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South Park has seen a recent escalation in youth violence, but programs like the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps work to keep kids active, safe and engaged with the community. (Lauren Frohne & Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

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In Seattle’s youngest neighborhood, trying to keep the kids safe

When the South Park teens she works with are on their own, youth-program leader Carmen Martinez worries about them. A surge in gunfire and a tragic death has community members and politicians recommitting themselves to a neighborhood with Seattle’s youngest population.

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About-face: Seattle City Council repeals head tax amid pressure from businesses, referendum threat VIEW

Cheyenne Coe, who will attend University of Washington, is seen in her backyard, Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in Marysville, before graduating from Marysville-Pilchuck High School, where, in 2014, a freshman killed four of his friends before turning the gun on himself. Coe was friends with Zoe Galasso, one of the victims. The two girls, when very little, played on the rock seen in the background. “We called it our mountain,” said Coe. 206468

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They survived a school shooting as freshmen. Four years later, a diploma doesn’t erase the pain.

Siblings Wiqaa Haider Salih Al Jubeer, left and her brother Mohammed Haider Salih Al Jubeer listen to instructions during a graduation ceremony practice at Foster High School on Wednesday.

At Foster High, nearly 200 graduating seniors rehearse graduation ceremony procedures prior to graduation this Sunday. Muslim families and students raised some concern about having to miss celebrations for the religious holiday Eid al-Fitr, which is an important religious holiday that marks the end of Ramadan so the school combined all practicing for graduation to one long day.
Photographed on June 13, 2018.

Education

Faith and finals: King County schools adapt to growing Muslim population VIEW

Robert (Bob) Blethen (Courtesy of Blethen family)

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‘He was just there. Always’: Bob Blethen, gregarious soul of The Seattle Times, dies VIEW

Times Watchdog

Carolyn Malone lives in an approximately 110-square-foot room costing $500-a-month where bath and kitchen are shared. (this is largely it) She’s participating in a transitional housing program in the Central District that caters to people who are on the cusp of homelessness. The house she’s staying in was recently sold at a foreclosure auction after its owner, a local landlord with a long and checkered history, defaulted on the property. Her future is unknown. (My estimate on square footage)
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Out of homelessness, into a hovel: Public money spent on Seattle houses with bugs, trash, no water

Politics

Attorney General Bob Ferguson addresses those gathered outside the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac. It’s possible he may file a lawsuit later on the separation of children from their parents seeking asylum in the U.S.
Saturday June 9, 2018

Washington AG wants to hear from families hosting children separated from their immigrant parents

Project Homeless

Three women and two men were shot â€” two fatally â€” in this homeless encampment known as the Jungle under Interstate 5 near Airport Way South and South Atlantic Street in the Sodo neighborhood south of downtown Seattle. The red crime tape marks where the shootings occurred.

Recording of suspects to be centerpiece of Seattle ‘Jungle’ shooting trial

About Project Homeless

Project Homeless is a new Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness. We will also feature solutions-oriented reporting from elsewhere in the country.

Transportation

Would the Golden Gate’s ‘Road Zipper’ make Seattle’s Aurora Bridge safer?

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Chak Ming Chan CQ gets a helping hand from his mother Lina Fung for a portrait in front of the “W” sculpture on the University of Washington campus. He’s receiving his bachelor’s degree in early childhood family studies on Saturday at Husky Stadium. Chan is from Hong Kong.

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Cap and gown check VIEW

Cruz Medina, center, celebrates outside of Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, Wash. Thursday, June 7, 2018 in Kent, Wash. Medina and members of the Firs Homeowners Association applauded a judge’s decision preventing Firs Mobile Home Park residents from being immediately evicted.

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Judge’s ruling buys more time for residents of SeaTac mobile-home park facing closure, sale VIEW

19-month-old greater one-horned male rhino Taj goes for a swim at the Woodland Park Zoo’s new Assam Rhino Reserve, Monday, June 4, 2018, in Seattle. The rhino is one of two that are new to the zoo, and close to a ton each. Taj means “crown” or “jewel” in Hindi according to a press release. The exhibit is part of general zoo admission. The blue is from rubbing up against fence posts that are painted at the same enclosure where the zoo once had its elephants exhibit. The zoo said through a news release that part of the exhibit’s mission is to bring attention to poaching and the illegal wildlife trade.

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Meet the new guys: Taj and Glenn, Seattle zoo’s rhinos VIEW

A B-52 bomber, built in 1959, is being prepared for transport from Paine Field to the Museum of Flight this weekend. The 170-foot fuselage section of this plane, which was active during the Vietnam War, will be trucked from Everett, down Interstate 405 to Interstate 5 and on to the Museum of Flight early Sunday. There will be a welcoming ceremony at 8 a.m. The plane will be restored and put on permanent display in a new exhibit, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park, opening this fall across the street from the Museum.

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Vietnam-era B-52 prepared for new home VIEW

Education

Several private schools in the D.C. area are scrapping Advanced Placement classes

The seven schools drew attention to a quiet pushback against Advanced Placement in certain quarters of the education world even as the program has gained enormous influence in American high schools as a nationally recognized credential and a steppingstone to college.