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Recall of Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant leading with 50.3% of votes.
City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks to supporters Tuesday, Dec. 7, in Seattle. She is facing a recall, with ballots continuing to be counted Wednesday. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks to supporters Tuesday in Seattle. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
Local Politics

Sawant narrows gap in Day 2 of ballot counting; recall effort narrowly leads with 50.3% of votes

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant gained ground in her fight to keep her seat Wednesday with 50.3% of the counted votes in favor of her recall, down from 53% Tuesday night. Updated

FILE – In this March 4, 2018, file photo, then-MacKenzie Bezos arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher. Dan Jewett wrote in a letter to the website of the nonprofit organization the Giving Pledge, on Saturday, March 6, 2021, that he was grateful to be able to marry such a generous person and was ready to help her give away her wealth to help others. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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MacKenzie Scott won’t say how much she’s giving ‘this time’

Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Workers from Seattle Parks and their contractors remove tents and debris from the Ballard Commons Park that was being cleared of the homeless encampment. 219009
Project Homeless

Two large North Seattle homeless encampments are being removed this week

Amazon drivers wait next to their delivery vans for their logistics systems to be back online at the Amazon Delivery Station in Rosemead, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Wednesday. The company provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies, including The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) CADD202 CADD202
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King County COVID-19 patient infected with omicron variant has ‘mild illness’, had not traveled

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‘He’s really rocked by it’: Second shoulder surgery bookends roller coaster year for Seahawks safety Jamal Adams

Rupee Bar in Ballard is one of the hardest reservations to score due to limited seating. But this hot spot now has additional seating out front. (Courtesy of Rupee Bar)
Food & Drink

10 great Seattle-area restaurants that offer a cozy winter outdoor dining experience

Supporters of Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who is facing a recall, print out ballots and offer campaign literature and advice to voters on Capitol Hill.
Editorial

Sawant campaign reveals need for election reform

Fund for Those in Need

Seven-year-old Jacob Knapp, born with a rare genetic disorder, smiles after putting on a big hat at the Kindering Center on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Behind him is his occupational therapist, Aaron Wong-Weinrieb, The family has relied on Kindering Center for therapy since Kuba was three months old, when Kuba was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that severely impacts his cognitive development.
Fund for Those in Need

Kindering helps children with special needs — and their parents — live better lives VIEW

Friday, November 5, 2021. Fund for Those in Need. Kicking off the Fund for Those in Need we visit Wellspring Family Services visiting preschool kids having breakfast. 218714
Fund for Those in Need

Demand for services ‘skyrockets’ as The Seattle Times kicks off Fund for Those in Need campaign VIEW

Carneisha Grace, top right, and her sons Josiah Grace, left, Samari Glover, top, and Shawn Glover II at Childhaven in Auburn on Wenesday, November 10, 2021. Carneisha Grace describes being homeless for a six month period prior to receiving services from Childhaven in 2016. 218753
Fund for Those in Need

How one Seattle-area mother and her boys are overcoming life’s challenges

Akberet Kahsay eats a bowl of soup at Northgate Community Center on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. In partnership with Sound Generations and other organizations, the East African Elders Program provides meals, exercise and socialization for members of the East African community. 218826
Fund for Those in Need

Around King County, community meals return with a lifeline of nutrition and good company VIEW

Politics

Deneen Robinson is among 771,000 Texans who fall into a health insurance gap. A social spending plan passed by the House and pending before the Senate could help. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Cooper Neill

2 million uninsured are eager for Congress to fill a coverage gap — even temporarily

FILE — The Capitol dome in Washington on Sept. 29, 2021. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wanted a vote on Thursday night Nov. 4, 2021, on a social policy and climate bill, but moderates pushed back and action was postponed until Friday. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times) XNYT115 XNYT115
Senate rejects Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses Updated
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., tells reporters she is introducing a resolution to strip Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., of her committee assignments for repeatedly making anti-Muslim remarks aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. She is joined by, from left, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) DCSA112 DCSA112
Progressive Democrats pressure Pelosi to discipline Boebert Updated
First migrants returned under ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy Updated
In Texas, anyone who mails abortion pills can now be sent to jail
Former Washington state legislator and UW football star George Fleming dies at 83 Updated
Meadows sues as Jan. 6 panel proceeds with contempt case Updated
Court suggests religious schools OK to get Maine tuition aid Updated

Local News

Mayor Jenny A. Durkan speaks at the podium during a news conference, Monday, June 22, 2020 in Seattle to discuss the CHOP, gun violence and other issues.

