Over the last few days of 2019, we will be taking a look back at the year that was around Capitol Hill and District 3 in 2019. For now, here is a selection of “long reads” from the year in CHS coverage. We’ve sorted our stories by everything that had 5,000 or more readers during the year and then ranked the posts by which articles you spent the most time reading. Many of them are longer, deeper, and, incredibly!, even more interesting than our typical daily coverage. Sit back, click through a few, and take your time. Happy end of 2019!

 

Reversal of fortune? Sawant makes big leap with thousands of ballots left to count

 

‘It’s rooted in the 1970s-era conception of environmentalism’ — Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects and developments

 

With live plants, flowers, and rolling hills, Glossier Seattle’s ‘experience’ starts this week on Capitol Hill

 

A new contemporary art museum will open this year in derelict office building on First Hill

 

After this weekend’s Capitol Hill Block Party, changes may be afoot for big events on the Hill

 

Firings, an employee walkout, and a row over homelessness at Capitol Hill’s Caffe Vita — UPDATE

 

‘Superilles’ for Seattle? Council member Mosqueda has her eye on 6-block pedestrian-and cyclist-first ‘superblock’ for Capitol Hill

 

SCC Insight: Seattle ‘a worst-case scenario for rent control to be introduced’

 

An ‘extraordinarily severe’ emergency: the radioactive leak at Harborview

 

How a carding kingpin got caught and dealt a death blow to the Broadway Grill

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