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Fury with Seattle Children’s builds after racism report kept private An investigation sparked by Dr. Ben Danielson's resignation is complete, but the hospital's board has declined to make it public. by Seattle Children’s Hospital on Jan. 8, 2021. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) Frustration with Seattle Children’s Hospital continues to build among staff, stakeholders and community, as the institution’s leadership declines to release the findings from a monthslong investigation into equity, diversity and racism at the hospital. That investigation was prompted by the November resignation an...

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Share Just about everyone in the jewelry trade—as opposed to just about everyone in the consumer media—agrees that Pandora’s decision to stop carrying natural diamonds and launch a lab-grown line was no big deal. After all, in 2018, only 0.04% of the gemstones—of any kind—Pandora used were natural. Last year, it sold 55,000 pieces with natural diamonds, out of 85 million jewelry items total. I can think of a dozen jewelers that could cause an earthquake if they decided to no longer sell natural diamonds. Pandora isn’t one of them. So why did its announcement make headlines across ...

Retail Sales Rebound at Berkshire Hathaway RAPAPORT... Berkshire Hathaway, which owns Borsheims, Helzberg Diamonds and Ben Bridge Jeweler, saw retail sales jump in the first quarter as the market bounced back from last year’s downturn. Revenue in the retail segment rose 21% year on year to $4.35 billion, according to Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, which does not break down figures for its jewelry brands. Pretax earnings for the retail division more than doubled to $348 million from $133 a year earlier, the company said Saturday. “Operating results of nearly all of our retailing busines...

Turgeon Raine recently vacated its old location on Fifth Avenue near Union Street, which is bound for redevelopment as a hotel by Masterworks Development. The jeweler has landed a block south at a new 7,000-square-foot corner location in the historic Skinner Building, at 1300 Fifth, owner Unico Properties recently announced. That corner space, at University Street, was vacated by Gucci. It's part of the over 10-acre Metropolitan Tract, which is ground leased from the University of Washington, and mostly managed by Unico. Jerry Raine founded his shop in 1982, and said in a statement, “W...