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Homes on the northeast side of Capitol Hill. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

Real Estate

Growth in Seattle-area home prices accelerates along with other cities

The local residential market got off to a timorous start last year, but finished 2019 showing year-over-year gains of 4.1%.

Amazon expands its checkout-free store lineup with Seattle opening of first Go Grocery VIEW
Expedia will cut 3,000 jobs to simplify ‘bloated’ business
Secretary of State Kim Wyman says she won’t vote in presidential primary due to partisan disclosure
Boeing lands year’s first sales win as Japan’s ANA orders a dozen 787 Dreamliners
Free transit passes, monorail improvements aim to entice Seattle hockey fans to leave their cars at home
City could be doing more to tackle homeless encampment trash, auditor’s report says
In Seattle talk, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly tried to distance himself from Trump on family separations, anti-media rhetoric Updated 9:46 am

Local Politics

Seattle Police Department will try to build on record hiring year with neighborhood billboard campaign

The department needs to keep hiring at a rapid clip in order to grow the size of its officer ranks, because large numbers of cops continue to leave.

At Hibiscus, the sizzling falafel and steaming baladi bread are both excellent implements for dippage, into the creamy fava bean-based ful medames (left), baba ghanoush (center) and potato tagine.

Food & Drink

The Seattle area’s first Egyptian eatery has arrived in Totem Lake. At Hibiscus, everyone is family.

Hibiscus is believed to be the Seattle-area's first authentically Egyptian restaurant. Started by a husband-and-wife team from Egypt, it offers delicious falafel, beef liver, stuffed cow intestines and other Egyptian specialties in a warm, familial setting. Updated 10:07 am

Jacob Eason was 16-32 passing for 175 yards, no touchdowns, and two interceptions. The Washington Huskies played the Oregon State Beavers in Pac-12 football Friday, November 8, 2019 at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, OR. 212034

Husky Football

NFL teams ‘all over the map’ on UW Huskies QB Jacob Eason as scouting combine looms

Quarterback Jacob Eason is one of seven Washington Huskies participating in the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this week. Could Eason eventually land in the first round — and possibly in New England?

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Seattle Sketcher

Seattle’s Globe Bookstore prides itself on being ‘an orphanage for books,’ but its days may be numbered

A winter walk on Double Bluff Beach on Whidbey Island.

Travel

Why wait? Avoid traffic with this guide for a day trip to Whidbey Island in winter.

Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard performs during the first of three shows at the Showbox on Feb. 24, 2020. (Michael Rietmulder / Seattle Times)

Music

Review: Death Cab for Cutie plays sentimental show at the Showbox — its first time there in 7 years VIEW

Op-Ed | Rick Steves

In your travels and at home, channel climate-change anxiety into action

Local News

Mike Lull, guitar maker. Bellevue, Washington. Makes and repairs guitars for Peter Frampton, Pearl Jam, Heart, Ceap Trick, rush, and Queensryche. Nicole Brodeur writer. 0420388709

Mike Lull, the boss of bass guitars for bands like Heart, Cheap Trick and Pearl Jam, dies at 66

Featured Columnist

Will there ever be a right time for a woman president? Busting the ‘electability’ fears

Project Homeless

Seattle looks at allowing far more tiny house villages and tent cities

The lottery for subsidized housing just opened — for the first time in 3 years

After drug bust, Seattle starts clearing large tent encampment by I-5 ramps

As smaller Washington cities grapple with homelessness, Republicans take up the issue in the state Legislature

When Seattle stores belongings taken during homeless cleanups, few get them back

Business & Tech

ALL PHOTOS ARE EMBARGOED UNTIL 12:01AM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25,2020.

Parking is validated for shoppers at the new Amazon Go Grocery on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. It is the first of its kind and is opening Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7 A.M. Since cameras on the ceiling will record customer’s purchases, they will not have to stand in line to check out. Shot Monday, February 24, 2020. 213088

Amazon expands its checkout-free store lineup with Seattle opening of first Go Grocery VIEW

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Home Improvement

How to create a nice home office that doubles as a guest bedroom

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Home Design

Carrie Locklyn of ‘Extreme Makeover’ on rejuvenating your space

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Karla L. Miller offers advice on surviving the ups and downs of the modern workplace. (Courtesy of The Washington Post)

Career Advice

Call a lawyer: For these 2 workplace disputes, it’s the best option

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hat comfort zone can be comfy, and if it has been a while since you’ve changed jobs, you may wonder if it’s worth the upheaval. (Thinkstock)

Amy Swanson King

How many careers should a person have, anyway?

