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• Supreme Court Basically Rules That Your Employer Doesn't Owe You Any Money for Treating You Like a Thief

  09-12-2014 23:34 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  M DOGAN / Shutterstock.comThe ruling probably would have been different if Supreme Court justices had to wait in line to be searched for concealed office supplies before they left work every day.
  This morning, the Supreme Court made a unanimous ruling that could have repercussions for American workers everywhere. The case involved workers at an Amazon warehouse who were not compensated for the time they had to spend in line for security checks at the end of the day. (Some worke
  
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• About Those Rumors of Chop Suey’s Potential Sale to LA Entrepreneurs

  09-12-2014 23:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O
  Capitol Hill Seattle reported on December 8 that Los Angeles club owner Erin Carnes and LA musician Brianna Rettig have designs on buying Capitol Hill club Chop Suey. Carnes currently runs The Escondite in downtown LA with Brian Houck. I contacted Rettig to find out what the status of the deal is. She responded, "Thank you for your interest. At this moment in time I have no comment and neither does Erin Carnes or her partner Brian Houck."
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• About Those Reports of Chop Suey’s Potential Sale to LA Entrepreneurs

  09-12-2014 23:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O
  Capitol Hill Seattle reported on December 8 that Los Angeles club owner Erin Carnes and LA musician Brianna Rettig have designs on buying Capitol Hill club Chop Suey. Carnes currently runs The Escondite in downtown LA with Brian Houck. I contacted Rettig to find out what the status of the deal is. She responded, "Thank you for your interest. At this moment in time I have no comment and neither does Erin Carnes or her partner Brian Houck."
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• In newly released video, alleged SPU shooter details how and why he targeted campus

  09-12-2014 22:57
  
  He’d stopped taking medications, had given up on counseling and had turned to the bottle to “keep myself calm.”
  
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• $50,000 bail for sailor accused of hate crime attack on Seattle cabbie

  09-12-2014 22:52
  
  A judge set bail at $50,000 on Monday for a 26-year-old sailor accused of a hate crime after police say he beat an immigrant taxi driver unconscious and told him to “go back to your own country,” according to a court document.
  
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• We Asked 6 Indie Retailers at ArtAche Market: What's Your Favorite Local Store?

  09-12-2014 22:25 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O Kate Ryan, Veils and Jewelry , "During the holidays I love that store on 15th in Capitol Hill, Casita. The owner donates a portion of profits to a charity that supports older dogs that need homes."
  Kelly ODavid Enriquez, skateboarding owner of CULT GNAR, "I like to shop at Kaladi Brothers Coffee on Pike. I think there's a pop-up shop there next weekend..."
  Kelly O Gwen Stubbs, Product/Wardrobe stylist, Lekkerlife, "I love Veloria. It's the antithesis of Fo
  
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• Suspect arrested in Alaska prosecutor death

  09-12-2014 22:10
  
  A former Washington state representative working as an assistant district attorney in Alaska was killed Monday night in a shooting.
  
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• "A Weezer Fan is a Hopeful Fan" (What it's Like to be a Diehard Weezer Fan in 2014)

  09-12-2014 22:03 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Formed in 1992, Weezer was one of the best bands an indie-curious young'un could hear. Their self-titled debut (The Blue Album, 1992) was incredible, as was Pinkerton (1994), and arguably even The Green Album (2001). Plus, Rivers Cuomo was a total nerd babe. Things got a little odd around Maladroit (2002), downright terrible for Make Believe (2005), and then I stopped paying attention, except to cringe at the press photos for 2008's The Red Album (the one where Cuomo looks like
  
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• High winds blow ship from Bellingham mooring

  09-12-2014 21:57
  
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• Former Tacoma legislator Brian Sullivan shot and killed in Alaska

  09-12-2014 21:51
  
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• Interview gives chilling look inside mind of SPU shooting suspect

  09-12-2014 21:43
  
  Interview gives chilling look inside mind of SPU shooting suspect Aaron Ybarra
  
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• Suspect in Sammamish man's slaying extradited from B.C.

  09-12-2014 21:41
  
  One of two men accused of beating a Boeing manager to death in his Sammamish home in September before fleeing to Canada in the victim’s car has been returned to the U.S., according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
  
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• Our Critics' Picks for Tuesday

  09-12-2014 21:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  SIERRA NELSON THRIVES ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POETRY AND CHANCE
  Sierra Nelson @ Hugo House
  Local author Sierra Nelson thrives on the connection between poetry and chance; her most recent book, I Take Back the Sponge Cake, is a choose-your-own-adventure-style voyage through a mood-based narrative. Tonight, she’s debuting a new project that combines the I Ching with poetry and “the natural landscape of Washington State.” Nelson will be joined by an array of v
  
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• Wanapum Dam stable after reservoir hits elevation target

  09-12-2014 21:30
  
  he Columbia River behind Wanapum Dam hit its targeted 17-foot elevation increase 10 days ahead of schedule, but the shoreline remains closed, Grant County PUD officials said Tuesday.
  
