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This Week Then: How 5 Nuns Established Health Care in the PNW

This Week Then: How 5 Nuns Established Health Care in the PNW

Plus: Looking back on the Seattle Sounders' first MLS Cup

This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Provident Souls On December 8, 1856, the Sisters of Providence arrived at Fort Vancouver, where they quickly established a boarding school, an orphanage, and St. Joseph’s Hospital. Their mission was to build and operate schools and hospitals throughout the Pacific Northwest. In 1878 they opened their first hospital in Seattle,…

Must List: Santa’s Lights Tour, May the Course Be with You 5K, Spectrum Dance

Must List: Santa’s Lights Tour, May the Course Be with You 5K, Spectrum Dance

Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.

Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST BUS Santa’s Lights Tour(12/8) MEHVA, the Metro Employees Historic Vehicle Association, hosts a handful of excursions each year using its fleet of historic trolleys and motorbuses. Only one trip, however, includes Santa Claus, who joins riders for a 3-hour tour of the city’s…

Seattle, What Just Happened? Our 2018 Year in Review

Seattle, What Just Happened? Our 2018 Year in Review

Congratulations, you made it through another crazy year

QUICK QUESTIONS: After Amazon halts work on its construction projects in the city in response to the head tax, this light projection appears on Rainier Tower

2018 Year in Review: The Best of Seattle

2018 Year in Review: The Best of Seattle

The best in public art, community gatherings, dining, sports and more

BUILDING A WALL…OF COLOR: Seattle artist Gabriel Marquez works on his mural between Holgate and Lander streets on the SoDo Track busway in July

Top Doctors 2019: Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Top Doctors 2019: Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery

Part of the 19th annual list of the region's best physicians

This article appears in print in the April 2019 issue, as part of the Top Doctors cover story. Click here to subscribe. Gabriel S. Aldea, M.D., minimally invasive cardiac surgery, vascular and thoracic aortic surgery, heart valve surgery; University of Washington Medical Center, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, 206.598.3636; University of Washington Medical Center; Columbia University, Vagelos College…

Top Doctors 2019: Nuclear Medicine

Top Doctors 2019: Nuclear Medicine

Part of our 19th annual list of the region's best physicians

This article appears in print in the April 2019 issue, as part of the Top Doctors cover story. Click here to subscribe. David H. Lewis, M.D., bone imaging, cardiac imaging, CT scan; Nuclear Medicine at Harborview, 325 Ninth Ave., Seattle, 206.744.3492; Harborview Medical Center; Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, 1985 Hubert J. Vesselle, M.D., Ph.D., PET/CT imaging, CT scan,…

2018 Year in Review: Seattle Civility on Trial

2018 Year in Review: Seattle Civility on Trial

It's been a year full of scandals

This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. Former Mayor Ed Murray was just the first in a march of disgrace… Boys Behaving Badly #MeToo, the hashtag that became the rallying cry against sexual harassment and sexual assault, began generating meaningful conversations around sexual misconduct—which,…

2018 Year in Review: Seattle Environment News by the Numbers

2018 Year in Review: Seattle Environment News by the Numbers

We banned straws, made tree cutters pay and sweated through another smoky, hot summer in Seattle

This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. Zero The amount of treated or untreated gallons of vessel sewage now allowed in Puget Sound; the waters were designated a “no dump zone” by the Washington State Department of Ecology in May. 1,429 The number of…

2018 Year in Review: The Waffling Ways of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan

2018 Year in Review: The Waffling Ways of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan

From signing the head tax into law, and then signing its repeal weeks later, to wavering on the new police chief search, our mayor just couldn't make up her mind

This article appears in print in the December 2018 issue, as part of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. Off with its headIn a series of moves that manages to anger most of the city, Mayor Jenny Durkan signs into law a head tax on large Seattle companies passed by the Seattle City Council—then signs the…

Will Congestion Pricing Help Seattle's Traffic Mess?

Will Congestion Pricing Help Seattle’s Traffic Mess?

The ‘period of maximum constraint’ is just around the corner, and even when it’s over, traffic downtown is likely to be worse than it is today. Can we toll our way out of this mess?

STOPPED UP: Today, traffic barely moves through downtown on Fifth Avenue during rush hour. Could congestion pricing help?

Seattle Opera Debuts Its New Civic Center

Seattle Opera Debuts Its New Civic Center

The center's grand opening is slated for December 15

The Seattle Opera’s new 200-seat performance space

2018 Year in Review: Seattle’s Homelessness Epidemic Grows

2018 Year in Review: Seattle’s Homelessness Epidemic Grows

This year, stories from the homelessness epidemic took center stage like never before

IT TAKES A VILLAGE: Whittier Heights Village in North Seattle

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