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• A New Julie Ruin Song and Kathleen Hanna's Rescheduled Riot Grrrl Lecture

  18-12-2014 23:44 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  It's a big news day for Kathleen Hanna. The riot-grrrl catalyst and riveting frontwoman for Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and the Julie Ruin has a new song for your ears, "Blueberry Island," from the forthcoming limited-edition 7-inch on Federal Prism. It's a dollop of dulcet, midtempo pop, complete with winsome "bah bah"s and gently glowing keyboards. The flipside features a YACHT remix of "Right Home."
  Also, Hanna's Riot Grrrl Then and Now Lecture, which was cancelled earlier this
  
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• Exchange board votes to turn invoicing over to insurers

  18-12-2014 23:31
  
  In a move that took some by surprise, the board of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange voted to take the exchange out of the business of managing customer payments and invoices.
  
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• Mayor’s task force wants more tent cities for the homeless

  18-12-2014 23:29
  
  Mayor Ed Murray’s emergency task force on homelessness suggested Thursday that the city allow more tent cities, in addition to other recommendations.
  
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• Sue Rahr named to Obama task force on policing

  18-12-2014 22:46
  
  Sue Rahr, the executive director of the Washington State Criminal Training Commission, was named Thursday to President Obama’s task force on rebuilding community trust between police and communities throughout the country.
  
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• Not guilty plea in Lake Sammamish crash fatalities

  18-12-2014 22:12
  
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• The Art They Loved and Hated at Seattle's Tallest Building Is Gone

  18-12-2014 21:59 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  There goes the art, hauled out the front door of Seattle's tallest skyscraper yesterday. Dan Webb was the artist who made it specifically for the lobby at Columbia Center in 2005.
  "Are the monkeys going away?" asked an older woman in a business suit and a hurry, on her way out the front door of Seattle's tallest skyscraper Wednesday. "I hate them."
  The "monkeys" are not actually monkeys, or even sculptures of monkeys, they are small orange resin sculptures of humans, without he
  
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• Man shot by Pierce deputies killed self

  18-12-2014 21:57
  
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• Woodland Park Zoo hopes new red panda becomes a proud papa

  18-12-2014 21:42
  
  Woodland Park Zoo has big plans for its newest arrival, Yukiko (yu-key-ko), a 9-year-old red panda.
  
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• America Prepares Its Official Surrender to North Korea as Paramount Bans Screenings of Team America: World Police

  18-12-2014 21:14 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  This just keeps getting more and more ludicrous.
  Three movie theaters say Paramount Pictures has ordered them not to show Team America: World Police one day after Sony Pictures surrendered to cyberterrorists and pulled The Interview.
  The movie theaters, including Austin's world-famous Alamo Drafthouse chain, were going to show Team America, which features a parody of Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-Il, in direct response to Sony's pulling of The Interview. It was a clever bit of
  
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• To a Porn-Watching Dad, About Your Smut-Shaming Daughter

  18-12-2014 21:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Pro-tip for Christian dads: Sex-shame your daughters they'll grow up to sex-shame you.
  And kids? Your parents want to fuck other people. Some of your parents have fucked other people. And one day, when you're all growed up and married yourself, you'll want to fuck other people too. You might not, but you'll want to. And porn isn't to blame.
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• Governor proposes capital gains tax for Washington

  18-12-2014 20:32
  
  Governor proposes capital gains tax for Washington
  
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• Democrats and Republicans Agree: Sony Was Stupid and Cowardly When It Pulled The Interview

  18-12-2014 20:18 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Maria Dryfhout / Shutterstock.comMitt Romney's religion won't let him watch R-rated movies, but he still wants Sony to release The Interview.
  America has spoken, and we all agree that Sony's cowardice has embarrassed the nation. I can't find a single person arguing that Sony did the right thing by canceling The Interview. Democrats and Republicans agree. Donald Trump agrees with Rob Lowe, Rob Lowe agrees with Newt Gingrich, and for the first time in our nation's history, every
  
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• Eden Was a Scary Movie About Sex-Trafficking Based on a True Story—Or Was It?

  18-12-2014 20:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Jamie Chung won best actress at the Seattle International Film Festival for her portrayal of a sex-trafficking victim—
a character purportedly based on real life.
  Eden is a 2012 film about a suburban teenage girl kidnapped from her hometown in New Mexico and taken into a warehouse outside Las Vegas, where she is forced into a factory of sex slaves headed by a crooked US Marshal. The girls live in punishing conditions. They're lined up for mandatory pregnancy tests and m
  
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• Inslee proposes capital-gains tax to help fund budget

  18-12-2014 19:40
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee proposed a $39 billion, two-year budget plan Thursday that would raise taxes and other revenues by $1.5 billion, with more than half coming from a new capital-gains tax on the sale of stocks and bonds.
  
