Police say one person suffered a grazing gunshot wound to the head in an altercation Tuesday morning near Broadway and E Fir.
SPD and Seattle Fire were called to the area around 10:40 AM to a reported robbery: Continue reading
The city’s Denny Blaine Park “nude zone” proposal
(Image: Denny Blaine Park for All)
The City of Seattle has dusted off its old proposal to create a nude zone at Denny Blaine Park as it filed a court-ordered “plan of abatement” for addressing complaints of illegal sexual activity in the ongoing lawsuit brought by a group of neighbors and property owners over the popular nude beach.
The plan filed Monday in King County Superior Court includes five elements including 1) “Limiting the portion of the Park that is clothing optional to the area of the Park least visible from residences” 2) “Establishing visual barriers to separate the clothing optional area of the Park” 3) “Installing clearly marked signage throughout the Park and at its entrances stating Park rules” and 4) “Implementing a substantial increase in staffing of Park Rangers and/or Seattle Parks and Recreation staff at the Park.”
As for 5), final element would focus on how best to police the new rules “using a progressive discretionary enforcement approach, which may include educating, warning, and citing individuals who do not comply with Park rules and, where necessary, requesting assistance from law enforcement to address criminal activity such as sexual criminal lewd conduct.” Continue reading
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Debora Juarez was elected to the Seattle City Council twice.
Tuesday, she began her third term after the council appointed her to represent North Seattle and complete the open term through November 2026.
“Representing District 5 was a great honor when I was elected twice and for some reason this feels much more emotional,” Juarez said after taking the Oath of Office following Tuesday’s appointment. “For that I thank you. I raise my hands.”
Juarez joined the first district-based council after election in 2016. Six years later, she was part of a ripple of council incumbents opting not to run to keep their seats after a contentious term that included COVID-19, the 2020 protests, and withering attacks from District 3 representative Kshama Sawant. Continue reading
From Gabi Muña/Yes on Prop 1 Seattle Volunteer
As a recent graduate of Seattle University, I spent much of my time there thinking about how decisions made by people in power directly shape our lives – from the cost of getting around this city to whether my friends and neighbors can afford to stay here. But like many young people, I grew up feeling that real influence in politics belonged to people with money, not someone like me. That changed when I used Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program.
I first got involved in local politics through the Washington Bus, an organization that helps young people fight political apathy. It opened my eyes to how much was at stake for communities like mine, and how easy it is to be pushed to the margins if you aren’t paying attention. Still, even after that, I didn’t see myself as someone who could truly shape an election. I’m a law student now, and money is tight. Like many students and working people in Seattle, I couldn’t justify cutting into my budget just to donate to a campaign. Continue reading
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A community fundraiser is underway to help a Capitol Hill food and drink couple who have been working to build a new name in Puerto Rican cuisine in Seattle out of the kitchen at E Olive Way watering hole The Wash.
CHS would rather be telling you about Jesus Dumois and Heather Dowai and ChamorikĂ©n’s chicken and shrimp plates, chop-cheese sandwiches, and empanadas but a July 16th car crash has left both with serious injuries: Continue reading
They’ll soar right over any billboards from “insufferable, fringe activists.”
Cost and the environment, apparently, are not an object.
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron will be back over the skies of Seattle and buzzing Capitol Hill this week.
It has been a tradition broken only for two wonderfully quiet, military propaganda-free summers of the pandemic. Continue reading
A rendering of SUMA (Image: Olson Kundig)
The planing for SUMA has been busy this summer. Early paperwork for land use and construction permits around the planned Seattle University Museum of Art has been a summer project for architects and planners around the project. The Seattle University Hill Implementation Advisory Committee, a body required by the city for oversight of major institutional planning, will meet Wednesday night on the project.
Seattle University Hill Implementation Advisory Committee (IAC) Meeting #18: Agenda Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM In-person location: Seattle University Advancement and Alumni Building Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room 824 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 Virtual Option: Webex Link Dial-in and Passcode: 206-207-1700 / 248 233 75775
You can learn more about the session and sign up for public comment here (PDF).
Wednesday agenda calls for a 35-minute session on the project’s permit timeline, a discussion around regulations related to amending the school’s Major Institution Master Plan and the “IAC’s Role in the Process.”
A 70-minute Q&A, public comment, and “committee deliberation” will follow. Continue reading
A recent We Heart Seattle cleanup (Image: We Heart Seattle)
With a week until the August 5th Primary Election, Seattle City Council president Sara Nelson says her $9 million a year “bold plan to break the cycle of addiction and homelessness” with a new sales tax increase to fund addiction treatment services will be decided on Tuesday.
CHS reported here on the proposal to direct 25% of a new tenth of a cent sales tax authorized by the state legislature for cities to pay for public safety services to longtime service providers like Evergreen Treatment Services, the Downtown Emergency Service Center, and newcomers like The More We Love and We Heart Seattle. Continue reading
The view from 15th Ave E (Images: Runberg Architecture Group)
