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Ballots arrive this week. Here’s what you need to know for the November election.

Washington gets ready to take the field against Eastern Washington in the first game of the 2019 season Saturday, August 31, 2019, at Husky Stadium in Seattle. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

#25 UW vs. #12 Oregon

How can the Huskies take down the vaunted Ducks in Saturday’s top-25 clash in Seattle?

No. 12 Oregon has allowed one (!) touchdown in its past five games. So what does Washington need to do to find the end zone Saturday?

FILE – In this Sept. 8, 2019, file photo, Baltimore Ravens free safety Earl Thomas (29) intercepts a pass, as Miami Dolphins wide receiver DeVante Parker (11), attempts to tackle, during the first half at an NFL football game, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Over the course of nine NFL seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, Earl Thomas picked off 28 passes, earned a Super Bowl ring and was selected to the Pro Bowl six times. Those are some of the memories the standout safety will take across the country before he faces former team on Sunday as a member of the Baltimore Ravens.(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) NY162 NY162

Larry Stone

Earl Thomas returns to Seattle as a Raven this Sunday. What kind of welcome will he get?

Without Earl Thomas, the Seahawks are trying to show they can win in quieter fashion. So far, so good. Thomas, however, admitted the thought of his reception Sunday has crossed his mind.

A Sound Transit link light rail train heading northbound towards the Rainier Beach station slowly goes over the Boeing Access Rd. at approximately 10 miles per hour after inspectors noticed cracks in the 9-year-old rails in that area.

The trains are slowing to 10 mph or less – right over I-5 (at left, middle of frame) as they curve northbound from the overpass toward Rainier Beach Station at MLK Way. Southbound trains continue to go a normal speed near 30 mph, but northbound, train operators have been under a 10 mph slow order since Sept. 20, the agency said.
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Traffic Lab

How big will your Sound Transit tax bill be? With transportation taxes on the ballot again, here’s how to estimate it

This tax calculator combines into one total the taxes charged for all three Sound Transit ballot measures since 1996.

A woman hides behind her iron front flag during the soccer match between Seattle Sounders and New York Red Bulls at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on Sept. 15, 2019. Emerald City Supporters walked out during half time due to MLS rules banning political signs or flags. 211443

Matt Calkins

How MLS’ ruling allowing Iron Front flag might be pushing away Sounders fans

After an array of protests, Major League Soccer recently lifted the ban on fans waving flags with the Iron Front logo. But not everyone is happy about it.

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Ryan Norris, a license service representative at the Washington state Dept. of Licensing office in Lacey, Wash., poses for a photo Friday, June 22, 2018 while holding a sample copy of a Washington drivers license. Some Washington licenses and identification cards will soon be marked with the words “federal limits apply” as the state moves to comply with a federal law that increased rules for identification needed at airports and federal facilities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW207

Travel

Send us your questions about REAL ID and airport-security requirements for next year

Friday, October 4, 2019. Million dollar homes built along 228th Ave. SE in Sammamish. Lake Sammamish is in the backround. 211718

FYI Guy

Sammamish tops list of rich cities, so what do people there do for work? Here are the top jobs.

Seattle Sounders midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro (10) dances for the audience after scoring a goal off an assist by forward Jordan Morris (13) during the soccer match between Seattle Sounders and New York Red Bulls at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on Sept. 15, 2019. 211443

Sounders

‘Everybody is watching’: Nico Lodeiro searching for that 2016 feeling as the Sounders begin playoff run

Editorial

A cheat sheet for the Nov. 5 general election: The Seattle Times editorial board’s endorsements

Local News

Thursday, October 17, 2019 Recology employee Keeyon Goodwin pulls out plastic film wrap from the first sorting line—plastic wrap that often clogs up the sorting machines at the materials recovery facility. Plastic bags and wrap will no longer be accepted in curbside recycling in 2020. 211825

Seattle, King County to stop taking plastic bags in recycling

Featured Columnist

Parking spots for the homeless in Seattle, finally. But at a thousand bucks a month?

Project Homeless

King County councilmember proposes spending $1 million to bus homeless people out of the region

How a federal court ruling on Boise’s homeless camping ban has rippled across the West

King County and Seattle’s homeless-services merger moves forward, with questions

Homelessness divided a small Western Washington town. And then the fighting started.

He owes over $17,000 in parking fines. But is he really a vehicle kingpin?

Business & Tech

A Boeing 737 Max 8 sits behind the Boeing 737 Renton factory waiting for engines. The Angle of attack (AOA) instrument of the 737 MAX, is the bottom piece of equipment below just below the cockpit windshield.

