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Amid new police cameras and catenary lghts, Capitol Hill ‘Stay Out of Drug Area’ now leads the city in banishment orders

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Embroiled in a heated race for her office as City Hall incumbents face strong progressive challengers headed into November, City Attorney Ann Davison says Seattle’s “Stay Out of Drug Area” banishment zones that she and Mayor Bruce Harrell championed are working and that the Capitol HIll SODA now leads the city in orders restricting defendants from entering the area.

The Capitol Hill SODA currently is subject to 41 individual orders, Davison told the Seattle CIty Council in a public safety briefing (PDF) Tuesday, leading even the busy downtown zone where 26 orders have been issued.

Tuesday, Davison said the bottom line goals of the SODA program she championed are simple — “to disrupt open air drug markets.”

“If we just see less of the activity, they are working,” Davison said. Continue reading →

Price of pop from Capitol Hill’s Mystery Soda Machine hits $1.00

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A can of sugary, delicious Coca Cola, or Mr. Pibb, or Orange Crush from Capitol Hill’s Mystery Soda Machine(tm) now costs $1.00.

The latest bump in price for the E John vending machine comes along with Seattle’s new soda tax — 1.75 pennies for every ounce of sugary drinks purchased. Gatorade shoppers are appalled — though there is no reason the excise tax has to be passed along to consumers. The soda industry is now worried the tax might spread to the entire state and mystery soda machines in cities from here to Pullman.

The secret organization that stocks and operates the Capitol Hill machine could not be reached for comment.