Unionized UW Medicine staff and labor organizers are socially distanced during a “unity break” demonstration Thursday, May 14, 2020, outside Harborview Medical Center, calling for management to do more to protect the system’s staff, especially now that there is a projected $500 million shortfall in UW Medicine’s budget.
Unionized UW Medicine staff and labor organizers are socially distanced during a "unity break" demonstration Thursday, May 14, 2020, outside Harborview Medical Center, calling for management to do more to protect the system's staff, especially now that there is a projected $500 million shortfall in UW Medicine's budget.
Health

UW Medicine furloughs 4,000 more workers, citing coronavirus budget hit

UW Medicine, citing a budget shortfall caused by COVID-19, will furlough another 4,000 members of its workforce after bargaining last week with the unions that represent many of its employees, the hospital system announced Monday. UW Medicine employs about 30,000 people at its hospitals and neighborhood clinics. These reductions, along with furloughs announced for 1,500...

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Mayor Jenny Durkan discusses the deployment of a field hospital at CenturyLink Field Event Center on Saturday, March 28, 2020. Durkan was joined by Gov. Jay Inslee, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, King County Executive Dow Constantine, FEMA Region 10 Administrator Mike O’Hare and U.S. Army Reserve Brigadier General Doug Cherry. This field hospital is expected to create at least 150 hospital beds for non-COVID-19 cases. 213492
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Michael Lee (l) is living at the now closed Red Lion hotel in Renton where Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) is housing over 200 homeless people, shot Monday, May 11, 2020. DESC is a non-profit Seattle organization that provides services for Seattle’s homeless population. At this point, the group has a 90-day lease at the location. 213925
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Allie Long, (r) a member of the U.S. women’s national soccer and Reign FC teams, practices with the Reign in Tacoma at Foss High School Wednesday, July 24, 2019. 210975
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Seattle Seahawks celebrate after Seattle Seahawks running back C.J. Prosise (22) scored a 4th quarter touchdown as the Seattle Seahawks play the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium in Glendale Arizona on September 29, 2019. At right is Seattle Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf. At left is Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett (16). 211623
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Business & Tech

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NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal prior to the Demo-2 mission launch, Saturday, May 23, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, that will send two astronauts to the International Space Station for the first crewed flight from the U.S. in nearly a decade., is scheduled for launch on Wednesday, May 27. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP) FLHO203 FLHO203

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XCJ (Xiao Chi Jie) owner Caleb Wang demonstrates a soup dumpling order at the counter kiosk of the fast-casual restaurant Monday, May 18, 2020 in Bellevue. Gloves and sanitizer are nearby. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)

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Photo goes with Touchstone story for Pacific Magazine by Ron Judd. Sol Duc Falls in the Olympic National Park on the Olympic Peninsula. 213589

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Arts & Life

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Framed by small flags on veterans’ graves, bagpiper Neil Hubbard plays appropriate songs on Memorial Day at Floral Hills Cemetery in Lynnwood. Songs included “Amazing Grace,” “Going Home,” the anthems of the military branches, “America the Beautiful,” and more. Ref to gallery online. Hubbard walked the grounds and played for two hours. LO Linesonly Monday May 25, 2020 214050
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Plenty of roam to roam on the Fisher Green lawn at Seattle Center with no Northwest Folklife Festival this weekend, except online. Saturday May 23, 2020 LO Linesonly 214049
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Mount St. Helens in Washington State erupts May 18, 1980, with a fury more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Hot volcanic ash spewed 60,000 feet into the air and turned day into night as the ash fell to the ground. Never before had a volcano erupted in an industrialized country in the middle of a major population center. This photo is one of a series of photos that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 in the General News category. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Roger Werth) MANDATORY CREDIT 12/26/99 — Glimpses of a Northwest Century Mount St. Helens had been Washington’s most recently active volcano when it rumbled alive again with internal forces in March 1980. By May its northwest side was bulging ominously. On May 18, at 8:32 a.m., it erupted. The top 2,400 feet of the mountain were destroyed in an explosion that rattled windows as far away as Vancouver, B.C. Wind-borne ash fell thickly in Eastern Washington, disrupting transportation, agricultures and lives for weeks. Fifty-seven people died in the eruption.
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Photos: Mount St. Helens after 40 years  VIEW

Academic intervention specialist Jenn Kekuna passes a graduation cap and gown to Charm Sok, center, and her daughter Tetiana Mountha, 18, left, at Cleveland High School in Seattle Monday, May 18, 2020. Waving pom poms and shouting messages of congratulations, Cleveland staffers distributed commencement attire through socially-distanced, drive-through stops in the parking lot. “Tetiana graduating high school means a lot to us,” says Sok. “Tetiana has worked super hard all through high school, a straight-A student. I think think she missed one day out of the whole school year.” 213969
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Caps and gowns are distributed at Cleveland High School in Seattle  VIEW