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• Jim McDermott: Obama needs debate over war against ISIS

  09-12-2014 20:43
  
  WASHINGTON -- Last Thursday, U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott voted against the 2015 defense policy bill to protest expanded deployment of U.S. military forces against the radical group ISIS, which calls itself Islamic State.
  
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• The Torture Report Confirms That the United States Is Even More Monstrous Than We Suspected

  09-12-2014 20:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  LEE SNIDER PHOTO IMAGES / Shutterstock.comIt's official: America's torture techniques were probably even worse than the scenarios these protesters could have even imagined.
  This morning the US Senate Intelligence Committee released a 525-page report on their five-year investigation into the CIA's post-9/11 "interrogation" (this word in this context really means "torture") tactics. (You can read the full report here, and here's a basic timeline of findings in the report.) And g
  
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• The Senate Intelligence Committee Report On CIA Torture Program

  09-12-2014 19:23 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Here's the document...
  Senate Intelligence Committee Report On CIA Torture Techniques
  
  NYT:
  A scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects, and that its methods were more brutal than the C.I.A. acknowledged either to Bush administration officials or to the public. Th
  
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• Sketches released in Lake Forest Park assault

  09-12-2014 19:22
  
  Sketches released in Lake Forest Park assault
  
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• Obama Does Colbert

  09-12-2014 19:13 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  And he did a pretty convincing job.
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• Washington justices to consider warrantless searches

  09-12-2014 19:08
  
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• Why areas with good jobs have hard-to-afford homes

  09-12-2014 18:55
  
  It's the new career trade-off:
  
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• Man wanted in 7-Eleven robbery spree

  09-12-2014 18:44
  
  Man wanted in convenience store crime spree
  
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• Parents arrested, toddler taken from cold garage

  09-12-2014 18:00
  
  Skagit Valley Herald
  
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• The Morning News: State Officials Mostly Certain About Safety of Alaskan Way Viaduct

  09-12-2014 17:54 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Washington State Department of TransportationWater is pumping out of here at a rate of 600 gallons per minute.
  Transportation Officials Try to Reassure City Council: Yesterday, we reported that the city council was going to question tunnel officials about the safety of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, after learning that it sank 1.2 inches near the site of where Bertha is stuck. Well, that meeting lasted 80 minutes, and according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, it involved state t
  
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• Prince William, Kate visit Sept. 11 Memorial

  09-12-2014 17:47
  
  Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, laid flowers Tuesday at one of New York City's most somber sites -- the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.
  
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• Public Transportation, Socialism, and the Modes of the Dandy

  09-12-2014 17:11 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Taura Edgar
  The picture was taken by a friend, Taura Edgar, who once lived in Seattle but now lives in Hong Kong. The 21st century dandy she captured is reading his smartphone with the assistance of a hand lens. He is also in a mode of transportation that does not offend his mode of being in the world—public transportation. A dandy is indeed a "public transportation snob." Though the dandy strives to be striking, to be singular, to be original, he/she has an aristocrati
  
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• Public Transportation Is the Mode of the Dandy

  09-12-2014 17:11 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Taura Edgar
  The picture was taken by a friend, Taura Edgar, who once lived in Seattle but now lives in Hong Kong. The 21st century dandy she captured is reading his smartphone with the assistance of a hand lens. He is also in a mode of transportation that does not offend his mode of being in the world—public transportation. A dandy is indeed a "public transportation snob." Though the dandy strives to be striking, to be singular, to be original, he/she has an aristocrati
  
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• Two arrested after firing rifle in SW Wash. apartment complex

  09-12-2014 17:01
  
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• Ms. Kelly Garrett Sure Could Wail!!

  09-12-2014 16:59 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  I've seen a clutch of the music groups featured on the late-'60s TV show, Playboy After Dark, but damn if the show don't keep on giving. Check this clip TV/Broadway actor Kelly Garrett WAILING her killer side "Love's The Only Answer." Oh, it appears the vocals here are godamn live; what a dream.
  
  Also, this Kelly Garrett is NOT TV's Charlie's Angels crime-fighting character Kelly Garrett aka Jacelyn Smith!!!
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• Slow morning for traffic in the Seattle area

  09-12-2014 16:21
  
   
  
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• Beacon Hill apartment gutted by fire

  09-12-2014 16:13
  
  Beacon Hill apartment gutted by fire
  
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• King and Pierce County councils squabble over legislative vacancy

  09-12-2014 16:01
  
  A squabble with possible partisan overtones has erupted between the King and Pierce County councils over the process to fill a vacant legislative seat.
  
