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13 Things to Do In Seattle for the Perfect Weekend Trip
Have you ever ever fallen so in love with a city that you just’ve already booked your return tickets earlier than you permit? That’s Seattle for me. I’ve by no means truly lived there, however each time I go to, the seaport metropolis appears like dwelling. Even when it’s only a Seattle weekend journey, I discover myself utterly enamored. 13…
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Opinion
Welcome, new Seattle City Council — now get focused on the details
By the point you learn this, many Seattle Metropolis Council members can have already taken their oath of workplace in a non-public ceremony that permits lawmakers to imagine duty on the stroke of midnight Jan. 1. There’s cause for Seattleites to be optimistic concerning the metropolis’s new management. The nine-member council now consists of two veterans (Bob Kettle and Rob…
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Opinion
Make Seattle school bus safety a legislative priority in 2024
As state lawmakers gear up for the 2024 legislative session, it’s incumbent upon representatives from Seattle to hold the cost to tweak state regulation to maintain kids protected whereas using the varsity bus. Proper now, odds are in drivers’ favor; in the event that they blow previous a faculty bus with its cease paddle prolonged whereas kids are boarding or…
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Opinion
Obligatory commutes: Environmental impacts | The Seattle Times
Re: “Boeing shifts policy, wants all employees back in the office full time” [Dec. 13, Boeing & Aerospace]: The article on Boeing’s impending on-site work coverage addressed its damaging impact upon some staff’ work-life steadiness and the irony of globe-trotting managers imposing such work location necessities. Nevertheless, the article did not assess the damaging environmental impacts of an compulsory commute.…
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Opinion
UW should educate Washingtonians | The Seattle Times
We in Washington help our public universities. With that help comes the expectation our universities will educate our younger adults. Too usually, our native public college rejects the scholars it was created to help. With rejection from the College of Washington in Seattle, college students are pressured to choose. Both attend a less-prestigious public college in state, or discover a…
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Opinion
The spirit of ’36: Seattle gumption propelled ‘The Boys in the Boat’
On Christmas Day, Seattle will see itself on the large display screen when “The Boys within the Boat” opens in theaters. It’s the movie adaptation of Daniel James Brown’s bestseller concerning the collective effort that led 9 boys and the Seattle neighborhood to attain its golden dream on the 1936 Summer time Olympics. George Clooney’s film concerning the College of…
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Opinion
Even Santa can’t help Seattle house hunters
Shopping for into the costly Seattle housing market has been a daunting proposition for a few years, however, when mortgage rates of interest have been down within the 2% to three% vary, an individual might take a deep breath and boldly leap into debt. Not a lot as we speak. The COVID-19 pandemic drove up inflation to scary ranges and…
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Washington ferries: ‘Single-party leadership’ | The Seattle Times
Re: “Sending out an SOS for WA’s ferries” [Dec. 21, Opinion]: With all due respect to the gifted and astute cartoonist David Horsey, I used to be stunned to see lack of help from Jap Washington as the primary cause he listed in his column for our state’s antiquated ferry fleet. Not that he was itemizing the explanations so as…
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Opinion
ChatGPT and creative atrophy | The Seattle Times
The introduction of ChatGPT didn’t result in extra dishonest in highschool. That is based on the scholars themselves. For 15 years, Stanford College researchers have used nameless surveys and focus teams to create an surroundings for trustworthy solutions from college students about their experiences within the classroom. These research embody questions on whether or not the scholars cheat on assignments.…
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Opinion
Seattle should redirect Fort Lawton money, enhance Discovery Park
As Mayor Bruce Harrell evaluates alternatives to town’s stalled 2019 Fort Lawton redevelopment plan, there is a chance to each develop new inexperienced house and create reasonably priced housing. The town ought to seize this second to assist extra individuals sooner and improve Discovery Park for generations to come back. When the U.S. army vacated most of Fort Lawton in 1972, Discovery…
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