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Kirk Johnson

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Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
SEATTLE — Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington and former member of Congress who has made climate change and the environment his signature issues, jumped into the crowded field of 2020 Democratic contenders for president on Friday.
Washington Governor With Climate Message Enters Presidential Race
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
SEATTLE — Measles, declared eliminated as a major public health threat in the United States almost 20 years ago, has re-emerged this winter in the Pacific Northwest and other states where parents have relatively broad leeway over whether to vaccinate their children.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
SEATTLE — Measles, declared eliminated as a major public health threat in the United States almost 20 years ago, has re-emerged this winter in the Pacific Northwest and other states where parents have relatively broad leeway over whether to vaccinate their children.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
SEATTLE — Measles, declared eliminated as a major public health threat in the United States almost 20 years ago, has re-emerged this winter in the Pacific Northwest and other states where parents have relatively broad leeway over whether to vaccinate their children.
Kenya The New York Times world
9 Oct 2021
SEATTLE — Leslie Christian recently added unusual language to her living will: After death, she hoped her remains would be reduced to soil and spread around to help out some flowers, or a tree. In essence, compost.
Kenya The New York Times world
9 Oct 2021
SEATTLE — Leslie Christian recently added unusual language to her living will: After death, she hoped her remains would be reduced to soil and spread around to help out some flowers, or a tree. In essence, compost.
Washington State Considers Human Composting
Kenya The New York Times world
12 May 2021
SEATTLE — Kurt Cobain performed in a grubby club underneath it. Drivers called it a road of kings, four wide open lanes far above the pedestrian horde. And generations of Seattle residents felt a shiver of romance in the moody shadows it cast over a waterfront already famous for gray skies and gloom.
In Seattle, Nostalgia Flows as an Old Highway Nears Its End
Kenya The New York Times world
12 May 2021
BLAINE, Wash. — This town near the border of Canada is home to only 5,500 residents, but it has about 20 mailbox stores — so many that the town recently banned new ones from being constructed along the main drag. The stores were built on their allure to Canadians, who save in shipping and customs costs by having their waders from L.L. Bean or mock Tiffany lamps from Amazon mailed to the stores, then carry the packages back over the border.
Was It Something We Said? Border Towns Fret as Canadians Stay Home
Kenya The New York Times world
12 Apr 2021
ANCHORAGE — Monica Bradbury stood bundled in her coat in the hall of the elementary school where she was dropping off her daughters, ages 7 and 10. It was close to 9 a.m. Monday, still coal-dark in the nation’s far north, and this was the first morning back to school after the biggest earthquake to hit Alaska’s biggest city in decades. But she could not quite bring herself to leave.
After the Earthquake, Anchorage Goes Back to School