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.
Gregory J. Nickels is an American politician who served as the 51st mayor of Seattle,Washington. He took office on January 1,2002 and was reelected to a second term in 2005. In August 2009,Nickels finished third in the primary election for Seattle mayor,failing to qualify for the November 2009 general election,and losing his bid for a third term as mayor. He left office on January 1,2010.
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.
The 2009 Seattle mayoral election took place November 3,2009. Incumbent Seattle mayor Greg Nickels sought reelection but finished third in the August 18,2009 primary election. The general election was instead between Joe Mallahan and Michael McGinn. McGinn beat Mallahan in the election with 51% of the vote share,becoming Seattle's next mayor.
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.
Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist who has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is 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.
Teresa Carmen Mosqueda is an American politician and labor activist from Seattle,Washington. She was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2017 to represent the at-large position 8. In 2023,she announced that she would run for the King County Council seat being vacated by Joe McDermott.
Debora Juarez is an American lawyer and politician serving as the president of the Seattle City Council. She was first elected in 2015 to represent the 5th district. A member of the Blackfeet Nation,she was the first Native American person elected to the council.
Robert M. Johnson is an American politician. He served on the Seattle City Council representing the fourth district,covering northeast Seattle and the area around the University of Washington,from 2016 until his resignation in April 2019.
The 2017 Seattle mayoral election was held on November 7,2017. It was won by former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan,who beat civic activist Cary Moon in the general election by 15 percentage points. The two candidates had advanced from an earlier primary election held in August,which ensured that Seattle would have its first female mayor since Bertha Knight Landes was elected in 1926. Municipal elections are officially nonpartisan though most candidates have declared party affiliations.
Sound Transit 3,abbreviated as ST3,was a ballot measure during the November 2016 elections in Seattle,Washington,proposing an expansion of the regional public transit system. The measure was proposed by Sound Transit,which was established by a similar initiative passed in 1996 and expanded by the Sound Transit 2 vote in 2008,who have operated regional transit systems in the Seattle metropolitan area since 1999. On November 8,2016,Sound Transit 3 was approved by over 54 percent of voters in the Puget Sound region;voters in Pierce County rejected the measure,but the measure passed in King and Snohomish counties,and had an overall majority.
Carol Consuela Moon is an American political activist who was part of the campaign to re-open Seattle's waterfront after the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Moon was a candidate for Mayor of Seattle in the 2017 mayoral election,finishing second in the primary and advancing to face Jenny Durkan. During the general election,she trailed Durkan in preliminary results and conceded.
The Seattle head tax,officially the employee hours tax (EHT),was a proposed head tax to be levied on large employers in Seattle,Washington,United States. The head tax was proposed in 2017 to fund homeless services and outreach and was set at a rate of $275 annually per employee,with hopes of raising up to $50 million annually.
Erica Christine Barnett is an American journalist and blogger who covers the city of Seattle. She is known locally within Seattle for her crowdsourced journalism in Seattle.
Daniel Aaron Strauss is an American politician who serves on the Seattle City Council from District 6. A native of Seattle's Ballard neighborhood,he previously worked as an aide to local politicians,including Seattle councilmember Sally Bagshaw.
Andrew Joseph Lewis is an American politician and attorney serving as a member of the Seattle City Council representing District 7. He was an assistant city attorney prior to his election and also worked on political campaigns.
The 2021 Seattle mayoral election was held on November 2,2021,to elect the Mayor of Seattle. It was won by former Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell,who defeated then-current President Lorena González;both candidates had advanced from a nonpartisan primary election on August 3.
The 2021 Seattle City Attorney election was held on November 2,2021. Incumbent City Attorney Pete Holmes sought reelection to a fourth term in office,but came third place in the officially nonpartisan August 3 primary election and failed to advance to the general election,with both Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and Ann Davison finishing ahead of Holmes in the primary. Davison defeated Thomas-Kennedy in the general election.
