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Trash Experiment Ends
8:54 am
Mon January 7, 2013

Seattle Ends Biweekly Trash Pickup Pilot Program

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Garbage and Recycling Containers in Wedgewood.
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Many Seattle residents are grateful for the new year because it means that their garbage will be picked up every week. At least for now.

For the past six months, 800 Seattle households participated in a pilot program that experimented with picking up the trash every other week. The affected neighborhoods were roughly in the four corners of the city and included Wedgewood.

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Intensive Academic Program
7:47 am
Mon January 7, 2013

Kids Find Path To College With Rainier Scholars

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"If you're packin' heat, hold 'em high!" Rainier Scholars teacher Drego Little greets his students' books with his own.
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Sixth-graders Melat Feseha, Melat Ermyas and Fathi Mahdi are in their first year of Rainier Scholars.
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Every summer, five dozen mostly low-income students of color from Seattle Public Schools begin an intensive academic program designed to get them ready for college. In Rainier Scholars, middle-schoolers commit to eight-hour school days in the summer and then after-school and weekend classes during the school year. Most of these students would be the first in their families to graduate from college.

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Police Accountability
6:10 pm
Fri January 4, 2013

SPD Confronts Another Inflammatory Video

Sean Whitcomb
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Police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb offers the department's perspective on Isaac Ocak's arrest video.
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The Seattle Police Department is facing another use-of-force lawsuit accompanied by video footage. Friday the department defended its conduct at a press conference.

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Fiscal Cliff
9:45 am
Fri January 4, 2013

Farm Bill Extension Leaves Out Many In Northwest

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By Anna King

Originally published on Thu January 3, 2013 3:59 pm

RICHLAND, Wash. – Many Northwest growers are left out of the partial extension of the U.S. Farm Bill included in this week’s fiscal cliff legislation. The new law largely covers conventional agriculture and not the organics, specialty crops and conservation programs that our region’s farmers are known for.

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Oregon Bus Crash
9:41 am
Fri January 4, 2013

Northwest's Korean Community Draws Close After Deadly Bus Crash

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By Anna King

Originally published on Thu January 3, 2013 5:18 pm

The Northwest Korean community is grieving two more victims in that deadly bus crash in northeast Oregon. So far, seven of the nine victims’ names have been released in the accident that also injured dozens.

One of the latest two victims to be identified is Chun Ho Bahn, age 63. She was a U.S. Citizen from Bothell, Washington. Her husband is being treated at a hospital in Pendleton. The other victim is Ae Ja Kim, age 61, from Korea. Her husband is still being treated in Portland, Oregon.

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