Millions of Americans welcome this time of year – Pride Month – with great anticipation and excitement. It is when, for 30 days, many enjoy parades and parties, rainbows and rhinestones to celebrate LGBTQ+ people and all they offer to our culture and community.
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Insights Into Buying a Home Based on the School District
Home buyers often seek out local insights from their real estate professionals on everything from restaurants and shopping, but everyone should tread carefully when exchanging their impressions about schools.
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VIDEO: Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Climate Pledge Arena
The smells of fried chicken and burgers waft in the air, music is pounding out notes high and low, and people are streaming by the thousands into one of the newest, most innovative arenas in the world. Climate Pledge Arena is coming to life for another one of its 200-plus events a year.
You have probably experienced the excitement and buildup to a special moment within the walls of the reborn entertainment venue in Seattle Center. The experience delivers special moments that can be cherished for years.
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Seattle’s Love of All Things Chocolate
Seattle offers a wonderful array of chocolate – as a candy, coating, syrup or drink. It’s love at first taste!
Take a look at some of my favorite chocolatiers in and around the city.
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Seattle’s History With Its One – and Only – Gas Works Operator
Credit John Olmsted and stepbrother Frederick for helping to design Seattle’s first parks. Their master plan laid out a range of parks, including one for the northern edges of Lake Union.
The city objected to that particular park and instead developed the land into a gas-works plant, eventually leading to a toxic-waste site before becoming what it is today.
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VIDEO: Pausing to Remember Our Veterans of War
Please pause for a moment to remember our veterans of war. Here is a small tribute – a visit to Seattle’s Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Evergreen Washelli Park.
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My 5 Favorite Parks In and Around Seattle
Wherever you live in Seattle, there is a park within a short distance to enjoy. I must have visited dozens of parks, now that I have lived here for more than a decade – and I have my favorites.
Here are five from my list that covers the four corners of the city and one right in the middle:
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Key Land Development Deadline Approaches for Washington Counties
Government plays a critical role in what, where and when housing fits into our county and state. Washington established guidance called the Growth Management Act that requires updates that could affect land-development policies for the next 20 years.
King County must complete updates to its comprehensive plan at least every 10 years, with the next deadline of June 30, 2024, before changes are enacted at the end of that year.
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Pride Month: Opening New Doors to More of Our Neighbors
Living in a major city like Seattle is liberating. A person can be who he or she wishes without layers of judgment, harassment and abuse that can sometimes come with living freely in white-picket-fence suburbia or rural America. At least that is the thought.
As a growing number of people become more honest with themselves about who they are, the data show more identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or of other orientations than straight.
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Origins of Washington’s Growth Management Act
Unlike many parts of the country, the growth in King County outside of the Seattle borders is slowing. Census data show that since the 1990s expansion of the suburbs has ebbed significantly even while the county’s population has grown to become the 13th largest in the nation.
Why might that be? The answer lies within a major piece of legislation from Olympia.
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