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• Storm cleanup has arborists busy

  02-09-2015 23:39
  
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• Legal Cannabis Creates Yet Another Spinoff Industry—Wall Street-Style Data Analytics

  02-09-2015 22:48
  
  Brian Yauger (left) meeting with Dustin Barrington, manager of a new pot shop in Fremont called Hashtag. Kelly O
  Washington State’s newly legal cannabis capitalists don’t tend to agree on much. Ask any one of them about any current pot-business topic—the regulation of medical marijuana, indoor versus outdoor grows, whether labs fudge pesticide and potency test results for favored clients—and you’ll find yourself in the middle of a passionate harangue. But the more y
  
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• Trump, Kasich would dump native name ‘Denali,’ restore ‘McKinley’

  02-09-2015 22:21
  
  The name of North America’s highest peak, 20,320-foot Denali in Alaska, has entered the 2016 presidential race. “President Obama wants to change the name of Mount McKinley to Denali after more than 100 years. Great insult to Ohio, I will change back,” real estate mogul Donald Trump tweeted on Monday night, making the assumption that he will be America’s 45th president. The just-renamed, 20,320-foot Denali, North America’s highest peak and biggest political football.
  
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• An Ashley Madison Hack Victim Speaks Out

  02-09-2015 21:43
  
  Finally. They need to book folks like this guy—and, yes, people who were cheating without their partners' consent and people who were victimized by their adulterous partners—on mainstream networks too.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Monocloud Is Upon Us! It's Time to Stock Up on Books

  02-09-2015 21:31
  
  The monocloud is beginning its nine-month reign over Seattle's skies, but two big book sales are on their way to ease the pain. Jack DoritoThe 10-day forecast is looking prrrreeeetttty partly cloudy! And didn't it seem to get dark really quickly last night? And haven't you been catching the scent of woodfire in the air (hopefully not the smoke from the Okanogan Complex)? And aren't the apples swelling, and the hazel shells plumping with sweet kernel? And aren't the children returning to school w
  
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• Backers raising bucks to boost record $930 million Move Seattle levy on November ballot

  02-09-2015 21:26
  
  The campaign to persuade Seattle’s generous voters to approve a record $930 million Move Seattle transportation levy will begin with an appearance by Mayor Ed Murray at 5 to 7 p.m. Sept 8 at a kickoff rally at the Spitfire on Fourth Avenue. The pro-levy campaign, called Let’s Move Seattle, has already begun to tap pockets of business and real estate interests. It has received $10,000 from the Downtown Seattle Association , $10,000 from the development firm Urban Vision, and $5,0
  
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• Here's How to Help Washington Wildfire Victims on the Front Lines of Climate Change

  02-09-2015 21:25
  
  Volunteers count donations at the former Okanogan Bingo Casino, which now functions as a donation center for tribal and non-tribal wildfire victims alike. Alex Garland
  Until this summer, last year's Carlton Complex ranked as the biggest wildfire in Washington State history. It also worsened an existing housing crisis in one of Washington's poorest counties—Okanogan County—after ripping through more than 400 square miles of timber and grassland.FEMA has twice rejected an individual as
  
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• Marcotte: Kim Davis Isn't Going to Be a Hero Martyr

  02-09-2015 21:17
  
  Amanda Marcotte disagrees with me. Writing today TPM, Marcotte predicts that Kim Davis won't become a rightwing martyr/hero/benefactress:
  If Davis thinks her martyr-for-bigotry act will make her a right-wing hero, however, she might want to think again. Instead of being a sign that conservatives will never give up on this issue, it’s starting to seem instead that Davis’s last stand is evidence that mainstream conservatives have decided to let this one go (for now, anyway), leaving hy
  
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• I Already Didn’t Know How To Feel About Critical Mass. Then I Heard My Song In That Video of Them Attacking a Zipcar

  02-09-2015 20:50
  
  "You're not going anywhere!" Bike42363
  If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to have co-written and performed a medium-sized hit song 17 years ago, it’s like this: Every so often, you’ll be minding your own business, trying to edit a review of the new Destroyer album, when someone will send you a link to a video of SF Critical Mass bicycle activists going all Teen Hulk on a minivan driver—and you will hear your own song playing in the background. Towards the end, w
  
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• Want to Try Sending Evidence Directly to the Seattle Police? Programmer Tim Clemans Offers a Digital Solution

  02-09-2015 20:44
  
  Tim Clemans, an SPD information technology support specialist, is still working on side projects. The beta version of this one, which allows you to send evidence directly to police departments, is now live. Go try it out. Ansel Herz
  Tim Clemans, the programmer who bombarded SPD with records requests to force transparency until the department took the unusual step of hiring him, wants the world to know about a nifty website he's created so you can send police evidence directly: sendevidence.org.
  
