When Seattle stores belongings taken during homeless cleanups, few get them back
Outreach workers are concerned that few people are able to retrieve medication, medical devices and IDs that go missing during encampment clean-ups. VIEW
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- Former Washington Supreme Court Justice Rosselle Pekelis, ‘a force of nature,’ dies at 81
- ‘Manufactured brilliance’ and ‘opportunity hoarding:’ What the Seattle school district really thinks of its advanced-learning program | Danny Westneat
- Mariners roll out big changes at T-Mobile Park VIEW
- As insulin prices soar, Washington lawmakers weigh price caps and importing drugs from Canada
- U.S. Supreme Court to consider Washington’s 2016 ‘faithless electors,’ who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton
- Washington state AG’s office dismisses complaint against Seattle Public Schools over gifted program
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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.
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‘Manufactured brilliance’ and ‘opportunity hoarding:’ What the Seattle school district really thinks of its advanced-learning program | Danny Westneat
Seattle Public Schools' equity-based drive to get rid of its advanced or "gifted" program is prompting a philosophical debate about the very purpose of public schools.
Health
Supreme Court to decide whether employers must offer birth control
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether the Trump administration may allow employers to limit women’s access to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act. The case returns the court to a key battleground in the culture wars, but one in which successive administrations have switched sides. In the Obama years,...
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Data
Pacific Northwesterners feel pressured to drive to work on snow days — and think they’re good at doing so, poll finds
Pacific Northwesterners take to the roads in surprising numbers during snowy conditions, despite the fact that more people than ever can work remotely.
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Science
Australia firefighters save world’s only rare dinosaur trees
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a... VIEW
