After years of community organizing, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously in 2014 to approve legislation designating the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Then Councilmember ...
Mayor Katie B. Wilson seeks a new member to serve on the Pike Place Historical Commission for Position 9 – Property Owner. This position is open to anyone who owns property within the Pike Place ...
The City of Seattle seeks community members to fill five vacant positions on the Seattle Renters’ Commission (SRC). Two of these positions will be appointed by Council, two by Mayor Wilson, and one ...
On September 22, Mayor Katie Wilson announced her proposed budget for 2027-2028, so what’s next? The Mayor’s Proposed Budget ...
Mayor Katie B. Wilson seeks a new member for the International Special Review District Board (ISRD) Board and invites community members who care deeply about the Chinatown International District to ...
In the fall of 2005, when our oldest son was twelve, I took an afternoon off from the startup where I worked as an executive to chaperone his class, 50 raucous sixth graders from Seattle Academy, on ...
The year 1991 had been a turbulent one for Seattle’s lesbian and gay community. AIDS deaths were soaring; anti-gay violence on Capitol Hill had reached epidemic levels; and lesbian and gay military ...
Every Tuesday evening in the heart of Capitol Hill on Broadway, a group of folks spanning the spectrums of age, race, gender, and sexuality warmly greet each other inside All Pilgrims Church. The ...
Have We Met? is a special storytelling series celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Throughout the next 365 days, we’re introducing the people who help shape ...
Twenty-two community-led projects across Seattle are receiving nearly $1 million through the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Neighborhood Matching Fund (NMF), helping residents bring their ideas ...
Indigenous people telling our own stories is healing for past, present, and future generations—of both Native and non-Natives. Expressing the conditions of an unjust society and facilitating healing ...
Twin four-story brick buildings, East and West Kong Yick, were opened as the center of a new Chinatown in 1910.[i] Back then, the 1889 Washington State Constitution forbade “aliens” to own ...