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Seattle’s Most Unsung ‘Park’ is Hidden in This Pioneer Square Hotel
As we celebrate 120 years of Seattle’s part in the Klondike Gold Rush, the park site could help redefine what an urban park can be.
Pioneer Square’s Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park offers an opportunity to redefine what the role of a national park can be.
The Pushback Against ‘Privatizing’ Green Lake Community Center
The community roared its objections against a public-private partnership to renovate the community center. Is such an arrangement ever appropriate?
Green Lake Community Center is showing its age; cost of needed repairs is estimated at $25 million.
Seattle Libraries Reinvent Themselves in Digital Age
Today’s library system is reaching out to touch patrons in new ways, keeping our local libraries more relevant than ever.
Seattle librarian Toby Thomas, right, helps Ralph Cross, a resident of Tent City 5, with a Wi-Fi hot spot that’s available for check out.
How the Ballard Locks Changed Seattle Forever
As we celebrate 100 years since the construction of the Ballard locks and ship canal, we look back on how carving out Seattle’s waterways forever reshaped our landscape and economy.
The site where the Ballard locks were to be built needed to be kept dry, so a cofferdam was erected around the construction area, seen in this photo taken in 1915.
Seattle Opens $30 Million in Homeless Service Contracts for Bidding, Wants More Accountability
For the first time in a decade, the city rebid the homeless service contracts.
The city’s Human Services Department issued a request for proposals today for $30 million in homeless services—the first time in more than a decade that a majority of the city’s homelessness contracts have been put out for competitive bids. At a press conference Wednesday morning, Mayor Ed Murray said he found it “shocking that this…
Fourth of July Fireworks Can be Terrifying for Dogs. Here’s How to Help
5 ways to keep your dog from freaking out over fireworks.
If you have a dog, you may already be worrying about the snap, crackle and pop that inevitably come with our Fourth of July holiday and send dogs cowering. “Dogs are afraid of the fireworks simply because they don’t know what they are,” says Aly DelaCoeur, a Seattle-based dog trainer and founder of the dog…
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