Ryan Nguyen
@ryannguyen.bsky.social
@seattletimes.com Ed Lab engagement reporter 🫡 formerly daily emerald 🦆 he/him
Ed Lab at @seattletimes.com is taking questions from readers about Seattle Public Schools' new superintendent. You can share them with us here:
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SPS’ new superintendent: Share your questions for Benjamin Shuldiner
The Seattle Times wants to hear readers’ questions for Ben Shuldiner, Seattle Public Schools’ incoming superintendent.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Ed Lab at @seattletimes.com is taking questions from readers about Seattle Public Schools' new superintendent. You can share them with us here:
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You may notice a change in how we spell Hawaiʻi and other Native Hawaiian words at The Seattle Times. Here's why.
Why we're using this spelling of Hawaiʻi
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November 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
You may notice a change in how we spell Hawaiʻi and other Native Hawaiian words at The Seattle Times. Here's why.
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More than 1 in 10 Washingtonians use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, to pay for groceries, including more than 50,000 in Seattle.
Where to get free groceries in Western WA as SNAP lapses
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November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
More than 1 in 10 Washingtonians use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, to pay for groceries, including more than 50,000 in Seattle.
Follow our live updates on the firings at Amazon here:
Amazon layoff updates: What to know as company to let go 14,000
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Amazon layoff updates: What to know as company to let go 14,000
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Live: What to know as Amazon undergoes its biggest layoff in years
Here's what to know as Amazon is set to begin its largest layoff in years, and potentially in company history, this week.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Follow our live updates on the firings at Amazon here:
Amazon layoff updates: What to know as company to let go 14,000
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Amazon layoff updates: What to know as company to let go 14,000
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Educators & parents:
• Are public schools in your area losing funding or changing curriculum?
• Are low-income, ESL or disabled students losing access to programs?
• Are more families in your area sending students to private schools?
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• Are public schools in your area losing funding or changing curriculum?
• Are low-income, ESL or disabled students losing access to programs?
• Are more families in your area sending students to private schools?
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Help ProPublica Report on Education
ProPublica needs your help to track how the upheaval of public education is affecting schools and colleges in your community. Take a few minutes to join our source network and help guide our coverage.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Educators & parents:
• Are public schools in your area losing funding or changing curriculum?
• Are low-income, ESL or disabled students losing access to programs?
• Are more families in your area sending students to private schools?
Help us report ⬇️
• Are public schools in your area losing funding or changing curriculum?
• Are low-income, ESL or disabled students losing access to programs?
• Are more families in your area sending students to private schools?
Help us report ⬇️
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But he’s going back, as protests outside the Portland ICE facility continue.
Blind protester dragged, detained by feds says agents picked ‘the weakest person they could find’
But he’s going back, as protests outside the Portland ICE facility continue.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
But he’s going back, as protests outside the Portland ICE facility continue.
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Pet owners and sitters are increasingly turning to apps to connect, but some have encountered problems, like lost or injured animals. Tell us your experiences.
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Have you had a bad pet sitting experience? Tell us about it
Pet owners and sitters are increasingly turning to apps to connect, but some have encountered problems, like lost or injured animals. Tell us your experiences.
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January 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Pet owners and sitters are increasingly turning to apps to connect, but some have encountered problems, like lost or injured animals. Tell us your experiences.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Illustrated: How the American oil industry sticks the public with its cleanup bills and walks away. By reporter Mark Olalde and illustrator Peter Arkle
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The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.
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December 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Illustrated: How the American oil industry sticks the public with its cleanup bills and walks away. By reporter Mark Olalde and illustrator Peter Arkle
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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watching TMNT: MUTANT MAYHEM with the kids — first time for them, second for me — and this is just an unbelievably charming movie that feels narrowcasted for my specific demographic: millennial dad and hip-hop fan who loved the turtles as a kid
December 7, 2024 at 12:22 AM
watching TMNT: MUTANT MAYHEM with the kids — first time for them, second for me — and this is just an unbelievably charming movie that feels narrowcasted for my specific demographic: millennial dad and hip-hop fan who loved the turtles as a kid
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Many of your favorite Seattle Times journalists are now on BlueSky. Follow them all.
December 1, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Many of your favorite Seattle Times journalists are now on BlueSky. Follow them all.
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I spoke to San Diego Union-Tribune staffers about the paper getting sold to an Alden Global Capital subsidiary on Monday.
The staff is devastated:
https://objectivejournalism.org/2023/07/this-is-the-boogeyman-san-diego-union-tribune-staff-devastated-by-sale-to-hedge-fund-owned-media-group/
The staff is devastated:
https://objectivejournalism.org/2023/07/this-is-the-boogeyman-san-diego-union-tribune-staff-devastated-by-sale-to-hedge-fund-owned-media-group/
San Diego Union-Tribune staff devastated by sale to hedge-fund
The paper’s sale to an Alden Global Capital subsidiary caught staffers — and management — off guard. Employees know what's ahead: staff reductions.
objectivejournalism.org
July 12, 2023 at 8:42 PM
I spoke to San Diego Union-Tribune staffers about the paper getting sold to an Alden Global Capital subsidiary on Monday.
The staff is devastated:
https://objectivejournalism.org/2023/07/this-is-the-boogeyman-san-diego-union-tribune-staff-devastated-by-sale-to-hedge-fund-owned-media-group/
The staff is devastated:
https://objectivejournalism.org/2023/07/this-is-the-boogeyman-san-diego-union-tribune-staff-devastated-by-sale-to-hedge-fund-owned-media-group/