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2 R SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2019 | | Northwest C3 realized that wasn’t realistic. She’d gotten used to working full time, and expenses were adding up fast. Then she found out about the food bank. On Thursday, she walked in around 3:30 p.m. It’s that time in the quar- ter when the number of shop- pers is starting to rise, volun- teers said; students are start- ing to realize their dining money isn’t going to last them through finals. Alisa grabs beans, canned vegetables, snack bars and a can of coconut milk. “Probably for a curry,” she said. “Trader Joe’s has brown rice that’s pretty cheap.” Throw that in her slow cooker , she said, and she can make it last for days. Scott Greenstone: 206-464-8545 or sgreenstone@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @evergreenstone. respondents frommore than 100 colleges had been food insecure in the past 30 days. High tuition is part of it, but rent increases also seema likely culprit: The UW survey projected that 21%of stu- dents had seen a rent in- crease in the past year, and had difficulty paying rent. The university recently de- molished its cheapest, oldest dorms and replaced them withmore expensive hous- ing, whichmany students have protested; UW insisted in a statement that housing rates are agreed to by student leadership beforehand. At the Tacoma campus, student organizers like Papy- anworked to get more than 50 new apartment units opened in January just for homeless students, subsi- dized by Tacoma Housing graduate and graduate stu- dent population. “That’s not just eating ramen,” said Rachel Fyall, one of the authors of the survey and faculty chair of UW’s homelessness-research initiative. “No one expects students to be wealthy, but if their basic needs are inhibit- ing their ability to access higher education… it does lead to the question of, ‘Are we doing enough?’ ” Student poverty and hun- ger is becoming a high-profile issue in America as more and more first-generation stu- dents fromworking-class backgrounds go to college. A national survey released recently said 45%of student < Homeless FROM B1 you don’t live in Detroit, where block after block of homes have been aban- doned by their owners, as there were no buyers at any price.” — RichAndHappy (May5) L ong before first 737 MAX crash, Boeing knew a key sensor warn- ing light wasn’t working, but told no one “The merger and the move to Chicagomay have been a benefit for the mili- tary side of Boeing, but it has sentenced the commer- cial side to a loss of techni- cal mastery, aviation safe- ty, manufacturing quality, and pride. — RedBoat (May 5) “They may have lost their values but they gained in value. Stock price is all that matters these days.” — Horseburglar (May 5) “I don’t knowhowBoeing gets the public trust back. I won’t fly on aMAX 8, and I don’t think that I amalone in that. It’s time to bring in a newmanagement teamto restructure the company; if they don’t, bankruptcy is on the horizon.” — gerry0416 (May 6) O bservations from Day 3 of Seahawks rookieminicamp: QBs had ‘a hard time’ and WRs present some tough decisions “Does every team strug- gle with this? Seems unpro- ductive to have QBs run- ning plays they are unfa- miliar with while they likely won’t be ones with the team in the fall. I guess you can spot some unex- pected talent? You can do no-contact drills with the linemen, but that doesn’t show a lot either. Excited to hear that they have some rookie receiving talent like Metcalf, though.” — bipartisan (May 6) C ambodians who fled to Seattle ‘shocked’ as details emerge of state senator’s $500K deal with regime “Isn’t this just a clear conflict of interest? If it isn’t already illegal for a state legislator to work for a foreign government, then it ought to be. If the Legisla- ture won’t regulate their own conflicts of interest, then I guess we ought to hope that this guy’s constit- uents realize that they have a corrupt representative and vote himout of office.” — Spesetmetus (May 6) If you see a comment on- line that you think deserves to be in next week’s roundup, email it to Gina Cole: As a newweekly feature, we’re highlighting some of the most interesting or insightful reader comments on articles on our website over the past week. They have been lightly edited for spelling, grammar and punctuation. Want to join the conversation? Find these articles andmore on seattletimes.com. YOUR VOICES The best comments this week on seattletimes.com were already extinct here … this. Ballard used to be a center for a lot of this, too, before it was overdevel- oped. Pioneer Square had a lot of inexpensive artists’ and craft lofts. It is hearten- ing to see someone still cares to leverage what they have to keep it. I hope someone can preserve this island of defiance when she passes on. This should not have to require a radical act to exist.” — nwexplorer (May 4) D annyWestneat: ‘You ready togive that homeupyet?’What it’s like in the trenchesof Seattle’s real estategoldrush “Getting letters in the mail with unsolicited offers on your home is a first- world problem. Be thankful E L L E N M . B A NN E R / T H E S E A T T L E T I ME S Canlis executive chef Brady Williams, third from left, speaks to the staff before dinner service last month. “ This is the epitome of how customers should be treated.” “I won’t Twitter,” on the service at Canlis Comment of the week from the Canlis Style. Thank you for this won- derful look into the ma- chinery behind their mag- ic!” — IWon’t Twitter (May3) C lose to South Lake Union’s high-tech bustle, a retired recycler runs a blue-collar preserve “She persisted. For some- thing that matters to those who live here and connect- ed