2013: The Year in Review
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A $15 minimum wage goes from fantasy to possible reality: Voters in the airport city of SeaTac narrowly approved a $15 an hour minimum wage for many workers. The result placed Washington state at the forefront of the national debate over wages. Washington already has the nation’s highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Efforts to bring the $15 hourly wage requirement to Seattle will likely produce headlines in 2014.
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Justice for a massacre in Afghanistan: In August, the U.S. soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians in 2012 — one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghani-
stan wars — was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Robert Bales Bales was sentenced during proceedings at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Bales apologized for his actions, saying, “I’m truly, truly sorry to those people whose families got taken away.” Some Afghan villagers who traveled to JBLM for the proceedings weren’t satisfied, saying Bales deserved a death sentence for killing their family members.
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Another NBA snub: In early 2013, it seemed like a slam dunk. Hedge fund manager Chris Hansen announced an agreement to buy the Sacramento Kings and move the NBA team to
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Seattle, replacing the SuperSonics squad that left for Oklahoma City in 2008. But the league allowed a counteroffer in California and ultimately blocked the relocation proposal from Hansen and his partners, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Hansen vowed to continue to secure a hoops team for the Emerald City, but disappointed fans are enduring another winter without professional basketball.
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Hearts and flowers: When a gay couple in Kennewick was denied service at a flower shop for their wedding, the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington state sued. Barronelle Stutzman refused to provide flowers for the wedding between Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed.
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This rendering, distributed early in 2013, shows what the proposed arena housing a new Seattle SuperSonics franchise might look like. There’s TURN TO STATE/12 plenty of green throughout.
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