a Bellevue Arts Museum exhibition that features artists working in a variety of media, we "climb above our terror" into moments of insight and startling beauty.
Striking show on homeless families opens
This not-to-be-missed national exhibition of photographs at Seattle City Hall is bolstered by local photojournalist Dan Lamont's images of Washington state families experiencing homelessness.
Politics
King County, Seattle sharpen tools for defending workers against wage theft
For five years Washington state’s Wage Payment Act has been defending workers against wage theft by their employers. Nearly a year after Seattle acted, King County is about to vote on its own form of protection.