In June of 2018, I retired from 22 years of active duty military service with the U.S. Coast Guard. My last assignment was a four-year position with a four-person disaster response unit that kept me on…
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Seattle Central has a legacy of community outreach and programs that change lives. The latest installment in that glowing history is the medical assistant apprenticeship program at the HEC, or the Pacific Medical Center in…
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve seen some of the best and worst of humanity. People coming together to deliver groceries for free and offer each other supplies and kind words, neighbors shouting…
On February 29, the governor of Washington state, Jay Inslee, declared a state of emergency, with confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the rise. The virus, which started in Wuhan, China on December…
It’s a difficult world for the faint of heart, for the indecisive, for the misguided, for those who have experienced traumas of relative, substantial proportions. I satisfy all of these criteria, as many of us…
“We don’t have that privilege to shutdown,” said Becca, an employee of Information Central. “I have two kids at home, so I have to make money regardless.” This was said in the wake of Seattle…
Dear Governor Inslee, We are deeply concerned by the dangers the COVID-19 pandemic creates for our incarcerated population in Washington. We have already seen COVID-19s devastating impact on the residents at LifeCare. Our nursing homes…
From the eerily smooth traffic to the glares one gets from a cough or sneeze instead of a “bless you,” it’s becoming clearer just how heavily the COVID-19 outbreak looms over the city of Seattle.…