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Lisa Smith watches her 4-year-old daughter, Penelope, leap on the sofa in their affordable-housing apartment at Arbora Court last month in Seattle. The city is pouring more and more resources into these kinds of buildings as rents and home prices rise. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) — Lisa Smith watches her 4-year-old daughter, Penelope, leap on the sofa in their affordable-housing apartment at Arbora Court last month in Seattle. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Seattle’s upzones would collect millions for affordable housing. Who would get help?

We talked to residents of housing projects partly funded by the city to find out how they got there and what it means to them. VIEW

Seattle-area forecast: Clear skies, warm temps and a ‘Full Worm Supermoon’ on first day of spring Updated 7:14 am
Capitol Hill homeowners say Eastlake upzone would ruin views of Lake Union VIEW New 6:00 am
Take a common houseplant, add a little rabbit DNA and voilà! You get a super air purifier New 6:00 am
A gender pay gap in Northwest public radio network sparks debate New 6:00 am
The college-admissions scandal is a small part of a historical problem when it comes to privilege in higher ed | Tyrone Beason New 6:00 am
Seattle apartment fire kills one person Updated 5:28 am
Local Muslim groups to host interfaith gathering in Redmond after Christchurch mass-shooting
Seattle Police investigate Pioneer Square shooting incident that injured two people

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Cows wait their turn for the first milking of the day at J & K Dairy, 7010 E. Edison Road in Sunnyside, Wash. J & K Dairy was one out of the several farms that lost over 1,800 dairy cows in the Yakima Valley from the Feb. 9 blizzard. Today, dairy farmer Jason Sheehan and his crew are working to help heal cows that are suffering from frostbite after the storm.

Local News

‘What next? Biblical plagues?’ Blizzard killed 1,850 cows, and Yakima Valley farmers are reeling VIEW

Karen Kutkiewicz gives her two-year-old daughter Sarah a kiss after getting off of the Coast Guard cutter Polar Star in Seattle Monday, March 11, 2019 following a 106-day deployment. She also greeted her husband and five-month-old son John.

The crew of the United States’ only heavy icebreaker, Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, returns home Monday morning to Seattle after supporting Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica, the U.S. military operation to resupply the U.S. Antarctic Program.

The crew overcame flooding, an electrical outage, electrical switchboard issues and an incinerator fire to accomplish their mission supporting Operation Deep Freeze. 209573

Local News

Polar Star icebreaker’s crew returns to Seattle with tales of curious penguin, rugged seas, fire aboard ship VIEW

June 27, 2018 Salmon being seperated from juvenile salmon caught in a trawl net by NOAA scientists (IDís to come) aboard the Shimada as they check for changes in the environment off the Oregon coast. 206497 206497

Hostile Waters

HUNGER: The decline of salmon adds to the struggle of Puget Sound’s orcas VIEW

Looking southeast towards the Seattle skyline and the Alaskan Way viaduct during rush hour Friday, January 4, 2019. The viaduct will be permanently shut down on January 11, 2018 and then demolished, altering the value of real estate downtown.
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Real Estate

Viaduct gold rush: Big money flows into area around doomed Seattle highway

Project Homeless

What are the most common reasons people are homeless in Seattle?

Who is homeless because of personal struggles, and who is homeless because of economic reasons in Seattle? The answer isn't simple.

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

Sound Transit CEO considers outside contractors to run Highway 520 buses

Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff is considering hiring private contractors. Labor leaders consider the move a possible threat to existing union jobs and privatization fights have flared around the country.

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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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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

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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

UofW Reseach Professor Stuart Strand surrounded by plants in the research laboratory, March 9, 2019. 209569

Take a common houseplant, add a little rabbit DNA and voilà! You get a super air purifier

Education Lab

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

Men of color often find college isolating. UW’s Brotherhood Initiative wants to change that.

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

Group with consumer-friendly vibe pushes drugmakers’ message

WASHINGTON (AP) — As ominous music plays in the background, the narrator of a radio ad warns that a Trump administration proposal to apply international pricing to certain Medicare drugs would be a nightmare for seniors. The one-minute spot is the handiwork of the Alliance for Patient Access, a nonprofit group that gives off a...