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• Avoid SB I-5 at King/Pierce county line due to police activity

  26-12-2014 23:49
  
  South King County Fire and Rescue  units are responding to an incident at Southbound Interstate 5 near the Pierce and King county line.
  
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• What I Learned from Walking Around Lake Washington in Two Days

  26-12-2014 23:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  pbcI'm grateful to live in a city where a scene like this is just a short walk away from civilization.
  One of the high points of 2014 for me came in May, when I walked around Lake Washington in two days. (I've alluded to this walk before.) The first day, I walked from Capitol Hill along the south edge of the lake to Bellevue, where I stayed in a hotel for the night. That leg was 31.64 miles, according to my trusty pedometer. The second day, I walked from Bellevue along the nort
  
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• Fishing boat explodes on Lummi Island

  26-12-2014 23:04
  
  A man escaped without serious injury when a commercial fishing boat exploded Friday morning on Lummi Island, according to the Bellingham Herald.
  
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• How in Blazes Do You DJ a New Year's Eve Fireworks Display?

  26-12-2014 22:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Seattle New Year's Eve fireworks/Shutterstock
  The New Year's Eve fireworks display at Seattle Center has a soundtrack, because visuals aren't enough when it comes to celebrating the arrival of another goddamn year. For the second annum in a row, KEXP DJ Kevin Cole is the person providing the music to accompany those psychedelic pyrotechnics. I asked the veteran programmer a few questions about this daunting task. (Note: KEXP will be simulcasting the ceremony at 90.3 FM and kexp
  
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• Things to do on an Airplane Besides Have a Nervous Breakdown

  26-12-2014 22:36 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  • Order and entire can of fizzy water! They'll give it to you! And drinking carbonated water out of a can is the definition of classy.
  • Thumb through the in-flight magazine and keep a tally for every time you see a photo of a white-sand beach, the words "white sand beach," or an article you can't relate to because you're not a tan business man trying to have an affair with someone equally tan and impressed by luxury cuff links.
  • Take the "we suggest wiping
  
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• Asshole Think Piece Writer Jinxes America

  26-12-2014 22:27 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Everything about Michael Grunwald's essay for Politico headlined "Everything Is Awesome!" makes me picture it as the sort of thing people will be linking to ironically after the Great Stock Market Decimation of 2016. I mean, paragraphs like this are packed with what a creative writing teacher would dismiss as being too full of portentous dramatic foreshadowing:
  Mitt Romney promised to bring unemployment down to 6 percent in his first term; it’s already down to 5.8 percen
  
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• State Patrol: Suspect driver posed as brother in court

  26-12-2014 22:26
  
  The Wenatchee World
  
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• UW student who made campus shooting threats deported

  26-12-2014 22:16
  
  UW student who made campus shooting threats deported
  
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• Salt Lake City Airport Update

  26-12-2014 22:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  I know you've been wondering: "what is going on over at the Salt Lake City airport?" Since I have been here three times in the last three days (I spent the 24th in SLC after my airplane flew to Montana, hovered above Montana, but could not land in Montana because we dipped below the reassuring "bare-minimum safety requirements" we were already at), I'll give you the exclusive inside scoop.
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  • The entire SLC airport is one big closeted dad with 14 childre
  
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• Car fire put out at University Village parking garage

  26-12-2014 21:39
  
  Seattle fire personnel are airing out a University Village parking garage after a car fire filled the building with smoke Friday morning.
  
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• Al Qaeda Promotes Terrorist Ass Play

  26-12-2014 21:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  adithep chokrattanakan / Shutterstock.comI couldn't think of a good way to illustrate this post, so why don't you enjoy this photo of some cute sleeping puppies, instead?
  Now this, written by Jana Winter and Sharon Weinberger for The Intercept, is a lede:
  Al Qaeda claims to have come up with the perfect recipe for a deadly bomb, it’s just too embarrassed to tell its legions of devoted followers where they are supposed to place it: inside their rectal cavity. It’s a
  
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• No endangered listing for prized pinto abalone

  26-12-2014 21:25
  
  The National Marine Fisheries Service has decided not to list a prized 6-inch Pacific marine snail as endangered or threatened.
  
