[ad_1] (Image: Community Roots Housing) Affordable housing developer Community Roots Housing has put another of its classic Capitol Hill apartment buildings on the market but the organization says not to expect a continued selloff of its smaller-scale holdings around the central city. “We’re not in the business of selling buildings,” a representative said about the …

Another cool old Community Roots Housing apartment building hits market but affordable developer says Capitol Hill sales are not a trend – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Last month, our state Supreme Court sided with conservative sheriffs from Washington’s rural counties when the justices handed down a 5-4 ruling in Snaza v. State. The Snaza decision gave sheriffs a new constitutional right to tear gas anyone they deem to be participating in a “riot,” eviscerating the State Legislature’s meager attempts to …

Washington’s Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow to Police Oversight – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] One farming family feeling the squeeze in Seattle in the 1970s helped launch a program that has had a profound impact on the city ever since. A piece of their land became the first of what is now a collection of about 90 public urban gardens, or “P-Patches.” Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, …

Podcast | How urban gardening took root in Seattle – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Taking a cue from Jimi Hendrix  Since 1998, STart has worked with national and local artists to create large-scale artworks to elevate the Sound Transit system. A few notable works include Ellen Forney’s 2015 murals “Crossed Pinkies” and “Walking Fingers” at the Capitol Hill light-rail station; Leo Berk’s immersive electric-blue artwork “Subterranium” at the …

All-ages music venue to open at the Angle Lake light-rail station – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] The two boys yelled at Michael Daylan from across the street. Hair dyed Go-Gurt pink and green screamed gay in Ormond Beach, Florida. The giant trans flag flapping in front of the house screamed louder. Michael tried not to listen. His acknowledgment gave them power, he thought; the disregard angered them. “Alright, fuck you …

Forced Out – The Stranger – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] The Seattle Police Department says it started enforcement of the city’s new public drug use law with “enforcement operations” in two familiar crime hot spots this weekend — Little Saigon and the downtown core around 3rd and Pine. SPD Chief Adrian Diaz said the operations were underway in the areas ave 12th Ave and …

Seattle Police begin city’s crackdown on public drug use with reported arrests, 13 ‘referred to the case managers’ – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] (Image: School of Rock) The national music school franchise School of Rock is planning to open its second location in Seattle to start 2024 in a space not far from Capitol Hill’s bustling nightlife and live music scene. Are you ready to rock, Montlake? News of the planned opening comes as a key Capitol …

Are you ready to rock, Montlake? School of Rock planning 24th Ave E location – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Aid and airstrikes: Over the weekend, 20 trucks entered Gaza through Egypt’s Rafah crossing, bringing much-needed supplies to the besieged region. Another small convoy of aid came through the crossing on Monday. The supplies were allowed in at the request of the United States, according to Israel authorities. However, Israel didn’t allow any fuel through …

Slog AM: Aid for Gaza as Airstrikes Continue, Pickleball Protest in Seattle, Climber Arrested for Murder Plot in Oregon – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Unlike the fight over Tacoma’s Measure 1, which has drawn big money in recent weeks from real estate and landlord interests, the two Bellingham initiatives are flying under the radar. No proponent or opposition campaigns have registered to raise and spend money in the last dash to the Nov. 7 election, according to the …

Bellingham voters consider minimum-wage hike, tenant protections – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] “There can be many layers of middle players involved,” Western State’s Spiegel added. While California installed its oil transparency bill this year, that state has some advantages over Washington in setting up such a venture, Slagle said. California has had its cap-and-trade law in place for 10 years, using that experience to set up …

Why are gas prices rising at stations unaffected by cap-and-trade? – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] (Image: @Omarisal) Gunfire shattered glass Friday morning on the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of business owner D’Vonne Pickett, Jr. at MLK and Union. Teens with a more recent beef may have been responsible. Police were called to Pickett’s mail services shop The Postman early Friday after reports of multiple gunshots just before 5 …

Support for The Postman after gunfire damages Central District mail shop on anniversary of owner’s shooting death – Top Seattle Read More »

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Pikes/Pines | When a leaf falls on Capitol Hill – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] The location of the pickleball courts is here, highlighted, across a berm from the north baseball field at Lincoln Park in West Seattle. Seattle Parks and Recreation’s plans to repurpose a former tennis court, that became a storage area as new Pickleball courts has drawn the ire of community activists. On Saturday the latest protest against the …

