Seattle City Council Mulls Over Delaying Universal Free School Meals
Universal free school meals now, or universal free school meals later? That is the question. Tomorrow, the Seattle City Council will either pass a bill to enact Katie Wilson’s universal meal program for Seattle Public Schools students intact or pass an amendment from Council President Joy Hollingsworth and Councilmember Dionne Foster that would delay implementation…
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Guest Rant: Seattle Can’t Afford Not to Feed Every Child
Every August, before I thought about lesson plans, I went shopping for snacks. When I taught elementary school in a Washington, DC neighborhood shaped by generations of segregation and concentrated poverty, I kept food in my classroom because I knew children living a few miles from the halls of power would come to school hungry.…
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Beat the Heat with These Air-Conditioned Activities in Seattle
Seattle might not see many truly scorching days each year, but when they happen, they tend to happen all at once. One day the weather is in the 60s and raining; the next it feels like the Sound itself is evaporating. Rather than melting away in your home pretending that your window fan is making…
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Summer Sweet
Summer Sweet not your vibe? Check out Boozy Summer Savory instead. I’ve never drunk alcohol. I heard a Minor Threat song when I was 14 and swore off booze right then and there. But few things are more pathetic than a 46-year-old identifying as straight edge. Thankfully, booze-free cocktails are getting increasingly popular, and non-drinkers…
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Summer Savory
Summer Savory not your vibe? Check out N/A Summer Sweet instead. In June, when the temperatures creep above 70, I leave the Manhattans behind, and start sniffing out margaritas, mai tais, anything with orgeat that helps me pretend I’m on the vacation I keep promising myself I’ll take “next month.” But my palate can only…
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Cashing Out
I’m a straight woman in her early thirties dating a straight man in his late twenties. We’ve been together for two years. We kept things casual for the first sixteen months or so. When we had our “define the relationship” talk he agreed to a “no important secrets” policy. The big secret I shared with him:…
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Slog AM: Try to Stay Cool, More Washington Journalists Strike over AI, and How Not to See ‘The Odyssey’ for the Right Reasons
It’s a Hot One: Too hot even, dangerously for some. The city hasn’t updated its summer heat safety website since August of last year, but it still has handy links to cooling centers and the like; just ignore all the old dates they mention. It’s today and tomorrow that will be the worst according to…
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Opinion: I didn’t move to Seattle for progressive politics. I moved here to survive.
Last month, I was featured in an NPR article exploring America’s growing phenomenon of “ideological sorting.” “In a country that’s growing ever-more polarized, the shifting demographics cut in both directions—and it is happening across the country,” they wrote. “In one study from 2022, researchers concluded that ‘at no point since the Civil War have partisans…
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The View From the Cheap Seats
We have looked forward for years to the World Cup coming to Seattle, and it finally swept through the city this summer. Much of Seattle’s effort to become “game ready” felt like putting makeup on a pig—a spectacle more than a transformation—but we were excited nonetheless. We hit the streets to document the tournament the way…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, July 20–July 26
MONDAY 7/20 Vanishing Seattle + Collide-o-Scope (FILM) Two beloved institutions team up at Clock-Out Lounge for a celebration of Seattle’s weird and wonderful past. Pop-culture conservators/video wizards Shane Wahlund and Michael Anderson of Collide-O-Scope are back with Vanishing Seattle curator/documentarian Cynthia Brothers for a night of civic memory and warped entertainment promising “an all-new special…
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Slog AM: Spain Wins the World Cup, the Iran War Keeps Escalating, and Diarrhea Lettuce Mystery Continues
Good Morning! After another weekend of perfect weather, the late summer nonsense is officially upon us this week: Temps will be in the 80s and 90s at least until Thursday, and we’re expecting a blanket of wildfire smoke from the Canadian wildfires to finally hit Western Washington. Now is an excellent time to dust off…
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I Saw U: After the US Lost a World Cup Game, Making Out on Light Rail, and Reading ‘The Colour of Magic’
lesbianism at metier during usa v. aus matchwe sat next to each other at the bar. you: rapinoe jersey, me: with my black lab. you wished me a happy pride on your way out. drinks sometime? Gas Stations GlancesNorth Bend Sinclair 7/3/26. You with kids in a ?Suburban? dreaming of escape. Me – leopard print…
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