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• Ex-UW student convicted of cyberstalking deported to India

  26-12-2014 21:13
  
  A former University of Washington student from India has been deported after he was convicted of cyberstalking for making threats on social media to carry out a campus shooting, federal authorities announced Friday.
  
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• Quiz: What's your 2014 local business IQ?

  26-12-2014 21:01
  
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• Car fire breaks out at University Village

  26-12-2014 20:59
  
  Fire breaks at at University Village garage
  
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• Lunchtime!: It Takes a Village to Raise a Sandwich

  26-12-2014 20:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Every sandwich is an act of trust, which means every sandwich carries with it the possibility for total failure. To make a sandwich, you've got to layer together at least three separate ingredients into a coherent whole. It's trickier than it sounds; not many places specialize in the making of meats and vegetables and cheeses and bread, so at least one ingredient has to be outsourced, leaving a vital aspect of the finished product in the hands of someone else. If you had a sens
  
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• These Are the Atheist Ten Commandments

  26-12-2014 20:33 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  jorisvo / Shutterstock.comLo, and the Mythbuster delivered the commandments unto the people by way of a crowdsourcing contest... Boy, it just doesn't have the same ring, does it?
  You've gotta give the Bible one thing: The ten commandments story is pretty compelling, what with the Moses and the mountaintop and the stone tablets and all. The story behind the atheist ten commandments, which involves one of the Mythbusters, a crowdsourcing campaign promoted on Reddit, and a $10,000
  
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• Worst Name Ever for Best Restaurant

  26-12-2014 20:17 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  auremar/ShutterstockSee, the words "silence," "heart," and "nest" in conjunction can cause misunderstandings when placed together. Such as this. This photo of a young couple quarrelling is not what the owners of Silence-Heart-Nest restaurant in Fremont mean. But it is what comes up in stock photography under the terms.
  In private, I have not been charitable in my comments while passing by the Fremont restaurant Silence-Heart-Nest. "Who the hell would name a restaurant Silence-H
  
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• Seattle neighborhood says paying extra for police curbs crime

  26-12-2014 19:50
  
  Seattle neighborhood says paying extra for police curbs crime
  
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• Missing autistic 17-year-old last seen in downtown Seattle

  26-12-2014 19:35
  
  Police are asking for help in finding an autistic 17-year-old boy who was last seen in downtown Seattle at about 8 p.m. Thursday.
  
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• In the Public Eye, President Obama Has Grown as a Feminist

  26-12-2014 19:30 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Pete Souza's Instagram of President Obama wearing a tiara while posing with a Girl Scout troop is getting quite a bit of circulation this week:
  Still editing 2014 Year in Photos. I may include this one even though it's a posed photo. This is from the annual White House Science Fair. The kids from Girl Scout Troop 2612 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, convinced the President to wear a tiara with them for their group photo. The girls had exhibited a Lego flood proof bridge project. A
  
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• Issaquah school to reopen Jan. 5 after threat forced closure

  26-12-2014 19:21
  
  Classes at Issaquah's Pacific Cascade Middle School will resume as scheduled Jan. 5 after a threatening letter prompted the school to close for three days before Christmas break.
  
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• Seattle police searching for autistic teen

  26-12-2014 19:01
  
  Seattle police searching for autistic teen
  
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• Seattle police find missing autistic teen

  26-12-2014 19:01
  
  Seattle police searching for autistic teen
  
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• Early morning carjacking ends in light pole crash; suspects at large

  26-12-2014 18:57
  
  An armed carjacking early Friday morning in the Central District ended when several suspects rammed the stolen car into a utility pole and fled on foot.
  
