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Washington State Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu leads the way by putting others first
Growing up in a working-class family on the south side of Chicago, Mary Yu never expected to go to college.
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Legal experts say affirmative-action measure wouldn’t permit use of racial quotas
Opponents argue Referendum 88 would institute numeric, race-based quotas in Washington state. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled such practices illegal.
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Seattle's homelessness emergency, in one photo
Talk of the city's many crises obscures the overarching problem — a crisis of inequality.
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What seems like an intractable crisis doesn't have to be. Here are ways to solve homelessness
Paying a living wage, hiring responsibly and three other ideas to fix Seattle's biggest problem.
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80-hour weeks, bad pay, exhaustion: Here's why UW medical residents are walking out
In hospitals across Seattle, doctors-in-training are taking a "unity" break to protest low wages and punishing schedules.