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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: A Medievalist Schools Dan On Medieval Attitudes Toward Sex

  22-04-2015 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  I've been reading your column for years (19 years?), and I love it. "Savage Love" has been a major part of my coming to terms with my sexuality after a very religious upbringing. And I hate to complain about something that probably seems pretty minor, but hopefully my reasons will be compelling.
  You recently advised GTBHF about taking the virginity of her Middle-eastern boyfriend, and you referred to his very conservative upbringing and the "medieval version of his faith." I'm a medievalist, and
  
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• The Problem with the "Earth Day Cofounder Killed, Composted Girlfriend" Story (Besides the Fact That It's Horrible)

  22-04-2015 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  The earth, today. On Earth Day. bk
  Each April 22 is, apparently, another excuse to circulate this wretched story about Ira Einhorn—the MC of the first Earth Day rally in 1970 (he claimed to be the event's cofounder) who was later imprisoned for having killed and allegedly "composted" his girlfriend.
  You can see why people are attracted to this story. It throws a shadow across an otherwise innocuous, flowers-and-butterflies tradition—and, of course, there's that "compost" detail. On E
  
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• The Problem With the "Earth Day Co-Founder Killed, Composted Girlfriend" Story (Besides the Fact That It's Horrible)

  22-04-2015 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  The earth, today. On Earth Day. bk
  Each April 22 is, apparently, another excuse to circulate this wretched story about Ira Einhorn—the emcee of the first Earth Day rally in 1970 (he claimed to be the event's co-founder) who was later imprisoned for having killed and allegedly "composted" his girlfriend.
  You can see why people are attracted to this story. It throws a shadow across an otherwise innocuous, flowers-and-butterflies tradition—and, of course, there's that "compost" detail.
  
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• I Have Never Liked The Little Prince, I Will Never Like The Little Prince

  22-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  THE LITTLE PRINCE I hope he dies of thirst.
  A shining, gold-plated example of a thing that adults think kids like but that in fact kids do not like is The Little Prince. Countless children have been forced to suffer though the brutally false profundity of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 book, and in the dark, inescapable future, countless more will silently beg for the sweet release of death while being subjected to its cruel smugness and hollow tweeness. Then these children too will grow o
  
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• Vinyl-Collector Mecca the Big Dig Record Show Happens May 16 at Vermillion

  22-04-2015 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm hoping that this holy-grail album by Gil Mellé is at the Big Dig.
  One of the highlights of record collectors' year, the Big Dig Record Show happens Saturday May 16 at Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar (3 pm-7 pm, $3; early entry at 1 pm, $10). The Big Dig is run by the knowledgeable, analog-loving DJs/music scholars who put on the DUG monthly at Lo-Fi. As is tradition, there'll be 20 savvy dealers from the Northwest and California selling vinyl in almost every genre, so let's hope you didn
  
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• It's Earth Day, Don't Throw Those Clothes Away

  22-04-2015 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Do people really 'do a thing' today?What should we be doing? I dropped off a bag of clothes at Value Village this morning. At least that's a little something. Did you notice Value Village's installation at Westlake Center this past Saturday? I had no idea that even damaged clothing should be donated. I always thought it rude and kinda gross. But, hey if they say so!"The average family throws away 280 pounds of clothing a year" Value VillageThe first-of-its-kind exhibit will be an artistic repres
  
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• How the New York Times Magazine Got that Photo of the Harshest (and Most Isolated) Prison in America

  22-04-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  That prison there—those two triangles—is where the Unabomber, the Oklahoma City bomber, and the underwear bomber are incarcerated. It's the highest-security prison in the country.
  First of all, have you noticed that the New York Times Magazine has been killing it lately? The magazine has always done good features, but they seem extra good since Jake Silverstein took over as editor—although maybe that's just because it feels like the magazine is being edited for me. (Lotsa liter
  
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• Hey, Slog, Who Should Replace Sally Clark?

