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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, left, looks on as Suzi LeVine, right, the state’s Employment Security Department Commissioner, talks to reporters, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee announced that Washington state will offer unemployment benefits to federal employees like Coast Guardsmen, FBI agents and Border Patrol workers who are required to be on the job without pay during the partial federal government shutdown. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW102

Suzi LeVine, head of state’s embattled unemployment agency, to take job in Biden administration

Suzi LeVine, commissioner of Washington state's Employment Security Department, is stepping down to take a job in the Biden administration, the agency announced. It released no details about LeVine's role, which starts Feb. 1.

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Marion Scichilone, an assistant managing librarian at downtown’s Central Library, holds paperwork regarding a job-search-assistant program she works with, outside of the Broadview Branch of the Seattle Public Library Tuesday, January 19, 2020. Marion is one of those at the library spearheading Your Next Job, a job-search-assistance program the library launched last year in response to unemployment due to the pandemic. 216159
Life

Looking for your next job? Seattle Public Library’s jobs search program, launched during the pandemic, aims to help

The Seattle Public Library, in partnership with King County Library System and Seattle Jobs Initiative, launched its free, one-on-one jobs search service in July, in response to job losses due to COVID-19. So far, more than 300 patrons have requested help.

THOMAS HURST – NEWPORT – 022513 POLLOCK Full grown Pollack that are spawning in a NOAA tank–their eggs floating to the surface and collected daily so they can be raised in different PH levels for studies by scientist Thomas Hurst on acidification. NOAA scientist Tom Hurst in Newport, Oregon who is studying Pollack and acidification. This is for the Acidification series we are writing and photographing.
Maritime Industry

Trident Seafoods to close Alaska plant for three weeks after COVID-19 outbreak

BOEING WIDE BODY FACTORY TOUR 07092014 Boeing 787s, in various stages of completion, are lined up inside the final assembly factory in Everett Washington. Boeing Everett factory builds the 747, 787 and 777 airplanes. The Farnborough Air Show begins the week of July 13th. 139950 0429877451
Boeing & Aerospace

Boeing’s 2020 production fell to lowest level in almost 50 years

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A pedestrian walks past a closed Paramount Theatre in Seattle Thursday, March 26, 2020. 213478 213478
Local Business

Bill to speed reopening of businesses draws lots of fans but faces uphill battle

The dining room is empty at the Syndicate, a restaurant in Bellefontaine, Ohio, in this photo taken by owner Adam Rammel on Dec. 15, 2020. Social distancing and customers’ anxiety have reduced the restaurants’ Friday and Saturday night crowd from an expected 130 to 60 at best. Like other restaurateurs, Rammel is hoping the widespread availability of a coronavirus vaccine will bring back the crowds. (Adam Rammel via AP) CER254 CER254
Business

Who qualifies for a second round of small-business relief?

The Ballard Farmers Market, seen shortly after Gov. Inslee’s executive orders to combat Covid-19, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020 in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, controls crowd size with entry checkpoints and requires masks. 215667
FAQ Friday

What is the Healthy Washington COVID-19 reopening plan and how does it work?

Looking West on NW 46th Street in Ballard, shows a long line of recently finished apartments. For the first time in Seattle there are as many people living in apartments as own homes. 212448
Real Estate

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected where you live?

Boeing 737 MAX

Wreaths and floral installations stand next to piles of wreckage at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Much of the world, including the entire European Union, has grounded the Boeing jetliner involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash or banned it from their airspace, leaving the United States as one of the few remaining operators of the plane involved in two deadly accidents in just five months. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Lawyers advise Ethiopian Airlines against ‘financially disastrous’ settlement offer by Boeing over 737 MAX crash

Aerial photograph shows a stockpile of Boeing 737 MAX airplanes parked while awaiting FAA approval for a technical fix before they can be delivered to customers. This parking area is along the west side of Boeing Field and just south of the South Park Bridge. Photographed on June 19, 2019. 210631

Boeing to pay $244 million penalty to settle fraud charges tied to 737 MAX crashes

Boeing Company President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg leaves after testifying before a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on ‘Aviation Safety and the Future of Boeing’s 737 MAX’ on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) DCAH148

Boeing ‘inappropriately coached’ FAA test pilots during review of 737 MAX after crashes, Senate investigators say

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.

Complete coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX »

Technology

The Photo Sphere feature in the Google Camera app can stitch together a 360-degree photo of a place. (J.D. Biersdorfer/The New York Times) XNYT67

4 ways to do more with your smartphone camera

Tech Reviews & Tips

Screen capture of iPhone’s Exposure Notifications setting, which is now enabled for users in Washington state.

