Gov. Jay Inslee Names Texas Doctor Umair Shah As Washington’s Next Health Secretary
The director of public health in the third largest county in the United States will be Washington’s next secretary of health. Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday announced the appointment of Dr. Umair A. Shah to lead the state Department of Health beginning on December 21. Since 2013, Shah has been executive director of Harris County Public Health in Houston, Texas. Continue reading at Northwest Public Broadcasting.
Tony Lee, ‘conscience of the Legislature’ and advocate for Washington’s poor and immigrants, dies at 72
If Tony Lee was coming, people heard him before they saw him. For decades, the activist’s booming laugh echoed through doorways in Seattle City Hall and all the way across the Washington Capitol campus in Olympia. Lee’s laugh was so frequent and so boisterous, it was often hard for Mike Buchman and his coworkers to concentrate when he and Lee both worked at faith-based organizations that shared an office in the 1990s. So they built a wall to separate him from the rest of the employees. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Sharon Lee)
Boeing 737 Max Is Cleared by F.A.A. to Fly Again
The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday cleared the way for Boeing’s 737 Max to resume flying, 20 months after it was grounded following two fatal crashes blamed on faulty software and a host of company and government failures. The decision ends a devastating saga for Boeing, which had predicted billions of dollars in losses stemming from the Max crisis even before the coronavirus pandemic dealt a ruinous blow to global aviation. Continue reading at The New York Times. (Lindsey Wasson)
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