  22-04-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Legally binding Slog poll time! Who should replace Sally Clark on the Seattle City Council? City of Seattle
  In its rush to replace Sally Clark, Seattle City Council members met in a closed-door session Friday to talk about the 43 applicants for the job. Then—outside of that secret meeting, according to Council President Tim Burgess—council members told Burgess who they supported.Here's the eight finalists that shook out of that process—and who on the council voted for whom̵
  
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• Underground Vibes with Cash, Mundy, and Sapient

  22-04-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  One Above Below None are fronted by MCs Devante Cash and Mundy.
  Wild cards of the 2015 EMP Sound Off! competition back in March, Seattle's One Above Below None—a collective fronted by MCs Devante Cash and Mundy—ended up taking the whole thing. Watch clips of their performance and see why: Aided by drummer and DJ, their hater-baiting joint "Grimey" sounded and looked fairly riotous. Word is they performed all brand-new tunes in the Sky Church that night—but you can check the bud
  
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• Polaris, the Band Time (Nearly) Forgot Plays the Crocodile Tonight

  22-04-2015 21:33 via thestranger.com
  
  POLARIS Playing on The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Lots of bands used to look like this.
  The fact that the world of rock no longer objects to television causes the odd rheumatic knee twitch in people who grew up in the ’90s indie orthodoxy. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t had some positive cultural side effects. Consider the super-smart, weirdly excellent band Polaris—which was formed to make music for the Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete—whose R.
  
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• I Misspoke on All In with Chris Hayes Last Night

  22-04-2015 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Just saw your interview with Chris Hayes regarding Republican politicians attending gay weddings. As always, you are a great spokesperson for our movement. (I have been a big fan of hours since the 1990s.) One correction I want to point out. You erroneously stated that Catholics have the highest rate of pro-LGBT positions. Unless something has changed in the past year, which I doubt, it is actually Jews who rank has #1 in this regard. This has been corroborated by numerous polls over the past d
  
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• Inslee: Special session must address environment

  22-04-2015 20:12
  Citing wildfires, drought conditions and ocean acidification, Gov. Jav Inslee is calling for the upcoming special legislative session to deal with environmental issues.
  
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• Woman rescued after car runs off road, into bay in Gig Harbor

  22-04-2015 19:31
  
  Woman rescued after car runs off road, into bay in Gig Harbor
  
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• Teachers in 3 districts walk out over lack of school funding

  22-04-2015 19:09
  
  Teachers in three Washington school districts are staging protests Wednesday over what they say is too little funding for the state’s public schools.
  
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• Newsweek Article Claims Smartphones Are Making Life Easier for the Homeless

  22-04-2015 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Terry Miller is killing time while waiting for a friend. Charles Mudede
  I enter Cafe Presse and see Terry Miller. He is sitting alone and looking at the screen of his smartphone. I interrupt him to exchange small talk, as we are on friendly terms. He explains that he is waiting for someone who was supposed to meet him 30 minutes ago. It is a woman he has known for a long time, and she has just sent a text promising she's on the way. The reason he can endure this waiting without bad feelings is,
  
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• Seattle apartments, rental homes subject to random inspections

  22-04-2015 18:37
  
  Seattle apartments, rental homes subject to random inspections
  
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• The Morning News: Three Restaurants Abolish Tips and Add 18.5 Percent Surcharge, SPD Begins Crackdown on Downtown Crime

  22-04-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Renee Erickson on eliminating tips: "We believe that it is the right thing to do for our employees, and by extension, our customers." Kelly O
  No More Tips at Renee Erickson's Three Seattle-Area Restaurants: In a letter, the renowned owner/chef says doing away with tips and replacing them with an 18.5 percent charge means "dollars can be shared among all of our employees. This means a smaller wage gap between back of the house and front of the house workers." Read more about that disparity here.
  
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• Morning News: Three Restaurants Abolish Tips and Add 18.5% Surcharge, SPD Begins Crackdown on Downtown Crime

  22-04-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Renee Erickson on eliminating tips: "We believe that it is right thing to do for our employees, and by extension, our customers." Kelly O
  No More Tips at Renee Erickson's Three Seattle-Area Restaurants: In a letter, the renowned owner/chef says doing away with tips and replacing them with an 18.5% charge means "dollars can be shared among all of our employees. This means a smaller wage gap between back of the house and front of the house workers." Read more about that disparity here. Erickson to
  
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• Weird Old Mariners No Longer Quite So Boring

