Fixing America's child care crisis
At 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) will discuss child care problems and solutions with U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and Lisa Hamilton, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in a livestream public forum co-presented by The Seattle Times and AL.com. The event will be recorded and shared at st.news/childcareforum
Open since January in a bar-and-restaurant strip in Ballard, Ginger & Scallion bills itself as the “Chicken Rice Specialist.” And it’s just that 一 a place that does one thing, exactly right, writes food critic @bethanyjeanclement.
Click our bio link or visit st.news/ginger-scallion to read the full review. ( ✍️ and 🎥 by Bethany Jean Clement / The Seattle Times)
Seattle-area stargazers recently got a spectacular view of the aurora borealis, as a strong solar storm hit Earth. (📹 @ramondompor )
On Sound Transit’s East Link Starter Line, riders get to see Bellevue and Redmond as never before. Watch as Traffic Lab reporter Mike Lindblom gives his take on the 2 Line, pointing out the sights and giving some of the project’s backstory. (📹by @ramondompor / ✍️ by Mike Lindblom)
The final episode of “Lost Patients,” the new podcast from The Seattle Times and @KUOW, asks what a functioning system of psychiatric care might look like — and what might be getting in the way. Host Will James follows three stories of people who have found a form of recovery from their serious mental illnesses. Listen at st.news/lostpatients-podcast. (Podcast by Will James, Esmy Jimenez and Sydney Brownstone | Image by Alicia Villa)
A plan to lure double-crested cormorants back to East Sand Island
A plan to lure double-crested cormorants away from the Astoria-Megler bridge and back to East Sand Island on the Columbia River has been proposed by a cross-disciplinary group convened by the Oregon Department of Transportation. (Kevin Clark, Steve Ringman & Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)
For millennia, cedar trees have been a source of identity to Indigenous people, providing shelter, medicine, clothing and transportation. Gail White Eagle, a master cultural traditions specialist and master weaver with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, shares how she weaves harvested bark. Read more about culturally modified trees by visiting the link in our bio or by going to st.news/modifiedtreesvideo. (🎥 by Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times | ✍ by Lynda Mapes / The Seattle Times)
In 2017, PFAS "forever chemicals" were detected in groundwater at Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane International Airport. With little information about the extent of contamination in surrounding communities, residents are unsure about the safety of their drinking water. Read more by going to st.news/pfas-westplains.
(🎥 by Daniel Kim and Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times | ✍️ by Isabella Breda and Manuel Villa / The Seattle Times)
As Megan Rapinoe prepares for retirement, she took time with Seattle Times reporter Jayda Evans to reflect on the big moments of her career.
“I don’t think it was even possible at the point when I was a kid to even dream of what was to come,” Rapinoe said during the interview. “For me, certainly it’s a dream career.” Watch the full video through the link in our bio. (🎥 by Lauren Frohne)
He uncovered 200 headstones. She was searching for remnants of her great-grandmother’s life. Their stories converged on the grounds of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Visit st.news/findinglillian to watch the full documentary. (✍ by Sydney Brownstone / The Seattle Times | 🎥 by @laurenfrohne / The Seattle Times)
How well do All-Stars know Seattle?
Seattle Times reporter David Gutman finds out how well the MLB All-Stars know the Emerald City. (Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)
Freeing the Klamath River
The removal of four massive concrete dams on the Klamath River could help revive salmon runs but won’t resolve the American West’s growing water crisis.
Read more: st.news/Klamath
Jordan Eberle’s OT goal lifts Kraken to first home playoff win
Soak it in, live it up — this is officially a hockey town. The big screen at Climate Pledge Arena featured a series of the city’s most iconic sports moments before the game, and then the Kraken added to the list three hours later. Jordan Eberle delivered a game-winning goal in overtime Monday night to give Seattle a 3-2 victory over the Avalanche and tie the series 2-2. And as euphoric as fans were at the time and continue to be at this moment — they should be thinking this now: Series win or bust, writes columnist Matt Calkins. Read more: https://st.news/3oIWT4H
(🎥 by Chris Cole / The Seattle Times)
How homelessness affects K-12 students
Join The Seattle Times and Center for Public Integrity in a discussion about K-12 student homelessness and how Washington and federal officials are helping or failing students.
Watch: “Why isn’t there any justice for me?”
In 2017 police officers beat Joseph Zamora so badly he stopped breathing. He served 22 months in prison for assaulting a police officer. Why is he being prosecuted again?
Read more: st.news/zamora-case
"Why isn’t there any justice for me?"
Six years ago, Joseph Zamora almost died after Moses Lake Police beat him outside of his niece's home. Even though the Washington state Supreme Court threw out Zamora’s convictions and he served 22 months in prison, the Grant County prosecutor is re-charging Zamora with the same crimes all over again. (Erika Schultz & David Gutman / The Seattle Times)
'Note smiling faces': The legacy of a photograph
Eighty-one years ago to the day Sunday, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, launching a mass incarceration of Japanese Americans and designating them “threats” to national security. During the transportation of Japanese Americans to the Minidoka incarceration camp, a news photographer told Mitsuye Yamada and her family to smile for a photograph. The photograph ran on The Seattle Times' front page on August 14, 1942, and compelled Yamada to write her poem 'Evacuation' while in camp. The Seattle Times A1 Revisited project last year addressed the harm caused by the paper’s 1942 coverage of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/a1-revisited-incarceration/
Feb. 19 is now observed as the Day of Remembrance, which acknowledges the signing of Executive Order 9066 and the wrongful incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. (🎥 by Corinne Chin & Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)