to what people need vs. what developers want. What Seattle needs and what continues to be de- stroyed by greed and the hubris of the city govern- ment. Tech is not the be-all and end-all of everything. Just when I thought the last gasps of independent, blue collar craftspeople T he Legislature boost- ed special education funding by $155million. It’s not enough, Washing- ton districts say. “If you really want to help special education students succeed, more money is needed in train- ing and compensating paraeducators. Also ex- panding who is eligible for support. I teach a hands-on vocational course, and often some of my best stu- dents are the ones who are assisted by wonderful paraeducators. They are severely undercompensat- ed for the important job that they do.” — user1105263 (May 3) W orld-class service: A terrified food writer gets a chance to provide it at Seattle’s storied Canlis “Although it’s not inmy budget to do so regularly (or even semi-regularly), I have been very lucky to dine at Canlis three times — four if you count a long-ago visit to their for- mer restaurant in Hawaii — and I continue to sing their praises for exemplary cus- tomer service. This is the epitome of how customers should be treated— any- where, not just in fancy restaurants. All businesses could learn a thing or two B E T T I N A H A N S E N / T H E S E A T T L E T I ME S A student shops at the UW’s Any Hungry Husky food pantry, which has helped about 500 students since November. Alisa, a 27-year-old gradu- ate student studying public administration at UWwho didn’t want her last name used, is one of those 500. When she went back to school last fall, she thought she’d penciled it all out: work part time at a nonprofit and live in amother-in-law rental in a backyard in Georgetown. But after a fewweeks, she Authority. University faculty and administration have worked tomake sure students don’t have to go without food. In November, the university opened a food pantry at its Seattle campus, open four days a week. Between No- vember andMay, about 500 students made 1,700 visits, staff said. About this project The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless is funded by BECU, The Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, Campion Foundation, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Raikes Foundation, Schultz Family Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Seattle Mariners, Starbucks and the University of Washington. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over Project Homeless content. Read more at seattletimes.com/homeless ; email us with questions at homeless@seattletimes.com , or tweet at us @timeshomeless. ON THE WEB More commenting See some of the week’s other best comments on seattletimes.com Thomas Voting Reports WASHINGTON— Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues during the legislative week that end- ed Friday. HOUSE Heath-care coverage standards: The House on Thursday voted, 230 for and 183 against, to pro- hibit states fromoffering in their health-insurance exchanges diluted ver- sions of the coverage required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). HR 986 would prohibit the Trump administration from granting waivers allowing states to offer short-term policies that omit or weak- en ACA requirements. A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate. Voting yes: Suzan DelBene, D-Medina; Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens; Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor; Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle; KimSchrier, D-Issaquah; Adam Smith, D-Bellevue; Denny Heck, D-Olympia Voting no: Jaime Her- rera Beutler, R-Camas; Dan Newhouse, R-Sunny- side; CathyMcMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane Democratic stance on preexisting conditions: The House, voting 302 for and 117 against, on Thursday adopted a Dem- ocratic-sponsored amend- ment to HR 986 that would prohibit the Trump administration from granting ACAwaivers that would result in state-run exchanges raising the cost of comprehensive cover- age for those with preex- isting conditions. A yes vote was to adopt the amendment. Voting yes: DelBene, Larsen, Herrera Beutler, Newhouse, Rodgers, Kilmer, Jayapal, Schrier, Smith, Heck Republican stance on preexisting conditions: The House, voting 182 for and 231 against, on Thursday defeated a Re- publicanmotion to HR 986 asserting that neither current law nor Trump administration policies would allow state-run exchanges to sell policies under the ACA that weak- en protections for those with preexisting condi- tions. A yes vote was to adopt the motion. Voting yes: Herrera Beutler, Newhouse Voting no: DelBene, Larsen, Kilmer, Jayapal, Schrier, Smith, Heck Not voting: Rodgers $19.1 billion disaster relief: The House, voting 257 for and 150 against, on Friday passed a bill, HR 2157, that would provide $19.1 billion to home- owners, businesses, farm- ers, local governments and other entities ravaged by natural disasters in the United States and its territories including Puer- to Rico in recent years. A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate. Voting yes: DelBene, Larsen, Newhouse, Kilmer, Jayapal, Schrier, Smith, Heck Voting no: Herrera Beutler, Rodgers Added funding for border children: The House, voting 189 for and 215 against, on Friday defeated a Republican motion to add $2.88 bil- lion to HR 2157 for pro- grams to aidmore unac- companiedmigrant chil- dren who have entered the U.S. at the southern border. A yes vote was to adopt the motion. Voting yes: Herrera Beutler, Newhouse, Rod- gers Voting no: DelBene, Larsen, Kilmer, Jayapal, Schrier, Smith, Heck Roll Call How your U.S. lawmaker voted NORTHWEST