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Beauty

At-home teeth-straightening: No office visits, smaller bill — but do you dare?

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Nation & World

The stage is set for a Democratic presidential primary debate, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, at the Charleston Gaillard Center in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) SCPS105 SCPS105

5 questions before the Democrats’ South Carolina debate VIEW

Local Politics

In this Feb. 19, 2020, file photo, from left, Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate Wednesday, in Las Vegas, hosted by NBC News and MSNBC.

The Seattle area has gotten even more liberal — here’s why | FYI Guy

Food & Drink

At Hibiscus, the sizzling falafel and steaming baladi bread are both excellent implements for dippage, into the creamy fava bean-based ful medames (left), baba ghanoush (center) and potato tagine.

The Seattle area’s first Egyptian eatery has arrived in Totem Lake. At Hibiscus, everyone is family.

Pacific NW Magazine

WASHAWAY BEACH January 2010
Friends and neighbors Marilyn, left, and Roger Gochanour survey the ocean’s edge as it eats away the shoreline up to the Grant home at Washaway Beach. This section of Washaway Beach in North Cove Washington has lost 700 feet of shoreline in the past year. This home owned by Karol and Mike Grant (not shown) sits on the edge above the Pacific Ocean. The Grant’s home used to be 3/4 of a mile to the ocean’s edge when they purchased the property in 1984. Last weekend’s storms washed away the shoreline up to their foundation. A septic tank sits on the bank below the home at lower right.

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Washaway Beach: How a community stood together and refused to be swept out to sea

Editorials & Opinion

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Suki, the 47 year old Asian elephant gets a tongue scratch from her favorite keeper, Shannon Smith at the Point Defiance Zoo in the elephant house before getting a bath.
We look at the elephants at the Point Defiance Zoo. 123468

With Washington’s last zoo elephant, a new era | Editorial

Featured Columnist

Michelle Goldberg

Putin would hate President Bernie Sanders

Horsey Cartoon

Seattle’s real estate refugees flee to affordable Tacoma

Sports

Sounders at CD Olimpia in Honduras.

If Sounders manage to win CONCACAF Champions League, casual Seattle sports fans should take notice | Matt Calkins

Featured Columnist

UW and WSU at the NFL combine: Jacob Eason says ‘I felt ready’ to leave school and enter the draft

Arts & Life

Frederick Ballentine (Charlie Parker)

‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at Seattle Opera offers an unlikely mash-up of jazz and opera. How well does it work?

Photography

Players shuffle the tiles at the Seattle Riichi Mahjong Club’s tournament at Seattle Center, continuing Sunday 8:30 a.m. until conclusion (estimated around 6-6:30 p.m.). Twenty competitors, including four from California and two from New York are playing for bragging rights. There are no monetary prizes because that would be considered gambling. It’s free to watch in room 1A of the Seattle Center Armory and is being streamed online at seattlemahjong.org. There are usually 144 tiles based on Chinese characters.

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Local News

Mahjong masters compete at Seattle Center VIEW

Adults play the role of students, and students play adults doing high fives before entering the Seattle Asian Art Museum in an education video being made there. Written and directed by local artist Susie J. Lee, it’s not yet titled, but about what to expect and how to act in museums.
Director Lee says “look, share, create.” Within a couple of weeks the almost three-minute piece will be available to local school districts for free or any school wishing to show it. It’ll demonstrate that museums are fun and not intimidating nor boring. Lee says it’s about “what makes a museum interesting and cool.”

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Local News

Documenting what makes a museum ‘interesting and cool’ VIEW

Kathryn Kegel feeds a capelin, a member of the smelt family, to Goose, a 31-pound giant Pacific octopus at the Seattle Aquarium. He was released into Puget Sound on Saturday to his home waters next to the facility.

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Hugo, on display new to the aquarium

Goose: fed capelin. Release on Saturday

Casper, from the San Juans and then back to the San Juans

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Local News

Seattle Aquarium gets its arms around Octopus Week VIEW

Washington Huskies guard Marcus Tsohonis (15) goes up for a shot against Stanford Cardinal guard Tyrell Terry (3) in the first half on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 at Alaska Airlines Arena. 213053

Husky Basketball

Photos: Husky men fall to Stanford VIEW