  22-04-2015 17:32 via thestranger.com
  
  It's like the 90s again for the Mariners. I think they're all listening to Korn. TDC Photography / Shutterstock
  As the city that gets to collectively enjoy the proximity of the Seahawks, Seattle has been spoiled for sports joy and drama of late. The Seahawks either play games where they destroy their opponents, or games in which they battle their opponents to hard-fought heart-stopping finishes. The team hasn’t lost by double-digits since Russell Wilson took over as quarterback. Sure, some
  
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• Officer who shot Pasco man dragged him from fire weeks earlier

  22-04-2015 17:21
  
  One of the officers who killed an immigrant farmworker in Pasco had dragged the man away from his burning home just weeks earlier. Newly released documents shed light on Antonio Zambrano-Montes’ run-ins with police and his erratic, sometimes dangerous behavior
  
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• JBLM soldier says he stabbed 2nd soldier in self-defense

  22-04-2015 17:14
  
  JBLM soldier says he stabbed 2nd soldier in self-defense
  
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• Space Needle to offer virtual reality, other tech experiences

  22-04-2015 16:43
  
  Space Needle to offer virtual reality, other tech experiences
  
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• Jon Stewart: Don't Forget to Google Santorum

  22-04-2015 16:32 via thestranger.com
  
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  My readers—a "Savage Love" reader who suggested a contest to redefine "santorum" way back in 2003, another reader came up with the "frothy mix" definition, the rest of my readers picked "frothy mix" definition over the other suggested new definitions—are fucking geniuses. I dedicated a whole chapter of American Savage to the history of the Santorum/santorum neologism campaign. And while
  
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• Maligned Marijuana, Enlightened Anti-Vaxxers, and Photographic Evidence of Rape Culture in Action

  22-04-2015 14:03 via thestranger.com
  
  The truth hurts... but not as much as whooping cough. SHUTTERSTOCK
  MONDAY, APRIL 13 This week of maligned marijuana, enlightened anti-vaxxers, and photographic evidence of rape culture in action kicked off in the for-profit torture chamber of a commercial airliner, where the typically hellish experience of flying—built on the theory that all humans are lithe creatures whose arms hang down the front of their bodies like suspenders rather than progress outward from their shoulders like arms&
  
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• Fire breaks out at Lakewood apartment complex

  22-04-2015 13:19
  
  Fire breaks out at Lakewood apartment complex
  
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• Vote "Approved" on Proposition 1 to Fund Needed Emergency Radios for First Responders

  22-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Vote "Approved" on Proposition 1 to Fund Needed Emergency Radios for First Respondersby Stranger Election Control Board{{ image: 1 }}[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Melanie Griffith, Her Parents, and her Siblings Deal with Some Badass Big Cats in Roar

  22-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Melanie Griffith, Her Parents, and her Siblings Deal with Some Badass Big Cats in Roarby Kathy FennessyIn the five decades since she starred in The Birds, Tippi Hedren has spent more time helping to save the animals than acting, so it’s fitting that she appears in this oddball 1981 artifact about big cats in Africa (it was actually filmed in California). Just as Janet Leigh, another Alfred Hitchcock veteran, starred with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, in John Carpenter’s The Fog, Hedren’s
  
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• Legends from the Sky Is Set on a Navajo Reservation, Involves a UFO, and Has So-So Special Effects

  22-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Legends from the Sky Is Set on a Navajo Reservation, Involves a UFO, and Has So-So Special Effectsby Charles MudedeDespite its stunning cinematography and sweeping score and grand ambitions, Legends from the Sky is a film that still needed a bigger budget. But as the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld once said: “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want.”The war in Travis Holt Hamilton’s Legends is over a narrative territory that’s claimed mostly by Holl
  
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• If You Loved the Cosmic Scenes in The Tree of Life, You Will Love the Whole of Yakona

  22-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If You Loved the Cosmic Scenes in The Tree of Life, You Will Love the Whole of Yakonaby Charles MudedeThe best thing about Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is the creation sequence—the big bang, the formation of galactic clouds, the blaze of newborn stars, the cooling of the planets, and so on.Yakona, a film by Paul Collins and Anlo Sepulveda, is pretty much this kind of Malickian (and even Tarkovskian) thing but for 85 minutes and centered not on the whole universe but the evolution, hist
  
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• What Do You See When You Look at This Desert?

