Slog AM: Seattle Teachers Approve New Contract, Medicare Bots Are Denying Too Many Claims, and Ed Sheeran Is Over
Bots are denying Medicare claims in Washington at a “staggering” rate. The program, which launched in six states in January, is called the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction program, aka WISeR. Ironic! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expected it to weed out between 10 percent and 22.5 percent of claims, but in…
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Your Guide to 2026 Fall Festivities Around Seattle
Pumpkin patches are popping off across the Seattle area! From pumpkin-picking and corn mazes to hayrides, apple cider donuts, and the occasional haunted house and zombie encounter, there’s no shortage of adventurous autumn activities to be found around the Puget Sound. Read on for a roundup of the best of the best, ranging from kid-friendly…
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Suite Deal
All summer long, if you walked around Seattle’s Stadium District during the day you probably heard the sounds of the labor movement at work—chants and exclamations from the striking unionized employees at Hilton’s Embassy Suites hotel picketing their employer for better wages and working conditions. Things are quieter now. After an 85-day work stoppage, workers…
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Married People
Dear Readers: I’m on vacation — second and last week — and will be back with new columns next week. Please enjoy this selection of letters from three previously published columns in the meantime. — Dan I was raised in a religious home and didn’t lose my virginity until the embarrassing age of 26. I…
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Slog AM: Crime Plummeted Downtown, All the Oil is GONE, and You’ll Love This Chinese Company’s Latest Inflatable Bounce Castle
Your uncle is wrong about crime in downtown Seattle: Crime is down citywide in 2026 compared to 2018, contrary to the popular television news narrative. The neighborhood with the lowest crime rate is downtown. Since 2018, downtown crime has fallen by 50 percent according to a new analysis of police data by the Seattle Times,…
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Mayor Katie Wilson Presents Gun Violence Prevention Plan
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is rolling out a plan to tackle gun violence by better integrating city departments and maintaining services for youth. The announcement comes after weeks of relentless criticism of the city’s public safety track record by local corporate media and a slew of big businesses following the Bite of Seattle mass shooting…
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Washington’s Republican News Site Gets Money from the Conservative Group Funding Anti-Trans Initiatives
Two people financing efforts to stop a millionaires’ income tax and to ban transgender girls from girls’ sports are also financially backing the Center Square, a conservative national news operation with Washington State reporters covering those same measures. Let’s Go Washington has three measures on November’s ballot—to repeal a new state millionaires’ income tax, to ban…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, September 14–September 20
MONDAY 9/14 Alexis Nikole Nelson (FOOD & DRINK) Known as “BlackForager” on Instagram and YouTube and “alexisnikole” on TikTok, Alexis Nikole Nelson has charmed millions of followers with her joyful approach to foraged foods, not to mention her sense of humor, adorable forest fairy princess outfits, and fun plant-based recipes. Although her videos are light-hearted,…
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Slog AM: Psycho Drives in I-90 Bike Path, Mike Johnson Is Flaccid in the House; Canadian Diva Returns to Stage
Good morning, humans and AI agents. My name is Cedar Attanasio, and I was born in a teepee and raised in a school bus off the grid in the woods in New Mexico. So, don’t blame me for the boffins in Silicon Valley and subnormales behind tomorrow’s AI apocalypse. Blame US House Speaker Mike Johnson,…
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Na Hong-jin’s Hope Isn’t Being Advertised as the Blockbuster Troll It Really Is
I have seen reviews of Hope bewildered by its third act, confused as to how the competent action movie they were enjoying could culminate in such an awful conclusion. Why did director Na Hong-jin botch the landing? Is he stupid? No. The bad ending is the point. It’s satire and Na is trolling the audience…
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TikTok Made 9/11 a Catastrophe Among So Many Catastrophes
“Shame on them for doing that!” a white boomer said to me as I stood near the corner of Minor Avenue and Virginia Street looking at the tail of the decommissioned 747 that’s between two luxury towers in the Denny Triangle. She wore sunglasses and a coat too thick for the hot July afternoon. She…
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