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Seattle area now home to world’s 2 most valuable companies: Amazon and Microsoft
Amazon became the world's most valuable company on Monday, followed by Microsoft, giving the Seattle area bragging rights over Silicon Valley.
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Social worker left surprise $11M to children's charities
Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into comical, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned. The Washington state social worker died of cancer this year at age 63, leaving most of a surprising $11 million estate to children's charities that help the poor, sick, disabled and abandoned. The amount baffled the beneficiaries and his best friends, who are lauding Naiman as the anniversary of his death approaches in January.
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How Seattle’s public library is stepping up to deal with the city’s homelessness crisis
A pioneering public organisation is taking a stand against the growing problem of homelessness on the West Coast. In so doing, it is re-defining the very idea of a library.
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Seattle Is Awarded an N.H.L. Expansion Team
The new franchise, which is expected to begin playing in 2021, will give the league 32 teams and balance the conferences at 16 teams apiece.
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No No Man
Steven Jesse Bernstein
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Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65
Mr. Allen and Bill Gates started the company in 1975, helping to usher in the personal computing revolution. He died after a recurrence of cancer.
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives $30M to house homeless, low-inco
The Seattle Times reports that Allen’s donation to the Mount Baker Family Housing development is the largest funding piece for the project. Allen has been partnered with the project throughout its design process. Mercy Housing Northwest and Mary’s Place will help run the eight-story complex a block away from the Mount Baker Link light rail station. Half of the units are reserved for homeless families. The other half will be for low-income families of three.
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2 women found dead in University District apartment, Seattle police say
Two women were found dead in an apartment across the street from the University of Washington campus, Seattle police said. Police said late Tuesday there were no suspects outstanding and no threat to the public, but declined to otherwise categorize the incident. Detectives said the case was in the hands of the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.
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Seattle plans to spend $12 million on prefab homes for the homeless, and it's not the first wealthy tech city to do it
After years of witnessing its homeless population skyrocket, Seattle has developed a controversial solution to alleviate the problem. Both the city and the larger region of King County plan to move forward with a proposal to build $12 million worth of prefabricated modular homes designed specifically for homeless residents. The decision is part of a growing trend of using modular construction — the process of building a unit off-site, then assembling it at a desired location — to address issues of housing affordability and land restrictions in urban communities with large populations of tech workers.
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I Worked With Richard Russell at Horizon Air, and I Understand Why He Did What He Did
I was surprised to wake up last Saturday morning to the headlines. Not completely shocked, but surprised nonetheless. By Todd Bunker.
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Plane with only an airline employee aboard crashes after unauthorized takeoff in Seattle, airport says
An airline mechanic stole an empty plane from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with military jets pursuing him -- before crashing about 40 miles away, authorities said. The 76-seater aircraft took off without authorization Friday night with an airline employee at the controls, airport officials tweeted. The unidentified 29-year-old mechanic was pronounced dead after the crash, Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor said.
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NRA sues Seattle over recently passed 'safe storage' gun law
The Second Amendment Foundation and NRA have filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle over the city's recently passed "safe storage" gun requirement, claiming it violates the state's preemption statute. The suit also names Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, the Seattle Police Department and Chief Carmen Best. Durkan reacted to the suit Friday, “While they go to court – kids go to the hospital. We can’t prevent every gun death or injury, we can take steps to help prevent tragedies. I am grateful that legal experts who share our commitment to reducing gun violence are standing with us and standing up for safer communities.”
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Starbucks to ditch plastic straws globally by 2020 to help environment
Seattle-based company will use other materials for straws and strawless lids will debut in Seattle and Vancouver this fall
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Western State Hospital is ‘like going into hell’
Behind tall brick walls and secure windows, hundreds of patients at Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital live in conditions that fail U.S. health and safety standards, while overworked nurses and psychiatrists say they are navigating a system that punishes employees who speak out despite critical staffing shortages. “They don’t have enough staff to protect patients, or provide them with the bare minimum of care,” said Lisa Bowser, whose mother spent two years at Western State Hospital and suffered dozens of falls and assaults.
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Is Bezos holding Seattle hostage? The cost of being Amazon's home
However they see Amazon, for good or ill, residents of the fastest-growing city in the US largely agree on the price Seattle has paid to be the home of the megacorporation: surging rents, homelessness, traffic-clogged streets, overburdened public transport, an influx of young men in polo shirts and a creeping uniformity rubbing against the city’s counterculture.
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Is Bezos holding Seattle hostage? The cost of being Amazon's home
Critics say Amazon’s so-called blackmail over tax is just the latest evidence that the company has taken from Seattle – but given little back
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Seattle to ban plastic straws, utensils at all eateries after July 1
SEATTLE - Plastic straws, utensils and cocktail picks will be banned at all Seattle businesses that sell food or drinks under a new law that takes effect July 1. Seattle is believed to be the first major U.S. city to enact such a ban.
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Seattle officer faces discipline after disarming man waving ice ax
A Seattle Police officer will face a disciplinary hearing Friday for not properly de-escalating a situation where he disarmed and arrested a robbery suspect who was carrying an ice ax. However, the police union and members of the community are commending the officer for resolving the incident peacefully. Seattle Police body-worn camera video shows officers in a foot pursuit last August with the suspect, James Ray Smith, a man in crisis who had just stolen an ice ax from REI.
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‘My Generation Is Never Going to Have That’
In Seattle’s red-hot housing market, a group of millennial techies is using data skills to alter the look, and affordability, of their adopted city.
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Anonymous donor leaves $10 million to Seattle radio station KEXP
Here’s all we know: Her name was Suzanne. She was generous with her money. She wanted to remain anonymous. And she loved music. So much so, that before she died, Suzanne made the largest-ever philanthropic gift — just under $10 million — to Seattle radio station 90.3 KEXP FM. It is believed to be among the largest bequests to an individual station in public-radio history, save for a $200 million donation made to National Public Radio by Joan Kroc, the widow of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc. (That donation included $5 million to her local NPR station in San Diego.)
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