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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.

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.

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.

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.

Mayoral candidates tangle over housing

The next Seattle mayor will hit the ground running in late November, after child sex abuse allegations resulted in Ed Murray’s early departure from office.