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• Dan Savage Was on MSNBC Last Night Talking About Kim Davis

  02-09-2015 20:30
  
  If you haven't yet read Dan's takedown of Kim Davis—the Rowan County clerk who's refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples "under God's authority"—stop everything you're doing right now and read it.Dan was on MSNBC last night, elaborating on Davis and her desire to be a martyr, and what would happen if we allowed people to violate the rights of their fellow citizens based on religious beliefs: "It would be utter chaos if everyone was empowered to cite God's authority to viol
  
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• Still Don't Know Who Won the Primary Election? Here's Some Help.

  02-09-2015 20:22
  
  This person knows who won the primary election. Do you? If you don't, answers below! Kelly O
  The other day, Dan Savage took a break from eating cake while covered in fake menstrual blood to walk over to my desk and tell me about a dinner party he'd been to recently. There, Dan says, he was surrounded by a group of "good Seattle liberals" who didn't know a goddamn thing about the Seattle City Council primary election that just happened. A couple of them couldn't name their city council district.
  
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• Anti-Semitic Remarks at a Black Lives Matter Event Appear to Go Unchallenged

  02-09-2015 19:42
  
  A speaker at a Black Lives Matter rally said the owner of Uncle Ike's is a former soldier of the Israel Defense Forces. Even if it was true, what has that got to do with anything? Charles Mudede
  On August 26, Josh Feit of Publicola posted about anti-Semitic remarks that were made at a Black Lives Matter rally on August 9, the one-year anniverary of Michael Brown's death. According to Feit, the BLM march, which began at Seattle Central College, reached 23rd and Union—the center of the Centr
  
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• In Food News: Wildfires Prompt Cancellation of Burning Beast, Jason Stratton Named Mamnoon Executive Chef, and More

  02-09-2015 19:17
  
  Due to the statewide burn ban and ongoing wildfires, Burning Beast has been cancelled.Brendan Kiley
  Burning Beast Has Been Cancelled
  • Burning Beast, the whole-animal feast on a farm at which a large wooden beast is set aflame, has officially been cancelled. "While so many communities are still threatened by fires, and with the burn ban still in effect, continuing our yearly celebration of fire and feasting does not align with the values espoused by the Rubicon Foundation and the Seattle fo
  
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• Morning News: Teachers to Vote on Strike Tomorrow, Seattle Times Editorial Board Calls for Renaming Mt. Rainier

  02-09-2015 17:54
  
  Seattle-area teachers and supporterswalked off the job in May to protest underfunding of schools at the state level. Ansel Herz
  Seattle Public Schools Teachers Will Decide Tomorrow Whether to Strike: "Contract negotiations between the Seattle Teachers Union and the School District ended Tuesday without a resolution," KING 5 reports. Why strike? The teachers want better pay, guaranteed recess for students, fair evaluations of teachers, limits on standardized testing, and equity in discipline, acc
  
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• After Two Record-Breaking Wildfires, Residents of One of Washington's Poorest Counties Consider What a Climate-Changed Future Holds

  02-09-2015 16:09
  
  As of August 31, the Okanogan Complex has burned more than 300,000 acres. ALEX GARLAND
  "I could show you what it looked like before the fire." Shane Horton pulls out his tablet in the smoke-filled parking lot of Hank's supermarket, where two Humvees full of tired-looking National Guardsmen are keeping watch for looters. It's a national emergency here in rural Twisp; nearby, the largest wildfire in Washington State history has been burning for 14 days. On the other side of the Okanogan Complex&md
  
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• Last Days: This Just In, Mel Gibson Is a Butthole

