APRIL 2024 MAGAZINE

Last Spring, we covered a story about the Queen Anne Helpline, a Seattle-based non-profit organization serving people-in-need in the neighborhoods that are experiencing unprecedented job growth from the growing influx of Millennial technology workers. The demands for housing exceed the supply and the prices of apartments and residential homes in many Seattle neighborhoods continue to be hyper inflated.  According to a recent article in the Seattle Times, Real Estate Developers are expected to add 11,000 more units in 2016 and even more in 2017.  The operative spin is with so many more units coming onto the market, then eventually the demand for housing will be met and the prices will become more affordable for working and middle class renters. However, in the interim, the Seattle boom continues unabated and unfazed by the displacement of the elderly, families and individuals, who are being shoved out and thrust into a crisis situation.

A retired general joins the Boston Red Sox, Massachusetts General Hospital and area sponsors to aid post-9/11 veterans

Talman Welle will be performing at on March 26 at 7 p.m. at the Steinway Gallery in Downtown Seattle. On the program will be "Carnaval," by Franz Schumann, op. 9. Talman said with most programs, he would warm up with gentler works. "[With] The 'Schumann Carnaval,' you just have to come out and be ready with all of that energy.” He will also be playing a set of contemporary pieces by British composer Cyril Scott, including a...