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U.S. Highway 2 between Index and Skykomish reopened
Kevin Saavedra, a Harborview travel nurse, works his night shift, Wednesday in Seattle. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Health

WA is stuck with a travel nurse dilemma, pitting care against costs

Hospital systems in Seattle are struggling financially because of the cost of contract nurses, but without them, shifts would go unfilled. VIEW Updated

Politics

FILE – Donald Trump speaks at his first rally since his Mar-a-Lago club was searched by FBI agents, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Sept. 3, 2022. Trump, sitting on a huge campaign war chest, is eyeing a raft of television ads to help Republican candidates in the midterm elections, people familiar with the talks say. (Hannah Beier/The New York Times) XNYT250 XNYT250

Amid GOP cash crunch, one very flush ally may soon share the wealth

Opinion

Tell your Seattle City Council member to get the full picture before doubling park taxes | Editorial
Power moves: Efficiency and electrification are key to stop climate disruption | Op-Ed
Puerto Rico cannot prosper, or heal, as long as it remains a U.S. colony | Op-Ed
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A new effort to help save local news, from WA AG Bob Ferguson | Brier Dudley

Local News

The Seattle city council is endorsing plans to change how Third Avenue currently works as a transit corridor. The concern now is that the “wall of buses” without anything else to attract people to Third creates an environment where unwanted activity thrives 221666

Seattle looks to transform Third Avenue from transit-only to inviting ‘front door’

Featured Columnist

Seattle’s fight over park rangers doesn’t bode well for fixing the police

Project Homeless

Homelessness along Green River grows, creating a tricky question
Longtime King County Housing Authority leader accused of racial, gender-based discrimination
Why illegally placed concrete blocks have taken over public parking in Seattle
A Seattle strategy focused on chronically homeless people paid off — for some

Business & Tech

The RadWagon 4, in Seattle, on July 26, 2020, the latest model from Rad Power Bikes, extends the cargo-style frame to accommodate a long list of accessories. Mike Radenbaugh dreamed up Rad Power Bikes over a decade ago in his family’s garage and now sets the pace for affordable battery-propelled bicycles. (Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times)

Rad Power Bikes alerts riders of safety concerns with RadWagon 4 tires

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Gates Foundation's report shows the difficult path to global progress

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Nation & World

Workers move recently exhumed bodies at the mass grave site where police report that approximately 457 bodies of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers have been recovered, in Izium, Ukraine, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. A United Nations-appointed panel of independent legal experts said Russian soldiers raped and tortured children, executed civilians and attacked without distinguishing between civilians and combatants during the invasion of Ukraine. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times) XNYT34 XNYT34

On a corpse’s wrist, an emblem of Ukrainian fortitude

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Food & Drink

The short rib platter is one of the signature Korean barbecue dishes at Baekjeong in Lynnwood.

A big-name restaurant lands in Lynnwood and 13 other openings in Greater Seattle

Pacific NW Magazine

How Northwest tribes are leading the push to restore eel-like lampreys

How close would YOU get to a Pacific lamprey?

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Arts & Life

A persistent sturdy taproot helps comfrey, a nutrient-rich perennial herb, claim its place in the garden. Credit: Dreamstime.com

You'll never get rid of comfrey, so you might as well put it to use.

Photography

Joe Zante, right, gets ready to cast again after catching a coho hatchery salmon netted by his wife Lourdas, at Bush Point where more than a dozen licensed anglers are allowed to catch two hatchery fish off Whidbey Island, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Hatchery coho have a clipped small adipose fin near the tail. The married couple are from Bothell.
Local News

At Bush Point, anglers spend a sunny day seeking hatchery coho salmon VIEW

Quanadre Diggs can’t complete the interception in the end zone on the pass intended for San Francisco’s Danny Gray in the second quarter. 221601
Seahawks

Photos: Seahawks lose to 49ers VIEW

Agnes Cabullos, a volunteer from Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance, cuts trawling netting so it can be rolled into piles and then lifted into huge bags and then recycled at Terminal 91 in Seattle Tuesday, September 6, 2022. The insurance company is the insurance broker for American Seafoods. American Seafoods partner with a local, woman-owned start up, Net Your Problem, and many volunteers at Terminal 91 Tuesday for the first time to recycle midwater trawling nets. All of the recovered materials are kept out of landfills and are given new life. A former North Pacific fisheries observer and current UW research scientist, Nicole Baker, launched Net Your Problem to divert plastic waste and nets from the fishing industry out of ocean and landfills. The nets are about four to five years old and can no longer be used to catch pollock. Old nets are often just stored and sometimes sent to Europe to be recycled. This is the first year American Seafoods is doing the recycling work themselves. They recovered 19,000 lbs. of plastics, all of which will go on to additional products/uses. A rough breakdown of the plastics they recovered is polypropylene (60%), nylon (19%), high density polyethylene (HDPE, 8%), mixed materials (13%). The material will be given to someone who will turn all of the former nets into different products. Tim Fitzgerald, chief sustainability officer and public affairs with American Seafoods, said that the company could either pay to store the trawling nets, throw them away or recycle them. They chose to recycle. 221513
Local News

American Seafoods works with Net Your Problem to recycle fishing gear VIEW

Seattle Seahawks special teamers swarm under Denver Broncos’ Montrell Washington on a kick return during the first quarter Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Seattle. 221558
Seahawks

Photos: Wilson, Broncos ride into Seattle for Monday Night Football VIEW