Benjamin Romano
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"Thanks in part to Sue Bird’s consistent greatness, even with less attention, less investment, and less hoopla than any male athletes in town, the Storm’s reputation has only continued to grow over the years." - writes @maggiejmertens
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A huge congratulations to #IWMFfellows @CorinneChin and @ErikaJSchultz, whose story "Disappearing Daughters" is a finalist for @ONA's Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling award! We're so honored to have helped bring this story to life!
awards.journalists.org
Winners for the 2020 OJAs were announced at virtual events during ONA20 Everywhere, Oct. 1-16. Project information for the 2020 finalists and winners are listed below! These prizes are made possible...
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"This commitment to social justice is real for the WNBA. These women are used to having to fight for their own right to exist in a pro-athlete world that constantly tells them they aren’t as important as their male counterparts." / by @maggiejmertens
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1st day of online class for my 1st grader. Teacher read a story online about a character named Echo the Owl. It kept triggering peoples’ Amazon Echos. One of the Echos asked if anyone wanted to buy a bible.
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Meet me at the Pledge!
Seattle, what are we doing with Climate Pledge Arena? The CPA? The CliPled? The 'Mate?
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Seattle, what are we doing with Climate Pledge Arena? The CPA? The CliPled? The 'Mate?
seattletimes.com
The arena, home to the city’s incoming NHL franchise and WNBA's Storm, will be powered 100% by renewable electricity and seek to achieve a zero carbon footprint. NHL Seattle CEO Tod Leiweke said the...
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans want more aggressive federal action on climate change, and "clear majorities say they would prefer that climate initiatives be funded by increasing the taxes on wealthy households and on companies that burn fossil fuels."
washingtonpost.com
The issue remains a bigger priority for Democrats than Republicans, the Pew Research Center survey finds, but more communities are experiencing the effects of climate change.
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NEW: Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda unveils her own proposal for taxing Seattle’s big businesses
seattletimes.com
Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda says her plan has support from a number of business and labor leaders.
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in this story: a surgeon who wants physicians to use clout for good, the only Black ballerina at Pacific Northwest Ballet, a tech worker who marched on a whim & wept, a mother whose view of policing was altered by flash bangs — all worth listening to https://t.co/NcwzbelNo6
seattletimes.com
Meet some of the people (first-time demonstrators, protest organizers) who’ve been out in the streets protesting systemic racism and police and vigilante violence against Black people — what pulled...
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Amazon reopened its photo studio in Williamsburg claiming a warehousing exemption. It's essential business? Fashion. It closed the studio this month after we started asking the state if that was allowed. (It wasn't.) 1/ w/ @VVFriedman
nytimes.com
Now closed again, a Brooklyn site set up for models didn’t appear to qualify as an essential business under state pandemic rules.
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If you're not reading @JerryBrewer right now, fix that. https://t.co/ZA8DBYXmRN
washingtonpost.com
During a hard week in which harmony felt like a distant dream, the calls of justice became a broader chorus.
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No way, Jose
We need to replace the corrupt police and military with a robotic police and military
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Covid-19 has swamped Amazon HR. Workers are struggling to get paid for quarantines or take leave to care for kids at home. Hours on hold, weeks waiting for answers. The crisis is testing Amazon’s automated, just-in-time approach to caring for its people: https://t.co/8ua9JByFFS
bloomberg.com
The company is struggling to handle thousands of requests from ailing employees and those who must stay home to care for kids or elderly relatives.
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Plaintiffs say Amazon - Provides workers misinformation - Sets “oppressive and dangerous” quotas & discipline - Tells workers to avoid informing others if they get infected - Has said its contact tracing consists only of reviewing surveillance footage https://t.co/Q0oRhn9mDy
bloomberg.com
A group of Amazon.com Inc. warehouse employees sued the online retail giant, claiming its working conditions put not only them at risk of contracting the coronavirus but also their family members,...
Scoop: New York warehouse employees - including one who says she contracted coronavirus at work and then exposed her cousin who died - sue Amazon: https://t.co/Q0oRhn9mDy “Amazon’s failures have already caused injury and death to workers and family members," suit claims
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Redmond startup powers all-electric first flight of a Cessna turboprop It's a step toward MagniX’s future vision of all-electric, flights as the norm for small commuter aircraft - but that won't materialize for a while https://t.co/T2ZGiek26n
seattletimes.com
Propelled by an electric motor designed by Redmond startup MagniX, a modified electric battery powered-Cessna Caravan commuter plane flew for the first time at Moses Lake. It's a step toward develo...
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