Features
2018 Year in Review: Seattle’s Growing Pains
From development to transportation, our city grew quickly in 2018
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. Development From permanently preserving the ‘Up’ house to a downturn in the real estate market, the fortunes of our city saw some big fluctuations. For the third year in a row, Seattle remains the country’s crane capital,…
2018 Year in Review: Seattle’s Highs and Lows
It's been a year of ups and downs
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. Law EnforcementHIGH: Seattle Police Department meets the lip-sync challenge from Virginia police with awesome video set to Macklemore’s “Downtown,” featuring rapping cops, flying fish and the Mariner Moose.LOW: A plainclothes King County sheriff’s detective pulls a gun on…
2018 Year in Review: Seattle’s Bike-Share Program Is Having “A Year”
After rolling into town last year, the city’s many pilot bike-share companies cycled through an awkward testing phase. Here is our abridged review
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. The Pile UpCity sidewalks become littered—literally—with fluorescent orange (Spin), yellow (Ofo) and green (Lime) bikes, annoying pedestrians, businesses and homeowners—and posing serious problems for visually impaired and disabled pedestrians. Nonetheless, Bellevue, Kirkland and Mercer Island get in…
2018 Year in Review: Seattle’s Sports Get Poetic
It was a banner year for the Storm. Mariners? Seahawks? Not so much.
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. BASKETBALLStorm win the championship!Stewie, Sue, et al.make Seattle proud. PRO FOOTBALLThe Legion of Boom—it’s gone. Oblivion looms.Pray for the Seahawks. BASEBALLMariners tease their fans. Again.Mariners miss postseason.Again. MORE BASEBALLIchiro rejoins the M’s,then gets cut. Sort of.But not…
Seattle’s Most Influential People of the Year 2018
We're raising a glass to those working to make this a better place— our 2018 Most Influential People of the Year
This article appears in print in the November 2018 issue, as part of the Most Influential People of the Year feature. Click here to subscribe. There are plenty of reasons to bemoan the past 12 months: More and more people sleeping on sidewalks and in homeless camps. Ever-worsening traffic. Sky-high housing prices. A never-ending string of #MeToo revelations. Ongoing gun…
Seattle’s Most Influential People 2018: Starbucks CEO, Kevin Johnson
Under his leadership, Starbucks has partnered with Mary’s Place, a shelter for homeless women, children and families, in the No Child Sleeps Outside campaign
He did the right thing: Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson, photographed at Starbucks HQ
Seattle’s Most Influential People 2018: The YIMBYs
The politically diverse movement has an active Seattle presence that is focused on saying yes to new density in urban neighborhoods
This article appears in print in the November 2018 issue, as part of the Most Influential People of the Year feature. Click here to subscribe. YIMBY—the acronym stands for “yes in my backyard”—started as a national rebuke to so-called NIMBYs (“not in my backyard”), residents who oppose development in their neighborhoods. Today, the politically diverse movement has an active Seattle…
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