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1

Do we want more rental units or what? Whatever happened to building our way out of this housing mess? Prices have gone up 29% in the last year according to KUOW this morning. If it’s really a supply problem, might talk to the uh…suppliers.

3

Escorting children into riots where they might get inadvertently sprayed by a constable trying to protect lives and property is not good parenting.

10

@4 - In addition, one would expect a young, idealistic, progressive reporter should be advocating citizens to pay their fare -- especially in a pubic transit system using the honor system.

11

disregard @10, confused with other story

14

“I wonder who that [fare enforcement] law might disproportionately effect.”

Easy. People who don’t pay the fare.

And no, I’m not buying the old saw that fare enforcement officers target poor people or people of color. Every time I have seen fare enforcement officers on Link or Metro, they check everyone.

15

wow, so much hate - what did James Corden do to you?

17

IS THIS GESTAPO GERMANY!?

Why should we have to carry ID and present our papers when we have $3.50 in cash to pay for our ST ticket?????

18

per usual, well delivered HK.

19

Gosh, the magat trolly trolls are certainly triggered today.

Was Blue Bloods canceled?

Did they find out Mike Rowe lives in a mansion in San Francisco?

Whatever it may be, it is adorable that they run to SLOG and cry, and thereby giving the rest of us something to laugh at.

20

"Gosh, the magat trolly trolls are certainly triggered today.
Was Blue Bloods canceled?"

LOL. Now THAT was funny.

21

@14 The problem isn't that fare enforcement officers themselves deliberately target the poor or people of color for stricter enforcement. I've personally never witnessed that, and it may be true that it doesn't happen very often. The problem, like many other injustices in our society, is structural: the randomly enforced honor system Sound Transit uses to collect fares on Link presents the economically challenged with a hazard (or as some would call it, a "moral hazard") every time they ride, as choosing whether to pay the fare may impact some other aspect of their existence, such as whether they can afford lunch. Thus it becomes a calculated gamble which, when repeated day after day, inevitably they sometimes lose. I'm not saying Sound Transit is wrong to use this system -- it may be the best option available, short of abolishing fares entirely -- but it does behoove the agency to be mindful of its disproportionate impact on certain communities, and to calibrate their enforcement policies accordingly.

22

Hannah - 93% of Federal Inmates are men. This sounds like gender discrimination to me. Good Gawd.

23

I get confronted by it every day. Reminders of how old I am. Today, it's via fashion. Did anyone see any of the Fall lines during last February's Fashion Week? Really, all I can say is, "Eeek!" I think designers have just run out of ideas. Now, no one I know buys haute couture, and maybe that segment of the market has always been a little bizarre. But folks, even the houses responsible for making women and men dress gorgeous for decades are turning out costumes to wear for your audition for The New Bozo Show. But the kids love it, don't they, and my disapproval is just icing on the cake. BTW, Elsa Klensch passed away last month. I'm absolutely no fashionista in anybody's wildest dreams, but for years her coverage of the fashion world helped make Saturday mornings on CNN informative and fun.

Another manifestation of my age is once again seeing a city vote in a wack district attorney because its people are running out of compassion and are feeling unsafe. Let me count the times.

25

@21: I used to commute, in part, on a South End RapidRide bus. The only times it lived up to that name was when the fare enforcement team would board, or prepare to board. Then all of the most troublesome riders would suddenly exit, leaving the bus to those of us who were actually going somewhere. The difference in speed of commute was simply amazing, and the fare enforcers would finish checking very, very quickly as well.

27

You're on fire today, Hannah. Nice Slog AM today!

28

Over $2200 for rent? I'm guessing these kinds of landlords never have to deal with Section 8 or HEN tenants that only get $1000 max to pay for rent. Which means if they can't get people who make enough money to afford the rent, they might as well sell all their properties and find another kind of business to start.

29

"people who are most caught up in the cycle of crime and probably need the most help to break from it"

If these people haven't altered their behavior after multiple runs though diversionary programs, why would we expect different results from repeating the cycle again?

31

Newsbreak: Hannah Krieg wants to exclude facts from her sad attempt at journalism. Information about what Anna Davison is saying and proposing is available in her own words on many news sights. Do your own homework.

32

@2, 3, 5, 9, yes,a shame, as the child was 3 and the father was lame.........what????......you say the child was 240#, 23yrs old,& both he& the father had guns??? Great reporting, Hannah.

@21, 1969 in Salzburg Austria, late for class, & the only time I & my buddy jumped in the tram rear door (legal) without valid tickets (illegal) and the only time we met enforcement. You know it never happened again.

33

@31, It’s all Trump journalism. The worse you write, the more us chumps jump on it, the more clicks, the more ad revenue.........& round & round.........

35

"if Davison thinks you are beyond help because you trespassed a few times, you shouldn't be allowed alternatives to jail."

And this is wrong how, exactly? Criminals belong in jail. Period. Full stop.

(And I love how this is frame as just trespassing a few times. The people who are habitual criminals are committing multiple break-ins, causing thousands of dollars of damage. And this doesn't count the assaults that are surely occurring as well. The support for absolute lawlessness in The Stranger is actually kind of unbelievable.

36

@34 Of course there are ads. That's the whole Stranger business model, the content only exists to generate page views.

On that note, what blocker are you using?

38

U.S. Americans are not required to have documentation of identity, much less to carry it with us and present it upon demand.

40

she can write my
Epitaph anytime
tho now may be
a bit Too Soon.

41

Phil M dear, you never buy alcohol? Or rent a car? Or travel by aeroplane? Or pick up certain types of pharmaceuticals?

42

Those terrible landlords. Those terrible department store owners. Those terrible restaurants. Those terrible farmers. Why don’t they just give us everything they make or worked for for free?

43

those Glorious
BILLIONAIRES
rocketing off into
Outer Space and

disinclined to the
Human Race

Owning the Biggest
MAGAPHONES ever
Dreamed of. Murdoch?
Piker. fawking Piker. we got
bezos and zuckyburgher and
the Musketeer the Chosen few
self-picked to show us how this
Planet's SPOSED to Be -- in Their

image.

for better
or for Worse.

why don't let's
VOTE on that?
whilst

44

Hannah: thank you for not calling football “sportsball”. Dominic would have.

Nobody likes Dominic.

45

@34, yeah, which Stranger are you reading that’s not covered with ads??????????


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