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  What Do You See When You Look at This Desert?by Sheila HetiDesmond works as a bank manager. Every day he dresses up formally, and he takes pleasure in this and what it communicates of his seriousness and respectability. He takes pride in his work and considers himself something of a counselor to his clients, often people who are struggling financially. He sees his work at the bank as a way of helping people, and cares a great deal about them. He is traditionally masculine in the old-fashioned wa
  
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• Shell's First Arctic Drilling Rig Has Arrived in Washington Waters. What, Exactly, Is This Thing?

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Shell's First Arctic Drilling Rig Has Arrived in Washington Waters. What, Exactly, Is This Thing?by Sydney BrownstoneThe sun hadn't yet come up when three Greenpeace military-style inflatable boats motored into the whitecapped swells of the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the morning of April 17. One carried a media-ready flag, "The People vs. Shell." Behind them, cars full of kayak-ready protesters—some who had traveled several hours from Seattle on urgent notice the prior day—pulled up n
  
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• Ripple Fang's "Extraordinary Ability"

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Ripple Fang's "Extraordinary Ability"—Why a Chinese Artist Needs Fly-by-Night Galleries, Sketchy Lawyers, and Psychics to Stay in Seattleby Jen GravesAfter drawing the gold curtain closed, the psychic asks her client's name, birth date, and wish. Ripple Fang. August 2, 1992. "I want," Ripple says, "a visa."Pause. The psychic searches Ripple's face and says, "You are in the darkness."Yes, that's why Ripple went to the psychic in the first place. Her student visa runs out in August, but she
  
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• Letters to Our Supposedly America-Hating, Communist-Loving, Just-Like-the-KKK, "Gay Gay Gay" Mayor

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Letters to Our Supposedly America-Hating, Communist-Loving, Just-Like-the-KKK, "Gay Gay Gay" MayorLast month, Seattle mayor Ed Murray banned city-funded travel to Indiana after that state passed a "religious freedom" law making it easier to discriminate against LGBT people. Soon, a bunch of unhinged people were flooding Murray's in-box. They ranted about his "gay agenda" and they threatened to never come to Seattle again. (Yes, please!) We got hold of the hate mail through a public records reque
  
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• Let Me Out of Here! Inside Seattle's Real-Life-Room-Escape Boom

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Let Me Out of Here!—Inside Seattle's Real-Life-Room-Escape Boomby Meg van HuygenThe video game Zork was released in 1978. It was the primitive kind where you type in your commands—"hit troll" or "drink water"—and get trapped in rooms and have to solve little puzzles to escape. The Legend of Zelda (1986) copped this feature to a degree, then Myst (1993) took it even further, and plenty more followed suit. Eventually, the "room escape" feature became a mainstay of the adventure g
  
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• Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck's Emotion Collage Will Completely Drain You

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck's Intimate, Spastic Collage Will Completely Drain Youby Emily NokesMontage of Heck is an intimate view of a person we all like to believe we kind of knew. The more it shows us of Kurt Cobain—son, loner, artist, band leader, husband, father, icon—and it shows us a lot, the more the film proves us both right and wrong.Though grounded by interviews (his parents, sister Kim, ex-girlfriend Tracy, bandmate Krist Novoselic, and widow Courtney Love all help piece
  
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• Kathleen Hanna, Then and Now

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Kathleen Hanna Talks About Facelifts, Fake Optimism, and the Feminist Continuum (Oh, and Furious 7)by Emily NokesFaced with the opportunity to interview Kathleen Hanna, my main goal was not to hyperventilate. Between her involvement in the riot grrrl movement, her music projects (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, the Julie Ruin), her importance to Northwest punk culture for the past 20 years, and the reality of a limited word count, there seemed to be an impossible amount of ground to cover. So I started b
  
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• I Have Mixed Feelings About Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  I Have Mixed Feelings About Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. So Did Tennessee Williams.by Paul MullinIt takes a special kind of playwright to unequivocally love Tennessee Williams's most cherished plays. I am not one of them. But then, in my defense, neither was Williams. In his long-obscure but now famous essay "The Catastrophe of Success," Williams pours forth his misgivings about the early work that brought him fame and fortune, and forever saddled him with expectations to make merely more plays in the
  
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• How Is Mastodon Like a Naked Mole Rat?

