Shaquille O’Neal’s Big Chicken sandwich chain expands to The Landing in Renton, with plans for more Seattle-area locations by the end of the year. (Courtesy of Big Chicken)
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Food & Drink

An NBA legend opens a chicken joint, and 25 other new Seattle-area restaurants

The former Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O’Neal has branched out into the fried chicken business; a new location has opened in Renton.

Politics

Kari Lake, former Republican nominee for Arizona governor, at a rally at the Orange Tree Golf Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Sunday. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by David Blakeman

Republicans rally around conservatives who lost their elections

Opinion

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Local News

Reginald Carey says that having his own apartment makes it easier to work on the book he is writing, in Bellevue on January 17, 2023. New housing has enabled him to be stable and secure he says. “There’s more to life than struggle.” Reginald Carey was formerly homeless and moved into his apartment using an emergency housing voucher. After a slow start, Seattle and King County have utilized all of the 1300ish emergency housing vouchers it received from HUD as part of ARPA. The region has also outpaced most other comparably sized cities/counties in terms of using them to help people move inside. 222778

Seattle reverses dismal performance in using federal housing resource

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Project Homeless

Social service workers rally at Seattle City Hall over proposed budget cuts
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Business & Tech

Construction continues on NE Northlake Way on a new building, Northlake Commons, offering office space for lease at North Lake Union. 222580

Seattle-area office market makes painful adjustments to post-COVID normal

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Questions the next Seattle City Council needs to answer

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Nation & World

Davitus Collier inside his apartment in Memphis, Tenn. on Jan. 31, 2023. Since its formation in November 2021, the specialized squad of some 40 officers that was deployed to deter violence in some of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods was responsible for repeated acts of intimidation, harassment and violence by some of its officers, according to interviews with dozens of people in the community, including several arrested by the unit’s officers. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times) XNYT14 XNYT14

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Food & Drink

The Shaquille O’Neal-owned chicken sandwich franchise the Big Chicken comes to Renton.

An NBA legend opens a chicken joint, and 25 other new Seattle-area restaurants

Pacific NW Magazine

Tacoma author creates an illustrated travelers atlas for PNW islands

Tacoma author’s love letter to Pacific NW islands took years to compose

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Arts & Life

Brandi Carlile performs at Bourbon and Beyond Music Festival at Kentucky Exposition Center on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Our predictions for who will win at the Grammys on Sunday

Photography

Ronan Mooney, right, and other Seattle Sounders FC fans react in the second half of the game while watching their team play Al Ahly of Eygpt in the FIFA World Cup held in Tangier, Morocco from a large screen at the Seattle Center Armory on Saturday, February 4, 2023. The Sounders lost 1 – 0 in their first appearance at the World Cup. “We did well to get here in the first place,” says Mooney.
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Sounders fans bring their Club World Cup hopes to Seattle Center

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Husky Basketball

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Washington center Braxton Meah (34) dunks against UCLA guard Jaime Jaquez Jr., left, and guard Amari Bailey during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
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In photos: The assembly and flight of the final Boeing 747 WATCH