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• The Staff of The Stranger Argues About Restaurants Going Tipless

  28-04-2015 23:36 via thestranger.com
  
  PAUL TULLER
  I Want Everybody to Make More, Not Waiters and Bartenders to Make Less
  By Dan Savage
  Waiting tables has always meant good money, if not great money, and a flexible schedule. The ability to swap shifts with other waiters meant being able to get time off for play rehearsals or final exams or Stranger editorial meetings back in the day.
  Tips were what made the job a good one. Tips made it lucrative. Tips put me through school and through living in London for a year and through the firs
  
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• Supreme Court Wrap-Up: Did Scalia Just Accidentally Help Marriage Equality?

  28-04-2015 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  The scene of the argument. Orhan Cam/Shutterstock
  This morning, in a giant marble box perched high atop a swamp on the other side of the country, eight old people in robes chattered about who should be allowed to get married. Meanwhile, a ninth old person, a man whose name you might be able to guess, bounced in his chair and stared at the ceiling, waiting for it to be over.
  With oral argument now wrapped in the Supreme Court's marriage equality case, we now begin the delightful game of making bu
  
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• Antigay State Rep Outed by Guy He Was Trying to Pick Up on Grindr

  28-04-2015 21:14 via thestranger.com
  
  What's funnier than a straight antigay bigot named "Breda" (Brēd-ä)? A closeted gay Republican elected official named "Randy Boehning."
  Grand Forks Herald:
  A North Dakota lawmaker who sent an explicit photo of himself to another man says the exchange being made public is retaliation for a recent vote against expanding gay rights. State Rep. Randy Boehning, a 52-year-old Republican legislator from Fargo, says a Capitol employee told him a fellow lawmaker vowed to out him as gay if he contin
  
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• Anti-Gay State Rep Outed By Guy He Was Trying To Pick Up On Grindr

  28-04-2015 21:14 via thestranger.com
  
  What's funnier than a straight anti-gay bigot named "Breda" (Brēd-ä)? A closeted gay Republican elected official looking for ass on Grindr named "Randy Boehning."
  Grand Forks Herald:
  A North Dakota lawmaker who sent an explicit photo of himself to another man says the exchange being made public is retaliation for a recent vote against expanding gay rights. State Rep. Randy Boehning, a 52-year-old Republican legislator from Fargo, says a Capitol employee told him a fellow lawmaker vowed to
  
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• Pilot injured in Rochester plane crash

  28-04-2015 21:10
  
  Small plane goes down in Thurston County
  
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• Breaking—Weekly Hiphop Institution Stop Biting Scales Back to Monthly

  28-04-2015 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Dufon Smith (aka Orbitron) busting a move at Stop Biting ca. 2011. Kelly O
  Certain weekly club nights in Seattle have become institutions that you imagine will never fade away: Re-bar’s Flammable, Baltic Room’s Drum & Bass Tuesdays, and Lo-Fi’s Stop Biting come to mind. However, the latter event—which has been a focal point of the city’s hiphop/breakdancing scene since 2004—will be scaling back to a monthly due to slipping attendance. It will now happen ev
  
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• Kathleen Hanna Talks About Face Lifts, Fake Optimism, and the Feminist Continuum (Oh, and Furious 7)

  28-04-2015 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Hair down, face-lift-free. ALIYA NAUMOFF
  Faced 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 by asking about the lecture she's presenting here next week, and edited o
  
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• Gov. Inslee says state will withhold pay from state auditor

  28-04-2015 20:48
  
  Gov. Inslee says state will withhold pay from state auditor
  
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• Bomb threat at North Bend school causes evacuation

  28-04-2015 20:32
  
  Bomb threat at North Bend school causes evacuation
  
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• What state lawmakers did and didn’t get done so far this year

  28-04-2015 20:16
  What bills got passed, what got blocked, and what hovers in limbo as Olympia prepares for a special session.
  
