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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Seattle's Mayor Harrell asks for review of permit given for 'far-right rally'
The Brief An event put on by Mayday USA in Cal Anderson Park quickly sparked heated reactions from area residents. Seattle police officers showed up and made several arrests during clashes with counterprotesters. In response, Seattle Mayor Harrell offered words of support, and caution, to Seattleites while making requests for city reviews into the permitting and policing of Saturday's event. SEATTLE - Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell issued a statement following a heated protest at Cal Anderson Park on Saturday. At least 22 people have been arrested after a clash between police, demonstrators, and counterprotesters on May 24, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. In a new statement, the mayor remarked on the proud history of Seattleites standing up for their values. He then urged residents to avoid violence during protests and demonstrations. What they're saying "When the humanity of trans people and those who have been historically marginalized is questioned, we triumph by demonstrating our values through our words and peaceful protest – we lose our voice when this is disrupted by violence, chaos, and confusion," read Mayor Harrell's weekend statement, in part. The rally was held at the historic Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. Speaking yesterday on the emerging events, Mayor Harrell said, "today's far-right rally was held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city's values, in the heart of Seattle's most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood." What's next Mayor Harrell is now directing the Parks Department to review the circumstances of the rally organizer's application. He says he aims to "understand whether there were legal location alternatives or other adjustments that could have been pursued." Up next, the mayor's office said in the statement that the Seattle Police Department will complete an after-action report of this event, "including understanding preparation, crowd management tactics, and review of arrests and citations." Mayor Harrell ended his full statement with the following: "I am grateful for those who make their voices heard in support of our neighbors without resorting to violence. In the face of an extreme right-wing national effort to attack our trans and LGBTQ+ communities, Seattle will continue to stand unwavering in our embrace of diversity, love for our neighbors, and commitment to justice and fairness." The Source Information in this story came from the Office of the Mayor of Seattle. Luxury Seattle hotel sues 'nuisance' building next door Firefighters in western WA train for possibility of 'above average' wildfire season Shawn Kemp lawyers claim bias in Tacoma Mall shooting case as trial nears Federal judge blocks Trump's dismantling of the Department of Education 'Where is Teekah?': Mother speaks out after Tacoma, WA cold case Activist marks 2 weeks in tree to protest logging near Port Angeles Driver arrested after deadly crash in Kent, WA To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, sign up for the daily FOX Seattle Newsletter. Download the free FOX LOCAL app for mobile in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store for live Seattle news, top stories, weather updates and more local and national news.
Eater
21-05-2025
- Automotive
- Eater
Central Washington's Most Legendary Burger Joint Keeps Yakima Fed After 77 Years
Walking into Miner's Drive-In Restaurant at the sweet, confusing age of 12 years old, you are smacked by all the noise. There are fryers blitzing breaded chicken, big pools of oil bubbling parades of fries. Orders called out and passed along between staff who, in uniforms of red and black, run food out the drive-thru window and through dining rooms stuffed with teenagers talking, laughing, and eating like this is the last time they'll ever taste a hamburger. Strawberry milkshakes are slurped. Stained foil is balled up by greasy fingers and thrown into trash cans. The interior is all shiny brown wood and stained glass lampshades, little pictures embossed on those lampshades of tomatoes and grapes on the vine cut into portraiture. The logo, on plastic cups and encircled by neon on the wall, is soft orange with big blocky text — think Wall Drug, think Old West. The food is food you already know, the eternal food of America. The titanic Big Miner Burgers and chili cheese fries are meaty, oozing, and weighty. Miner's, in the arid Central Washington city of Yakima, where I grew up, is maybe the most historic burger joint east of the Cascades. It's shorthand for fast-food splendor in the shrub steppe ecology of Central and Eastern Washington. I've eaten at Miner's more times than I can count. So has everyone else from rural Washington. It is to Yakima what the cheeseburger chain Dick's is to the Seattle area, a restaurant that's been around