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The old INS building in the Chinatown-International District is seen from the air, Tuesday, March 2, 2021 in Seattle, with T-Mobile Park seen in the background. The building was converted into Inscape arts center and is being put up for sale. 216543

Former INS building, now home to artist studios, to be listed for sale

The INS building was a detention and processing center for immigrants in the early 1900s, including Chinese immigrants during the Chinese Exclusion Act. The building was converted into space for artists in 2010.

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Wed. Feb. 3, 2021 Boarded up and closed store in downtown Seattle. 216294
Local Business

Downtown Seattle faces a long road to recovery. Many wonder if it can bounce back.

After months of deserted streets and shuttered storefronts, downtown Seattle faces a long road back to recovery. Those who rely on it have little certainty whether or when it can regain its earlier vitality.

MONEY MAKEOVER Wallingford resident Lauren Benner is the subject of the Money Makeover. She temporarily removed her mask for a portrait. 216447
Money Makeover

Artist draws up a work-from-home strategy that will help her save

Dramatic clouds pass by the Seattle skyline at Smith Tower Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. LO 215454
Real Estate

The penthouse atop Smith Tower is on the rental market for the first time

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The expanded Sea Breeze is now finished, but will remain docked indefinitely at its shipyard in Sicily, says Christopher Prelog, president of Windstar Cruises.
Economy

Boutique cruise line Windstar will move its Seattle headquarters to Miami

Kevin Johnsted stands next to the porch of his Renton home Wednesday, February 17, 2021. He was caught up in the UI fraud scam last year and also now has been sent a 1099 form saying he owes taxes on benefits he never received. 216426
Economy

Washington state ‘literally failed workers,’ and fixing the unemployment system won’t be easy

State Auditor Pat McCarthy.
Local Politics

Notices to go out to 1.3 million Washingtonians affected by unemployment data breach

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2021 Downtown Seattle shot for the series about the downtown bouncing back after COVID. 216349
Jon Talton

Downtowns will be back, but Seattle has choices to make

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

A new generation of Wi-Fi, known as Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. (Glenn Harvey/The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED TECH FIX BY BRIAN X. CHEN FOR FEB. 24, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —

A new generation of Wi-Fi to improve your home network

Tech Reviews & Tips

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Here’s a way to learn if facial recognition systems used your photos

Real Estate

Dramatic clouds pass by the Seattle skyline at Smith Tower Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. LO 215454

The penthouse atop Smith Tower is on the rental market for the first time

Retail

Pedestrians wearing Nike Inc. shoes stand on a sidewalk in front of a store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Nike Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures after the close of U.S. financial markets on June 26. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg 499592677

Nike’s executive saga exposes uneasy relationship with resellers

Maritime Industry

The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) transits south in the Bering Strait early Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The 45-year-old heavy icebreaker is underway to project power and support national security objectives throughout Alaskan waters and into the Arctic, including along the Maritime Boundary Line between the United States and Russia. U.S. (Petty Officer First Class Cynthia Oldham/U.S. Coast Guard)

Seattle-based Coast Guard icebreaker returns home after first mission in nearly 40 years to wintertime Arctic

Boeing & Aerospace

The Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) Starship Hopper test vehicle sits under construction near Boca Chica, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said in a tweet that the company is aiming a trial flight of the Starship vehicle, formerly know as the Big Falcon Rocket, within the next four weeks, adding “which probably means 8 weeks, due to unforeseen issues.”

Musk floats ‘Starbase’ name change for Texas launch town

Amazon

FILE – In this Jan. 10, 2021, file photo, the website of the social media platform Parler is displayed in Berlin. The right-wing friendly social network Parler, which was forced offline following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, said it is re-launching, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP, File) NY110 NY110

Amazon tried to ‘destroy’ Parler, social network says in new lawsuit

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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

FILE – In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 file photo, the Microsoft company logo is displayed at their offices in Sydney. Microsoft and four big European Union news industry lobbying groups unveiled their plan Monday Feb. 22, 2021, to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle over whether Google and Facebook should pay for journalism. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) LBJ117 LBJ117

Microsoft Says China-Linked Group Targets Exchange Email

Economy

103 year old Dionisio Obanos leaves after receiving a Pfizer vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. The Navarra regional government have called around 3.400 residents of the city, over the age of 80, to be vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) AB105 AB105

LiveCoronavirus daily news updates, March 3: What to know today about COVID-19 VIEW

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Downtowns will be back, but Seattle has choices to make

Money Makeovers

MONEY MAKEROVER- Daniel Houser-Diaz and Coraliz Houser-Diaz photographed at Lincoln Park, Thursday, January 28, 2021. 216228

Young couple’s list of money goals: student debt, a house and tithing

Personal Finance

Complaints about errors in credit reports doubled last year, federal data shows. Some problems may be related to pauses in mortgage and student loan payments in the pandemic. (Till Lauer / The New York Times)

More consumers complain about errors on credit reports; here are some answers to questions about credit reporting

Markets

John Santiago, left, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (Courtney Crow/New York Stock Exchange via AP)

Technology stocks lead indexes lower as yields resume climb

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

A bowler knocks down all the pins, called a strike. Spin Alley Bowling in Shoreline is reopening under the state’s COVID-19 guidelines after a tough year for bowling alleys in Washington.

Seattle-area bowling alleys cautiously reopen under COVID-19 guidelines; take a look inside VIEW

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How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday

Technology companies led stocks lower on Wall Street as another rise in bond yields rattled investors. The S&P 500 fell 1.3% Wednesday, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 2.7%. Higher bond yields can signal that inflation could be on the way as the economy picks up. They can also make stocks that have made huge gains,...

Agriculture

Cattle drink from a trough at an Easterday Ranches Inc. feedlot near Pasco, Wash. on Oct. 22, 2008. Easterday has proposed building another 30,000-head feedlot to the north near the town of Eltopia, Wash., but local residents are fighting the proposal for fear the water that will be pumped for the feedlot will make their wells go dry. (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny)

200,000 allegedly missing cows are at center of major Washington cattle operation’s bankruptcy

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Empty hotel rooms have become private dining rooms and office spaces

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