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• Man killed by Border Patrol agent wanted for homicide

  20-03-2015 23:31
  
  The man fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Sumas on Thursday was wanted for a homicide in ”another jurisdiction,” the Whatcom County sheriff said Friday.
  
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• Franchise group to appeal judge’s Seattle minimum-wage ruling

  20-03-2015 22:16
  
  The International Franchise Association and several local franchisees on Friday said they would appeal a recent decision by a federal judge to not stop a part of Seattle’s minimum-wage law from taking effect.
  
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• The Complicated Relationships of Shannon Perry—Gazebos Singer Comes Clean About Her Many Obsessions

  20-03-2015 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Shannon Perry: totally over Leonardo.
  Seattle band Gazebos—singer Shannon Perry, guitarist TV Coahran, bassist Shane Herrell, and drummer Jordan T. Adams—just finished recording their first album, produced by Kurt Bloch. It's not mixed yet, but Perry thinks it went pretty well. Maybe. "I can't tell what I think of it..." she told me. "I think I like it, but it's really nerdy, and I'm like, what does this mean about me as a person? Just hearing myself doing it, I'm l
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Burned

  20-03-2015 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on November 20, 2013.
  Last month at a house party, my boyfriend accidentally burned my chin, neck, and cleavage during a clumsily executed volcano shot. I was literally on fire for a few seconds. Some doctor appointments, burn creams, bandages, and awkward scabbing later, I'm healing nicely. My problem is, our sex life has become much more complicated. Before the accident, we were having sex only every week or so. But now he stares sadly at my neck wound (whi
  
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• Environmental Groups Win First Round in Legal Effort to Keep Shell's Arctic Drilling Rigs Out of Seattle

  20-03-2015 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Your elected Port of Seattle commissioners. They allowed a lease deal with Shell to proceed with little public notice or comment. But could a legal effort led by environmental groups undo the deal and stop Shell from parking its Arctic drilling fleet in Seattle? It looks more possible now. Don Wilson/Port of Seattle
  Holy moly. Big news: Judge Mariane Spearman of the King County Superior Court has ruled that environmental groups' case against the Port of Seattle over the port's
  
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• Cascade Bicycle Club Announces Endorsements for City Council

  20-03-2015 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike O'Brien loves bikes and the Cascade Bicycle Club loves Mike O'Brien. (Sally Clark, left, once hit a cyclist with her car, but she's not running for reelection.) City of Seattle
  After some uncertainty about whether it would continue doing political advocacy work, the Cascade Bicycle Club has gone ahead and released five early endorsements for this year's Seattle City Council elections.
  The endorsements include two obvious incumbents—bike-loving Mike O'Br
  
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• The First Part of the Bertha Rescue Mission Involved a Little Drama, a Lot of Waiting, and Plenty of Symbolism

  20-03-2015 19:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Workers watch the first part of Bertha rise from the ground after more than a year of being broken. Alex Garland
  After nearly two years of being underground, and after more than a year of being stuck, the world's largest tunnel-boring machine took a major first step toward being repaired yesterday: a 270-ton piece of Bertha's shield was lifted out of the ground. Three more pieces of the giant machine's front end will need to follow before repairs on Bertha can officially begin.
  
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• Guest Editorial: Why It Matters for Seattle to Become a UNESCO City of Literature

  20-03-2015 18:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Tree Swenson, on the left, is the executive director of Hugo House and co-founder of Copper Canyon Press.
  Seattle is a literary city—that’s clear.
  The literary conversation here is a roiling cacophony. Discussion, debate, and dispute are essential to keeping the ecosystem healthy. We need individual writers writing about injustices and imbalances, about the over- and under-rated, the pretentious and the wasteful, the precious and sacred. We need some writers to be
  
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• Suspects in North Seattle home invasion seen on surveillance

  20-03-2015 18:02
  
  Suspects in North Seattle home invasion seen on surveillance
  
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• BNSF Railway faces penalties for failing to report violations

  20-03-2015 18:01
  Washington rail regulators have recommended that BNSF Railway be penalized up to $700,000 for failing to report crude oil leaks and other hazardous material spills along the state’s railway.
  
