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Rad Cyrus, an Iranian immigrant and tech worker living in Shoreline, looks forward to evenings at home, when he gets to spend time with his wife by video chat. She lives in Tehran, and has been waiting years for a visa.
(Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) — Rad Cyrus, an Iranian immigrant and tech worker living in Shoreline, looks forward to evenings at home, when he gets to spend time with his wife by video chat. She lives in Tehran, and has been waiting years for a visa. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

‘I want to live my life with her’; Trump travel ban is keeping families apart for years, many in Seattle’s tech community

A young generation of highly educated residents in the Seattle area, some working at high-profile tech companies, continue to be separated from their loved ones by President Trump's travel ban. Applying for a waiver is a vague process — with no application form. VIEW

Memorial service for Kittitas County deputy killed in shootout set for Thursday
Man shot dead on Highway 520 bridge near Montlake early Monday Updated 1:55 pm
Sound Transit puts bus outsourcing on hold
Buses no longer using Seattle’s transit tunnel; Monday commutes test new routes Updated 2:06 pm
How a new UW teaching hospital might help Washington state’s mental-health crisis
She’s baaaack: Nora makes an ambivalent return in ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at Seattle Rep
State Patrol is expanding Gov. Jay Inslee’s security unit amid presidential bid — at a cost of $4 million
‘Who are you becoming?’ Why America needs Michelle Obama’s message now | Tyrone Beason VIEW Updated 2:49 pm

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Friday, March 22, 2019. The City of Seattle cleaned up the homeless camp this week located on the bluff just east of the Troll in Fremont. This was the site of five drug overdoses in a single day in January. 209714

Project Homeless

City removes homeless camp near Seattle’s Fremont Troll that was site of overdoses

Almost five years after the Oso landslide, Wednesday March 20, 2019, the small trees planted here to honor the 43 people killed have now grown tall. 209686

Local News

Oso landslide’s 43 victims ‘deserve better’: Five years later, loved ones plan $6M memorial VIEW

The Nickelsville Northlake tiny house village is located near the ship canal bridge in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle. Nickelsville, and it’s sister organization SHARE/WHEEL, are losing much of their funding from the city. Photographed Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, 208150

Project Homeless

After infighting at Seattle’s tiny-house villages, activist leaders get the boot

Driveway with landscaping, right, built across Madrona’s Viretta Park by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, has angered neighbors such as Lorie Ann Lucky and Marty Liebowitz. Park property extends to the fence around Schultz’s home, above.

Local Politics

The time Seattle neighbors sued Howard Schultz and Kurt Cobain’s estate over a driveway in a park

Times Watchdog

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee arrives for a bill-signing ceremony, Thursday, March 21, 2019, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee signed a bill into law Thursday that designates April 10 as Dolores Huerta Day in Washington state. Huerta, who will turn 89 on April 10, was a labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW102 WATW102

State Patrol is expanding Gov. Jay Inslee’s security unit amid presidential bid — at a cost of $4 million

Politics

The Legislative Building is viewed through a light morning fog, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., on opening day of the Washington Legislature. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW101

House Democrats in Olympia unveil $52.6 billion state budget plan

Project Homeless

Tell us your stories about home and homelessness WATCH

About Project Homeless

Project Homeless is a new Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness. We will also feature solutions-oriented reporting from elsewhere in the country.

Transportation

A man died in the driver’s seat of a car from an apparent gunshot wound on the eastbound Highway 520 bridge early Monday, March 25, 2019.

Man shot dead on Highway 520 bridge near Montlake early Monday

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Michaele Razi CQ, left, dressed as a witch from Harry Potter, gets a kick out of Jackie Yeo’s Jawa from Star Wars outfit at Emerald City Comic Con Thursday. Both wear homemade costumes with peaked tops. Yeo flew in from Anchorage, Alaska during spring break just for the event which runs through Sunday at the Washington State Convention Center. (They don’t know each other but met on the floor among vendor booths)
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LO First day at Emerald City Comic Con at the Washington State Convention Center
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You’ll meet a lot of real characters at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle VIEW

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Tuesday February 26, 2019

Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, a major survey of the acclaimed contemporary artist features a series of Everlast punching bags adorned with beadwork, metal jingles, fringe and surprises. They’re prominent sculptures in Gibson’s exhibition opening Thursday.

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Indigenous art, queer aesthetics, and pop culture. The exhibition features over 65 works including abstract geometric paintings on rawhide and canvas, beaded punching bags, sculptures, wall hangings, and video.” 209416

Visual Arts

Seattle Art Museum opens new exhibition, ‘Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer’ VIEW

Nick Tanner photographs Gina Nakamura with animals sculpted in snow on Harbor Avenue Southwest in West Seattle Monday, February 11, 2019. Groups of people photographed the sculptures on a small hill, which sometimes offered views of the Seattle skyline when it was not snowing too hard. 209304

Local News

Photo gallery: Another snowy Monday in Seattle VIEW

These childhood photographs at the entrance to the Holocaust Center for Humanity are of survivors who have lived in the region.

(Some have passed, hence “have lived in the region.”)

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Photo Gallery

Shining a light on a dark time in Jewish history VIEW

Education

Kenyan who gave earnings to poor wins $1M teacher prize

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Kenyan teacher from a remote village who gave away most of his earnings to the poor won a $1 million prize on Sunday for his work teaching in a government-run school that has just one computer and shoddy Internet access. The annual Global Teacher Prize was awarded to Peter... VIEW

Education Lab

Can the Legislature change Washington’s track record on special education?

National report gives Washington state an ‘F’ for efforts to remove lead from school drinking water

About Education Lab

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to some of the most persistent challenges in public education.

Health

11.4M sign up for Obama-era health plans this year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says 11.4 million people have signed up for coverage this year under former President Barack Obama's health law. That's just a slight dip from 2018. Despite the Trump administration's ongoing hostility to "Obamacare," a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released on Monday found remarkably steady enrollment—...