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This homeless camp in Olympia was one of the more infamous and dangerous camps in early 2019, when reporter Will James was recording there and witnessed an overdose.

February 20, 2020 at 6:00 am

A reporter was in a homeless camp when someone overdosed. He left his recorder on

Overdoses are a part of life in many of today's homeless encampments. In 2019, the Seattle Fire Department responded to an average of more than two...

Called a ghost plane or whitetail, the white planes seen here are painted white because the airline it was built for no longer wants it. It will be painted with a new livery after the plane is ungrounded and Boeing secures a customer.
Nearly 200 completed Boeing 737 MAX airplanes destined for airlines worldwide, are parked at the Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake Washington. In March 2019, aviation authorities around the world grounded the passenger airliner after two separate crashes.

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February 19, 2020 at 7:46 pm

Seattle Times coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX crisis wins prestigious national journalism award

The prestigious award, one of 15 bestowed on a range of national and regional media in different categories, was announced at the National Press Club.

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Geelong’s Eastern Beach public swimming pool is surrounded by a double-levelled wooden walkway around the edge (at center of frame). It is a very popular spot at the water’s edge, located adjacent to downtown Geelong. Downtown Geelong is in background of frame. Shot Thursday, October 24, 2019. 212377 212377

February 11, 2020 at 5:00 am

Reporter’s notebook: Why Education Lab traveled 8,000 miles to report on youth homelessness in Seattle

The story behind the story. Why Ed Lab went to Australia to learn more about Washington.

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The Capitol dome, off in the distance, is viewed from a homeless encampment under the 4th Avenue Olympia Yashiro Friendship Bridge, just after police posted that the area would be swept, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 in Olympia. 212722

January 28, 2020 at 4:26 pm

‘Outsiders’: Why we made a podcast about homelessness in Olympia

What does homelessness sound like? It's an odd question, considering conversations surrounding homelessness focus so much on what we see. The Seattle Times' Project Homeless...

Earlier this decade, Washington had the third-highest rate in the nation of adults with a mental illness, and the second-highest rate for those whose illness interfered with major life activities. At the same time, a government survey ranked Washington’s inpatient psychiatric bed capacity almost last in the nation.This gap between need and specialized care has led to more patients waiting in facilities that aren’t equipped to treat them, and left nearly a quarter of adults with mental illness unable to get the help they needed.Yet one source of mental-health care has expanded rapidly: private psychiatric hospitals.State payments to five private psychiatric hospitals nearly tripled over five years, totaling almost $67 million in 2018.Seven such hospitals have been built or expanded in Washington since 2012. And when three more come online, they will have added more than 850 inpatient beds. All but one of the facilities are for-profit.Until 2012, state regulators hadn’t approved a new psychiatric hospital in years. What changed?As legal pressure mounted on Washington state to add psychiatric treatment beds, the expansion of Medicaid coverage and mental-health benefits created a potentially lucrative opportunity for health care companies.When all the approved psychiatric hospitals open, there will be almost three times as many beds in such facilities as there are in the psychiatric wings of medical hospitals.On paper, this expansion looks like a salve for Washington’s mental-health crisis.

January 17, 2020 at 7:00 am

Investigative reporter Daniel Gilbert uncovers problems at private psychiatric hospitals

On Episode 120 of The Overcast podcast, reporter Daniel Gilbert explains what his reporting over the course of the past year uncovered — and what...

January 6, 2020 at 7:11 am

50 years ago, The Seattle Times made predictions for 2020. Some sound silly today, but some came true

A 1970 issue of The Seattle Times magazine made bold predictions about what the world would be like in 2020, painting a picture of a...

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