Mayor Ed Murray hosted Livability Night Out last week, starting a conversation with residents, businesses, developers and city department heads concerning the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) for the city.
Here in Seattle, we want everything now. While that might not have always been the case, this constantly expanding metropolis now dictates we be in a constant state of impatience.
The announcement that a PCC Natural Market will anchor a multi-use development in the heart of Madison Valley has done little to console neighbors and local businesses owners over the loss of an iconic member of the community.
You might think that with all the hoopla over the opening of the state Route 520 floating bridge, things would finally calm down around the Montlake interchange and the Washington Park Arboretum.
It seemed everyone in Madison Park (not to mention interlopers from other neighborhoods) was spilling out of the cafés along East Madison Street.
Madison Park has always maintained thriving food and bar businesses. In the years prior to 1980, the libations were limited to beer and wine; food offerings were the odd bar bite.
When my first campaign for Seattle City Council began, the establishment said that the grassroots movement behind me would have little impact.
It was not the nonprofit housing developers or the “new urbanists” now linking arms with for-profit developers and backing the mayor’s so-called affordable housing strategy, but resident activists who first called for developer-impact fees, inclusionary housing requirements and a “no-net-loss” affordable housing requirement.
It should be simple to sell your Madison Park home — it’s a hot seller’s market, after all. If your only goal is to simply sell it, you might be right.
Crabapple? Does that appeal to anyone? But walk down the sidewalks of our floriferous neighborhood this month.
According to the CoreLogic report, 91.5 percent of homes in the United States have positive equity — a dramatic turn-around since the Great Recession ended in 2009.
During a particularly cold winter or hot summer, you open your utility bill with a sense of dread. Is it time to consider your utility company’s budget-billing plan?
Don’t have a yard and want to grow fresh herbs? Many edibles and ornamentals can be successfully grown in containers.
Wider Horizons is a community village for seniors that provides social interaction and assistance for everyday life, activities and even educational opportunities for members.
The American Occupational Therapy Association celebrated Occupational Therapy Month in April.
After months of hard work, coordination and volunteerism, the 2016 McGilvra auction culminated with a fun, inspiring evening full of high-impact donations to McGilvra Elementary School.
The Martin Luther King School Dream Foundation will award its scholarships during its banquet on May 17.
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Coppélia” is a droll charmer perfect for spring.
Rather than basking in the warmth of a beautiful Sunday in Seattle, a large number of people instead got heated during what has been described by many as a very frustrating Democratic legislative-district caucus experience.
Seattle drivers now have another tool in their transportation arsenal, with the launch of a new free-floating car-share service designed to compete with the likes of Car2Go and ZipCar while offering expanded services.
Thomas Pitchford is no stranger to the local political scene.
If elected, Danni Askini would do something that no other person in Washington state ever has.
As Reign FC gets set to embark on its third National Women’s Soccer League season at Seattle Center on Sunday, April 17, the franchise will try to continue one of the most impressive home win streaks in all of professional sports.
The last week has shown us how local governments work — or rather, don’t work for the public good.
The Leo K. Theatre at Seattle Repertory Theatre welcomes playwright Kimber Lee’s “brownsville song (b-side for tray),” an intimate look at urban violence through one family’s grief.
Local government officials must moonlight as comedians — or at least they should because Seattle traffic has become such a joke. But that doesn’t stop officials from making the city the punch line of even more new jokes.
After serving the Madison Valley community for nearly three decades, City People’s Garden Store will close its doors by the end of the year.
Longtime Madrona resident Paula Rothkopf is recruiting members for the 100 Women Who Care Seattle giving circle.
On May 5, Madrona-based Spectrum Dance Theater Company will hold the world premiere of its newest and groundbreaking show, “A Rap on Race.”
t gives me great pleasure to report that the Seattle Times reviewers could (and should) alight in Madrona’s thriving commercial center and find a similarly terrific, new spot, run with energy and efficiency by Brian Clevenger.
World War II required a lot of sacrificing, and we youths at the time were forced to develop our creative sides.
Like most of you, I got my yearly Valentine’s Day present: My property tax for 2016 is up 25.2 percent from last year, and I’m not too happy. To top it off, the Madison Park Community Council announced that it was thinking about yearly dues.
Back in 1980,there was no such thing as homelessness.
You knew something like this was bound to happen.
There is no doubt that our real estate area is in a seller’s market.
Coldwell Banker Bain (CB Bain) is opening its first-ever Previews luxury office in Madison Park
Two homes of similar age and size, located in the same neighborhood, can have very different values.
The world thanks you, Japan, for the vast assortment of flowering cherries you’ve selected, hybridized, cultivated and shared with us. And here, in the Pacific Northwest, many grow even more beautifully than they do in Nippon.
there are some pests in the Pacific Northwest that make fruit-growing a bit more challenging, but creative fruit growers have come up with innovative ways to help reduce pest attacks.
Too much or not enough water and never when you need it — that seems to be the longtime plight of gardeners.
An outdoor gym of exercise equipment for adults will open in Powell Barnett Park, at the corner of Martin Luther King Way and East Alder Street, at 10 a.m. on April 30.
Yoga is more popular now than ever, and Seattle is leading the craze.
We all want to be the spry senior with a sharp wit. For most elders, though, the hardships and the difficulties of aging start to factor in near age 85.
McGilvra Elementary School’s days are packed full of activity as usual, with a number of mainstay and new events popping up this spring.
Seattle Girls’ School has announced its 2016 Grace Hopper Award winners: Beth Takekawa, recipient of the 2016 Grace Hopper Award for Exemplary Leadership, and Kristin Laidre, recipient of the 2016 Grace Hopper Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Garfield High School won the Orca Bowl, a regional ocean science academic competition that is part of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, in late February.
Writer/director Jeff Nichols’ “Midnight Special” is an ambitious amalgamation of different genres and styles of film.
Growing up, a run for political office wasn’t really on Dan Shih’s radar.
