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caption: An artist who goes by the name "Weirdo" puts the finishing touches on a giant mural on an outside wall of Shawn Kemp's Cannabis, the marijuana dispensary owned by Shawn Kemp, a former NBA basketball player for the Seattle SuperSonics and several other teams, and other business partners, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, prior to the store's grand opening in downtown Seattle.

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Seattle steps closer to getting an NBA team as league approves expansion exploration

caption: King County Assessor John Arthur Wilson on Zoom on July 7, 2025, during a hearing regarding a restraining order filed against him by Lee Keller.

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King County Assessor Wilson charged in 2025 stalking case

caption: OpenAI's new office in Bellevue, Washington.

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Washington passes new AI laws to crack down on misinformation, protect minors

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King County limits immigration operations on county property, moves away from legal term ‘alien’
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Adults in the Room, Episode 5: The Bet
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Sea-Tac manages government shutdown turbulence with normal wait times and no ICE
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Reflecting on the legacy of the last orca capture in Washington state, 50 years later
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Between ICE and a hard place: WA farmworkers fear deportation, family separation
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Their citizenship ceremonies were abruptly canceled. Months later, they are still waiting for them to be rescheduled

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Health Care

U.S. health care spending is the highest on Earth. Here's why

Most health care services in the U.S. cost at least twice what they do in other countries, and sometimes up to ten times as much.

Clare McGrane

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Will light rail across Lake Washington make Redmond cool?

The Crosslake Connection will finally open this Saturday. That means for the first time, you’ll be able to take the light rail from Seattle to the Eastside. So, what will that new access mean for Redmond? We’ll talk about it with Andrew Villeneuve from the Northwest Progressive Institute.

March 25, 2026

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