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• Seattle police bomb dog diagnosed with terminal cancer

  20-03-2015 17:43
  
  SPD bomb-sniffing dog undergoing cancer treatment
  
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• What Is Luxury Communism?

  20-03-2015 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  This is what communism looks like? Vladimir Salman/Shutterstock
  The Guardian recently posted a piece about a movement that sees in the robotization of the factory, the self-checkout machines at retail stores (these are not even robots), and Amazon's coming delivery drones, a post-work society where luxury is finally democratized. They call this techno-utopia: luxury communism. It's a world where machines do all of the work and, as a consequence, everyone has lots of free time
  
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• The Morning News: Oso One Year Later, Jean Godden's "White Guy Talk-a-Like" Opponents, and Home Pot Grows

  20-03-2015 16:48 via thestranger.com
  
  The Oso mudslide on March 22, 2014 killed 43 people. Kelly O
  It's Been One Year Since the Oso Landslide: On Wednesday, the state Legislature awarded the Medal of Valor to the communities hit by the disaster. Now, those communities are bracing for the attention and emotions that'll come with the anniversary on Sunday. “For me the other morning it was the rain," Oso Fire Chief Willy Harper tells KUOW. "For some reason the rain got me. And it rains here all the time, but I w
  
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• Can We Force Jon Stewart to Keep Doing His Show?

  20-03-2015 16:45 via thestranger.com
  
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  Either Fox News goes off the air the same day Stewart leaves the Daily Show or we chain Stewart to his desk and force him to keep doing the Daily Show.
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• Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles Proposes a New Bill Allowing Home Grows for Everyone

  20-03-2015 16:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday, a bill hit Olympia that would allow everyone in the state over the age of 21 to grow a few marijuana plants (and deploy ladybugs to eat marijuana-loving aphids). Kelly O
  Yesterday was another lively one for medical marijuana.
  While the Department of Health held its disciplinary hearing for a 74 year-old nurse who was busted for giving a medical-marijuana authorization (while recommending cannabis lotion) to an undercover DOH investigator, a flurry of proposals about
  
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• More than 400 Washington foster parents object to flu shots

  20-03-2015 16:09
  
  More than 400 Washington foster parents object to flu shots
  
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• Man accused of stealing car in Lacey with children inside arrested in Portland

  20-03-2015 15:07
  
  Man accused of stealing car in Lacey with children inside arrested in Portland
  
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• State Patrol: ‘Easiest auto theft arrest ever made’

  20-03-2015 14:16
  
  State Patrol: ‘Easiest auto theft arrest ever made’
  
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• Port Orchard-area man charged with manufacturing 'spice'

  20-03-2015 14:04
  
  Port Orchard-area man charged with manufacturing 'spice'
  
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• Bremerton man charged with manufacturing 'spice'

  20-03-2015 14:04
  
  Port Orchard-area man charged with manufacturing 'spice'
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Sweaty, Suspicious, and Running to "Catch a Bus"

  20-03-2015 14:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Flans flocking to Seattle for NCAA basketball giving businesses a boost

  20-03-2015 13:40
  
  Flans flocking to Seattle for NCAA basketball giving businesses a boost
  
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• Fans flocking to Seattle for NCAA basketball giving businesses a boost

  20-03-2015 13:40
  
  Flans flocking to Seattle for NCAA basketball giving businesses a boost
  
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• Series of events scheduled in remembrance of Oso landslide

  20-03-2015 12:56
  
  Series of events scheduled in remembrance of Oso landslide
  
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• King County’s Guardian One used in rescue caught on camera

  20-03-2015 12:47
  
  King County’s Guardian One used in rescue caught on camera
  
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• Cascade Bicycle Club will stay the course on peddling politics

  20-03-2015 07:31
  Cascade Bicycle Club can continue endorsing and campaigning for electoral candidates after the board rejected the idea of becoming a charity nonprofit only.
  
