Health

Getting a COVID test is easier than last year and still important

A year removed from the first drive-thru testing sites for COVID-19, the crush of people seeking tests has shifted to scheduling vaccinations. But testing is an essential tool in the fight to suppress the coronavirus and to identify variants.

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2021 Downtown Seattle shot for the series about the downtown bouncing back after COVID. 216349
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Seattle really is ‘CRAZYTOWN’ — and it will be our salvation after a rough year Updated

Maybe no city got slammed by more bad press coverage in the past year than Seattle, with a focus especially from conservative media on businesses fleeing a liberal city. But less explored is all the crazy hopeful people here who don't believe the negative hype, and so are opening new ones. Updated

NEW YORK – MARCH 10: Financier Bernard Madoff leaves Manhattan Federal court March 10, 2009 in New York City. Madoff attended a court hearing regarding the conflicting status of his legal representation in his multi-billion dollar fraud allegations. His lawyer, Ira Sorkin, has told a judge his client is expected to plead guilty to 11 counts including money laundering, perjury and securities, mail and wire fraud. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) 85314125
Nation & World

Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies in prison at 82 VIEW Updated

Sunday, November 29, 2020 LO Lines Only The sun sets behind a bank of fog as walkers cruise during the last hour of daylight at Magnuson Park in Seattle. 215781
Outdoors

Seattle’s spring beauty is on display on this hike from Puget Sound to Lake Washington

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Valerie Curtis-Newton, of the Hansberry Project, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019 in Seattle. In the background is part of an acrylic painting by Curtis-Newton’s wife Kim Powell, called “Typical Winter Day.” 212485
Theater

Seattle and Atlanta theaters team up to connect Black theaters, nurture Black playwrights

012611, JB : Slick Watts arrives before the 76th Annual Sports Star of the year banquet held at Benaroya Hall in Seattle,Wednesday, January, 26, 2011. ( Jim Bates / THE SEATTLE TIMES) 109341 JB: SEATTLE SPORTS STARS OF THE YEAR, BENAROYA HALL
Larry Stone

Sending positive thoughts to Sonics great Slick Watts, who has ‘long road to recovery’ after stroke

Brandi Carlile and Tim Hanseroth perform during Carlile’s Echoes Through the Canyon concert Saturday, June 1 at the Gorge Amphitheatre. (Michael Rietmulder / The Seattle Times)
Music

As the music industry peeks beyond COVID-19, Washington’s Gorge Amphitheater is preparing to livestream concerts

Passengers load and unload at a METRO bus stop near the intersection at 15th Ave NW and NW Market. 214618 214618
Op-Ed

Welcome back students to school and to Metro transit

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At Miller Park and Playfield just North of E Thomas Street between 19th and 21st Ave E, tents can be seen along the South, East and West sides of the park. Researchers at SPU, UW, have conducted a “tent census” of the city in summer 2019, resampling that winter and then after the pandemic hit, and found that in 2019 the city had more than 800 tents, and in populated areas they increased more than 50 percent after the pandemic hit. 216741
Local Politics

Voters could decide Seattle homelessness strategy

Ron Watkins, recently accused by a documentary film of posting conspiracy theories online to lead the Q-Anon cult, is pictured in 2003 after vocal barbershop practice in the choir room during his sophomore year at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo. ‘To see where his path has ended up has been the most shocking thing I’ve experienced,’ said Shawn Lawrence, Watkins’ high-school best friend.
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When your childhood best friend might be QAnon’s leader: A Seattle man’s shock

A Health One Seattle Fire Dept. team, from left: Lt. Patrick Hubschman, Case Manager Riley De Hoog and Fire Fighter Lynn Altmann have a discussion next to their fully equipped SUV before a news conference to announce the launch a second Health One unit into service, Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in Seattle. 216893
Local Politics

Seattle launches second firefighter-social worker team to cover U District, Ballard VIEW

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks at a press conference at Renton City Hall in Renton, Wash. Monday, March 22, 2021. 216701
Local Politics

Inslee commutes 15 prison sentences after Washington Supreme Court overturns drug-possession law

The State of Washington Employment Security Department, closed due to Covid-19, seen Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 in Olympia. 216297
Local News

Dispute in Washington state capital over claim of $1.1 billion in potential unemployment fraud

Politics

President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony to honor slain U.S. Capitol Police officer William “Billy” Evans as he lies in honor at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) DCSA363 DCSA363

Biden on Afghanistan: ‘Time to end America’s longest war’ VIEW Updated

The crowd at Hing Hay Park responds to speakers calls to “fight hate”and against the attacks, physical and verbal on Asian Americans. Ref to more photos online Rally to speak out against anti-Asian hate and violence, Hing Hay Park. Saturday March 13, 2021 216635
Senate filibuster test over Asian-American hate crime bill Updated
FILE – In this June 28, 2019 file photo, Ashlyn Myers of the Coalition for Life St. Louis, waves to a Planned Parenthood staff member in St. Louis, Mo. The Trump administration has told federally-funded family planning clinics it may be willing to delay enforcement of a controversial rule that bars them from referring women for abortions. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) MOSTP550 MOSTP550
Biden begins to undo Trump’s ban on abortion referrals Updated
Watchdog lays bare Capitol Police’s riot security failures Updated
Pushback against restrictive voting measures gains momentum Updated
Gaetz associate cooperating in investigation against the congressman
Democrats signal limited patience for GOP opposition to Biden infrastructure package
Biden raises concerns with Putin about Ukraine confrontation Updated