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• This Baltimore Mother Isn’t Beating Her Son, She’s Trying to Keep Him Alive

  28-04-2015 20:11 via thestranger.com
  
  One story emerging from the riots triggered in Baltimore by the funeral of 25-year-old black man Freddie Gray (who died in police custody in mysterious circumstances) concerns an unknown middle-aged woman who was captured on video smacking the head of a young man. It is widely reported that the woman is the mother of the man she is smacking.It is also reported that the woman saw the young man on TV throwing rocks at cops. She then found him on the streets and began hitting him on the head in pu
  
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• Rash of crimes after OfferUp transactions

  28-04-2015 20:07
  
  Rash of crimes after OfferUp transactions
  
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• Renee Erickson Eliminates Tips and Raises Wages to $15 in a Move Toward Greater Parity Among Restaurant Workers

  28-04-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Renee Erickson is making changes to address the income disparity that exists between back-of-house and front-of-house workers. Kelly O
  In response to Seattle’s new minimum-wage law, restaurateurs have begun to make various changes to accommodate higher compensation for their employees: Ivar’s raised prices and eliminated tips, while Tom Douglas added (and then deleted) a surcharge. Last week, chef Renee Erickson announced that, effective May 4, tipping will be eliminated at her resta
  
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• Gas leak causes evacuations in Sammamish

  28-04-2015 18:58
  
  Gas leak causes evacuations in Sammamish
  
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• A Song for Baltimore

  28-04-2015 18:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh, Baltimore
  Ain't it hard just to live?
  Oh, Baltimore
  Ain't it hard just to live?
  Just to live.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle's Freddie Gray March, A Special Election, And The Supreme Court on Gay Marriage Bans

  28-04-2015 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Iconic downtown Baltimore row houses, minutes from where violence broke out yesterday at Mondawmin Mall.Jon Bilous/ShutterstockSeattle Activists Plan March Tomorrow Over the Death of Baltimore's Freddie Gray in Police Custody: Seattle's October 22 Coalition will demonstrate Wednesday at 5:30 in Westlake Park.King County Executive Wants a Six-Year, $65 Million Levy for Early Health, Walkable Communities: The initiative is intended to combat some of the disparate health and criminal justice outcom
  
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• Deep part of Cascadia fault is so slippery that sun, moon trigger tremors

  28-04-2015 17:31
  
  New research shows that the large fault off the Northwest coast is so weak and slippery in places that minuscule tidal forces produced by the sun and moon are enough to cause tremors.
  
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• Scotusblog Is Live-Blogging Obergefell v. Hodges

  28-04-2015 16:59 via thestranger.com
  
  I'm lurking on Scotusblog's live and constantly updated post this morning...
  [There was just an] interesting exchange between Justice Scalia and two of his more liberal colleagues. Scalia asked whether, if petitioners win, a minister who objects to same sex marriages could refuse to perform a civil same-sex wedding. Bonauto answered yes. Scalia pressed the point though, arguing that he could not understand how a state could permit somebody to hold a license to marry people if that person would n
  
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• Guest Editorial: Don't Allow Seattle's Enthusiasm for Light Rail to Be Used as Leverage to Win Highway Expansions

  28-04-2015 16:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Former Mayor Mike McGinn and the Sierra Club's Tim Gould argue that the legislature's current transportation deal should be rejected because, while it funds more light rail, it also funds too many freeways. Sound Transit
  Transit supporters from Seattle and the region have been working hard to get Sound Transit to the ballot by 2016, and with good reason. We desperately need better rail transit. Unfortunately, our zeal for rail is being used against us to produce a transportation package that doe
  
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• Mixed martial arts fighter dies after Aberdeen bout

  28-04-2015 15:47
  
  Mixed martial arts fighter dies after Aberdeen bout
  
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• Kent students can use app to pay for school lunches

  28-04-2015 15:12
  
  Kent students now have app for school lunches
  
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• Whidbey Island residents file noise lawsuit against Navy

  28-04-2015 14:49
  
  Whidbey Island residents file noise lawsuit against Navy
  
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• Commercial truckers target of new emphasis patrols

  28-04-2015 14:12
  
  Commercial truckers target of new WSP emphasis patrol
  
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• SPD says it’s prepared well for May Day

  28-04-2015 08:16
  
  One difference this year is May 1 falls on Friday, when more people will be in the area.
  