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• Ayn Rand Reviews Children's Movies

  18-12-2014 19:29 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ahahahahahahahahaha. A sample:
  “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
  An industrious young woman neglects to charge for her housekeeping services and is rightly exploited for her naïveté. She dies without ever having sought her own happiness as the highest moral aim. I did not finish watching this movie, finding it impossible to sympathize with the main character. —No stars.
  Reviews of Bambi, Mary Poppins, and Beauty and the Beast here.
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• "All Speculations Are Equally Speculative": The "Conclusion" of Serial

  18-12-2014 19:06 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  This morning, Sarah Koenig broadcast the 12th and final episode of the first season of "Serial," the podcast that's driven more than 1.5 million listeners wild over the last few months.
  I am not pleased with it.
  Are you?
  Discuss in comments.
  Meanwhile, for those of you who haven't listened to the final episode yet this morning, here is something for you to enjoy.
  The Final Episode Of Serial from Funny Or Die
  
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• State Supreme Court says closed drug court meetings OK

  18-12-2014 19:04
  
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• WSU report says water plan overvalues fish recovery

  18-12-2014 18:53
  
  A recently completed cost-benefit analysis for each aspect of the 30-year Yakima Basin Integrated Plan — new and improved reservoirs, fish ladders, water conservation and habitat restoration — found that benefits will fall far short of earlier estimates by the Bureau of Reclamation.
  
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• "Thanks for Proving Rick Santorum Right"

  18-12-2014 18:31 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Sent this week to I, Anonymous:
  I was really proud when Washington legalized gay marriage. It was really touching to see couples who had spent years as second-class citizens fighting for their rights. People marched, waged legal battles, came out, refused to be ignored, went to jail and generally fought with dignity and pride for their rights. And now you want to get married to your best friend despite the fact that you are not lesbian or bi. You say that she is your asexual po
  
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• Police: Help us find toy thieves

  18-12-2014 18:16
  
  Police: Help us find Seattle toy thieves
  
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• 9 years for wrong-way fatal crash in Longview

  18-12-2014 17:53
  
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• The Morning News: Minister Sues Over Alleged Punch from Seattle Police Officer, and Comcast Allegedly Doubles Internet Speeds

  18-12-2014 17:33 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  VIA JOHN HELMIEREMinister John Helmiere in 2011, after he was allegedly hurt by police during a protest at Harbor Island.
  Minister sues in federal court over alleged punch from police officer: "A Seattle minister bloodied during a violent clash with police during a demonstration has sued the city, claiming he was wrongly arrested and unduly prosecuted," reports the SeattlePI.com. "Rev. Michael Helmiere was left with cuts and bruises on his face after Seattle police officers dra
  
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• The Morning News: Minister Sues Over Alleged Punch from Seattle Police Officer

  18-12-2014 17:33 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  VIA JOHN HELMIEREMinister John Helmiere in 2011, after he was allegedly hurt by police during a protest at Harbor Island.
  Minister sues in federal court over alleged punch from police officer: "A Seattle minister bloodied during a violent clash with police during a demonstration has sued the city, claiming he was wrongly arrested and unduly prosecuted," reports the SeattlePI.com. "Rev. Michael Helmiere was left with cuts and bruises on his face after Seattle police officers dra
  
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• Arlington police officer injured in collision

  18-12-2014 16:48
  
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• More reports of flu-like illnesses; sickness closes Kirkland school

  18-12-2014 16:47
  
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• Seattle police officers getting a new look in the new year

  18-12-2014 16:41
  
  Seattle police are ditching their two-tone blue uniforms and replacing them with solid navy-blue slacks and shirts.
  
