Editorials / Opinion

The Seattle Times’ annual school supply drive benefits three area nonprofits working with students in need, including the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness. The coalition’s Project Cool is currently assembling backpacks for about 1,300 homeless students.

Each night in Seattle, the most common place for a homeless person to sleep isn’t in a park, or a doorway, or on a bus. It’s in their car. About a third of the homeless tallied in the annual One Night Count are vehicle campers. But until recently, outreach and shelter programs mostly skipped over this…

Forty-five bucks, a backpack and a Twitter account. That’s all it took for Mark Horvath — more widely known in the Twitter-verse as @hardlynormal — to find his calling as an advocate for the homeless. His story reinforces my belief in that old cliche: one person truly can make a difference, especially when the medium is the…