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A1 Revisited: Our coverage of 1970 protest showed neglect of vital Native issues
Oct. 16, 2022 at 6:00 am Updated Oct. 16, 2022 at 11:19 am 1 of 14 | At Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Randy Lewis (Wenatchi/Methow) speaks during a memorial service for Lawney Reyes on Aug. 26. Reyes was the brother of Bernie Whitebear and helped design Daybreak Star, on the former site… (Daniel Kim / -
Fewer drivers in Seattle’s Highway 99 tunnel could create need for bailout
1 of 2 | Downtown Seattle looms behind the south portal of the Highway 99 tunnel, which isn’t generating enough toll income to pay for maintenance and $200 million in construction debt. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) By Mike Lindblom Seattle Times staff reporter Washington state’s new Highway 99 tunnel lost so much traffic because -
Microsoft’s Eastside Leases – Infogram
A data table listing Microsoft's five major leased office properties in King County's Eastside, including locations in Issaquah and Bellevue, with square footage ranging from 382,000 to 749,694 sq ft and lease expirations from 2023–2025. The graphic notes Microsoft leases approximately 5 million square feet in King County beyond its 10-million-square-foot owned headquarters campus. -
Seattle Times Infographic: Exodus from Seattle to South King County Cities, 2019–2020
A Seattle Times infographic by Mark Nowlin, reporting by Melisssa Hellmann, showing USPS change-of-address data comparing 2019 and 2020 relocations from Seattle to 13 South King County cities including Renton, Tukwila, SeaTac, Federal Way, and others. Of the 13 cities studied, only Covington, Burien, and Des Moines saw decreases in people relocating from Seattle. -
It’s not your imagination, ‘smoke season’ has become real in Seattle
Almost all of the summer and fall “bad air” days since monitoring began were in the last six years, showing that wildfire smoke events in Seattle really are a recent phenomenon. (Kylie Cooper / The Seattle Times) By Danny Westneat Seattle Times columnist When the Spanish flu was pronounced over back in 1918, Seattleites -
First all-new, electric commuter airplane takes flight at Moses Lake
Sep. 27, 2022 at 8:47 am Updated Sep. 30, 2022 at 10:37 am 1 of 10 | The all-electric airplane called Alice, designed and built in Arlington, takes off on its first flight Tuesday morning in Moses Lake. It landed safely eight minutes later. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times) By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace -
Only one major city ranks higher than Seattle for remote work
An empty office floor in the Olympic Tower in downtown Seattle, September of 2020. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times) by Gene Balk Seattle Times columnist Driving is no longer the dominant way Seattle residents get to work — and all it took was a pandemic. Census data released Thursday shows from 2019-2021, the number of Seattle -
Gates-funded ‘green revolution’ in Africa has failed, critics say
Sep. 8, 2022 at 10:00 am Updated Sep. 8, 2022 at 5:20 pm 1 of 4 | The child of a Kenyan farmer helps with planting trees that restore health to the soil — depleted, according to some, by a chemical-heavy approach pushed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Alliance for a Green… (Courtesy of Celestine -
2022-08-27High court upholds county OK of Boeing building near Sea-Tac
Washington's Supreme Court unanimously upheld King County's approval of Boeing's plan to build corporate headquarters on a 30-acre site near Seattle-Tacoma Airport, rejecting challenges from a local citizens' group. The court ruled the approval was a legislative action rather than a quasi-judicial rezone, meaning the appearance-of-fairness doctrine did not apply, even though two County Council members had accepted campaign contributions from Boeing employees. The ruling also addressed a separate Snohomish County case, allowing environmental-impact statements for two large residential developments to be submitted piecemeal. -
Pension deadline could speed retirement of experienced Boeing engineers
Aug. 12, 2022 at 6:00 am Updated Aug. 12, 2022 at 5:48 pm A new Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Everett in 2020. Some experienced engineers who designed this plane are weighing retirement as a big cut to their lump-sum pension payout looms later this year. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times) By Dominic Gates Seattle Times