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• State tackles steep challenges to step up logging oversight

  20-03-2015 07:16
  
  Snohomish County landslide: One year later | Since the Oso landslide last March, state regulators have scrambled to step up oversight of logging around unstable slopes.
  
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• State auditor’s office hands over records to feds

  20-03-2015 07:16
  
  State Auditor Troy Kelley’s office turned over records Thursday after a U.S. Justice Department subpoena — a day after Kelley’s home was searched by federal investigators.
  
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• Man in prison for killing his grandparents is found dead

  20-03-2015 07:01
  
  Michael Chadd Boysen, who killed his grandparents a day after he was released from prison in March 2013, was found dead Wednesday at the Washington State Penitentiary.
  
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• Workers hoist the cover off Bertha, get look under the hood

  20-03-2015 06:31
  
  Contractors took the first step in the largest-ever tunnel-machine repair Thursday, as they hoisted a 270-ton piece of Bertha’s upper shell.
  
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• More than 400 foster parents say no to flu-shot rule

  20-03-2015 06:16
  More than 400 of some 4,800 Washington state foster parents have asked to change their licenses in the wake of a new rule that requires flu shots for caregivers of children younger than 2.
  
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• B-ball unites, uplifts a new generation of East Africans

  20-03-2015 05:31
  
  Basketball and community offered by Companion Athletics in Tukwila are keeping East African kids engaged in sports and academics.
  
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• $35K income in Kent: Is this the middle class?

  20-03-2015 05:01
  
  A look at life at the bottom end of King County Executive Dow Constantine’s big middle class.
  
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• Oso landslide donations: Where the millions went

  20-03-2015 04:01
  Charities took in more than $9.5 million after the Oso landslide last March claimed 43 lives. Here’s how that money is being spent.
  
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• Governor Jay Inslee: "I Have Huge Concerns About Drilling in the Arctic"

  20-03-2015 01:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Governor Inslee made a strong statement about Arctic drilling during his Reddit AMA, but didn't address the climate side of the argument. Governor's Office/Flickr
  Governor Inslee came out with a pretty strong statement on Arctic drilling in his Reddit AMA this afternoon. Reddit user marwoodwilliams asked, "Seattle resident here. What are your thoughts on Artic Drilling and the Port of Seattle/Shell Oil Controversey [sic]?"
  Inslee said he's long opposed Arctic drilling:
  
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• The New Modest Mouse Album Sounds Like Mouthwash

  20-03-2015 01:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Trusted text-message source: Strangers to Ourselves is up there with dental hygiene.
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• Smash Putt! MEGA Miniature Golf Apocalypse

  20-03-2015 01:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Starts Friday, March 20th, 1110 23rd Ave. (& E. Union St.)
  Smash Putt! presents devious devices with wicked robotic brains engineered by industrial-artists of the Northwest. It's putt-putt as you've never imagined it, in a pop-up nightclub setting like you've never seen. Inventive, devious, and full of surprises. Come get your putt on, launch and load cannons, survive an earthquake, challenge a poppin' lowrider, dodge real lasers, and frustrate your friends with interactive, d
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray Wants to Ban Smoking in Parks, and the City Says There's Nothing Unfair About That

  20-03-2015 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Pretty soon you won't be able to smoke over there. City of Seattle
  This shit again.
  Anybody remember five years ago when then parks Superintendent Timothy Gallagher tried to institute a full ban on smoking in city parks? A bunch of people—including the ACLU of Washington and the parks commission—argued that would go too far and could unfairly target homeless people. Eventually, Gallagher backtracked and we ended up with the limited ban in place today: No “smo
  
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• Savage Love: Loving Couples

  20-03-2015 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm a straight guy in my 30s dating a woman in her mid-20s. We've been together for a year, and I'm crazy about her. In love, even. She's gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving, and very sexual. She's perfect. In her late teens and early 20s, she had a wild sex life. She attended sex parties, had loads of NSA hookups, sexted with random guys she met online, etc. She revealed this to me slowly and carefully out of fear that I'd look down on her, but what she didn't know is that I have a
  
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