Metsker Maps in Pike Place Market helps Seattleites find their way
Skip Ross, the manager and part-owner of Metsker Maps, started at the store back in 1985, as a fresh college graduate with a ...
This tiny fish’s mistaken identity halted a dam’s construction
Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is ...
Seattle’s Little Free Libraries bring joy and connections beyond books
If standard libraries can open up the entire world for people, Little Free Libraries make the world smaller in an equally ...
Bill Nye, Seattle’s science guy, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nye got his “Science Guy” start in Seattle, where a 1989 video for the Washington Department of Ecology became the format for ...
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Strike at Seattle Art Museum ends as visitor services staff ratify first contract
Security workers at the Seattle Museum of Art (SAM ... said in a statement provided to The Art Newspaper. Another aspect of the new contract consists of a union security agreement, meaning ...
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Here are Seattle’s most- and least-educated neighborhoods
Seattle is the nation’s most-educated big city, and the share of the population that has graduated from college keeps going up. Census data for 2023, which was released in September, shows a ...
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King County Metro buses paused in memory of driver slain on duty
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Seattle schools investigates past conduct of employee arrested in prostitution sting
Seattle Public Schools says it’s investigating ... SPS met with TOPS parents Thursday, more than a week after news of the arrest became public. Principal Amy Schwentor informed parents about ...
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Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer rips Inslee wealth tax
Jay Inslee’s “wealth tax” proposal is drawing fire from a usual Democratic political ally — Seattle venture capitalist ... on alternative ideas.” In a news conference this week, the ...
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Sharing the roads around Seattle is our shared responsibility
An Oct. 21 Seattle Times article reported that from 2016 to 2023, 108 pedestrians died after being hit by a car on Seattle roadways. From Vision Zero’s founding through last year, 224 people ...
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Seattle’s carbon emissions tick up after pandemic dip
Source: City of Seattle Office of Sustainability (Reporting by Isabelle Breda, Chart by Chris Kaeser / The Seattle Times Colder weather ... editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the ...
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Japanese newspaper boss who influenced the nation's postwar politics died at 98
Watanabe joined the newspaper in 1950 and covered politics throughout his career, attending editorial meetings until last month. He was still checking copy in his hospital room days before his ...