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• Anonymous man returns flags stolen on Veterans Day

  09-12-2014 15:31
  
  Anonymous man returns flags stolen on Veterans Day
  
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• First sheep killed by wolf in Whitman County

  09-12-2014 15:26
  
  The first sheep kill attributed to a wolf has been reported in Whitman County in southeast Washington.
  
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• Woman arrested for DUI in Fife was wearing only a bra

  09-12-2014 15:20
  
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• Traffic already slow around Seattle area

  09-12-2014 15:11
  
  It's only 6 a.m., but rain and wet roads are already causing commuting "challenges."
  
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• Heavy rains pushing Western Wash. rivers to flood levels

  09-12-2014 15:09
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Judges hear arguments over NSA surveillance

  09-12-2014 15:07
  
  A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in an Idaho woman's challenge to the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records -- the third time in recent months that appeals courts around the country have considered the controversial counterterrorism program.
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Thanks to friendly, watchful police officers

  09-12-2014 15:01
  
  RAVE To the friendly, watchful Seattle Police making sure the Great Figgy Pudding chorale extravaganza in downtown Seattle went so well. It was great to see all the singers, the families and the spirit of community protected by their presence and professionalism. Also, they looked awesome in their t
  
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• Report 4: At Trial of Firefighters Accused of a Hate Crime, Talk of Being "Provoked"

  09-12-2014 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Lael HenterlyThe memorial at the center of the alleged crime.
  “I haven’t seen this many attorneys in one room since the OJ trial,” joked one of the defense attorneys as they hung their trench coats up on the coat rack. There are indeed a lot of lawyers at this trial, and a lot of defendants, too: Robert Howell, Scott Bullene, and Mia Jarvinen, all of them accused of malicious harassment in a March 15 attack on homeless people congregating around a statue in Pi
  
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• Is Bertha’s pit affecting Pioneer Square buildings?

  09-12-2014 07:04
  
  A 1-inch slump, deep in the soil, is prompting the state to inspect some 30 Pioneer Square buildings, in case some are being damaged by the tunneling project’s recent groundwater pumping.
  
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• Criminal charges, scrutiny of police to follow Seattle protests

  09-12-2014 06:20
  
  As Mayor Ed Murray thanked Seattle police Monday for their work at demonstrations over the past two weeks, a nonprofit group said it’s reviewing complaints against officers by some protesters.
  
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• Bertha’s pit affecting Pioneer Sq. buildings? Inspections planned

  09-12-2014 06:10
  
  A 1-inch slump, deep in the soil, is prompting the state to inspect some 30 Pioneer Square buildings, in case some are damaged by tunneling work.
  
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• Defendant denies ever reading his books on murder

  09-12-2014 05:29
  
  For a second day, Dinh Bowman took the stand in his first-degree murder trial and told a jury he acted in self-defense in the fatal shooting of Yancy Noll at a North Seattle intersection in August 2012.
  
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• Allen gives $100 million for new Seattle institute to unravel cells

  09-12-2014 05:21
  
  After tackling the brain, the Ebola epidemic and a host of other issues, billionaire Paul Allen has a new target for scientific philanthropy: unraveling the inner workings of human cells.
  
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• Former Woodinville mayor to pay $10K in PDC penalties

  09-12-2014 05:06
  
  A failure to identify herself in almost $15,000 worth of campaign mailers and phone calls sponsored by an unregistered entity called Ethical Woodinville will cost Woodinville’s former mayor $10,000.
  
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• At least 20 arrests in Seattle protests

  09-12-2014 04:41
  
  As Mayor Ed Murray thanked Seattle police Monday for their work at demonstrations over the past two weeks, a nonprofit group said it’s reviewing complaints against officers by some protesters.
  
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• Arguments on NSA surveillance heard in Seattle courtroom

  09-12-2014 04:35
  
  A federal appeals court in Seattle heard arguments Monday in an Idaho woman’s challenge to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records.
  
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• Budget office signs off on state employee contracts as feasible

  09-12-2014 04:30
  
  Due to the Great Recession, state employees haven't had a raise in six years. But a move by the Washington Office of Financial Management (OFM) Friday might put workers one step closer to getting a wage hike. The OFM signed off on letters declaring $583 million of negotiated and arbitrated
  
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• Paseo bidder said sandwich shop will soon reopen

  09-12-2014 04:09
  
  Paseo sandwich shop bought by new owner
  
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