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2018 Year in Review: Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson Has Been Busy
We crunch the numbers on lawsuit filings, wins, losses and more
This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. Since Donald Trump took office in 2017, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has been busy filing lawsuits against the administration on everything from the original travel ban to preserving net neutrality. Here’s how the numbers look…
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…
This Week Then: Happy Incorporation Anniversary, Seattle and Spokane
Plus: The end of Prohibition in Washington state
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Growing Ambition This week HistoryLink notes several cities celebrating incorporation anniversaries, beginning with the state’s two largest, Seattle (shown above ca. 1872) and Spokane. Seattle’s first town charter was granted in 1865, but then voided in a political backlash. The Washington Territorial Legislature reincorporated the city on December 2, 1869, this time…
These Seattleites Are Working Hard Not to Trash the Planet
“Zero waste is the goal, but it is not possible in our current infrastructure.”
WASTE AWAY: This Le Parfait glass jar, a type favored by national zero-waste guru Bea Johnson, is used by Stephanie Wall to hold her family’s small amount of trash
This Week Then: A Look Back on the Life of Seattle’s Phyllis Lamphere
Plus: Puget Sound’s first wide-audience television broadcast
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Phyllis Lamphere (1922-2018) This week HistoryLink marks the passage of Phyllis Lamphere, a longtime Seattle civic leader and, from 1967 to 1978, a member of the Seattle City Council. Born and raised in Seattle, Lamphere attended Barnard College, where she studied modern dance under the…
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