Organizers of the Christian rally that led to a police crackdown on counter-protesters in Cal Anderson Park are suing the city.
The federal civil rights case filed last week in the U.S. District Court for Western Washington alleges the city and Mayor Bruce Harrell violated the group’s rights and created a dangerous, hostile situation when officials denied a permit for a downtown event and pushed the rally up to the Capitol Hill park instead. Continue reading
Kshama Sawant and her Workers Strike Back group are teaming up with organized workers from the Kickstarter company to rally Thursday night in Cal Anderson Park as they try to spread a movement for a 32-hour tech worker work week:
“Solidarity with striking tech workers at Kickstarter fighting for a 32 hour work week and a livable wage for all workers! Join their Seattle rally this Thursday and support their fight for a strong contract,” Sawant said in her announcement of the October 2nd rally. Continue reading
It is already time for Hilloween. This weekend brings the return of a fun neighborhood costume tradition for Capitol Hill furry friends. Meanwhile, it is also the time for blessings for our four-legged neighbors.
To get the spooky celebrations started, The Volunteer Park Trust has announced that Sunday, October 5th will bring the return of the annual Halloween Pet Parade to Volunteer Park: Continue reading
@nicksattele: “Hearing from sources that the union st busway will soon be reorganized into the union st carway. Now it will be much easier to drive to central Capitol Hill!”
With reporting by Matt Dowell
A year after its opening, a component of the RapidRide G overhaul of the Madison corridor across downtown, First Hill, and Capitol Hill is being unwound, the Seattle Department of Transportation says.
Work is scheduled for this weekend to fully de-construct one stretch’s bike and bus-friendly features.
SDOT says the changes represent the benefits of its efforts to stay in communication with the neighborhood. Transit advocates are planning to protest.
“Over the last few months, communications were restarted primarily at the request of Dunn & Hobbes, the owner of the Chophouse property, Hunters Capital, and Madrona Real Estate along with business representatives on 12th Avenue north of Madison Street,” said SDOT. Continue reading
The City of Seattle has started the search for an occupant for the Bullitt House, the 1955-built, H-shaped, A-frame home on its way to becoming a protected landmark at the center of the North Capitol Hill property donated to become a new 1.6-acre city park on Harvard Ave E.
The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department has posted a call for “letters of interest” for an organization or business to enter into a 10-year contract to occupy the house “and operate the facility, including a significance presence in the evenings.” Continue reading
A victim was stabbed in the leg in a reported attempted carjacking near Broadway and Newton Street Tuesday night.
Police and Seattle Fire were called to the scene around 8:40 PM to the reported attempted heist and stabbing. The victim was being treated for non-life threatening injuries. Continue reading
Seattle Police said they had one person in custody after a helicopter and K9 search along Harvard Ave E Tuesday night.
According to East Precinct radio updates, the search for the graffiti suspect began just before 7:30 PM near Harvard and Thomas. CHS does not have information on what led to the report and the pursuit but police reported the suspect was “known to be armed” during the search. Continue reading
(Image: Wilson for Seattle)
Who didn’t vote for Katie Wilson on Capitol Hill? — CHS was only partly joking when we looked at the maps of support for the mayoral candidates in August’s primary election. Candidate Katie Wilson, the progressive organizer and leader at the Transit Riders Union who has helped lead minimum wage and renter rights campaigns around the region, did well here in a tough summer vote for the city’s centrist incumbents. As we head toward the General Election on November 4th, Mayor Bruce Harrell has been on the offensive, claiming his opponent was a leader in the defund the police movement and accusing Wilson campaign supporters of racism. Wilson has mostly deflected the political potshots to remain focused on her messages around affordability and underserved communities including leading the city with plans to create $1 billion in union-built affordable housing, build 4,000 units of shelter, and expand police alternatives like the Community Assisted Response & Engagement Department’s crisis responders while also fielding smaller initiatives like championing creation of more public restrooms in the city. You can read more of her plans and platform at her campaign website: wilsonforseattle.com.
* We’ll have more with Harrell soon about his issues with Wilson and what he hopes to shape in a second term leading the city.
Below, CHS talks with Wilson about her campaign, her plans for the city, hot button issues like the Broadway Crisis Care Center, the Capitol Hill Superblock, and a key element that surprisingly hasn’t come up much on the campaign trail — Katie Wilson would truly be a Capitol Hill mayor.
CHS: A lot has been said about you being Seattle’s first renter mayor. That would be cool, but there’s more to it. You’d be Seattle’s first Capitol Hill renter mayor. How did you end up here in the neighborhood?
Wilson: Do we know for sure that I’d be the first renter? How did I end up on Capitol Hill? I’ve been gradually getting closer to Capitol Hill the whole time I’ve lived in Seattle. I first landed in Greenwood back in 2004 when my husband Scott and I moved here. We found a lady on Craigslist who would rent us a room in her basement for $400 a month, and that just happened to be in Greenwood. We didn’t know anything about the neighborhoods of Seattle. After that, we lived on Phinney Ridge for a long time, so we were in North Seattle, and then we moved into a house with some other people in the Central District, kind of in the 24th and Pine neighborhood. Then we lived in a house with other people up in Squire Park, which is almost Capitol Hill. Finally, we moved in 2018 into our current apartment, which is right up at the top of Capitol Hill. It’s just been gradually honing in the whole time that we’ve lived here, and it’s a great neighborhood to live in if you don’t own a car, for example. Lots of grocery stores are within walking distance, lots of transit right out the door, and the light rail station is just a short walk away. So it’s a great neighborhood for that kind of urban lifestyle. Obviously, now I have a daughter, so raising a daughter in an apartment building, it’s really important to us to have parks nearby. We spend a lot of time at Miller and Volunteer Park and some of the others. So, it’s a great neighborhood.
CHS: Something we don’t hear about are your roots. Mayors tend to have a root story for their city, and I haven’t heard that as much with you. Your opponent talks about the Central District and “good old days” almost in every speech, and I don’t hear that kind of nostalgia from you.
Wilson: Yeah. Well, I moved here in 2004, so I’ve lived here for over 20 years. Seattle is a real mix of people who have lived here for generations, people who grew up here, and people who have arrived from all over the country and all over the world. We have many immigrant communities, folks coming here from all over the world. I feel like that’s part of our city’s identity and culture: being a welcoming place that people move to for all kinds of reasons. People move here to work in the tech industry, LGBTQ+ folks move here because they’re not feeling welcome or safe in the community they grew up in. So, we’re a very diverse city, and many people here have stories that didn’t start in Seattle, and that doesn’t make us any less Seattleite, I think. Continue reading
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Outer Planet opened in 2015 — its sign dated to “2014 reflects some of the early optimism and challenges in running a microbrewery
There is a new hope for Capitol Hill-brewed craft beer. A new owner imbued with the force of beer making has stepped forward at 12th Ave’s Outer Planet.
“I figured it’s now or never,” Amory Carhart tells CHS about his decision to swoop in for a beyond the last second revival of the Capitol Hill microbrewery. Continue reading
