Protesters in favor of reallocating Police Department funds to community-led public safety programs gathered Tuesday for a rally near the apartment building of Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
Protesters in favor of reallocating Police Department funds to community-led organizations gather near Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis' apartment building Tuesday. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Seattle City Council votes to override Mayor Jenny Durkan’s vetoes of police and public-safety changes to 2020 budget

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The Flagship Columbia Sportswear store in downtown Seattle has announced they are closing that store permanently. The store is located at 3rd Avenue and Pine Street. 215105
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Columbia Sportswear is the latest downtown Seattle business to pull out due to the coronavirus

In yet another sign of COVID-19's mounting economic costs, the Columbia Sportswear store has joined the list of businesses that won’t reopen in downtown Seattle after the pandemic.

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Singer Brandi Carlisle performs underneath an image of the late singer Chris Cornell during “I Am The Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell” at The Forum, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, in Inglewood, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) CACP135
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Les Schnick is building a hidden internal structure along with Ric Brenden (CQ) to keep the skull, jaw bones and neck bones together. The skull is 8-feet, 3-inches long and weighs 500-pounds and is in Schnick’s workshop in Port Townsend. REF to more photos online (Schnick and Brenden are friends of Stefanie Worwag and Mario Rivera who own the skeleton. They live near Port Hadlock) REF to more photos online (The coil of safety rope on the skull is where the eye would be) Northwest Wanderings The skeleton of a 42-foot whale with skull at the workshop pf Les Schnick in Port Townsend, and the rest of the skeleton at the home of Mario Rivera and Stefanie Worwag. Also includes Ric Brenden Wednesday September 2, 2020 214930
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Seattle Sounders forward Jordan Morris, right, moves up the pitch on Portland Timbers midfielder Marvin Loria, left, during the first half of an MLS soccer match in Portland, Ore., Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
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Jeremy Dashiell CQ visits a mural honoring Manuel Ellis in Tacoma. In high school, Dashiell and Ellis shared a love of track, basketball and music. The friends reconnected last year, meeting one another’s children and playing music together. “He was a genuine, humble person,” says Dashiell. “I’m going to pray for justice…. No one deserves to be treated the way he did.” 214911 214911

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Wed. August 5, 2020 Marchers organized by Decriminalize Seattle and King County Equity Now start walking at 12th Ave. and E. Alder Street across from the new youth jail as marchers head downtown to City Hall to call for police defunding. 214679

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The Catalyst building in Spokane, Wash., home to Eastern Washington University and the first tall wood office building in the state, Sept. 9, 2020. Developers are turning to laminated panels, beams and columns, what the industry calls mass timber, and some experts believe the market for wood construction could rival steel and concrete. (Rajah Bose/The New York Times)

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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, leaves the Senate Chamber after a procedural vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Romney is one of four Republicans who could oppose a vote on a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg prior to Election Day. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) DCSA111 DCSA111

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Dahlia Lounge opened in 1989, the first of Tom Douglas and Jackie Cross’s restaurants and still the flagship.

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Dahlia Lounge opened in 1989, the first of Tom Douglas and Jackie Cross’s restaurants and still the flagship.

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Bill Schilling, right, returns the pickleball during a recent game with doubles partner George Gallant at Battle Point Park on Bainbridge Island. Pickleball is a racquet sport played on a court and created on Bainbridge Island during the mid-1960s. Pickleball is one of America’s fastest growing sports. Photographed on August 13, 2020. 214706

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Les Schnick is building a hidden internal structure along with Ric Brenden (CQ) to keep the skull, jaw bones and neck bones together. The skull is 8-feet, 3-inches long and weighs 500-pounds and is in Schnick’s workshop in Port Townsend. REF to more photos online (Schnick and Brenden are friends of Stefanie Worwag and Mario Rivera who own the skeleton. They live near Port Hadlock) REF to more photos online (The coil of safety rope on the skull is where the eye would be) Northwest Wanderings The skeleton of a 42-foot whale with skull at the workshop pf Les Schnick in Port Townsend, and the rest of the skeleton at the home of Mario Rivera and Stefanie Worwag. Also includes Ric Brenden Wednesday September 2, 2020 214930
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Gray whale’s massive, bone-dry remains have a home in a Port Hadlock yard; owners named him ‘Gunther’  VIEW

A dragonfly flies over a patch of Lily pads at Martha Lake in Lynnwood on August 11, 2020. The dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera. Adult dragonflies, a sure sign of summer, have large, multifaceted eyes and two pairs of wings. Their huge compound eyes allow near-360-degree vision. Their wings with muscles in the thorax that can work each wing independently. LO LO LO 214751
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Quarterbacks coach Austin Davis, defensive end L.J. Collier and safety Jamal Adams celebrate stopping the Patriots at the goal line, securing their 35-30 home opener win, as the Seattle Seahawks take on the New England Patriots at CenturyLink Field in Seattle Sunday September 20, 2020. 215067 215067
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People visit the observation area of the Space Needle after smoke and rains gave way to perfect weather, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020 in Seattle. In the background is Lake Union. 215129
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