The Community Police Commission wants poor people to have somewhere they can legally drink.
Our critic cherishes her lovely, quiet Queen Anne neighborhood, but the food leaves something to be desired. This Mediterranean restaurant isn’t helping matters.
The Neighborhood Safety Alliance is growing in influence. But will it be driven by fear or love, pull the city up or down in its prolonged quest to move transient crime out of Seattle’s neighborhoods?
Fool me once …
A recent study suggests that only 35 percent of children in King County can tell time on an analog clock. Like other arguably antiquated abilities such as writing in cursive, telling time though on an analog clock seems to have been lost in the digital age.
We hit the streets with camera in hand to capture some of the beautiful faces of Mariners fandom, and asked them what their hopes for the season were.
Leschi now has a restaurant that captures its natural beauty and charm, but the people in the neighborhood are likely to beat you to a table.
Seventy-five years ago, the folk icon arrived in the Pacific Northwest to write songs for a progressive cause. The progress faltered, but the songs remain.
On the eve of the Mariners’ opening day, Joe’s Grilled Gourmet Dogs owner Joe Bernstein has high hopes and a lot of hot dogs.
Last night, speaking on a drug policy panel at Seattle University, Urquhart came even closer to an outright endorsement of safe drug sites in Seattle. “I guarantee you,” said Urquhart, “that if you’re going into a safe injection site, you will not be arrested by any of my deputies, period.”
Today, proponents of bringing safe drug sites to Seattle launch their public education (or propaganda, depending on your political leanings) campaign, to let the rest of us know the details of and rationale behind such sites.
Operators of the homeless advocacy and service group SHARE say that they’ll be forced to close down 15 shelters holding about 450 people Thursday morning, because they’re out of money.
Earlier this month, legislators in Olympia approved a plan to direct state dollars toward homeless student services via a competitive grant program. But will they fund that funding?
Peter Donahue has cultivated a slice of wilderness in the city for the past three years. Now his work—and the benefits it provides—could be undone by a homeowners association.
Safe drug sites in Seattle are now a question of when, not if. Yet while safe drug sites are a necessary part of effective, humane drug policy, they’re not sufficient. We need to end the War on Drugs.
How a movement focused on creating a good city unwittingly set the stage for Seattle to become a global one.
Seattle came a long ways in the 2000s, but it lost something as well.
An influx of talent and trouble quickly brings Seattle up to speed.
How to be in Seattle in the last decade of the 20th century.
Other states have included regulations detailing when employers can demand a drug test, but our great state has remained silent.
