Tag: seattle times
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Seattle institutions
Lately, my deskmates and I can’t converse without getting hungry. It all started last week, when I solicited a coworker’s advice on where to get great seafood in Seattle. My parents are in town this weekend and are looking forward to eating wild Alaskan salmon, said to be some of the best in the world.
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Birthday headlines
Today, the day I turn 23, is the ultimate in in-betweens: it will be exactly two years before I’m legally able to rent a car, and it’s exactly two years after the day I had my first legal drink (in the U.S., at least). I have no wild plans for this particular birthday, since work
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Snowmageddon
“You tell people they might see snowflakes out their windows tomorrow morning and then nothing happens…but you give no forecast at all and then I-5 is a skating rink.” Ah, the weather reporting catch-22–as neatly summed up by a Seattle Times editor. Today all the editors (I sat meekly in a corner and took notes)
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Election night
Yesterday, The Seattle Times was humming with even more purpose and productivity than usual. Reporters argued over fractions of percentages. Editors posted dozens of news updates every hour until midnight. Fifteen boxes of pizza vanished in an hour. That’s right, it was election day–only the most simultaneously stressful and exciting day of the year for the
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Something’s in the water
I’ve now been through two weeks of Seattle Pro Musica rehearsals, and never have I felt so quickly assimilated into a choral group before. It reminds me of other, very different first rehearsal experiences I’ve had since I started singing in choirs at 14. I remember walking into Cabrillo Youth Chorus auditions as a middle school
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Networking
Our last brown bag session of the summer was a full two weeks ago, but some of us are still talking about it. It was all about “networking,” a word I confess I detest. Even in high school, the idea that I could get a job over someone equally qualified by simply knowing the right people
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Visit from the POTUS
Yesterday was the busiest day I’ve seen at The Times thus far. Not only was it the day all the state primary votes would be counted, but it was also the day a certain U.S. president was coming to visit. And in the middle of it all was a surprise sonic boom heard ’round the
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The nighttime police scanner: a hypothetical ethical dilemma
Today I pulled the night shift at The Seattle Times. On days when exciting things aren’t happening nonstop, it’s common for the reporter on the night shift to find him- or herself stationed next to the police scanner, listening for anything big. That’s me tonight. It sounds boring, or perhaps to some it sounds depressing,
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Flying with the Blue Angels
A story assignment I got yesterday was perhaps the most fun assignment I’ve ever had. I’ve been told that if someone gives you the opportunity to fly with the Blue Angels, you don’t say no. But initially, I did say no. I’ve never been big on risktaking, and I’ve never derived much pleasure from an
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A family tradition
Seattle Times executive editor David Boardman told us interns some great stories as he led us on a tour of the city last month. One of them concerned Frank Blethen, the paper’s publisher. Years ago, a reporter investigated a few claims of unfair hiring practices at Nordstrom. The reporter found out the department store, founded
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