Gene Balk, the “FYI Guy” at the Seattle Times analyzed Census data from 2010 to 2018 which shows a big change in how people in our area get to work.
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You Are Here: Seattle
Seattle may just be the next big metropolis. New York and Los Angeles have held their rightful place in the limelight for years, and cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta are all established ...
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Top 100 biggest tourist traps worldwide
The Blue Lagoon in Iceland and Penang Hill in Malaysia are the top tourist traps in Europe and Asia. The Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia had 397,905 reviews on Google, as of our analysis ...
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See Which Country Singers Served Their Country in the Military
The transition from active duty to country singer was more common a half-century ago than it is today. Very few of today's top singers were members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or ...
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Three Seattle Office-Building Sales Ranked Among the Biggest Deals in the Nation in 2018
The value of the downtown transactions exceeded $1 billion and included more than 1.7 million square feet of space Seattle lays claim to three of the 50 largest office-building sales in the nation for ...
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Across the Country
Believers come from all over to see for themselves ... fastest-growing Cuban community in the country. The game of cricket has taken hold in Texas’ largest city, as a culture of sports ...
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Across the Country
The game of cricket has taken hold in Texas’ largest ... Both groups see much at stake in the fate of a replica of Michelangelo’s Pietà. In a community known for cross-country glory, the ...
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Seattle's biggest party: Looking back at KOMO-TV's coverage of the Super Bowl victory parade
Just three days after defeating the Denver Broncos 43 to 8, Seattle turned out to celebrate. It was the biggest party the city of Seattle has ever thrown. KOMO News crews fanned out across the ...
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Target is closing stores across the country due to uptick in theft
Major U.S. cities are included on that list. One store in New York City. Two in Seattle. Three in San Francisco and three stores in Portland are set to close near the end of October.
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Bay Area commuters see country's largest drop in travel times post-pandemic, data says
Commute times in the San Francisco Bay Area have shortened the most in the country since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new U.S. Census data shows. San Franciscans who commute to work had ...
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Seattle’s biggest Prince fan makes a pocket-size replica
And then there is Troy Gua. Since 2011, the Seattle artist has been translating his lifelong love of the music giant into a tiny, artful homage: a hand-crafted Prince doll that he sculpts ...
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Big Bertha – world’s largest tunnel boring machine – facing big Seattle challenge
Named after one of Seattle’s early mayors, the $80 million drill Big Bertha is 326 feet long, weighs 6,700 tons, and does much more than drill. John Blackstone reports on what the high-tech ...
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Life expectancy across the U.S.
American women live an average of 2.5 years longer than men, but as life expectancies vary across the country, both men and women in certain counties, particularly in the South and Southeast ...