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• Increased charges in Oregon hit-and-run

  18-12-2014 16:39
  
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• The Music the CIA Used to Torture Alleged Terrorists

  18-12-2014 16:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  By now we're all aware how our government chose to use torture in attempts to extract information from those they deemed terrorists. Well, it should be no surprise music was incorporated into their techniques of information extraction.
  In some cases, songs would be played in repetition for hours or days on end, as to drive the prisoner to insanity. Music was also used to prevent detainees from sleeping, which is another way of creating delirium and vulnerability in the detaine
  
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• Officials: Kennewick student shot dead by Minnesota authorities

  18-12-2014 15:39
  
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• More wolf kills reported in Whitman County; this time it's commissioner's sheep

  18-12-2014 15:35
  
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• More reports of flu-like illnesses; sickness closses Kirkland school

  18-12-2014 15:17
  
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• Wet and breezy Northwest weekend in the forecast

  18-12-2014 15:10
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Asking the boss for a date not a good idea

  18-12-2014 15:01
  
  RAVE To the fine folks at Bellevue post office, who delivered a Christmas card to me with no last name on the envelope, the wrong street address and the wrong ZIP code …. however did you find me? The only thing that was correct was the house number!
  
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• Issaquah school remains closed Thursday after letter threat found

  18-12-2014 15:00
  
  UPDATE, Thursday, 5:50 a.m. | Pacific Cascade Middle School in the Issaquah School District will remain closed on Thursday after a a threatening letter was found on Wednesday.
  
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• Inslee Rolls Out Plan for a Washington Cap-and-Trade Program

  18-12-2014 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Office of Governor Jay InsleeGovernor Jay Inslee wants the state's biggest polluters to pay.
  California did it. So did nine states on the opposite coast. Now, Governor Jay Inslee has a plan to make Washington State's worst polluters pay for their carbon emissions.
  It’s about damn time. Yesterday, surrounded by Democratic legislators and reporters packed into a meeting room at REI’s downtown flagship store, Inslee outlined an ambitious set of climate proposals, incl
  
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• Middle school closed again after threatening note

  18-12-2014 14:50
  
  Pacific Cascade Middle School closed again Thursday
  
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• Seattle Police get uniform switch

  18-12-2014 09:15
  
  Seattle Police get uniform switch
  
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• Police look for suspect in several convenience store robberies

  18-12-2014 07:58
  
  Police look for suspect in several convenience store robberies
  
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• Inslee targets polluters with billion-dollar cap-and-trade plan

  18-12-2014 06:29
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday laid out an ambitious plan for cutting Washington’s carbon emissions that would vault the state to the forefront of global efforts to combat climate change.
  
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• Ferry crew, nurse's extensive CPR brings back heart-attack victim

  18-12-2014 06:24
  
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• Ferry crew's extensive CPR brings back heart-attack victim

  18-12-2014 06:02
  
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• Social failures trickle down to our prisons

  18-12-2014 05:42
  
  Prisons absorb the results of failures in other systems but still could offer a chance to get it right.
  
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• Seattle cops getting a new look

  18-12-2014 05:25
  
  Seattle police are ditching their two-tone blue uniforms and replacing them with solid navy-blue slacks and shirts.
  
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• Times series wins major multimedia award

  18-12-2014 05:12
  
  A Seattle Times multimedia project about acidification of the Pacific Ocean, has won a duPont award — an honor considered the equivalent to a Pulitzer Prize.
  
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• Soccer-team owner accused of sexual assault, harassment

  18-12-2014 05:03
  
  The continued presence of Dion Earl as owner, head coach and a player for the Kent-based Seattle Impact FC raises questions about whether the Major Arena Soccer League conducted proper background checks on prospective team owners.
  
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• Study: Very few use EpiPen, asthma inhalers correctly

  18-12-2014 04:37
  
  EpiPens and inhalers can stop life-threatening allergic reactions or asthma attacks, but too few people use them correctly, a study finds. Seattle doctors and parents agree.
  
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• State health exchange withholds money to Deloitte over repeated problems

  18-12-2014 04:28
  
  Problems with the performance of the Washington Healthplanfinder website have led to friction between the state’s health-insurance exchange and its primary contractor, Deloitte.
  
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• Prison reform: We’re missing last, best chance to get it right

  18-12-2014 04:27
  
  Prisons absorb the results of failures in other systems but still could offer a chance to get it right.
  
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• Inslee targets top polluters with cap-and-trade plan

  18-12-2014 04:00
  
  The central piece of Inslee’s proposal is a Carbon Pollution Accountability Act, which would affect the top 130 carbon-emitting facilities and fuel distributors in the state.
  
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• In Northwest, U.S.-Cuba thaw lauded as ‘amazing’

  18-12-2014 02:49
  
  “All my life I have been hoping to hear a U.S. president say exactly what Obama said today,” said Fleites-Lear, a professor of foreign languages and literature who has many relatives in Cuba. “I almost can’t believe it.”
  
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