WA Notify system goes live with COVID exposure notifications for iPhone and Android users in Washington state

Real Estate

Ginnie Hance manages an apartment building in West Seattle, the Ivy Court. Home prices are up in West Seattle but rent amounts down, a bit. Thursday January 21, 2021 216186

Worries about West Seattle Bridge have not swamped the neighborhood’s housing market

Retail

A Trader Joe’s crew member disinfects shopping carts as customers line up, approximately six feet apart, outside the Ballard Trader Joe’s Monday morning, April 13, 2020.

Seattle City Council seeks to require $4 per hour pandemic pay boost for grocery workers

Maritime Industry

These saildrones were used for the first time by NOAA Fisheries to conduct acoustic surveys of pollock in the Being Sea. They use wind power for propulsion and wind power for electricity for computers and sensors. They also harvest hydro power from water in the turbines. They are shown here in the San Francisco Bay area, where the manufacturer, Saildrone Inc. is based. The drones sailed thousands of miles from California to the Bering Sea and back. DateLine: Almeda California Date: 2020

North Pacific fishing crews on edge about what they’ll find this month, after a tough 2020 of small fish and COVID-19

Boeing & Aerospace

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg talks about the company in an interview at Boeing’s World Headquarters in Chicago, IL Friday, January 12, 2018. 204812

Former Boeing CEO Muilenburg is said to plan blank-check company

Amazon

The Kent fulfillment center in May. Amazon has seen a slip in market share amid the pandemic. MUST CREDIT: photo for The Washington Post by Jovelle Tamayo.

Amazon presses for in-person voting for unionization election in the midst of a pandemic

Amazon at 25

FILE – In this file photo made Nov. 16, 2009, Stephen Guymon, of Twin Falls, Idaho, separates packages for final shipment inside the 800,000 sq. ft. Amazon.com warehouse in Goodyear, Ariz. Amazon.com Inc., reports quarterly earnings Thursday, April 22, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin file) NYBZ139

Tell us about your Amazon experience and what else you want to know

Microsoft

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 29, 2020. President Donald Trump unleashed an executive order targeting social media companies like Twitter that have drawn his wrath of late — a move that raised immediate doubts about its constitutionality and whether it would actually deliver its intended punch. Photographer: Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg

As pressure mounts, Microsoft hints it may end political giving to Republicans who voted to overturn election

Economy

President-elect Joe Biden unveils his economic stimulus package in WIlmington, Del., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris looks on. The plan has been praised — even by conservative-leaning businesses, lobbying groups and analysts — for its size and scope, matching the current economic crisis with a historically unique response. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)

What a Biden administration might mean for Washington, from immigration and environment to COVID-19

Money Makeovers

Seattle residents Adam Lee an Allison Dappen are the subjects of this month’s Money Makeover. Photographed December 18, 2020. 215915

This Seattle couple need to dial down retirement savings to fund another goal: children

Personal Finance

The Treasury Department and the IRS are issuing millions of second Economic Impact Payments as prepaid debit cards. However, many people say the letters and cards look like a scam.

Millions of stimulus payments were mailed as prepaid debit cards. Some say they look like scams.

Markets

Internal Revenue Service 1040 Individual Income Tax forms.

Great year in the markets? Watch out for that tax bite that might be coming

Artificial Intelligence

Fatima Abu Zeid , a mother of 6 children shows her biometric ID card at the Qalandiya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem on February 25,2020. Israel upgraded its West Bank checkpoints with facial recognition technology to verify Palestinians’ identities as they cross into Israel. The new system is helping to shorten the amount of time it takes to cross the checkpoints but the use of the technology is drawing criticism about the role the controversial technology plays in Israel’s military control over Palestinians. (Photo by Heidi Levine for The Seattle Times).

A tale of two AI cities: The Seattle connection to Israel's surveillance network

Local Business

The Wandering Goose has a Southern folksy feel, on Capitol Hill, Thurs., Feb. 7, 2013, in Seattle.

7 more Seattle-area restaurants and bars announce permanent closures

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This undated photo shows a Loon balloon in mid-flight in location not released.

Google-linked hot-air balloon project to provide cell service will close

Agriculture

These quarters are part of a Gebbers Farms, a seasonal labor camp in Okanogan County. This photo was taken prior to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic had yet to arrive and the wearing of masks was not required.

Mexican workers who left mid-harvest describe a COVID-ridden cherry season in Okanogan County: ‘It was like we were disposable’

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