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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
