Do you have a license for…finding dead bodies? Over on the left coast, things are proceeding about the way you'd expect. A nonprofit named We Heart Seattle, which helps with homeless encampment cleanup and ministry, unfortunately found a dead, decomposing body during one of its visits. The group reported the human remains to the relevant city authorities, which proceeded to clean up. But the local media jumped all over this, hectoring nonprofit head Andrea Suarez over whether she has a license to operate the grassroots organization.
"Over a million pounds of trash has been removed in green spaces and encampments in three years with over 11,000 hours of volunteer, boots-on-the-ground labor," said Suarez, who started the organization during the pandemic. You would think local media would have better things to worry about, like why nonprofit organizations are more effectively doing what local governments set out to do or what conditions led to this homeless person dying. Instead, the thrust of the news write-up was all about whether Suarez's organization is licensed. Just the muckraking media, at it again!
