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.
The Mayor of Seattle is the head of the executive branch of the city government of Seattle,Washington. The mayor is authorized by the city charter to enforce laws enacted by the Seattle City Council,as well as direct subordinate officers in city departments.
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 Alaskan Way Viaduct was an elevated freeway in Seattle,Washington,United States,that carried a section of State Route 99. The double-decked freeway ran north–south along the city's waterfront for 2.2 miles (3.5 km),east of Alaskan Way and Elliott Bay,and traveled between the West Seattle Freeway in SoDo and the Battery Street Tunnel in Belltown.
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.
Edward Bernard Patrick Murray is an American politician from the state of Washington who most recently served as the 53rd mayor of Seattle from 2014 to 2017. A Democrat,he was previously a state legislator,first with the Washington State House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007,then the Washington State Senate from 2007 to 2013.
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.
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.
Dean Willard was a candidate for the Seattle Port Commission,fifth position,in 2011.
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 far-left politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. She is a member of Socialist Alternative,the first and only member of the party to date to be elected to public office.
Peter S. Holmes is an American politician and attorney who served as the Seattle City Attorney from 2010 to 2022. He was elected in November 2009,defeating incumbent Tom Carr by a significant margin. After winning a second term uncontested in 2013,he defeated challenger Scott Lindsay in 2017 with nearly 75% of the vote,but failed to advance from the primary in a bid for a fourth term in the 2021 election.
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 Bay Freeway,also referred to as the Mercer Street Connection,was a proposed elevated freeway in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle,Washington. The 0.7-mile-long (1.1 km) freeway would have run parallel to a section of Mercer Street between Interstate 5 (I-5) and Aurora Avenue North at the Seattle Center.
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.
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.
Timothy A. Keck is an American newspaper publisher.
Dorli Rainey was an Austrian-American political activist. After being pepper-sprayed at an Occupy Seattle protest by police,she became one of the faces of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