so long that it has become retro. You could call it nostalgic except that implies it's out-of-date, when in fact it is very much an anchor of present-day Yakima. Kids today eat there just like I did and their kids probably will too. Miner's holds fast to what works: indulgent burgers, no-frills aesthetics, and unwavering commitment to keeping things the same. The restaurant — which is actually a drive-thru, not a drive-in — was opened on April 9, 1948 by Ed and Irene Miner with the help of their 16-year-old son, Lee. Miner's is on First Street and the edge of Yakima's sprawling Valley Mall. If you haven't been to Yakima, and you probably haven't, the city has just under 100,000 residents. There's a big sign declaring it 'the Palm Springs of Washington' just north on Highway 97 that was put up by a guy named Gary in 1987 to get people from Seattle to visit. When he was asked by a reporter in 2013 what Palm Springs has in common with Yakima, he said, 'We have a lot of sunshine over here.' (The reporter also spoke with some Seattleites about this one-man tourism campaign, and one said, 'I've been to Palm Springs, it looks nothing like Yakima.') Mostly the city is known for its abundance of hops and fruit. Miner's, too, is a Yakima institution, visible on the main drag in bright yellow and red. According to manager David Miner, grandson of Ed and Irene, the business has barely changed since the early days. This quintessential Americana burger joint is a relic, a holdover icon of the most upper-left state, the way its beer and apples are. Miner's was the first drive-thru restaurant in Yakima. The response to the advent of drive-thru fast food hitting the city was immediate and euphoric. Cars have slammed the business ever since. Local lore goes that the McDonald brothers visited the drive-thru in its infancy and took inspiration for their operations, though McDonald's did open eight years before Miner's, in 1940. (It's probably not true, but, like Mulder, Washingtonians want to believe.) These days, there are seven huge Pepsi-branded menus in the drive-thru alone; staff come take orders while cars rack up. In the mid-1950s, Ed Miner noticed a Richland high school team circling, looking for a place to eat. When they pulled in, Grandpa Miner told them the coach would eat for free. Word got around, and in short order teams planned their games around trips to Miner's. Coaches still eat free at Miner's to this day. The burger joint now sponsors plenty of teams and sporting events. Thanks to its super late operating hours — 2 a.m. most nights and 3:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays — heading there after football games is a time-tested legacy for teens, too. The drive-thru, and a small roped-off patch of grass and trees known as 'Miner's Park,' are what remain from Miner's opening days. It wasn't until 1997 that the restaurant added its first dining room. In 2000 it added a second, the same year a salad bar station joined the mix. The burgers are no longer 25 cents like they were when Miner's opened. But this remains the kind of restaurant where families grow up and where employees stay in place for decades. Head manager Al Louis, for instance, has worked at Miner's for 30 years since he was a 17-year-old dishwasher. And Miner says he often eats the cost of rising expenses to avoid unsettling people: 'We don't want to scare customers away. People come here expecting things to stay the same.' Things did change, unavoidably and everywhere, at the onset of the COVID era. Supply chain issues made it difficult to source everything from beef to foil hamburger bags. The drive-thru line was beyond crowded; there were rarely fewer than 20 to 30 cars sprawling into the street. Despite those delays and hardships, the well-oiled machine that is Miner's kept on chugging. Today, Miner's looks and feels just like it did when I was a 12-year-old wing signing my papers as 'Kobe 'The Storm' Bryant.' The chili cheese fries are as titanic as ever. There's still magic in blasting through a heap of heartburn-inducing fries and teriyaki burgers in the car before hitting the mall. It's like the same kids are decamping the same buses after the same Ellensburg versus Union Gap games. The only thing that seems like it's changed is me; I eat like a rabbit when I'm not eating for work, and I no longer have the metabolism required to eat at Miner's. A new crop of tweens has taken over where I left off. The cosmic ballet goes on. Miner isn't too concerned about the future of his restaurant, nor the food industry at large. His grandparents are in their 90s now, but he'll only be 35 in June. He can run the restaurant for a long time without changing anything. Nothing needs to change. 'We're busier than ever,' Miner says. 'So why change something that's not broke?' Miner's Drive-In Restaurant (2415 South 1st Street, Yakima) is open every day from 8:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., and until 3:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Sign up for our newsletter.