After fatal shooting in protest zone, Seattle mayor’s email called situation ‘foreseeable and avoidable’

Featured Columnist

Resolutions in Charleena Lyles and Ahmaud Arbery cases don't equal justice

Education Lab

In Washington schools, some jobs are harder to fill than others

Washington’s Opportunity Scholarship program celebrates 6,196 grads, and counting

At rally, Seattle students demand changes to the way sexual assault cases are treated

Seattle-area youth created this guide to connect teens to multicultural mental health care

Ed Lab guest column: Let me tell you why teachers are quitting

Business & Tech

Amazon drivers wait next to their delivery vans for their logistics systems to be back online at the Amazon Delivery Station in Rosemead, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Wednesday. The company provides cloud computing services to individuals, universities, governments and companies, including The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) CADD202 CADD202

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FILE — Seen in a long camera exposure, the Caldor Fire burns at Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in Eldorado National Forest, Calif. A father and son have been arrested on suspicion of starting a massive California wildfire that forced tens of thousands to flee the Lake Tahoe area earlier this year, officials said Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. The El Dorado County District Attorney’s office said in a statement that David Scott Smith and his son, Travis Shane Smith, are accused of reckless arson in a warrant issued before formal charges are filed. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) SC307 SC307

Father, son arrested in wildfire that threatened Lake Tahoe VIEW

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FILE – This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient, in a laboratory in Fort Detrick, Md. Coronaviruses, including the newest one, are named for the spikes that cover their outer surface like a crown, or corona in Latin. Using those club-shaped spikes, the virus latches on to the outer wall of a human cell, invades it and replicates, creating viruses to hijack more cells. (NIAID/NIH via AP)

The coronavirus attacks fat tissue, scientists find

Food & Drink

Rupee Bar in Ballard is one of the hardest reservations to score due to limited seating. But this hot spot now has additional seating out front. (Courtesy of Rupee Bar)

10 great Seattle-area restaurants that offer a cozy winter outdoor dining experience

Pacific NW Magazine

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Washington's maritime industry is pushing to be more inclusive, welcoming

Editorials & Opinion

Congresswoman Jolene Unsoeld is proposing a Roads-to-Trails program that turn unused logging roads to recreation trails near Mt. Rainier and will be option for the rest of the country. (7/1/1993)

Remembering Jolene Unsoeld, Northwest trailblazer | Op-Ed

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Biden Democracy Summit highlights saving press

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An ‘A’ in evasion and shiftiness

Sports

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‘He’s really rocked by it’: Second shoulder surgery bookends roller coaster year for Seahawks safety Jamal Adams

Featured Columnist

Second shoulder injury another reason to rank Jamal Adams trade among Seahawks’ worst deals

Arts & Life

Shaina Shepherd, solo artist and lead singer of rock band BEARAXE, is photographed in Seattle’s Central District Thursday, May 13, 2021.

SMooCH celebrates its 10th year with a show featuring Modest Mouse, Josiah Johnson and Shaina Shepherd WATCH

A ‘daunting task’: How choreographer Justin Peck created dances for Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’

Fund for Those in Need

Every dollar raised goes directly to 13 nonprofits, which help local children, families and older adults

Photography

Russell Wilson and Adrian Peterson warm up for Sunday’s game. . The San Francisco 49ers played the Seattle Seahawks in NFL Football Sunday, December 5, 2021 at Lumen Field, in Seattle, WA. 218988
Seahawks

Photos: Seahawks beat the 49ers at home, 30-23 VIEW

Anne Wiltgen, dressed as a Jedi, moves to the music of the 8-Bit Brass Band as they busk outside the Emerald City Comic Con on Saturday. She’s with the band that plays music from video games, sci-fi, TV, movies, anime, and cartoons. Comic Con continues Sunday at the Washington State Convention Center. Ref to more photos online LO outside Emerald City Comic Con Saturday Dec 5, 2021 218987
Local News

From Jedi to a tiger named Hobbes: Emerald City Comic Con rolls into Seattle

The rescued green sea turtle, now named Shi Shi, is lifted from a holding pool by Angela Smith, left, Dr. Caitlin Hadfield, hidden, and Lindy McMorran at the Seattle Aquarium where it’s receiving critical care. (Hadfield is the senior veterinarian at the aquarium) Ref to more photos and video online Friday Nov. 19, 2021 Its sex is not yet determined. Age: called sub-adult Found washed ashore at Shi Shi beach near Neah Bay, WA by a Makah tribal member. 218882
Environment

A sea turtle found off Washington’s coast, cold and clinging to life, recovers at Seattle Aquarium WATCH

Alex Zerbe brings his Zaniac one-hour comedy show to the Seattle Center stage at Winterfest, aimed mainly at youngsters. He juggles, dances, engages the audience and tells jokes. It’s free and is among the things visitors can see without charge including the return the expansive train set in the Armory. Visitors should check the Seattle Center website. Ref to More online LO free events at Seattle Center on Saturday November 27, 2021 218920
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Trains, rockets and laughs among the festivities at Seattle Center VIEW