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• Many enjoy their day in the Seattle sun

  28-04-2015 08:01
  
  A kayaker enjoys Seattle’s warm weather Monday on Green Lake.
  
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• Whidbey citizens group in court over Navy Growlers noise

  28-04-2015 05:17
  
  A Whidbey Island citizens group has revived the legal battle over noise from Navy Growler planes, filing a motion in federal court to block use of an off-base strip near Coupeville.
  
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• Sheriff fires sergeant for offensive texts to other deputies

  28-04-2015 05:15
  Sheriff John Urquhart has fired a veteran Metro Transit sergeant for sending racist, homophobic and lewd textsto other deputies, including a female subordinate who the sheriff says seemed to welcome most of the sexual messages.
  
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• Seattle transplant patient calls for sweeping changes after surgery denied by an OB/GYN

  28-04-2015 05:08
  
  Seattle transplant patient calls for sweeping changes after surgery denied by an OB/GYN
  
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• Seattle police share strategies for May Day

  28-04-2015 04:58
  
  Seattle police share strategies for May Day
  
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• After years adrift, school dropout is national academic star

  28-04-2015 04:55
  
  A South Seattle College student who dropped out of school at age 14 has won national accolades for his academic work.
  
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• Garfield High School alumni missing in Nepal

  28-04-2015 04:39
  
  Garfield High School alums missing in Nepal
  
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• Jury awards $3.5M in ‘take-home’ asbestos case

  28-04-2015 04:38
  
  A King County jury has awarded $3.5 million to the estate of a woman who died from mesothelioma.
  
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• Burned Bellevue auto dealership being cleaned up

  28-04-2015 04:23
  
  Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a fire early Saturday that destroyed the showroom of a Bellevue Ford dealership.
  
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• Seahawks ‘compete’ on, off the field’

  28-04-2015 04:06
  Footballers don aprons for autism; Martin Short still supporting Gilda’s Club three decades on; Hugo House has its cake, eats it too and raises money.
  
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• Complaints liken Sawant event on cost of housing to ‘political rally’

  28-04-2015 03:54
  
  A town-hall meeting about housing affordability hosted by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant last week has some people — including a fellow council member — complaining about possible violations of the city’s ethics code.
  
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• Flown off Everest, locally based climbers ‘happy to be alive’

  28-04-2015 03:38
  
  Teams from four Washington-basedmountaineeringfirms, caught on Mount Everest during Nepal’s massive earthquake, have descended by helicopter and “are happy to be healthy and alive.”
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Photo Play

  28-04-2015 03:14 via thestranger.com
  
  You’ve given me good advice in the past and it has led me to casting aside previous baggage and settling down with a man whom I valued for being trusty, responsible and hard-working. The one downside: He's always been straight as an arrow, uninterested in kink or any non-traditional relationship options. I figured it was a small price to pay for his many fine qualities.
  This partner of ten years got into photography about five years ago. He does "boudoir" photography, i.e. sexy ladies eith
  
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• AG’s office asks state’s top court to hold off on McCleary sanctions

  28-04-2015 03:01
  The state Attorney General’s Office asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to hold off on punishing lawmakers over the lack of a K-12 education-funding plan — at least for now.
  
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• Restaurant, lodging associations will combine forces

  28-04-2015 02:56
  
  The WashingtonRestaurant Association and Washington Lodging Association are merging, saying the move will allow them to operate more effectively and to have a stronger voice on issues such as minimum wage and workplace benefits.
  
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• John Okamoto chosen to replace Sally Clark on City Council

  28-04-2015 02:46
  John Okamoto, a veteran of city and state leadership posts, will serve on the Seattle City Council through the end of the year.
  