Local News

At Miller Park and Playfield just North of E Thomas Street between 19th and 21st Ave E, tents can be seen along the South, East and West sides of the park. Researchers at SPU, UW, have conducted a “tent census” of the city in summer 2019, resampling that winter and then after the pandemic hit, and found that in 2019 the city had more than 800 tents, and in populated areas they increased more than 50 percent after the pandemic hit. 216741

Voters could decide Seattle homelessness strategy

Featured Columnist

Seattle really is ‘CRAZYTOWN’ — and it will be our salvation after a rough year

Traffic Lab

‘Major area’ of Seattle could forbid most cars under city’s new, greener transportation plan

Amazon launches electric van deliveries in Bay Area

Racial disparities prompt calls to repeal King County’s bicycle helmet law

New Washington transportation plan includes taxes on gas and bikes, fees on transit

Is another transit-tax measure on the horizon for Seattle?

Business & Tech

The Parler logo on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Parler bills itself as a non-biased social network that protects free speech and user data. John Matze, chief executive officer, says the platform saw great growth during the 2020 election as many conservatives moved away from products like Facebook and Twitter. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

Amazon says social network Parler is trying to conceal its ownership, new court filings show

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FILE – This undated photo released by the FBI shows Kristin Smart, the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo student who disappeared in 1996. The San Luis Obispo County sheriff plans a major announcement Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in the nearly 25-year mystery of the disappearance of Smart. (FBI via AP, File) FX203 FX203

Body missing, suspect arrested in ’96 student disappearance VIEW

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Coronavirus

Sharis Carr, a nurse at the Aaron E. Henry Community Health Service Center in Clarksdale, Miss., holds a box containing doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) MSRS301 MSRS301

EXPLAINER: What’s known about J&J’s vaccine and rare clots

Food & Drink

Lauren Tran spreads the whipped cream frosting on her signature pandan chiffon cake made with coconut mousse. Lauren Tran is a Federal Way native who is making a name for herself as a baker in New York City. Tran is doing bakery pop ups in Seattle this month. Photographed at The Pastry Project in Pioneer Square on Thursday, April 8, 2021.

From Seattle to New York and back — this Vietnamese American pastry chef is a rising star to watch

Pacific NW Magazine

Credit: Artwork by David Miller and Kim Carney, Photo by Robin Layton Illustration for Ron Judd essay on what we should leave behind in a post-Covid world

From commuting to Costco samples: Ron Judd’s list of 20 things we DON’T need back after the pandemic

Editorials & Opinion

Passengers load and unload at a METRO bus stop near the intersection at 15th Ave NW and NW Market. 214618 214618

Welcome back students to school and to Metro transit | Op-Ed

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Liberals for Ron DeSantis

Horsey Cartoon

The price of neglect

Sports

Seattle’s loyal 12’s join in the touchdown dance with Tyler Lockett who scores on a 49-yard pass from Russell Wilson to start the 4th quarter. The Seattle Seahawks played the Baltimore Ravens Sunday, December 13, 2015 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD. 0435726383

Tyler Lockett: ‘I would love to finish my career as a Seattle Seahawk’

Featured Columnist

Report: Free agent edge rusher Aldon Smith visiting Seahawks on Wednesday

Arts & Life

Raylene Harewood in the short film “The Deliberate Death of My Father,” directed by Rose Katche and screening as part of the Seattle Black Film Festival, April 16-25.

Seattle Black Film Festival starts this week with twice as many films as last year

Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is back this year — with a twist

Save the Free Press dashboard

Keep watch on the latest reforms shaping the future of the free press

Photography

A Camellia’s prominent pollen-producing stamens venture out into the air at the Seattle Japanese Garden, one of countless extraordinary scenes often no bigger than a coin, as Spring unfolds around Seattle and viewed using a close-up lens Sunday, April 4, 2021. 216811
Local News

Scenes from Seattle as Mother Nature emerges from her winter slumber VIEW

Nikita Ares CQ, a Seattle-based painter, works Tuesday, March 30, 2021 to install her first exhibition at the newly-opened Museum of Museums CQ on First Hill. 216766
Local News

Painter Nikita Ares shares joyful energy at Museum of Museums

Clockwise from left, Narayan MacGowan, Sahej MacGowan, Halia Correia and Beau Rosen, front, look through the eggs they’ve found at a community Easter egg hunt at Seattle’s Interlaken Park Sunday April 4, 2021. Over 300 eggs were hidden by Kellie Sloan and her son to bring some Easter joy to the neighborhood kids.
Local News

Hunting for elusive Easter eggs VIEW

The fast ferry Enetai cruises by Blake Island having to give way to a Washington State ferry at the Southworth terminal. There is only one slip and WSF has priority. Saturday March 27, 2021 216743
Traffic Lab

New foot ferry makes the trip to downtown Seattle in 26 minutes VIEW