  02-09-2015 14:32
  
  Bad blood.
  MONDAY, AUGUST 24 In news that shook the earth to its very core, British boy band One Direction announced today that they are, according to Us Weekly, "taking a hiatus to focus on solo projects." Wait! Stop... stop screaming! We can barely hear ourselves think! Our 12-year-old niece Tracee Romano had this to say about the announcement: "I hate everything! I hate you, I hate the world, and I hate One Direction who doesn't care, DOESN'T EVEN CARE!" [SLAM!] That was Tracee slamming the d
  
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• The Complete Bumbershoot 2015 Schedule

  02-09-2015 13:00
  
  It's All on our Calendar, Complete with Showtimes, Stages, and Recommendations!by Stranger Things To Do[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Our Critics' Top Picks for Bumbershoot

  02-09-2015 13:00
  
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• Lee "Scratch" Perry: "Let's Make a Jungle Gym Out of Ears"

  02-09-2015 13:00
  
  An Interview with Reggae/Dub Innovator Lee "Scratch" Perry (Playing Sat Sept 5 at Bumbershoot)by Trent MoormanYou don't simply interview reggae originator Lee "Scratch" Perry. You lob a question into the air and then step back and absorb the rhyming, ripened modules of thought he bounces back your way. The man tutored Bob Marley, for Christ's sake. He also invented dub. Conversing with him is like standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, or shining a flashlight on Rio de Janeiro's Christ the R
  
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• "Awesome" Reunion: Once More, With Feelings

  02-09-2015 13:00
  
  "Awesome" Reunion: Once More, With Feelings. Seattle Performance-Art Septet Returns, a Little More Serious, but Only a Littleby Brendan KileyOne summer night in 2004, I squeezed into the crowded and dusty backroom theater of the Rendezvous to see a seven-member performance-art band called "Awesome." The phrase "seven-member performance-art band" would send most sane people running in the opposite direction, and the folks I recognized in the crowd (most of them theater artists) had that tolerant,
  
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• Sen. Bernie Sanders applied for conscientious objector status during Vietnam War

  02-09-2015 04:25
  
  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War. “As a college student in the 1960’s, he was a pacifist:  He isn’t now,” Michael Briggs, a Sanders spokesman, said in an e-mail to ABC News. Bernie Sanders speaks during an Aug. 8 rally at Hec Ed Pavilion that drew an estimated 15,000 people to the University of Washington. The rally filled the arena and left thousands outside.
  
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• Small franchisees say Seattle wage law discriminates

  02-09-2015 04:24
  
  Small franchisees say Seattle wage law discriminates
  
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• 'He had a look of madness': Report details horrors of MPHS shooting

  02-09-2015 04:22
  
  More detailed horrors of last year's shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School emerged Tuesday with the release of investigative records, but a portion of the reports remains a point of contention in court.
  
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• The Splendid Diversity of Seattle's Ice Cream Sandwiches

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  The Splendid Diversity of Seattle's Ice Cream SandwichesRelated locations: Parfaitby Angela GarbesWhen it comes to ice cream, Seattle is an abundant place. Successful ice cream shops such as Bluebird, Cupcake Royale, Full Tilt, and Molly Moon's serve up delicious frozen delights—often made with high-quality, local ingredients—all over the city.In recent years, Seattle's homemade ice cream options have increased, with many smaller artisan producers like Half Pint, Kurt Farm Shop, Parf
  
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• The "New Normal" in Washington State

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  After Two Record-Breaking Wildfires, Residents of One of Washington's Poorest Counties Consider What a Climate-Changed Future Holdsby Sydney Brownstone"I could show you what it looked like before the fire." Shane Horton pulls out his tablet in the smoke-filled parking lot of Hank's supermarket, where two Humvees full of tired-looking National Guardsmen are keeping watch for looters. It's a national emergency here in rural Twisp; nearby, the largest wildfire in Washington State history has been b
  
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• Take a Chance

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  You May Not Have Heard or Even Heard Of These Bumbershoot Artists, but They're Worth Taking a Chance OnSATURDAY 9/5PHOEBE BRIDGERSIt would be easy to mistake Phoebe Bridgers's country-laced compositions for conventional acoustic singer-songwriter moves—if you weren't actually listening. Because if you were, you'd hear the wit, wail, and gravity of someone who could be bound for greatness (and, despite her tender age, has taken some impressive steps toward it already). Of all the artists pl
  
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• Soulless Workers in a Corporate Office Become Vampires in the Comedy Bloodsucking Bastards