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• Man arrested for carrying golf club sues city, Seattle cop

  28-04-2015 02:45
  A 70-year-old African-American man filed a lawsuit against the city and Seattle police Officer Cynthia Whitlatch last week, seeking damages for his arrest last summer after the officer accused him of wielding a golf club he used as a cane.
  
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• Squatters invade 'luxe' community along Lake Washington

  28-04-2015 02:39
  
  Squatters invade 'luxe' community along Lake Washington
  
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• Seattle City Council Appoints John Okamoto to Replace Sally Clark

  28-04-2015 02:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Meet your new city council member: John Okamoto Hg
  It all came down to Bruce Harrell. After two rounds of voting, the Seattle City Council appointed longtime city bureaucrat and former Port of Seattle chief administrator John Okamoto.The council's more activist wing—Kshama Sawant, Mike O'Brien, and Nick Licata—had supported Low Income Housing Institute director Sharon Lee and longtime union activist and former HUD employee Sharon Maeda. Their more centrist counterparts, Tim Burgess,
  
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• Listen—If You Dare—to an Album of Found Sound Recorded at Guitar Center

  28-04-2015 02:31 via thestranger.com
  
  I reckon at least a handful of y'all have been to the South Lake Union Guitar Centerand, as it's a shop of testable music gear, it's often filled with the RANDOM unconnected sounds of said gear being tested. Turns out, experimental sound maker, Noah Wall, walked into the Manhattan GC with sneaky microphones on his ears and recorded the ambient sounds of the gear punters were punting.Some cliques gather in the acoustic guitar room and the occasional couple show off for one another but this place
  
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• Man fatally shot in Ravensdale

  28-04-2015 02:01
  A 56-year-old man was killed, and a suspect is in custody, deputies say.
  
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• New Development on 16th

  28-04-2015 01:26 via thestranger.com
  
  I kinda like it. And a house wasn't torn down to make way for it—nothing like this happened—because it was a parking lot for decades. So... can I like it? Or is liking any new construction on Capitol Hill not allowed?[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• You Standin' in My Practice: What Barbara Earl Thomas Added to Her Art (It Involves Beyonce's Baby)

  28-04-2015 01:03 via thestranger.com
  
  This is Barbara Earl Thomas's new installation at the Northwest African American Museum. She didn't draw, she just started cutting and kept going. For 75 (non-consecutive) hours. IMAGES JG
  Barbara Earl Thomas is an artist, a writer, a speaker, a former head of the city's arts office, a former museum director, the daughter Jacob Lawrence and Gwen Knight never had, and a woman who can, operating in her modest and plainspoken way behind the scenes, raise a few hundred thousand dollars for a good ca
  
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• A New Reason to Try the Fried Fish at Jack's Fish Spot

  28-04-2015 00:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Jack's new house-made sauce: citrusy smooth and delicious. Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
  A while back, in my article on Pike Place Market, I recommended that readers go to Jack's Fish Spot for fried fish, with one caveat: "The last time I tried it, the tartar sauce was made by Kraft, which tasted like seasoned glue." I feel it is my duty to amend that statement.
  I returned recently, and the lively fishmongers admitted that they deeply regretted resorting to Kraft's tartar sauce and had begun the process
  
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• Man arrested for carrying golf club sues city, Seattle police

  28-04-2015 00:32
  A 70-year-old African-American man filed a lawsuit against the city and Seattle police Officer Cynthia Whitlatch last week seeking damages for his arrest last summer after the officer accused him of wielding a golf club he used as a cane.
  
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• Tensions Are Boiling Over in Baltimore After Police Killing

  28-04-2015 00:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Not pictured in this image: all the chaos in Baltimore's streets. Baltimore / Shutterstock
  Twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray died in police custody on April 12. "Gray is not the first person to come out of a Baltimore police wagon with serious injuries," the Baltimore Sun reports.His body was laid to rest today at a funeral attended by thousands.
  The Black Lives Matter movement responded to Gray's death with a series of peaceful marches over the weekend. Yesterday and today, there have also been
  
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