May 4, 1969: Hit the Highway, Freeway
On this date in 1969, one of Seattle’s most successful citizen activist campaigns gathered crucial force in the Washington Park Arboretum. Jeff Stevens remembers avidly.
April 21, 1974: and/or
Once upon an artistic time, Seattle’s and/or gallery catalyzed our city’s creative community. Jeff Stevens histories you freshly with his erstwhile song.
Ghosts of 23rd & Jackson Past
Gentrification in the Central District has now officially metastasized, courtesy of Vulcan. Jeff Stevens recalls a certain infamous incident in the history of that gentrification this morning at the Star.
Sympathy for The Jungle
Seattle’s political establishment wants to eliminate Seattle’s underclass. Same as it ever was, indeed. Jeff Stevens opines.
Gathering Lesser Seattle
Within Seattle here circa 2015, there’s a cathartic struggle simmering between our city’s poignant past and the feral future that now beckons fiercely. Jeff Stevens further histories you.
October 31, 1970: Ze Whiz Kidz
Q: Do plenty people go for Tomata? A: Yes!
The Pit and the Pabulum
The peculiar electoral chicanery by developer Triad Capital Partners exposed in the news this week is nothing new in Seattle city politics. Jeff Stevens channels Edgar Allan Poe with an Emmett Watson twist.
Tim Burgess: Ultimate Limousine Liberal
Apparently, Seattle City Council incumbent Tim Burgess is once again cynically posing as a liberal, mere weeks before facing Seattle’s famously liberal electorate. Jeff Stevens historically and/or skeptically reports.
September 11, 1970: Sabot
What should September 11 mean for Seattle?

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