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  Soulless Workers in a Corporate Office Become Vampires in the Comedy Bloodsucking BastardsRelated Film: Bloodsucking Bastardsby Kelly O"What's up, dildos?" This and a gazillion more teenage-boy-style insults are thrown around freely in the miserable, windowless, cubicle-ridden corporate sales office (where they are hawking "male-enhancement" pills, among other seemingly pathetic products aimed at "middle-American losers") where the slacker-hero of Bloodsucking Bastards, Evan Sanders, toils day-t
  
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• Person of Interest

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  Person of Interest: Scott Shoemaker (aka Ms. Pak-Man), actor, writer, video-game avatar.by Sean NelsonFirst, a question for Ms. Pak-Man: Strategy-wise, do you go for the fruit or stick to the pills?I've always had a strong preference for pills. A constant, gnawing, insatiable preference. Unless of course I'm watching my figure, then I'll go for the fruit with a little cottage cheese.Now one for Scott: On reflection, how are you feeling about the gold-face-paint part of this character's conceptio
  
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• Let's Make a Jungle Gym Out of Ears

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  Let's Make a Jungle Gym Out of Ears: An Interview with Reggae/Dub Innovator Lee "Scratch" Perryby Trent MoormanYou don't simply interview reggae originator Lee "Scratch" Perry. You lob a question into the air and then step back and absorb the rhyming, ripened modules of thought he bounces back your way. The man tutored Bob Marley, for Christ's sake. He also invented dub. Conversing with him is like standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, or shining a flashlight on Rio de Janeiro's Christ the
  
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• How to Be a Drummer and Not Get Screwed

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  How to Be a Drummer and Not Get Screwed (Financially)by Trent MoormanSome (idiots) think drummers aren't writing music when they create a beat on the drums. For them, crashing and banging aren't notes or melody. They think drumming isn't composing. Perhaps they missed James Brown's proclamation to "give the drummer some" in the song "Cold Sweat." That's drummer Clyde Stubblefield, whose breakbeats went on to pave a path to hiphop and dance music. You've heard them, trust me. Stubblefield must ha
  
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• Hatchet Jobs

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  Alex Gibney's New Doc The Man in the Machine Argues That Being an Asshole Was the Least of Steve Jobs's Flawsby Charles MudedeAlex Gibney, the director who exposed the dark secrets of Scientology with the documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and detailed the collapse of Enron with Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, turns his attention to the late CEO of Apple in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. And what does he have to say about this much-worshipped visionary, whos
  
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• Floored

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  Veit Stratmann's Vibrant, Anxious Seattle Floor Just Wants to Move YouRELATED EVENTS Veit Stratmann: The Seattle FloorRELATED LOCATIONS Suyama Spaceby Jen GravesThe floor is making you do things. It's a work of art, but let's deal with it first as a floor.The floor is divided into parallel segments. They stretch from the door area of Suyama Space to the entrance of the Belltown architecture firm Suyama Peterson Deguchi at the back of the building. Each segment of floor is a strip of colored viny
  
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• Bumbershoot 2015 Performer Picks

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  Here Are the Artists the Artists You’re Excited to See Are Excited to SeeBABES IN TOYLANDIf you don’t plan on seeing the Melvins, Peaches, and Dead Moon, you should just stay home. (Lori Barbiero)BIG SCARYThe Bots: I hate comparing bands to other bands. But I still do it all the time. These guys remind me of TV on the Radio, who I love. But with a dash more blues/pop. This band gets me excited.The Grizzled Mighty: These guys are swamp. Power to the two-piece. (Joanna Syme)BROOKLYN NI
  
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• "Awesome" Get the Band Back Together

  02-09-2015 03:40
  
  "Awesome" Get the Band Back Together. Seattle Performance-Art Septet Returns, a Little More Serious, but Only a Littleby Brendan KileyOne summer night in 2004, I squeezed into the crowded and dusty backroom theater of the Rendezvous to see a seven-member performance-art band called "Awesome." The phrase "seven-member performance-art band" would send most sane people running in the opposite direction, and the folks I recognized in the crowd (most of them theater artists) had that tolerant, we're-
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Arms and the Man (Who Treated You Like Shit)

