State Route 99 (SR 99),also known as the Pacific Highway,is a state highway in the Seattle metropolitan area,part of the U.S. state of Washington. It runs 49 miles (79 km) from Fife to Everett,passing through the cities of Federal Way,SeaTac,Seattle,Shoreline,and Lynnwood. The route primarily follows arterial streets,including Aurora Avenue,and has several freeway segments,including the tolled SR 99 Tunnel in Downtown Seattle. SR 99 was officially named the William P. Stewart Memorial Highway by the state legislature in 2016,after a campaign to replace an unofficial moniker honoring Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
Peter Steinbrueck is an American architect and politician from Seattle,Washington. He is the principal and founder of Steinbrueck Urban Strategies and was a member of the Seattle City Council from 1997 to 2008. He also was a Seattle Port Commissioner from 2018 to 2022.
Jean H. Godden is a former member of the Seattle City Council from 2004 - 2016. Before running for city council,she was a columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times newspapers.
Richard Conlin is a former member of the Seattle City Council,first elected to council in 1997 and reelected in 2001,2005,and 2009. He was elected,unanimously,by the council to be its president on January 7,2008 and was unanimously reelected on January 4,2010.
Jan Drago is an American politician and educator from Seattle who has served on both Seattle City Council and King County Council.
Jim Compton was a member of the Seattle City Council,first elected in 1999. He announced his resignation in December 2005 to teach at American University in Cairo as well as Romania.
Socialist Alternative is a Trotskyist political party in the United States. SAlt formed as Labor Militant in 1986,when members of the Committee for a Workers' International created a US branch.
The South Lake Union Streetcar,officially the South Lake Union Line,is a streetcar route in Seattle,Washington,United States,forming part of the Seattle Streetcar system. It travels 1.3 miles (2.1 km) and connects Downtown Seattle to the South Lake Union neighborhood on Westlake Avenue,Terry Avenue,and Valley Street. The South Lake Union Streetcar was the first modern line to operate in Seattle,beginning service on December 12,2007,two years after a separate heritage streetcar ceased operations.
The State Route 99 tunnel,also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel,is a bored highway tunnel in the city of Seattle,Washington,United States. The 2-mile (3.2 km),double-decker tunnel carries a section of State Route 99 (SR 99) under Downtown Seattle from SoDo in the south to South Lake Union in the north.
Michael McGinn is an American lawyer and politician. He served as mayor of the city of Seattle,Washington,and is a neighborhood activist and a former State Chair of the Sierra Club.
Timothy L. Burgess is an American journalist and politician from Seattle,Washington. He was a member of the Seattle City Council from 2007 to 2017,and served as Mayor of Seattle for 71 days in late 2017. Prior to his political career,Burgess was a radio journalist and Seattle Police Department (SPD) officer.
Sally G. Bagshaw is an American politician and former member of the Seattle City Council from 2016–2019. Before being elected to city council,she had been the chief civil deputy prosecutor in the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office for eight years under Norm Maleng.
The Seattle process or Seattle way is a term stemming from the political procedure in Seattle and King County,and to a lesser extent other cities and the Washington state government. The term has no strict definition but refers to the pervasively slow process of dialogue,deliberation,participation,and municipal introspection before making any decision and the time it takes to enact any policy. An early definition came from a 1983 editorial in the Seattle Weekly,"the usual Seattle process of seeking consensus through exhaustion."
Michael J. O'Brien is an American politician and former member of the Seattle City Council who represented District 6 in northwest Seattle. He was first elected in 2009 to a different,city-wide council seat. He was the leading proponent of the opt-out list for the Yellow Pages. He was the only opponent of the proposed deep bore tunnel under downtown Seattle on the city council. He was chair of the local chapter of the Sierra Club before running for office. In this capacity,he was one of the leading opponents of the 2007 Roads and Transit ballot measure.
Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. She was a member of Socialist Alternative,the first and only member of the party to date to be elected to public office.
The 2013 Seattle mayoral election took place on November 5,2013,to elect the mayor of Seattle. Incumbent Mayor Michael McGinn ran for re-election to a second term in office.
The Kirkland Cannery Building,also once called King County Food Processing Plant and State Cannery Number 4,is a historic building in Kirkland,Washington. It is an 11,000 ft2 cannery,built in 1936 by President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA),and was sold to the City of Kirkland in 1941 for $44.79. It was operated as a cooperative to benefit the poor during the Great Depression,along with three other WPA plants at Kent,Wapato,and Wenatchee. Citizens could bring in crops,fish,and chicken,to be canned at no charge in exchange for donating one third of the product to "state institutions". During World War II,it "was largely as an aid to the general food conservation program and the war effort rather than as an economic aid to the communities served". Around this time,it produced a peak of 400,000 cans of food per season. After the war it was leased to local businesspeople and used for private concerns,then sold to them in 1974. They operated the Kirkland Custom Seafood business,using the cannery building as a smokehouse for Aldercove brand smoked salmon,processing 350,000 pounds of salmon there in 2000,the year before it closed.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington were held on November 8,2016,to elect the 10 U.S. representatives from the state of Washington,one from each of the state's 10 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on August 2.
Andrew Joseph Lewis is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of the Seattle City Council from District 7. He was an assistant city attorney before his election to city council and worked on political campaigns.
Heidi Wills is an American former politician who was a member of the Seattle City Council from 2000 to 2004. In 2019,she ran for city council in District 7 but lost in the general election.
