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The lapse that led to Seattle ethics probe of transportation chief Scott Kubly
The investigation into Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly is looking at whether he violated the city’s Ethics Code by not obtaining a waiver to work on matters involving his...
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Kubly negotiated for city on issues involving his former company, emails show
Newly released emails include more details about Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly’s involvement with his former employer and possible ethics violations.
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Timeline tracks ethics-disclosure requests, Kubly’s work with former employer
Documents show Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly was directly involved in negotiations with his former employer about a city takeover of the Pronto bike-sharing system.
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FDA to allow folic acid in corn masa to stop birth defects
The Food and Drug Administration took action on a long-delayed petition Thursday, agreeing to allow folic acid to be added to corn-masa flour to possibly prevent birth defects, mostly in Hispanic...
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Bellevue High football boosters paid athletes’ tuition, probe finds
An independent investigation of the Bellevue High football program found that boosters paid for athletes to attend a private alternative school and that false addresses were used to help players gain...
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Bellevue football report: Coaches violated rules for years, district...
An independent probe of Bellevue High’s football team found “significant and long-standing violations” of state rules, including actions of celebrated head coach Butch Goncharoff. Investigators said...
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Document: Read full WIAA report on Bellevue High football violations
In a 68-page report (posted below), an investigation of the Bellevue High School football program found that coaches and staff violated interscholastic rules for years and that the district interfered....
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Watch: Bellevue ‘students and families have been hurt’ by football...
An independent investigation into the Bellevue High football team found, in part, that top Bellevue administrators willfully ignored rules violations for years. In response to the investigation,...
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Bellevue booster club says it pays coach Butch Goncharoff $60,000 a year —...
The Bellevue football booster club said Tuesday it pays $60,000 a year to head coach Butch Goncharoff but doesn’t violate any rules because the money doesn’t compensate him for coaching during the...
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CEO makes fiery emails about Muslims part of the workday
Times Watchdog | Long before Electroimpact President Peter Zieve sent postcards to Mukilteo residents about a planned mosque, he was drawing strong reactions from some of his 800 employees with...
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For first time, Boeing reveals state tax breaks: $305 million in 2015
Times Watchdog | Boeing saved $305 million in state taxes last year thanks to aerospace tax incentives granted by lawmakers to keep the company building jets here. Union leaders point out the savings...
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Bellevue High principal leaves school amid scrutiny of football program
Bellevue High School Principal Scott Powers is heading to another Eastside school, at a tumultuous time for Bellevue’s celebrated football program.
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What’s next for Bellevue High School’s embattled football program?
The Bellevue Wolverines football program faces enormous challenges as it works to vindicate itself after a scathing report about the program’s questionable methods. Supporters of the team have vowed to...
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School board rebukes Bellevue football program; possible two-year ban for...
At an acrimonious board meeting that lasted past midnight, Bellevue School District board members declared that there was “evidence of misconduct.”
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Plan to boost affordable housing in Seattle falls short of mayor’s rhetoric
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s inclusionary-housing strategy is less inclusionary than he made it sound. Officials anticipate that more than half the units created through the strategy would be constructed...
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Buildings that kill: The earthquake danger lawmakers have ignored for decades
Seismic Neglect: Seattle officials have been counting earthquake-vulnerable buildings since the early 1990s, but no law requires the structures to be strengthened.
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Seismic Neglect: A Times’ special report on Seattle’s earthquake nightmare
For decades, Washington state officials have known the full scope of the Northwest's earthquake menace. Yet the state lags nearly all other quake-prone states in policies to reduce the risk.
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UW had ‘Fight Club’ rule of secrecy about KPLU deal
Emails and records show UW and KUOW officials worked to keep details secret about the Seattle public radio station’s intentions to buy its competitor KPLU until the day university regents approved the...
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7 things you need to know about buildings that could kill in a major earthquake
Seismic Neglect | In the first part of a continuing series, The Seattle Times examined officials’ neglect of the most vulnerable kind of building: old, brick structures called unreinforced masonry....
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‘I have never yelled at you’: Mayor’s texts to council member show terse...
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray threatened to stop cleanups and pull police off enforcement in a text exchange with a City Council member critical of his plan for The Jungle homeless encampments.
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