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  How Is Mastodon Like a Naked Mole Rat? A Better Question Might Be How Is Mastodon NOT Like a Naked Mole Ratby Trent MoormanTo crystallize the character of Mastodon's sixth studio album, Once More 'Round the Sun, I went to the naked mole rat habitat at Pacific Science Center. The parallels were obvious:• Mastodon's dark, churning rhythms and leads are heavy enough to burrow through earth, the way mole rats do.• In Mastodon's Grammy-nominated song "High Road," they sing, "You are the pla
  
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• Dreaming of Pierogi

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Sebi's Bistro Serves Pillowy Dumplings and Other Polish TreatsRelated content: Sauerkraut and Steak Tartare|Eat Like a LocalRelated event: Pierogi FestivalRelated location: Sebi's Bistroby Angela GarbesThe morning after my first meal at Sebi's Bistro in Eastlake, I found myself lying in bed thinking about pierogi—specifically the platter of pillowy, half-moon-shaped dumplings I had happily plowed through the night before. Seemingly every culture has its own version of fillings wrapped in d
  
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• Almost Like a Different Person—Montage of Heck Director Brett Morgen Talks About Looking Kurt Cobain in the Eyes

  22-04-2015 09:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Almost Like a Different Person—Montage of Heck Director Brett Morgen Talks About Looking Kurt Cobain in the Eyesby Sean NelsonTwenty-one years later, the only thing harder than talking about Kurt Cobain is having to listen to other people talk about him. And so it was with major trepidation (and slavering curiosity) that I went into a screening of Montage of Heck, the new biographical documentary directed by Brett Morgen, who has made brilliantly creative films about complicated pop histor
  
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• Man pulled from truck that went into water at Narrows Marina dies

  22-04-2015 07:29
  
  Man pulled from truck that went into water at Narrows Marina dies
  
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• Seattle School Board member Sharon Peaslee won’t run again

  22-04-2015 07:04
  
  Seattle School Board member Sharon Peaslee will become the third incumbent not to seek re-election this fall.
  
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• Super PACs rack up dollars, democracy rings hollow

  22-04-2015 07:01
  At Seattle’s first big political fundraiser for the 2016 presidential election, it’s “Thanks for the $12,500. Now please ignore that candidate standing right there.”
  
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• Bellevue plan to complete circle at Downtown Park draws complaints

  22-04-2015 06:55
  
  Construction will begin this summer to complete the circle walk at Bellevue’s Downtown Park. But nearby merchants say the elimination of a parking lot will only make parking, already difficult, even worse.
  
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• Screenings to be tightened for Sea-Tac workers

  22-04-2015 06:46
  After a baggage handler in Atlanta was accused of smuggling guns onto a plane, the TSA is tightening vettings and screenings of airport workers.
  
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• U.S. recognizes 2 W. Washington climate-change projects

  22-04-2015 06:16
  
  Western Washington was one of four regions recognized in the Tuesday joint announcement by the Interior Department, EPA and NOAA. The federal government is highlighting these regional efforts to showcase how partnerships can help prepare vulnerable lands for the effects of climate change.
  
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• Student held after notes threaten bombings, shootings at Seattle U.

  22-04-2015 06:16
  A Seattle University nursing student who police say left a series of handwritten notes threatening to bomb campus buildings, as well as threatening to shoot doctors at Swedish Medical Center, was ordered held Tuesday in lieu of $50,000 bail.
  
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• Seattle tackles drug dealing, disorder in downtown core

  22-04-2015 06:16
  
  City officials and business leaders say they are embarking on an ambitious effort to shut down open-air drug dealing and associated crime in Seattle’s downtown core with its new “9½ Block Strategy.”
  
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• Washington Legislature likely heading into special session

  22-04-2015 05:46
  
  Lawmakers in Olympia say their work is unfinished, and the Legislature will have to go into special session when the regular session ends on Sunday.
  
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• Affordable housing topic of Seattle town-hall meeting

  22-04-2015 05:31
  Seattle City Council members Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata will discuss rent control at an “Affordable Housing Town Hall” meeting Thursday.
  
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