Markovich: Compassion may be expensive – kindness is not

In February 2017 – that’s nearly 7 years ago – I asked a question to then-Seattle Mayor Ed Murray that I still think about to this day.

He was holding a big news conference – on a proposed $275 million property tax increase to pay for housing the homeless.

He was surrounded by supporters of the idea.

I knew I would be asking simple but potentially hostile questions in that atmosphere.

I asked if Seattle is too compassionate – and how much is too much to spend on homelessness.

Two years earlier in 2015,  Murray declared a homelessness emergency in the city.

Murray gave me one of his famous

→ Continue reading at MyNorthwest

Related articles

Comments

Share article

Latest articles