Seattle cleaned up for the World Cup but only while the world was watching, commentator says

Seattle impressed World Cup visitors with cleaner streets and polished public spaces, but once the final whistle blew, the city's open-air drug crisis quickly returned to view, prompting one Seattle commentator to argue officials merely moved the problem out of sight rather than solving it.

"Addiction didn’t get better over those few weeks," Charlie Harger, host of Seattle's "Morning News" on KIRO Newsradio, wrote in a Wednesday op-ed. "Mental illness didn’t vanish. Permanent supportive...