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NYSE Mayhem Traced To a Staffer Who Left a Backup System Running
An anonymous reader shares a report: More than 700 miles from Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange’s backup data center on Cermak Road in Chicago is supposed to safeguard US markets, standing by at all hours in case disaster ever strikes the world’…
Snohomish County pays $1.9M to settle suit over deputy’s killing of man in crisis
The settlement marks the third time in recent years that the county has paid $1 million or more to settle a lawsuit stemming from a deputy’s use of deadly force.
What new federal money will mean for WA ferries
The Federal Transit Administration says it will send millions to develop passenger ferry and electric-power improvements on Puget Sound.
Ending homelessness in King County will cost billions, regional authority says
The King County Regional Homelessness Authority estimates it would take more than $8 billion in capital costs and up to $3.5 billion in annual operating costs.
Sawant pushes anti-caste discrimination law in Seattle
If passed by the City Council, the local statute would add caste discrimination as a form of prejudice outlawed in local workplaces.
Rant and Rave: Reader thanks careful driver
RAVE to the multiple drivers who stopped before the stop sign line, made eye contact and waved me on to cross in front of them while I was jogging in my neighborhood today. Typically, each time I go for a walk or run around the neighborhood, at least o…
‘I was the Kidd Valley Burger Babe’ — how our food critic got her start
Here’s how Bethany Jean Clement went undercover to critique the sexist icon of a Seattle restaurant chain — and won free burgers for life.
Tyre Nichols’s death after police encounter was ‘failing of basic humanity’, says Memphis chief
Memphis police chief says January traffic stop that preceded man’s death was ‘heinous, reckless, and inhumane’The police chief of Memphis, Tennessee has described the circumstances surrounding the death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died three days …
Paris Olympics bosses plan to include ‘neutral’ Russian and Belarusian athletes
Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics have confirmed they are thrashing out plans to allow Russian athletes into the event as “neutrals”, despite calls from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ban them due to the conflict between the two cou…