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A Boeing employee looks up towards the sensor measuring the plane’s angle of attack just below the cockpit of this 737 MAX 8 plane sitting outside the 737 factory in Renton on March 25, 2019. The AOA sensor is the lower device below the cockpit windshield on both sides of the fuselage. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Boeing & Aerospace

Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX system baffles some involved in designing and testing the jet

As Boeing designed an automated safety system for the 737 MAX, the company built it to potentially activate based on the reading of a single sensor. That decision has baffled even those who worked on the plane inside a company that has long embraced the need for redundancies. VIEW Updated 5:25 pm

King County’s landfill has been almost full for two decades. What happens next?
‘Total bombshell’: Trump administration seeking full repeal of Obamacare
Federal Customs and Border Protection officer jailed, charged with child molestation
SDOT eliminates controversial bike lanes in 35th Avenue Northeast redesign project Updated 5:14 pm
Man charged in Kirkland break-in, stabbing earlier had been accused of killing 3 members of Yakima family Updated 3:59 pm
Seattle-area home prices have fallen twice as fast as any other major U.S. metro area
From the editor: Why Education Lab is focusing on ‘specialized education’ this year
Waldo King, founding father of Seattle’s renowned high-school jazz programs, dies at 92

Justus Sheffield and J.P. Crawford leave the game after their turn to play Sunday.

The Seattle Mariners played the Colorado Rockies in Spring Training baseball Sunday, February 24, 2019 in Scottsdale, Arizona. 209410

Matt Calkins

If you like spring training, you’re in luck. The Mariners’ season will be six months of it.

The Mariners' reality right now: Wins aren't about outscoring the opposing team so much as they are about the young guys getting better.

Guerrilla Cartoons

Seattle-based Patriotic Christians for a Better America spreads anti-Trump gospel with cartoons

PCBA, born among a group of Seattle friends and which has been anonymous until now, produces comic booklets satirizing President Trump. The pocket-size publications are parodies of the fire-and-brimstone evangelical Christian Chick tracts. Updated 3:52 pm

At the Four Seasons Hotel restaurant, they offer both of these pasta dishes and a bottle of wine for $45.00.
Foreground: Pasta with sweet-tart tomato sauce, â€” paired with tube-shaped pasta, plump mussels and fried basil leaves.
Upper right: Ruffled campanelle pasta, coated in a rich cream sauce and cut with sundried tomatoes and complemented by the pop of English peas.

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Food & Drink

Upscale Dining Deals: Dinner for 2 and a bottle of wine for $45 at the Four Seasons

The best upscale restaurant to hit on the cheap? Try the $45 dinner for two with a bottle of wine inside the five-star Four Seasons hotel near Pike Place.