Eater
21-05-2025
- Automotive
- Eater
Eastern Washington's Most Legendary Burger Joint Keeps Yakima Fed After 77 Years
Walking into Miner's Drive-In Restaurant at the sweet, confusing age of 12 years old, you are smacked by all the noise. There are fryers blitzing breaded chicken, big pools of oil bubbling parades of fries. Orders called out and passed along between staff who, in uniforms of red and black, run food out the drive-thru window and through dining rooms stuffed with teenagers talking, laughing, and eating like this is the last time they'll ever taste a hamburger. Strawberry milkshakes are slurped. Stained foil is balled up by greasy fingers and thrown into trash cans. The interior is all shiny brown wood and stained glass lampshades, little pictures embossed on those lampshades of tomatoes and grapes on the vine cut into portraiture. The logo, on plastic cups and encircled by neon on the wall, is soft orange with big blocky text — think Wall Drug, think Old West. The food is food you already know, the eternal food of America. The titanic Big Miner Burgers and chili cheese fries are meaty, oozing, and weighty. Miner's, in the arid Central Washington city of Yakima, where I grew up, is maybe the most historic burger joint east of the Cascades. It's shorthand for fast-food splendor in the shrub steppe ecology of Central and Eastern Washington. I've eaten at Miner's more times than I can count. So has everyone else from rural Washington. It is to Yakima what the cheeseburger chain Dick's is to the Seattle area, a restaurant that's been around so long that it has become retro. You could call it nostalgic except that implies it's out-of-date, when in fact it is very much an anchor of present-day Yakima. Kids today eat there just like I did and their kids probably will too. Miner's holds fast to what works: indulgent burgers, no-frills aesthetics, and unwavering commitment to keeping things the same. The restaurant — which is actually a drive-thru, not a drive-in — was opened on April 9, 1948 by Ed and Irene Miner with the help of their 16-year-old son, Lee. Miner's is on First Street and the edge of Yakima's sprawling Valley Mall. If you haven't been to Yakima, and you probably haven't, the city has just under 100,000 residents. There's a big sign declaring it 'the Palm Springs of Washington' just north on Highway 97 that was put up by a guy named Gary in 1987 to get people from Seattle to visit. When he was asked by a reporter in 2013 what Palm Springs has in common with Yakima, he said, 'We have a lot of sunshine over here.' (The reporter also spoke with some Seattleites about this one-man tourism campaign, and one said, 'I've been to Palm Springs, it looks nothing like Yakima.') Mostly the city is known for its abundance of hops and fruit. Miner's, too, is a Yakima institution, visible on the main drag in bright yellow and red. According to manager David Miner, grandson of Ed and Irene, the business has barely changed since the early days. This quintessential Americana burger joint is a relic, a holdover icon of the most upper-left state, the way its beer and apples are. Miner's was the first drive-thru restaurant in Yakima. The response to the advent of drive-thru fast food hitting the city was immediate and euphoric. Cars have slammed the business ever since. Local lore goes that the McDonald brothers visited the drive-thru in its infancy and took inspiration for their operations, though McDonald's did open eight years before Miner's, in 1940. (It's probably not true, but, like Mulder, Washingtonians want to believe.) These days, there are seven huge Pepsi-branded menus in the drive-thru alone; staff come take orders while cars rack up. In the mid-1950s, Ed Miner noticed a Richland high school team circling, looking for a place to eat. When they pulled in, Grandpa Miner told them the coach would eat for free. Word got around, and in short order teams planned their games around trips to Miner's. Coaches still eat free at Miner's to this day. The burger joint now sponsors plenty of teams and sporting events. Thanks to its super late operating hours — 2 a.m. most nights and 3:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays — heading there after football games is a time-tested legacy for teens, too. The drive-thru, and a small roped-off patch of grass and trees known as 'Miner's Park,' are what remain from Miner's opening days. It wasn't until 1997 that the restaurant added its first dining room. In 2000 it added a second, the same year a salad bar station joined the mix. The burgers are no longer 25 cents like they were when Miner's opened. But this remains the kind of restaurant where families grow up and where employees stay in place for decades. Head manager Al Louis, for instance, has worked at Miner's for 30 years since he was a 17-year-old dishwasher. And Miner says he often eats the cost of rising expenses to avoid unsettling people: 'We don't want to scare customers away. People come here expecting things to stay the same.' Things did change, unavoidably and everywhere, at the onset of the COVID era. Supply chain issues made it difficult to source everything from beef to foil hamburger bags. The drive-thru line was beyond crowded; there were rarely fewer than 20 to 30 cars sprawling into the street. Despite those delays and hardships, the well-oiled machine that is Miner's kept on chugging. Today, Miner's looks and feels just like it did when I was a 12-year-old wing signing my papers as 'Kobe 'The Storm' Bryant.' The chili cheese fries are as titanic as ever. There's still magic in blasting through a heap of heartburn-inducing fries and teriyaki burgers in the car before hitting the mall. It's like the same kids are decamping the same buses after the same Ellensburg versus Union Gap games. The only thing that seems like it's changed is me; I eat like a rabbit when I'm not eating for work, and I no longer have the metabolism required to eat at Miner's. A new crop of tweens has taken over where I left off. The cosmic ballet goes on. Miner isn't too concerned about the future of his restaurant, nor the food industry at large. His grandparents are in their 90s now, but he'll only be 35 in June. He can run the restaurant for a long time without changing anything. Nothing needs to change. 'We're busier than ever,' Miner says. 'So why change something that's not broke?' Miner's Drive-In Restaurant (2415 South 1st Street, Yakima) is open every day from 8:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., and until 3:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Sign up for our newsletter.
