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  • caption: A person wearing a mask arrives at the Life Care Center of Kirkland on Monday, March 2, 2020, in Kirkland.

    What's my role? Businesses consider enforcing face masks

    Washington state Governor Jay Inslee has made it mandatory for people to wear face coverings in public. That order takes effect Friday. Meanwhile, business owners are pondering how they should operate under the new law.

  • caption: University of Washington Medical Center

    Concerns raised as UW psych unit slated for permanent closure

    Staff and some former patients are raising concerns over the closure of a small inpatient psychiatric unit in Seattle known as Seven North. University of Washington Medicine temporarily closed the unit at their Montlake campus in May and furloughed staff as part of their bid to address a $500 million shortfall due to costs and revenue losses associated with the pandemic. They announced this month that the closure would be permanent, with lay-offs of 23 staff members effective in mid-July. UW Medicine is working to find employment opportunities within their system for those staff members, according to a statement.

  • caption: Jimaine Miller

    Here's what I've learned feeding protesters in Seattle

    Jimaine Miller, A.K.A. the Def Chef, has been cooking a lot lately. That’s his job, but for weeks he’s also been cooking for protesters who march for racial equality and he's been cooking for people in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, known as the CHOP. He cooks with hundreds of pounds of donated food, and gives it away for free. And it's changed him in ways he didn't expect.

  • caption: Patti Warashina works on a sculpture in her studio on Thursday, December 19, 2019, in Seattle.

    She screamed so loud she scared off a rhino, and other Patti Warashina stories

    Patti Warashina is a ceramic artist, but during the pandemic, she’s been drawing a lot; pictures of herself drinking martinis, yelling at news coverage of President Trump, and kicking a giant, spiked coronavirus out of her house. “He’s fleeing away from me,” she says with a laugh, “because I’m worse than he is!”

  • caption: Keely Thomas and Jordan Lyon created the Decolonization Conversation Cafe in the chop, a place for people to have thoughtful conversations about race, policing "and learn what we don't know about each other."

    In its final days, CHOP tries to create safety without becoming the police

    This week, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the CHOP will end, and police will return to the East Precinct building at its center. But in the meantime, occupants of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone are trying to show they can keep their community safe without police.