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Layoffs and shop closures hit Seattle and Portland airports, terminal expansions continue
The recovery in airline travel seems to have hit a plateau in recent weeks, according to Transportation Security Administration checkpoint screening numbers. With the end of coronavirus pandemic seemingly beyond the horizon, the near future is turning grim for workers in the airline and airports sector.
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Washington state proposes new unemployment benefits formula as federal dollars dry up
While Washington DC grapples with how to extend support to millions of jobless people in a pandemic, Washington state has a message: keep it simple.
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Inmates sent to Covid hot spot in central Washington to relieve overcrowding at their prison; others sleep on floor
Five months into the pandemic, nearly 300 inmates and staff have tested positive for the coronavirus at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. Nonetheless, inmates continue to be transferred to and from this Covid-19 hotspot to offset low prison capacity at other state facilities. This movement has inmates and their families worried.
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Former Seattle foster child reflects on the end of the youth jail: 'This brings me to tears'
Jasmine Jarrell says she was sent to the King County youth jail multiple times for leaving foster care placements. She says detention is no place for kids.
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Amid pandemic and protests, Umoja Fest offers ‘day of unity’ in Seattle
Amidst pandemic and protests, Umoja Fest offers ‘day of unity’ in Seattle
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New woman on the block: An Amazon worker falls in love with Beacon Hill
One afternoon in May, two months into the coronavirus pandemic in Seattle, Kate Huntington carried boxes of books and clothing into a shiny new apartment building. One box has business-oriented books like “Getting To Yes.”
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The 'Street Strider' of Beacon Hill
Pearl de La Cruz is out, riding on a surprising contraption that looks like a giant water bug crossed with a bicycle. “I’m coming by!” she yelled out, laughing.
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Tiny masks: Reopening a Seattle daycare center during Covid
It’s an odd sight. Before each child enters the center, their temperature gets taken by staff. Then they wash their hands. But it’s more than that -- the sounds and feel of the school have changed. Down to the blue stickers on the playground outside that dot the floor and remind the children how far to stand apart.
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'It's nervous-making to be operating a business in this way, at this time'
When Gov. Jay Inslee issued a statewide lockdown in March, Petite Soif, a wine bar on Beacon Hill, had been open four months. “We were nervous about what was going to happen,” said co-owner Shawn Mead. Like many small businesses, the wine bar is struggling to survive. As a business that relies on people gathering, it has reinvented itself almost monthly since the pandemic started.
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Pub on the block: The 'Cheers' of Beacon Hill faces pandemic challenges
Inside a one-story building on Beacon Hill, built in 1926, is a bar where customers consider each other family.
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‘It’s cry time.’ This Seattle woman’s response to the pandemic
Early in the pandemic, Ariana Bray would sit at the kitchen table in her apartment and look out at the world below.
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New 'Twilight' book promises to rekindle vampire tourism, but pandemic could also put stake in it
The Twilight phenomenon gets an injection of fresh blood this Tuesday with the release of a new installment in the bestselling vampire saga from author Stephenie Meyer. The series of novels and subsequent hit movies spurred legions of fans to visit the fictional story's real-life setting on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. But a predicted "renaissance" in vampire tourism could be bled by the resurgent virus pandemic.