Stories for October 2017

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Monday, October 30

Johanknecht aims to unseat Urquhart as King County Sheriff

Five years ago, John Urquhart made history as the first person to defeat an incumbent to become King County Sheriff. Mitzi Johanknecht wants to be the second.

Seattle Soundings: The new City Council order

In the big scheme of things, last Friday’s Seattle City Council vote to appoint Kirsten Harris-Talley as an interim city councilperson, replacing Tim Burgess, won’t mean much. 

City on a Hill: Amazon's "shell" game

Around 1992-93, the media hype machine was all obsessive about which local music scene could have become “the next Seattle.”

One way or another, historic Seattle is coming down

For those in Seattle worried that gentrification is rapidly making the city unaffordable and resulting in the destruction of those brick monuments to the Emerald City’s past, there’s a new threat to an old problem that appears likely to quicken these losses.

Outside City Hall: Tips for feel-good city campaign cliches

Each election cycle, the successful campaigns for Mayor and City Council spend tens of thousands on campaign mailers.

Contentious City Attorney race centers on finances, policing

Accusations of financial carelessness, a strained relationship with police, and ineffectiveness in the courtroom have marked the contentious race for city attorney between two-term incumbent Pete Holmes and challenger Scott Lindsay.

Tuesday, October 17

Discarded smoking materials caused duplex fire

None injured in fire that destroyed home. 

Monday, October 16

WWII vet Earl Collins takes flight of honor

World War II veteran Earl Collins took off on his first Honor Flight on Saturday, but not before his friends and neighbors gave him a proper sendoff.

Thursday, October 12

Small crowd gathers for school board forum

Tense moments punctuated a forum hosted by the Uptown Alliance on Tuesday night featuring five of the six candidates for Seattle School Board.

Small crowd gathers for school board forum

Tense moments punctuated a forum hosted by the Uptown Alliance on Tuesday night featuring five of the six candidates for Seattle School Board.

WSCC commits to $10 million in Freeway Park improvements

The Washington State Convention Center is poised to invest $10 million into repairing and revitalizing Freeway Park between Downtown and First Hill. The vision for what that may look like that was created over the last nine months of community outreach wasn’t so well received by the Seattle Design Commission on Thursday.

Council addresses unreinforced masonry retrofits for 1,100 buildings

There’s still a lot of work left to be done to ensure that more than 1,000 unreinforced brick masonry buildings in Seattle can withstand a major earthquake, and city councilmembers on Monday identified making sure seismic upgrades don’t displace those most vulnerable among one of their chief concerns.

Tuesday, October 3

No sour grapes at Aegis on Madison

With some freshly-picked grapes from their own back yard, the senior residents of Aegis Living on Madison celebrated their Oktober Harvest Festival by making wine.

Monday, October 2

Editor's Library: Six quick, Eurocentric glasses in history

Since humans first called it quits on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and hunkered down for a nice, quiet life of agrarian settlement, we’ve found ways to change how we perceive the world.

Tree Talk: A tree to admire from a distance

Growing up in Ohio in the mid 20th Century, I was enamored of Lombardy Poplars (Populus nigra ‘Italica’). 

School officials are accountable for disrupted education

Public officials are accountable for their actions - or inactions.