Pickleball court controversy at Lincoln Park continues to divide community – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] This morning Budget Chair Teresa Mosqueda unveiled her first round of edits to the Mayor’s 2024 budget proposal. She settled one fight for progressives—saving the payroll expense tax from Mayor Bruce Harrell’s trickery—but she kept the battle over controversial gunshot locator technology known as ShotSpotter wide open.  Why Don’t You JumpSTART Using Tax Dollars …

New 2024 Budget Draft Just Dropped – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Seattle’s new drug law takes effect Friday and (shocker) Mayor Bruce Harrell failed to deliver on his promise of a compassionate, health-minded approach to public drug use. Now the City must scramble to scale up diversion programs, as the Seattle Police Department (SPD) estimates it will add 700-800 new people per year into either …

Seattle Reboots Its Drug War with No Plan and No Money to Scale Up Diversion – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Business owners, residents, and officials gathered to call for city leaders and property developers to address public safety worries Thursday night in the parking lot at 23rd and Jackson following a Monday drive-by shooting that sent one man to the hospital and shattered glass at the kid-filled A 4 Apple Learning Center building across …

Communities call for more support making 23rd and Jackson safer in wake of driveby shooting that damaged learning center – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] There are really two interesting big cities in Western Washington, Seattle and Tacoma. Everett is still a hypertrophied company town; and Bellevue, though it’s the region’s first major majority-minority city and offers the best Indian restaurants in the state (many of which easily surpass the top ones in Vancouver BC), will always be a …

What Tacoma Could Do That Seattle Clearly Can’t – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Hundreds of students and teachers from Chief Sealth High School took part in a walkout that assembled on the Nino Cantu Southwest Athletic Complex on Oct. 20. The walkout was in support of female students who were named in a series of sexually charged text messages between members of the school football team. Photo …

Walkout at Chief Sealth protests the sexually charged messages by football team members – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Four people were reported stabbed and a suspect was taken into custody in a violent, 2 AM altercation outside a Capitol Hill bar. Police and Seattle Fire were called to the Diesel bar on 14th Ave off E Madison to the just after 2 AM fight and stabbing. Arriving officers found a chaotic scene …

Two to hospital, two more injured in stabbing at Capitol Hill bar – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] In a dimly lit space in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, artist and PhD student Umut Gunduz is four versions of himself. The first lies in the center of the room, where a few of his neon-green, 3D-printed bones sprout from a pit of moss, grass, and dirt. The second hangs against one wall, as projected …

Death at Your Fingertips – The Stranger – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] FLS executive director Quynh Pham said the project will be located at 10th Avenue and South Jackson, on property now occupied by Dong Hing Market and Asia Pacific Wholesale. Pham said the two businesses will remain in place until demolition. Groundbreaking is slated for early 2025. The facility will open at the end of …

Seattle will be home to region’s first Vietnamese community center – Top Seattle Read More »

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Broadway protected-lefts, ‘BUS ONLY’ lane join busy mix of transit, bikes, pedestrians, and cars at Capitol Hill Station – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] Three stabbed on Capitol Hill: Just after 2 am, multiple people were stabbed outside a Capitol Hill bar on 14th Avenue between East Union and East Pike Street. When police arrived they found three victims with non-life-threatening stab wounds.  Golden Gardens shooting: One person is dead and three others are injured after a shooting near …

Slog AM: Ballard Shooting Kills One and Injures Three, Biden Requests $74 Billion in War Funds, Something’s Rotting in This Colorado Funeral Home – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] About half a mile away, near Pioneer Square, the Arctic Club Hotel, another historic icon, dates back to 1914. It was named for an exclusive men-only social club founded for businessmen and explorers by tycoons who’d made their fortunes in the Klondike Gold Rush. The hotel hosts a ghostly gallery of stories, including reports …

The lore behind Washington’s spookiest historic haunts – Top Seattle Read More »

[ad_1] In 1962, as Seattle’s Space Age World’s Fair was launching, a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called a man named Rainie Picardo the “last of Seattle’s own farmers.” In the era of Boeing and Century 21, it was anachronistic to see a city dweller sitting atop a tractor amid postwar residential sprawl. Half a …

Mossback’s Northwest: Who’s behind the “P” in Seattle’s P-Patches? – Top Seattle Read More »

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[ad_1] Members of the Chief Sealth football team were revealed to exchanging sexually explicit mesages on Instagram regarding rape and sexual assault of named female students.  photo by Patrick Robinson A chain of sexually graphic text messages between members of the Chief Sealth International Junior Varsity football team were reported to school staff this week …

Sexually graphic text messages between members of Chief Sealth JV football team set off repercussions – Top Seattle Read More »