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Stories from Seattle: Surviving the COVID-19 Crisis Without Layoffs is No Easy Feat
A few years ago, Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments gave his employees a raise to $70K. They returned the favor: “The employees bailed us out.”
Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments who made headlines for setting his company’s base salary at $70K with his mom.
Stories from Seattle: What It’s Like to be a Seahawk During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Training for a Season that May Not Happen
Starting offensive guard D.J. Fluker: "I'm getting ready for the season because we don't really know when it's gonna happen."
Starting offensive guard D.J. Fluker: Still training for a season during the pandemic.
Stories from Seattle: Practicing Philoxenia on the Front Lines of a Pandemic
A firefighter’s letter to a stranger
As firefighters, we are accustomed to facing fear on a regular basis. But I know of no one accustomed to facing pandemics. Our new fear is very real. At our firehouse on Seattle’s downtown waterfront, we know that every call that we go on could be the one that takes us out. We’ve been here…
This Week Then: Washington Territory and the Civil War
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Marching Forth On April 12, 1861, Washington Territory’s former governor, Isaac Stevens, returned to the Pacific Northwest to campaign for reelection to a third term as the territory’s delegate to the U. S. Congress. On that same day, the Civil War began with the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. News of that event didn’t arrive here until more…
Stories from Seattle: Something to Keep Your Mind Off the News
Writer Drew Zandonella-Stannard launches a free text subscription service based on light-hearted laughs—just the thing we need right now
“The sign urges our neighbors to sign up for The Good List, even though it might pigeonhole me as the local eccentric shut-in.”
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