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Stunning messages from 2016 deepen Boeing’s 737 MAX crisis

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Workplace

Regularly working 10 hours a day may raise stroke risk

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Celebrity Homes

‘Glee’ star Lea Michele brings Brentwood contemporary to market

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Kitchen Tools

How to pick, care for and cook in your Dutch oven

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Plastic Problems

Already in Seattle, now coming to New York: Straw shaming VIEW

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Celebrity Homes

Qualtrics co-founder buys Newport Beach mansion for $35 million

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Nation & World

In this Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, photo, Vulcan Inc. director of subsea operations on the Petrel, Rob Kraft, left, looks at images of the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, off Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Deep-sea explorers scouring the world’s oceans for sunken World War II ships are honing in on a debris field deep in the Pacific. Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the research vessel Petrel to one sunken battleship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga. This week, it’s investigating what could be another. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones) HICJ405 HICJ405

Deep-sea explorers continue Paul Allen's quest for sunken World War II ships VIEW

Local Politics

LEFT: Lisa Herbold is running for Seattle City Council District 1 in the 2019 election.

RIGHT: Phillip Tavel is running for Seattle City Council District 1 in the 2019 election.

Accusations over unpaid taxes, traffic tickets fly as Seattle City Council District 1 race heats up

Extended Coverage

After ballots are removed from a ballot drop box in Ballard, they are dumped onto a table at the King County Election headquarters in Renton Tuesday, August 8, 2019. They will be arranged so they are all pointing in the same direction and then get sent to a sorting machine where they will be opened and processed. At left is John Larsgaard and at center is Mark Briggs. 211098

Local Politics

Complete coverage of the 2019 general election

Times Watchdog

How private psychiatric hospitals keep voluntary patients from leaving VIEW

Just over seven weeks after it rolled out of the paint hangar, Boeing’s first 737 MAX “the Spirit of Renton” lifts off the runway and flew for the first time Friday, from Renton Municipal Airport at 9:48 a.m. January 29th, 2016.

Boeing & Aerospace

Complete coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX »

Special Report

Not Invisible: Confronting a crisis of violence against Native women

Food & Drink

New Mexico Frito Pie — Fritos topped with queso, beans, cheese, onions, lettuce and tomato — customers have a choice of ground beef or calabacitas. Shot Friday, May 17, 2019.

The Sodos sisters are channeling their New Mexico roots at this cheerful cafe next to the Othello light rail station.
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These Seattle happy hours are fun for the whole family

Pacific NW Magazine

THEN: Roger Dudley Jr. photographed the Norton Building in 1959 looking northwest from the Dexter Horton Building roof. Built in 1924 at Second Avenue and Cherry Street, the Dexter Horton’s 15 stories were not so alluring to panoramists as the Smith Tower, dedicated in 1914, a block-and-a-half south on Second Avenue at Jefferson Street and about 40 spectacular stories high.

In 1959, the glass was more than half-full on the Norton Building

Editorials & Opinion

The Times recommends: Approve Referendum 88 for societal equality | Editorial

How The Seattle Times editorial board endorses candidates

Horsey Cartoon

Voting is sacred – treat it thusly

Sports

FILE – In this Sept. 8, 2019, file photo, Baltimore Ravens free safety Earl Thomas (29) intercepts a pass, as Miami Dolphins wide receiver DeVante Parker (11), attempts to tackle, during the first half at an NFL football game, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Over the course of nine NFL seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, Earl Thomas picked off 28 passes, earned a Super Bowl ring and was selected to the Pro Bowl six times. Those are some of the memories the standout safety will take across the country before he faces former team on Sunday as a member of the Baltimore Ravens.(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) NY162 NY162

Earl Thomas returns to Seattle as a Raven this Sunday. What kind of welcome will he get? | Larry Stone

Featured Columnist

How MLS’ ruling allowing Iron Front flag might be pushing away Sounders fans

Arts & Life

In ‘Detours’, Candace Fujikane, an associate professor in the department of English at the University of Hawaii – Manoa, writes about an environmental bus tour in Wainai showed her how stories can be used to connect people with social justice.

Much more than a tropical paradise: This new travel guide will ‘decolonize’ the way you look at Hawaii

Moira Macdonald

‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ review: Perfectly cast Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer lock horns too briefly

Photography

A great blue heron sits in the Seattle Japanese Garden Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. 211831

Local News

Photos: The glow of autumn VIEW

Native Americans and others watch as a huge group of Native Americans march along 5th Avenue through downtown Seattle from Westlake Park to Seattle City Hall Monday, October 14, 2019, to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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Local News

Native Americans march through downtown Seattle to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day VIEW

Seattle Seahawks tight end Luke Willson (82) celebrates Seattle Seahawks running back Chris Carson’s go-ahead touchdown during the 4th quarter as the Seattle Seahawks play the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland Ohio on October 13, 2019. 211748

Seahawks

Photos: Seahawks beat the Browns, 32-28 VIEW

Offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan leads the Husky quarterbacks on to the field Saturday night. The Washington Huskies played the Arizona Wildcats in Pac-12 football Saturday, October 12, 2019 at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, AZ. 211801

Husky Football

Photos: Huskies beat Arizona, 51-27 VIEW