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Stewsday: Looking Back at Seattle Wins and the Quad From 2014

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2 years ago

March 19, 2024

Stewsday: Looking Back at Seattle Wins and the Quad From 2014

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Welcome to Stewsday, we’re we’ve taken Tuesday and made it all about the legend James Stewart. Every week we’ll revisit some of our favorite Stew memories and reminisce on the good old days. This column is sponsored by Troy Dog who is always up to date on everything Stew.

I’ve been having a lot of fun going down memory lane and looking at all of Stews big races from each city on the tour. So, I decided to look through the results again and see what we had for Seattle. Seattle is cool because it’s the home race for Clinton Fowler, who is the Statistician for the series on the TV broadcast. Why is this important right now? Well, Clinton promised me that I’d get a booth tour at Indy and he said that I’d get to meet Stew. Yet, Stew nor Clint were not at Indy thus crushing my dreams.

Onward and upward.

2005 Seattle

Stews second premier class win. In his abbreviated rookie season (due to injury) Stewart raced six rounds. In those six rounds he never finished out of the top five and half of those were wins.

2006 Seattle

Two Seattle races and two premiere class wins for Stew. This track was wet and rutted. Can you beleive Seattle would have those conditions? I couldn’t find a video of the 450 class on YouTube, but I did find the 250 race for reference. Two Vurb contributors are in this race as well. We have Denny Stephenson in the booth and Jason Lawrence finishes third in the 250 class.

2007 Seattle

Stew is three for three early in his 450 class career in Seattle. He also clinched his first 450SX Championship here on this night.

2011 Seattle

Stew went to the Bahamas after this win.

2014 Seattle

Stewart finished second on this night in 2014, but that didn’t stop him from doing a ridiculous quad on the night. This was his last visit to Seattle and at the time no one could have even thought that it would be.

Here’s another look at the quad…c’mon man.

Quad God. This was massive. He cased it and still finished second!

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FOLLOWUP: Sound Transit Board finalizes $400+ million spending installment for West Seattle light rail

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9 hours ago

June 25, 2026

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FOLLOWUP: Sound Transit Board finalizes 0+ million spending installment for West Seattle light rail

Two weeks ago, we reported on the Sound Transit Board‘s System Expansion Committee recommending approval of actions to allot $406 million toward West Seattle light rail – the first big commitment after the ST3 plan revision that cemented ST commitment to WS. At this afternoon’s meeting of the full board, the actions all got final approval, as did a much-smaller installment of spending on Ballard light-rail planning.

(Here’s the full slide deck as presented at the committee meeting, also including the current WS light-rail cost estimate of around $5 billion.)

On the horizon, according to the most-recent ST email update, is work to advance the plan for the new cross-Duwamish River light-rail bridge, shown in this rendering:

(Sound Transit rendering)

That work on the south end of Harbor Island (in a parking lot at 1001 Klickitat, according to city docs) will see crews drill a test bridge shaft approximately 10 feet wide and 250 feet deep to better understand ground conditions,” ST says, to obtain “key information needed to finalize the bridge design.”

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17-year-old boy shot in High Point, multiple suspects seen running from crashed car

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19 hours ago

June 25, 2026

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17-year-old boy shot in High Point, multiple suspects seen running from crashed car

SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating a shooting that left a 17-year-old boy injured early Thursday morning in the High Point neighborhood.

At about 12:48 a.m., dispatchers received multiple reports of rapid gunfire near Sylvan Way Southwest and Southwest Morgan Street.

Officers arrived and found a 17-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound to the hip area. Medics transported the teen to Harborview Medical Center in serious but stable condition.

Before officers located the victim, they found a car that had crashed and become disabled near Sylvan Way Southwest and Delridge Way Southwest. Police said multiple suspects were seen running from the vehicle through a nearby Home Depot parking lot.

Officers cordoned off the area and searched for the suspects with assistance from the K-9 Unit, but were unable to locate them. Police recovered the vehicle and impounded it for processing.

During the incident, gunfire struck at least three vehicles and two buildings. No other injuries were reported.

Officers processed multiple nearby scenes and recovered evidence before clearing the area. Detectives with the Gun Violence Reduction Unit will lead the investigation.

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Council eyes street barricades in fight against violence, sex trafficking in north Seattle

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June 24, 2026

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Council eyes street barricades in fight against violence, sex trafficking in north Seattle

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council is expected to vote next week on a plan that would give the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) the authority to close off street access for public safety reasons.

The proposal comes after months of outcry from residents in north Seattle who say sex traffickers and sex buyers are looping through the streets surrounding Aurora Avenue North.

The street-closure proposal passed the council’s Public Safety Committee on Tuesday and is expected to be voted on by the full council next week.

“I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say the crime has gotten much worse, much more violent, and much more predator,” said District 5 councilmember Debora Juarez. “I think that we do have the authority to shut down a street for bullets flying and endangering the lives of those who live there.”

Frustrated neighbors have installed their own homemade barricades after a spate of gun violence between sex traffickers in May.

RELATED | SDOT removes street barricades near Aurora Ave; neighbors doubtful of temporary measures

Councilmember Bob Kettle says street closures will help tamp down sex buying in certain areas, but he emphasizes it must be accompanied by an increase in outreach and enforcement.

“We have to have a sustained effort,” Kettle told KOMO News. “My concern is for every action, there’s a reaction. We need to take this flex and then really attack it … because if we do just a bit and our attention wanders, we could have this conversation three months from now and we’re talking about the same thing.”

A 15-year-old boy was shot near 95th Street and Aurora Avenue North around 10:45 p.m. last night. The teen initially claimed he had been shot while walking down the street, but investigators now say he was shot by a passenger in his car.

RELATED | Seattle police say ‘drive-by’ on Aurora Ave. was actually passenger shooting teen driver

Kettle credited the city’s Real Time Crime Center cameras with helping investigators quickly piece together the events of the shooting.

“Just as important to finding out what happened, the cameras help police determine what did not happen,” Kettle said.

According to Seattle police data, reports of shootings and shots fired in the north precinct area are at their lowest levels since 2021.

Through the end of May, there were 48 total reports of shootings or shots fired, with one fatal shooting and seven nonfatal injury shootings.

That’s down from 63 total reports of shootings and shots fired – one fatal and seven injuries – in 2025; and 64 shootings or shots fired reports – one fatal and 17 injuries – in 2024.

At Tuesday’s committee meeting, councilmembers pointed out residents are calling for a new police precinct to be built on Aurora Avenue.

Ten years ago, a new North Precinct building was slated to be built at 130th Avenue and Aurora Avenue North to replace the existing precinct building, which was decades old and did not have enough space for the department’s needs.

Led by former councilmember Kshama Sawant, the “Block the Bunker” movement successfully got the North Precinct replacement project killed in city council.

Kettle said the city’s current financial issues make it essentially impossible to bring back a project similar to the one the previous council defeated.

“We have to connect the dots back,” Kettle said. “If we want to know why we are where we are today, we have to look at decisions made over the last two councils.”

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