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Jen Cameron, (l) managing broker at The Agency and her business partner, broker James Campbell, add final touches to a home they have had listed on the market since mid-October. Shot Friday, December 2, 2022. The housing market is still cooling, particularly on the Eastside.
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Once on fire, Seattle-area home prices hit by ‘bucket of cold water’

Home sales are slowing and houses are staying on the market longer, a trend that's especially noticeable on the Eastside.

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Chief technology officer Kaj Pedersen is photographed at the AstrumU office in Kirkland on Wednesday on Nov. 30, 2022. Formerly a H1B worker, he has resided in the United States for 27 years. He says around 10 out of approximately 50 of the company’s employees hold H1B visas.

For some foreign workers, Seattle tech layoffs can mean a forced exit

A Boeing Co. 737 Max 10 aircraft on day two of the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, UK, on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. The airshow, one of the biggest events in the global aerospace industry, runs through July 22. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

If Congress doesn’t mandate Boeing 737 MAX safety retrofits, Europe will

After a push by police, crime is down in Seattle’s downtown. Uniqlo, a Japanese casual fashion giant, recently opened in the long-closed Macy’s building at Pine Street and Fourth Avenue.

Seattle’s zombie downtown shows signs of life

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Pedestrians walk by Amazon’s Spheres at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Lenora Street in Seattle on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. 222198

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Some Amazon workers’ last day comes 2 days before Christmas

Victor Plata, who drives for Viking Towing, hauls away the author’s car after thieves stole its catalytic converter. Plata, who had already towed the cars of two other converter theft victims, says the thieves can make “thousands of dollars” in just a few days. “It’s a big business,” says Plata, who had his own catalytic converter stolen a few years ago.

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Dude, where’s my catalytic converter? Probably back in the supply chain

Seattle-area SpaceX worker John Johnson says the company discriminated against him due to his age. (David J. Phillip / The Associated Press, file)

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Seattle-area worker at SpaceX alleges age discrimination at Musk company

Laquetta Little, left, and Alexis Smallwood-Foote, organizers of a community garden in Edgemere, a neighborhood on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, Oct. 18, 2022. A new program to reuse architectural mock-ups in community gardens is gaining interest as a way to keep them out of the landfill. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)

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Destined for the dump, construction waste gets new life in the garden

Workplace

Southwest Airlines pilots drink water while picketing for better work conditions on June 21, 2022, outside Dallas Love Field. (Rebecca Slezak/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)

Delta’s 34% pay raise offer to pilots ups airline negotiations

Maritime Industry

A shipping container is lifted onto a ship, shot from Jack Perry Memorial Park on E. Marginal S. in Seattle, looking south, Thursday, August 25, 2022. 221244

Seattle loves the Mariners, but our container ship trade goes mostly unnoticed

Real Estate

Jen Cameron, (l) managing broker at The Agency and her business partner, broker James Campbell, add final touches to a home they have had listed on the market since mid-October. Shot Friday, December 2, 2022. The housing market is still cooling, particularly on the Eastside.
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Technology

The Halo Rise, a ring-shaped alarm clock with a built-in sleep tracker, in Oakland, Calif., Nov. 28, 2022. Tech companies say their wearables and apps that study your body as you snooze can help you get a better night’s rest – but many sleep experts, and the companies themselves, say technology itself is to blame when you don’t sleep well. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

Amazon wants to review your sleep. (No, thanks.)

Tech Reviews & Tips

A person uses a laptop while working from home in Tiskilwa, Illinois, in 2020. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg)

How to fight email spam, end printer ink subscription and more | Q&A with Patrick Marshall

Retail

Black Friday shoppers scurry past a Christmas tree as they look for bargains at Bellevue Square Friday, November 25, 2016. The place was packed all day long.

Why Christmas trees could cost more this year

Agriculture

Workers pick corn and organic peppers at Yakama Farms, formerly Inaba Family Farms in Wapato, Wash., on Aug. 23, 2022. In the face of discrimination and hate, the Inabas and the Yakama Nation forged a bond through a farm in eastern Washington that has lasted for more than 100 years. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times) XNYT260 XNYT260

A Japanese American family and a native tribe blend at a WA farm

Amazon

Jennifer Salke of Amazon Studios poses at the Los Angeles premiere of the film “My Policeman” at the Regency Bruin Theatre, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke will now also run MGM Studios

Boeing & Aerospace

Southwest Airlines pilots drink water while picketing for better work conditions on June 21, 2022, outside Dallas Love Field. (Rebecca Slezak/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)

Delta’s 34% pay raise offer to pilots ups airline negotiations

More on Boeing

The final version of the 737 MAX, the MAX 10, takes off from Renton Airport in Renton, WA on its first flight Friday, June 18, 2021.

Complete coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX »

Microsoft

Employees test a version of Call of Duty on Oct. 21, 2022, at Activision Blizzard, Infinity Ward Division, in Woodland Hills, Calif. Call of Duty is at the heart of the developing antitrust fight over whether Microsoft will be able to acquire Activision Blizzard. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner)

Will video game workers at Microsoft unionize? Some at Activision have

Personal Finance

The lower premiums of Medicare Advantage are great until you get sick and bills pile up. (Dreamstime / TNS)

Medicare Advantage or just Medicare?

Money Makeovers

Ann Wolfe, at her home in Wedgwood June 23, 2022.

She bought a house in Seattle for $36,000 in 1973. How can she release some cash?

Economy

Jen Cameron, (l) managing broker at The Agency and her business partner, broker James Campbell, add final touches to a home they have had listed on the market since mid-October. Shot Friday, December 2, 2022. The housing market is still cooling, particularly on the Eastside.
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Gary Parrish smokes marijuana in a glass pipe, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, just after midnight at the Space Needle in Seattle. Possession of marijuana became legal in Washington state at midnight, and several hundred people gathered at the Space Needle to smoke and celebrate the occasion, even though the new law does prohibit public use of marijuana. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Legal weed in WA turns 10 this week; what challenges lie ahead?

Markets

Ordinary investors who jumped into crypto are saying: Now what?

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