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Seattle's Guild 45th theater unlikely to reopen. Its remnants are already becoming bar flair.
Hearing demolition work underway, the Octopus Bar's owner ran out and asked contractors to spare a piece of the sign for him.
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Washington Gov. Inslee says lying about elections should be a crime
In a surprise announcement Thursday, the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he's drafting legislation to make it a crime for elected officials and candidates for public office to make false statements about election outcomes. Inslee said such a law could withstand free speech challenges and is necessary to guard against ongoing attacks on democracy.
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'Washington and Seattle are not what you think.' How the insurrection changed politics across the US
It's been one year since the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. And the fallout continues to reverberate across the country and right here in Washington state.
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Kent Mayor will seek assistant police chief’s resignation after outcry over Nazi insignia
An outside investigation found it was "not plausible" that Derek Kammerzell did not know of the Nazi reference when he posted the insignia, as he claimed. Police Chief Rafael Padilla suspended Kammerzell for two weeks.
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Reversing predecessor, Washington’s new secretary of state mandates vaccines
In one of his first acts as Washington secretary of state, Democrat Steve Hobbs has told his roughly 300 staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by February 25, or face losing their jobs.
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WA taxpayers paid for three state lawmakers to attend election conspiracy event
‘They said, from their perspective, they have a lot of constituents in their districts reaching out to them and saying, we think there's something wrong with these 2020 election results and we support you looking into it.’
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Seattle's top political moments in 2021: Elections, pandemic response, and more
Political junkies in Seattle had a lot to binge on in 2021.
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Omicron scrambles plans for start of Washington’s legislative session
So much for the best laid plans for Washington’s 2022 legislative session. The highly contagious omicron variant of Covid-19 has upended what was supposed to be a mostly in-person start to the 60-day session, at least in the House of Representatives.
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Pig, PinkPantheress, and Seattle's Spice Box. 2021 pop culture picks
On Nicholas Cage: ‘He just really commits to whatever role he’s in. I truly believe that he could steal the constitution.’
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King County suspends in-person jury trials through January 14
Jury trials in King County are yet facing another disruption due to Covid. But officials say the pandemic has taught them how to keep many court proceedings moving forward remotely.
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Climate change in the Northwest: What we learned in 2021 and a sociological solution
Record-setting heat, prolonged drought, severe flooding and, in these finals days of the year, sub-freezing cold and snow — 2021 will go down in the climatological history books. What lessons did we learn?
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This 'My Fair Lady' star knows the stigma of language firsthand
Arab-American actor Shereen Ahmed brings her own story to My Fair Lady's Eliza Doolittle.