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Social worker Joe Martin, left, and William Knowles of the Unemployment Law Project want to keep the threatened Downtown Job Service Center open.

June 23, 2021 at 6:00 am

Seattle’s chief ‘proletarian’ says goodbye as the city goes back to the future to house the homeless

Social worker Joe Martin started his career by trying to save the old SRO hotels that housed many of Seattle's working poor. Now he's retiring...

Artist Cory Ench created this mural of the Kalakala Ferry along North Laurel Street in Port Angeles, as a tribute to the steel, art deco ferry that served the Puget Sound from 1935 to 1967.
Pacific NW story on Port Angeles, on the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula.

June 19, 2021 at 6:00 am

‘They’re always from somewhere else’: A Northwest town debates who owns its homelessness crisis | Danny Westneat

The rap on Seattle for years has been that it's "Freeattle" — that the homeless migrate here from elsewhere. Now a small town on the...

Republic, Wash, a population of 1,000 people, where Culp is the police chief and resident

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June 16, 2021 at 6:00 am

Even after a superspreader infects 10% of a town, the solution to COVID remains a tough sell | Danny Westneat

There was a brief surge of vaccinations following a COVID-19 outbreak that overwhelmed the clinic in tiny Republic, Ferry County. But fewer than half the...

Customers are seen at the Ballard Farmers Market in an entrance stretch of vendors, Sunday, May 30, 2021 in Seattle. According to Doug Farr, executive director of the Seattle Farmers Market Association, the number of customer capacity goes up with the number of vendors, and those have gone up with local harvest produce heading into the end of spring. 320 customers are allowed in, and according to Farr, usually only regular customers will wait in lines to get in (since tourists and cruise traffic is gone). The market looks crowded but Farr points out this is actually way down compared to pre-pandemic Sundays of 18-20,000 customers. 217279

June 12, 2021 at 6:00 am

The verdict is in: No one pandemics like Seattle | Danny Westneat

Seattle is the most vaccinated city, but before that it was also the big city with the least COVID cases and deaths — after starting...

Heath F. Terry, 14, rolls up his sleeve as he gets ready to receive a COVID-19 vaccination from registered nurse Novie Kruger at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Thursday, June 3, 2021, in Bellingham, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) WAET111 WAET111

June 9, 2021 at 6:00 am

Republicans spent 400 days calling to end pandemic restrictions, and they’re finally right | Danny Westneat

For at least 400 days of the 460 coronavirus crisis, local Republicans have been arguing to re-open the state. That they were continuously wrong for...

June 5, 2021 at 6:00 am

The ‘two societies’: 97% of new COVID cases are among people who haven’t gotten the shots | Danny Westneat

King County epidemiologists discovered that 97% of all COVID cases during April and May were among the unvaccinated. That isn't enticing enough for people to...

May 29, 2021 at 6:00 am

An earthquake warning for politics? Not yet, but you can feel some tremors. | Danny Westneat

Democratic stalwarts such as U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, of Bellevue, are already facing multiple challengers from within, and Republicans are having their own internal uprising....

Crowds walk past the boarded up Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct on June 13, 2020.

May 26, 2021 at 6:00 am

Seattle is suffering from a pandemic — of buck-passing | Danny Westneat

Seattle seems to be suffering from a unique governance problem of late, which is that nobody will take responsibility for anything. Columnist Danny Westneat asks,...

Healthcare workers applaud Michael Flor, the longest COVID patient having been in Swedish since March 4th and on a ventilator for four weeks, upon his release from Swedish Issaquah, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. Pushing the wheelchair is Dr. Anne Lipke MD, Flor’s critical care doctor. 213891 213891

May 22, 2021 at 6:00 am

For COVID survivors, ending the pandemic isn’t as simple as taking off the masks | Danny Westneat

Some people are finding that as society is taking off the mask and moving on from the coronavirus pandemic, there are unresolved issues about the...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee looks down at a stack of bills to be signed into law, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. The measures included a bill that prohibits openly carrying guns and other weapons at the state Capitol and protests statewide. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW104 WATW104

May 19, 2021 at 6:00 am

Attempt to recall Inslee six months after election is a cause for concern | Danny Westneat

A group has filed five charges in Olympia to try to recall Gov. Jay Inslee. They did this though Inslee won reelection in November by...