Susan Lund of Team Oddfellows (Photo: CLIFF DESPEAUX / THE SEATTLE TIMES by permission)

Find a pen. Mark your votes. Find a stamp. Get it in the mail. Ballots in the 2010 special election must be postmarked by Tuesday and, remember, the neighborhood drop-boxes for ballots have been eliminated. So far, King County reports that only 24% of Seattle ballots have been returned. Here is some information about the two school levies under consideration. You can view this list of projects that the capital levy will fund at schools across the city.

• La Spiga Haiti Benefit Wednesday February 10: $25 suggested donation (all proceeds go to Haiti) - call 206.323.8881 to reserve
• Chungee's soft opening today at 3 pm, Grand Opening on Saturday 2/13
• Still introduces a generous happy hour daily from 5 to 7 pm;  $4 wells, $2 Tecate, plus a buck off signature drinks

A driver speeding across Capitol Hill after hitting a car near 20th and Madison was finally apprehended following a short foot chase after hitting another vehicle near Boylston and Republican, according to the police radio scanner report from our partners at Central District News. In between, several other vehicles were also damaged, according to radio chatter. We'll check with SPD for more details on the damage and the apparent arrest.

A driver speeding across Capitol Hill after hitting a car near 20th and Madison was finally apprehended following a short foot chase after hitting another vehicle near Boylston and Republican, according to the police radio scanner report from our partners at Central District News. In between, several other vehicles were also damaged, according to radio chatter. We'll check with SPD for more details on the damage and the apparent arrest.

Capitol Hill lost one of its two on-street bike parking options when SDOT removed the rack in front of the Broadway Market QFC late last year. Nobody tried that we know of -- but SDOT now tells CHS they were worried that the rack would be stolen. Now planners are looking for new locations to install a more secure rack design.

Here’s a scene from Capital Hill that has changed very little over the years. The Reframe shows Bellevue Ave and Olive Way — a bit of a blast from the past for me since I lived just a block from here a few years ago. A quick Google streetview look around the triangular buildings reveals that it is original (Westinghouse X-Ray at the time). The area around the Columbia Ale billboard looks like it was developed during the 50’s or 60’s. Click for the high res. Bellevue Ave. and Olive Way, July 10, 1945.

With the construction walls rising at the work site for the Capitol Hill light rail station and tunnels, a major component of Sound Transit's strategy to complete work on budget and in time for a 2016 start of service is still not in place.

To enable the 24-hour-per-day construction schedules Sound Transit says are necessary to complete the station and tunneling work by 2016, the agency has applied for a crucial set of permissions from the Department of Planning and Development that will allow work at the Broadway site to exceed standard thresholds for nighttime construction noise in the city.

Thursday night, the city is holding a hearing to collect community feedback on Sound Transit's application. Here are the details on the hearing:

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