What Happened to Seattle’s Relationship with Boeing?

The aftermath of the Alaska blowout reveals that the connection is slowly unraveling. By Benjamin Cassidy  January 17, 2024 IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH of the fuselage blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this month, Margaret O’Mara noticed something that would’ve once been unthinkable in Seattle. The University of Washington history professor observed that locals were correctly tying

Game-Changing Newly-Proposed State Law

DEFENDERS OF HIGHLINE FOREST MLK DAY – January 15, 2024 View this email in your browser Write us at info@defendersofhighlineforest.org The Defenders urge an outpouring of support starting tomorrow morning (Jan 16) for: GAME-CHANGING NEWLY-PROPOSED STATE LAW  Companion bills just introduced in Washington State’s legislature, HB 2103 and SB 5955, would require large Port districts to use tax funds to remediate

SB5990

S-3831.1 _______________________________________________   SENATE BILL 5990 _______________________________________________   State of Washington     68th Legislature   2024 Regular Session   By Senators Lovelett, Saldaña, Dhingra, Frame, Hasegawa, Keiser, Kuderer, Nobles, Salomon, Stanford, Trudeau, Valdez, and C. Wilson   Prefiled 01/04/24.Read first time 01/08/24.  Referred to Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology.   AN ACT Relating to integrating environmental

Is Sea-Tac Airport really the nation’s worst for international travel?

By  Vonnai Phair  Seattle Times staff reporter If you’ve traveled through an airport during the winter holiday season, you’ve probably experienced the habitual holiday horrors: weather delays, canceled flights, grueling lines, miserable crowds. Tack on the stresses of travelling internationally — and having to consider factors like customs and citizenship status — and holiday travel