Axios
14-05-2025
- Business
- Axios
High-speed Airo trains are coming to Seattle
Seattle is a step closer to getting new, faster Amtrak trains. Driving the news: Construction has begun at Amtrak 's Seattle maintenance facility to help launch the company's new Airo trains, which can travel 125 miles per hour. Why it matters: The trains — which promise faster and more comfortable rides — are set to debut first on the Amtrak Cascades route, which connects Seattle to Portland and Vancouver B.C. The trains are slated to be in service on the route by the end of next year, according to Amtrak spokesperson W. Kyle Anderson. State of play: In the meantime, Seattleites may notice major work happening in SoDo. By the numbers: The $300 million maintenance facility will stretch 600 feet — almost two football fields. That's long enough to accommodate the full Airo "trainset," which can't be separated like older railcars, Anderson told Axios. 500,000 gallons of groundwater will be pumped out daily during construction, enough to fill 15 swimming pools. (The site sits on a former tidal bed filled with early Seattle landfill.) The facility will be anchored by steel piles driven 140 feet into the ground, which would stretch out 17 miles if lined up end to end. The bottom line: While Seattle's Airo facility is the second to break ground, after Philadelphia, it will be the first to open, per Anderson.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
7 candidates have filed for Seattle mayor ahead of Friday's deadline. Here's who they are
The Brief Bruce Harrell appears to have some competition when it comes to retaining his seat as Seattle's mayor, as six other people have put their names in the hat. The last day for in-person candidate filing is Friday, and the deadline to withdraw from the race is on Monday. SEATTLE - Bruce Harrell appears to have some competition when it comes to retaining his seat as Seattle's mayor. As of Thursday night, seven candidates have filed for the position of Seattle mayor. According to King County Elections, the deadline for in-person candidate filing is on Friday, May 9. Along with Harrell, several others have put their names in the hat, highlighting their focus on housing, community and public safety. Here's who's running for the Seattle mayor's office: Incumbent Bruce Harrell is running for a second term as the Mayor of Seattle. Harrell previously served as the president of the Seattle City Council from 2016 to 2020, after having been on the council since 2008. He was acting mayor of Seattle for a brief stint in 2017 before being elected in his own right in the 2021 Seattle mayoral election, beating out Lorena González. In his time in office, Harrell has made it clear that he's dedicated to solving the city's homeless crisis, increasing community safety and fighting the opioid epidemic. Harrell hopes to find and create more solutions as the Seattle-Tacoma area continues to grow in population. Joe Mallahan, a previous candidate in the 2009 Seattle mayoral race, is once again running for office. Mallahan was narrowly beat out in November 2009 by former mayor Mike McGinn, who won just 51% of the vote. A former leader at T-Mobile, Mallahan wants to address issues he believes city leadership has been too slow to act on, such as crime, homelessness, housing costs and community outreach. Joe Molloy has a strong focus on the Seattle homelessness crisis, as he says he lost his home last year as the result of an unsupported disability. Molloy, a Detroit native, has three main priorities outlined in his campaign: addressing shelter and housing, creating a dedicated crisis response and public safety service, and a Universal Basic Income pilot program. Molloy introduced his plan as "The Homeless New Deal," aimed at addressing the ongoing "State of Emergency." His background includes experience in real estate and Seattle homeless advocacy organizations. Katie Wilson, a current coalition leader, brings a variety of ideas aimed at improving the lives of Seattleites. Wilson's spent her career fighting for working families, and has big goals for affordable housing, public transportation, workers' rights, public safety, and more. She co-founded and serves as the executive director of the Transit Riders Union, and led campaigns to raise the minimum wage, strengthen renter protections and improve access to low-income individuals. Ry Armstrong, a Pacific Northwest native, says he plans to tackle Seattle's challenges head-on, with a commitment to accessibility and collaboration. If elected, Armstrong hopes to build more housing, invest in public safety, fight for Seattle workers and create accessible, affordable childcare. With a background in unions, nonprofits and state politics, Armstrong says his vision for Seattle's future is rooted in equity, resilience, and collaboration. Isaiah Willoughby is running for Seattle mayor. Willoughby, with a listed Burien address, shares the same name as a man previously sentenced to two years in prison for setting fire to a Seattle Police precinct in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone during the George Floyd protests in 2020. David Tuniman is also listed as a 2025 candidate who has put their name in the Seattle mayoral race. At last check, Tuniman does not have an active website for his campaign. What's next The deadline for candidates to withdraw from the King County 2025 primary election is Monday, May 12. The primary election is on August 5, and the general election is on November 4. The Source Information in this story is from King County Elections, the websites of 2025 Seattle mayoral candidates and FOX 13 Seattle reporting. New area code coming to Seattle area in June. What to know WA's first In-N-Out gets closer to opening date VIDEO: Dramatic arrest of WA mother carrying toddler, stolen gun Pro-Palestinian protesters cause $1M in damage at UW, 34 arrested Health experts say 'harmless' symptoms could be signs of blood disease 2 WA brothers arrested after high-speed pursuit on I-90 Video shows shackled inmate escape custody at Sea-Tac, board light rail To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, sign up for the daily FOX Seattle Newsletter. Download the free FOX LOCAL app for mobile in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store for live Seattle news, top stories, weather updates and more local and national news.
