Author: Sally Ho
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Amazon’s growing pains in Seattle offer lessons to new hosts
SEATTLE • As Amazon turns its attention to setting up new homes in Long Island City, N.Y., and Arlington, Va., experts and historians in Seattle say both places can expect a delicate relationship with the world’s hottest online retailer. The communities will be subject to outsized influence from a company used to getting what it…
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‘Broken’ economics for preschool workers, child care sector
SEATTLE — A dire child care workforce crisis amid a booming U.S. economy is compelling many industry players to turn to business tactics more closely resembling Wall Street than “Sesame Street” — including noncompete clauses for child care workers and client families, college tuition incentives for the workers and non-refundable wait list fees for desperate…
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More than money: School vouchers also irk Arizona teachers
PHOENIX — Arizona leaders dealing with an unprecedented teacher strike are paying the political price for long-festering resentment among many public school teachers who say they are fed up with lagging salaries and what they see as an equally dangerous attack on their profession: school vouchers. Arizona is the U.S. leader in the movement to…
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Parents worried about abuse in youth sports take charge
SEATTLE — With Olympic prodigies having just dazzled audiences worldwide, parents in the U.S. are reconciling the thrill of the gold with their fears from recent sexual abuse scandals in elite youth sports. Shannon Stabbert said her 6-year-old daughter wants to be a gymnast, but the Seattle mother has decided to put her in a…
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Eagle Scout, other commuters rush to Amtrak train wreckage to help survivors
DUPONT, Wash. — A neurosurgeon and an Eagle Scout. A college student and military medics. Commuters and emergency workers alike rushed to help survivors when an Amtrak passenger train derailed Monday south of Seattle and hurtled off an overpass onto a busy interstate below. Oregon Health & Science University neurosurgeon Dr. Nathan Selden was headed…
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At least 50 killed as gunman opens fire at Las Vegas concert
LAS VEGAS — The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn’t understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean hustled off stage. “That’s gunshots,” a man could be heard saying emphatically on a cellphone video in the nearly half-minute…
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Feds, Texas offer choices for students homeless after Harvey
HOUSTON — Michael Evan Hilburn says he can’t wait to start kindergarten this week at a school about 20 miles from the Houston shelter where he and his father have been living since Harvey devastated the city. The 5-year-old is a beneficiary of state and federal laws that seek to make it easier for homeless…
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Man rescued from the flames at Burning Man festival has died
A man rushed past layers of security officers into a massive fire at the Burning Man festival’s signature ceremony, suffering burns that left him dead just hours later. Authorities are investigating the death of Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, who broke through a two-layer security perimeter during the Man Burn event in which a giant, wooden…
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Utah officer who arrested nurse over blood test put on leave
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah nurse said she was scared to death when a police officer handcuffed and dragged her screaming from a hospital after she refused to allow blood to be drawn from an unconscious patient. After Alex Wubbels and her attorneys released dramatic video of the arrest, prosecutors called for a criminal investigation and…
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Child advocates urge back-seat alarms as 2 die in Arizona
A proposed law that would require carmakers to build alarms for back seats is being pushed by child advocates who say it will prevent kids from dying in hot cars. The law also would streamline the criminal process against caregivers who cause the deaths — cases that can be inconsistent but often heavier-handed against mothers.…