Benjamin Romano

@MikeLindblom and @AmondoZhou

Snoqualmie Pass to be cleared for freight travel Sunday. Quick updates by ⁦@bromano⁩ - seattletimes.com/seattle-news/s…

"Thanks in part to Sue Bird’s consistent greatness, even with less attention, less investment, and less hoopla than any male athletes in town, the Storm’s reputation has only continued to grow over the years." - writes @maggiejmertens southseattleemerald.com/2020/10/08/wit…

A huge congratulations to #IWMFfellows @CorinneChin and @ErikaJSchultz, whose story "Disappearing Daughters" is a finalist for @ONA's Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling award! We're so honored to have helped bring this story to life! awards.journalists.org/winners/2020/

"This commitment to social justice is real for the WNBA. These women are used to having to fight for their own right to exist in a pro-athlete world that constantly tells them they aren’t as important as their male counterparts." / by @maggiejmertens southseattleemerald.com/2020/08/27/wnb…

1st day of online class for my 1st grader. Teacher read a story online about a character named Echo the Owl. It kept triggering peoples’ Amazon Echos. One of the Echos asked if anyone wanted to buy a bible.

@davidlgutman @MikeLindblom I would also yell. In agreement with @MikeLindblom and the readers.

@MikeLindblom nonsense. I wish we had a newsroom so I could yell at you about this.

In the most confounding election result in recent memory, Seattle Times readers decided that the best sports moment in Seattle history didn't involve Griffey or Marshawn or Isaiah or Rapinoe, but instead was some 100-year-old rowers. Mind boggling. seattletimes.com/sports/and-the…

Meet me at the Pledge!

Seattle, what are we doing with Climate Pledge Arena? The CPA? The CliPled? The 'Mate? seattletimes.com/sports/hockey/…

Nearly two-thirds of Americans want more aggressive federal action on climate change, and "clear majorities say they would prefer that climate initiatives be funded by increasing the taxes on wealthy households and on companies that burn fossil fuels." washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

NEW: Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda unveils her own proposal for taxing Seattle’s big businesses seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

in this story: a surgeon who wants physicians to use clout for good, the only Black ballerina at Pacific Northwest Ballet, a tech worker who marched on a whim & wept, a mother whose view of policing was altered by flash bangs — all worth listening to seattletimes.com/life/america-b…

Amazon reopened its photo studio in Williamsburg claiming a warehousing exemption. It's essential business? Fashion. It closed the studio this month after we started asking the state if that was allowed. (It wasn't.) 1/ w/ @VVFriedman nytimes.com/2020/06/12/tec…

If you're not reading @JerryBrewer right now, fix that. washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06… washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06…

No way, Jose

Covid-19 has swamped Amazon HR. Workers are struggling to get paid for quarantines or take leave to care for kids at home. Hours on hold, weeks waiting for answers. The crisis is testing Amazon’s automated, just-in-time approach to caring for its people: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Plaintiffs say Amazon - Provides workers misinformation - Sets “oppressive and dangerous” quotas & discipline - Tells workers to avoid informing others if they get infected - Has said its contact tracing consists only of reviewing surveillance footage bloomberg.com/news/articles/…