Posted on 09/24/2019 10:29:54 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
If you’re looking to enjoy some tailgating at “Hawks Alley” right before this weekend’s Seahawks game, you’re likely going to compete with homeless tents and dilapidated RVs for the space.
“We’ve had issues with employees going about their business being threatened,” Erin Goodman, executive director of the SoDo Business Improvement Area, told KOMO’s Kara Kostanich.
There’s supposed to be a cleanup in the area, but it’s scheduled for after this weekend’s Seahawks game. KOMO reports the city won’t move the date due to staffing issues. If the homeless are as aggressive during game day as they are during a normal weekday, it could be a dangerous situation for fans trying to enjoy the game.
Despite constantly proclaiming we have a homelessness emergency, the city of Seattle continues to drag its feet on enacting the policies that will actually help get people off the street and into shelters.
Instead of following a successful Marysville model, the city is hamstrung by council members like Lisa Herbold and Kshama Sawant. Herbold tries to slow Navigation Teams from completing their work, even trying to cut their staff during budget talks (then lying about it). Sawant leaks cleanup schedules to activists so they can stop the work from being done.
Meanwhile, the homeless aren’t getting the help they need and the issue is made worse by prolific offenders that continue to wreak havoc on our communities.
having the aroma didn’t help..
It’s Clobberin’ Time America.
These sissy boys have been clobbering with the cops around who are not allowed to touch them. We need to stop this crap now.
“Their biggest problem is that they’re about the only city in Canada where one can live on the streets without fear of freezing to death. So bums flock there.”
LOL!! Quite true. Chicago’s miserable climate is the only thing that keeps it from having a vagrancy problem worse than San Francisco’s. I’ve decided not to us the PC term “homeless” because it characterizes a bunch of vile vagrants as not responsible for their own fate, which most of them are.
“Kshama Sawant, the Indian (dot) Commie.”
She’s the AOC of the Seattle City Council. Another radical douche bag.
Doesn’t “to the north” answer that? Also, Vancouver, WA is not a large city.
One of the reasons we don’t have homeless people is the college students won’t tolerate them. The Asian students chastise them for not working and the drunk students pick fights with them. We have one panhandler and rumor is that he is not homeless, just mentally ill.
EXACTLY. I live in Graham and work in Frederickson. 30 years ago, my backyard was peaceful, quiet, with just the birds and the squirrels. Now it’s wall to wall traffic and sirens. I am boycotting Seattle right now. I wouldn’t go even if someone gave me free Hawks tickets on the 50 yard line.
The average annual precipitation is 2730mm. Autumn is the wettest season with 421.4 mm (16.59 in) of precipitation falling in November alone. Winters are cool and snowy, with an average of 868.7 centimetres (342.0 in) of snow falling annually.
But not that cold!
thanks for your input
In my youth I bailed a lot of hay and helped castrate a lot of little bulls in the Graham area. My dad always owed money to the people he got hay from so I was an indentured cow hanf.
The odor had improved for a while, but when the economy improved, the paper plant and Hormel rendering plant started making more of a stench. And this is not to mention the city's sewage treatment plant.
Tacoma is becoming a very nice area.
It is kind of weird, but true. I have owned a house built 1900 in the North End of Tacoma for nearly 40 years. 25 years ago we bought a house on an airport to live with our small airplanes, We never got around to selling the Tacoma house because it needed a lot of renovation.
25 years ago the neighborhood our Tacoma house was in was in decline, with a lot of houses and yards in disrepair. But things turned around, values have risen dramatically, houses have been repaired or replaced, yards are looking good, and you see women and kids walking dogs and playing on the sidewalks. I was just commenting to my wife last night that this area feels like The Brady Bunch, or even Leave It To Beaver again. It's as good as I can remember.
The people that were living in the drug house were evicted and now it is being fixed up and flipped. Even the grocery stores have been revamped. A homeless drug dealer parked his car in front of our driveway for a few days, but we, the neighbors and the police harassed him and his customers until he left. We are not putting up with that nonsense around here anymore.
Even the bad parts of town have improved dramatically. In the 80s I used to work on the “hilltop” which was the “Martin Luther King Way” part of town. We responded to stabbings, shootings and muggings every day. There was even a shootout in front of the fire station while I was working one night. But I was telling a young guy that worked at Station 4 these days about it, and he was saying that he had heard about the “bad old days” around there, but that they hardly ever had those types of calls there anymore. And even that neighborhood has been cleaned up a lot.
The problem we have in Tacoma is that a lot of liberals are moving down from Seattle and they are screwing up the political balance that once existed. The mayor and city council are now a bunch of leftists who are wanting to bring Seattle type solutions to social problems here. In the long run that will mean that the city will start to decline again.
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