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For story about landlords smacking tenants with super high damage claims: Natasha Pabon photographed outside her former apartment building in Olympia, WA, May 10, 2022. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

More WA renters are overcharged for damages, advocates say, and there’s little tenants can do

Tenant advocates argue Washington’s law doesn’t adequately protect tenants from being billed for unreasonable damage charges.

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A worker aboard the Norwegian Bliss at Pier 66 cleans balcony panels before the ship’s departure for Alaska.

The cruise ship is 1,094-feet long with a capacity for more than 4,000 passengers and a crew of more than 1,700.
It was built in 2018. This ship will depart every Saturday
Into September with almost 300 sailings.

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Environment

A cruise ship ‘green corridor’ in the PNW? Ports make pact over carbon emission goals

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Last Saturday, some of the crew of the Tai Honest pose for a photo with International Transport Workers’ Federation inspector Ryan Brazeau prior to departing the ship that day for a flight to quarantine in Tanzania before returning home.. Twelve of the crew had worked for more than 14 months without returning to their families in China, and their plight was investigated by the federation as well as the Coast Guard, which ordered the vessel to remain until port until the twelve crew were relieved.
Credit: Courtesy of Ryan Brazeau
Dateline: Longview, Washington
Date: May, 2022

Maritime Industry

U.S. inspectors find problem on ship in Southwest WA: a terribly homesick crew, stuck for 14 months

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Thursday, May 19, 2022. While giving his keynote speech the President of Iceland, Dr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson listens to Siri after asking her if she can speak the Icelantic lauguage. (she can’t). He was the keynote speaker at the Nordic Museumâ€™s Nordic Innovation Summit today. 220422

Business

Iceland’s president talks Big Tech, small languages and ‘digital death’ in Seattle visit

A car streams past Boeing’s Advanced Developmental Composites facility on East Marginal Way S. In Seattle Tuesday, January 5, 2020. This massive, windowless box-like building, the Boeing 9-101 Building, has housed many secretive developmental and research projects. It was here Boeing perfected the manufacturing methods used to fabricate large parts of the B-2 Stealth bomber in the early 1990s and the wings of the 787 in the 2000s. Boeing is planning to close this manufacturing research and development center.

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Economy

Boeing goes on hiring blitz as WA job market rebounds; see who else is hiring big

Business

After billion-dollar acquisition of MGM, Amazon inherits a foe: Starz

Some companies keep tabs on employees in ways that may not be based on settled science.(Daniel Zender / The New York Times)

Workplace

Your bosses could have a file on you, and they may misinterpret it

Workplace

Joe Bruno, who worked at Wells Fargo for more than two decades before he was fired last year, in Flagler Beach, Fla., on April 28, 2022. He says the bank retaliated against him for objecting to fake interviews. (Malcolm Jackson/The New York Times) XNYT43 XNYT43

At Wells Fargo, a quest to increase diversity leads to fake job interviews VIEW

Technology

A passenger from the first international flight to arrive at the new International Arrivals Facility (IAF) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a Delta Air Lines flight from Seoul-Incheon, stops to take a photo in IAF’s Grand Hall, a 450,000 square foot baggage claim and customs processing area on April 19, 2022.

How to keep your phone working while traveling abroad

Tech Reviews & Tips

A person typing at a backlit computer keyboard in, Dec. 29, 2020. . MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Chris Ratcliffe

Can I stop emails from downloading to a PC? | Q&A with Patrick Marshall

Real Estate

For story about landlords smacking tenants with super high damage claims: Natasha Pabon photographed outside her former apartment building in Olympia, WA, May 10, 2022. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

More WA renters are overcharged for damages, advocates say, and there’s little tenants can do

Retail

Flex workers load vehicles with orders at an Amazon delivery station in Dallas, Texas, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. Amazon.com Inc. is ceding its human-resources operation to machines, using software not only to manage workers in its warehouses but to oversee contract drivers, independent delivery companies and even the performance of its office workers. 775673832

Amazon is using gig economy drivers to deliver from malls

Maritime Industry

The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. The Pinnacle, which is larger than most fishing boats that operate in the Bering Sea, can travel through some unconsolidated sea ice, although at a greatly-reduced speed. An ice floe with pieces like this can damage buoys, increasing the risk of a lost crab pot. (Loren Holmes / Anchorage Daily News)

Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change

Boeing & Aerospace

A Long March-2F Y12 rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-12 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan in northwestern China, Thursday, June 17, 2021. China has launched the first three-man crew to its new space station in its the ambitious programs first crewed mission in five years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) XHG116

China, U.S. are racing to make billions from mining the moon’s minerals VIEW

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 »

Amazon

Flex workers load vehicles with orders at an Amazon delivery station in Dallas, Texas, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. Amazon.com Inc. is ceding its human-resources operation to machines, using software not only to manage workers in its warehouses but to oversee contract drivers, independent delivery companies and even the performance of its office workers. 775673832

Amazon is using gig economy drivers to deliver from malls

Amazon’s start

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos in the basement launch site for his web venture. File Photo Jimi Lott 9/13/95 : AMAZON.COM’S JEFF BEZOS : INTERNET’S ULTIMATE CULT FIGURE : WHEN AMAZON.COM WAS JUST A FLEDGLING BUSINESS, JEFF BEZOS POSED WITH A CART OF BOOKS IN THE BASEMENT FROM WHICH THE BUSINESS WAS LAUNCHED. NOW, THE COMPANY SELLS ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS AND BEZOS IS A BILLIONAIRE. (2 OF 2)

Store on internet is open book — Amazon.com boasts more than 1 million titles on web | From the archives

Microsoft

Microsoft’s west campus in Redmond on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022.

Microsoft will boost pay and stock compensation to retain employees

Economy

Masked pedestrians at Times Square in Manhattan on May 2, 2022. Mayor Eric Adams said on May 18 that he does not plan to bring back mask mandates for now in New York, after the city entered the high alert level for community spread of the coronavirus this week. (Stephanie Keith/The New York Times) XNYT247

Coronavirus daily news updates, May 21: What to know today about COVID-19

Featured Columnist

Downtown is in trouble and it'll take more than redoing Pacific Place to save it

Money Makeovers

Teri Allen is hoping her finances will enable her to retire when she wants to.

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She’s worked almost 40 years in one place. Now, can she retire before 65?

Personal Finance

Interest rates are rising for both federal and private borrowers. But private loans have fewer protections and are often more expensive, student advocates say. (Till Lauer / The New York Times)

Think twice before taking out a private student loan

Markets

Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor in New York City on Friday, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Focus on goals, not a number, to go forward when market reverses | Your Funds

Artificial Intelligence

The State of Washington Employment Security Department, closed due to Covid-19, seen Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 in Olympia.

The IRS dropped ID.me’s facial recognition tech after backlash. WA is rolling it out in June

Local Business

The developer of Pacific Place filed preliminary documents to convert most of the retail space to offices on Wednesday. Converting the mall is estimated to cost $260 million.

Downtown is in trouble and it'll take more than redoing Pacific Place to save it | Jon Talton

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Doctor Strange and his multiverse got to linger a little longer atop the weekend box office while Tom Cruise waits in the wings.

Agriculture

One honey bee nestles on a flower and another is in flight at the tail end of this orchard bloom at Hood River Cherry Company
Credit: Hal Bernton
Dateline: Hood River, Oregon
Date: May, 20222

In cool spring, bees struggle to pollinate Northwest cherry crop

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