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• The Day After at the Christmas Tree Lot

  26-12-2014 18:49 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  JGThis morning, at Top Banana in Ballard.
  This morning when I passed the Ballard indie produce stand Top Banana, my nose for hard-hitting news set to smelling: What is the fate of all those unsold Christmas trees?
  Erik Balderas has worked at Top Banana for 11 years. Every year he manages the tree lot. He told me there are about 75 trees left on the lot this morning. A handful will go to persons of the Russian Orthodox persuasion, who don't celebrate Christmas until January 7. "
  
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• Man head-butts worker at Centralia hospital

  26-12-2014 18:43
  
  Man head-butts worker at Centralia hospital
  
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• Suspect at large in Seattle bus stabbing; victim in stable condition

  26-12-2014 18:34
  
  A man in his 40s suspected of stabbing another man on a downtown Seattle bus Wednesday evening is still at large, police said Friday.
  
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• 60-year-old hiker missing in Olympic National Park

  26-12-2014 18:02
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• The Boxing Day Morning News: Finally, You Can Reserve a Spot on the San Juan Ferry

  26-12-2014 17:50 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Monika Wieland / Shutterstock.comIt'll soon be easier to see things like this in the San Juan Islands.
  You Can Finally Reserve a Spot on the San Juan Islands Ferry: The 21st century has finally come to the most annoying part of every Northwest summer getaway, according to Jack Broom of the Seattle Times, who writes, "The 'Save a Spot' system, years in the planning, will make reserved spots available on all westbound sailings from Anacortes, and eastbound sailings from Friday Ha
  
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• Washington minimum wage to hit $9.47 an hour, highest in US

  26-12-2014 17:12
  
  Washington minimum wage to hit $9.47 an hour, highest in US
  
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• Everett Sounder service disrupted by mudslide

  26-12-2014 16:34
  
  Everett Sounder service disrupted by mudslide
  
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• Spokane woman dies in Christmas-morning blaze

  26-12-2014 16:27
  
  The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
  
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• Work to restore Seattle's century old Wah Mee building may begin next year

  26-12-2014 16:06
  
  Work to restore Seattle's century-old Wah Mee building may begin next year
  
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• Sound Transit hopes to resume train for Seahawks

  26-12-2014 15:52
  
  Sound Transit hopes to resume Sounder train service north of Seattle in time for Sunday’s Seahawks game.
  
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• Man fires shots after argument outside Burien restaurant

  26-12-2014 15:51
  
  Man fires shots after argument outside Burien restaurant
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Seahawk'

  26-12-2014 15:01
  
  RAVE To the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Seahawk” on the crane at Westlake and Mercer. Love it!
  
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• Car crashes into power pole after Seattle carjacking

  26-12-2014 14:58
  
  Suspects at large in reported carjacking
  
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• GOP hopes splitting state budget for schools possible this year

  26-12-2014 04:35
  
  Once again, some House Republicans are proposing to split education funding from the rest of the state’s budget, saying it would keep students from being used as bargaining chips in budget negotiations.
  
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• Storm could mean 18 to 30 inches of snow in Cascades

  26-12-2014 04:35
  
  Skiers and folks returning Christmas trips across the Cascade passes could be in for a difficult go Saturday.
  
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• Seattle Yellow Cab on the comeback path

  26-12-2014 04:33
  
  Despite the Seattle taxi industry’s 40 percent revenue dive during the first year app-based ride services like uberX arrived, the head of Seattle Yellow Cab says a new app will pave the way for his company’s comeback next year.
  
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• San Juan ferry reservations available now

  26-12-2014 03:45
  
  A ferry reservation system serving the San Juan Islands begins Jan. 5.
  
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• WWU professor helps craft marching orders for Mars rover

  26-12-2014 03:28
  
  A Western Washington University geology professor is helping guide the path of Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.
  
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• On Christmas Day, family focused on freeing man imprisoned in Philippines

  26-12-2014 01:59
  
  On Christmas Day, family focused on freeing man imprisoned in Philippines
  
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