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Business organizations urge Gov. Inslee to delay rollback decision A sign outside a Seattle cafe indicates the capacity limit inside during the COVID-19 pandemic. (MyNorthwest photo) A large group of business organizations in Washington are urging Gov. Inslee to delay any decision to return some counties to a more restrictive COVID-19 phase for three more weeks. The business groups said in a letter released on Friday that moving some counties back to Phase 2 would punish struggling businesses while doing little to stop the spread of COVID-19. The letter was signed by nearly 70 state business ...

Restaurants push to keep to-go cocktails and street dining Graham Johnson Cocktails to go have only been allowed in Washington since last May, but they’re a big hit with struggling restaurants. The state’s Liquor and Cannabis Board asked the Legislature to keep them legal through at least June 2023. This week, the Legislature agreed, passing a bill that requires a study of how it’s working. “We really took a big step on this stuff because it was important and the industry was hit so hard,” said Brian Smith of the liquor board. “We can prove ourselves to do this saf...

WA is reopening but many essential workers aren’t vaccinated yet How the state chose who to inoculate first raises questions about equity — especially for restaurant, grocery and transit workers. by A man stands amid chairs in a post-vaccination waiting area at Lumen Field Event Center's COVID-19 vaccination site on March 13, 2021. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) In early March 2020, Julee Richards remembers sitting in stunned silence with her co-workers in the breakroom. COVID-19 had just been declared a global pandemic, and panicked shoppers were starting to swarm the Fred Meyer near Tacom...

March 5, 2021 at 11:13 am A sign thanks medical personnel and other groups at the entrance to Life Care Center of Kirkland, which was linked to dozens of COVID-19 deaths, in Kirkland, Washington. March 1, 2021, marked the one-year anniversary of the first reported COVID-19 death in the United States. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images) Gov. Inslee’s announcement Thursday of the updated timeline and expanded eligibility for the next vaccine tiers in Washington added many essential workers to the next phase, while leaving others off. The Washington State Labor Council than...

KXLY March 3, 2021 6:37 PM Esther Bower Updated: SPOKANE, Wash. — Tourism’s been hit hard. Fewer people traveling means less business for hotels, but new data shows Spokane is faring much better compared to larger cities such as Seattle and Portland. The data comes from STR, Inc., a nationally used hotel-data collection firm. Data from the report says Spokane saw more tourism action in 2020 than other cities. In a normal year, Spokane would see around 80% hotel room occupancy during peak-hotel seasons. Last year was anything but normal; however, Spokane stayed co...