  02-09-2015 02:20
  
  So here's a relationshipish question about remaining friends with your ex following a break up.
  My ex dumped me about six months ago. We ended in a long distance scenario and remain that way now, and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. We don't really have any mutual friends. Due to the distance, there isn't a chance that we'll really run into each other again unless something is otherwise planned. Essentially, us seeing each other in social situations or something is not likely.
  I'
  
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• Republicans — especially Trump voters — believe Obama is a Muslim and was born in another country: Poll

  02-09-2015 02:19
  
  The chunk of the Republican electorate supporting Donald Trump believes that President Obama is a Muslim, and share’s “the Donald’s” birther suspicion that our 44th president was not born in Honolulu,  according to a new Public Policy Polling survey. “Our new poll finds that Trump is benefiting from a GOP electorate that thinks Barack Obama is a Muslim and was born in another country, and that immigrant children should be deported,” the polling firm said
  
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• Marysville-Pilchuck shooting documents reveal new details

  02-09-2015 02:01
  
  Marysville-Pilchuck shooting documents reveal new details
  
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• While Obama's in the Arctic, Let's Remember How the Polar Pioneer Screwed Its Coast Guard Inspection in Seattle

  02-09-2015 02:00
  
  The Coast Guard found that the Polar Pioneer's deficiencies "included a disconnected fire hose, open doors, and improper protective gear." Alex Garland
  President Obama is in the Alaskan Arctic talking about climate change. Yippee. Many others have already pointed out that the Obama administration also greenlit drilling offshore in the Alaskan Arctic for oil and gas that won't even come online for at least a decade. This is oil and gas that ought to be considered "unburnable" if we want to stay w
  
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• Did Uber Shut a Seattle Driver Out of Its System Because He Spoke In Favor of Unionizing?

  02-09-2015 01:26
  
  Uber driver Takele Gobena says he was deactivated because he spoke in support of allowing app-based drivers to unionize. Uber claims it was a paperwork issue.
  Yesterday, Uber driver Takele Gobena stood with other drivers to support Seattle City Council member Mike O'Brien's plan to give Uber and Lyft drivers the right to unionize.Last night, Gobena got a text saying he'd been deactivated, meaning he couldn't drive for Uber again until he was reactivated. Being kicked out of the system at a momen
  
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• Who Remembers the Seattle Artists in These Photos?

  02-09-2015 01:01
  
  Both photographs are part of an excellent visual art show that will premiere at Bumbershoot this weekend—an art show that I'll post a special sneak preview of tomorrow on SLOG!Photo by Chuck KuhnPhoto courtesy of curator Larry Reid[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Health investigators: E. coli cases linked to food sold at farmers markets

  02-09-2015 00:54
  
  E. coli case being investigated in King County
  
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• E. coli cases may be linked to food trucks at farmers markets

  02-09-2015 00:54
  
  E. coli case being investigated in King County
  
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• Mayor Murray Picks Up What's Left of His Spine, Trundles Forward With Housing Affordability "Grand Bargain"

  02-09-2015 00:49
  
  This press conference was as glamorous as it looks. Michael Scott, a healthcare worker at Swedish hospital, said what many others are saying: he can't afford to live near where he works. Ansel Herz
  Midway through the summer, Mayor Ed Murray lost his spine and caved to NIMBY horde necromancer/Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. Murray has shown himself to be a mayor who'll routinely ignore pressure from Seattle's social justice left, but Westneat, using a combination of Internet tubes and wor
  
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• Kim Davis Is Defending the Sacred Sanctity of Marriage From the Gays—But Who Will Defend the Sacred Sanctity of Marriage from Kim Davis?

  02-09-2015 00:35
  
  So when I wrote this in my post about Kim Davis earlier today...The opinions of Kim Davis's imaginary friends matter very much when you want to get married... but not so much when Kim Davis wants to get married and divorced and married again and divorced again and married for a third time and divorced for a third time and married for a fourth time. (Mozel tov to you, Kim, and here's hoping the fourth time in the charm.) Davis's hypocrisy stinks to high holy heaven, as my mother might've said, bu
  
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• State Sen. Brian Hatfield is latest Democrat to leave the Legislature

  02-09-2015 00:20
  
  State Sen. Brian Hatfield, D-Raymond, becomes the third high-profile Democrat to leave the Legislature this year, announcing Tuesday he will become sector lead for rural economic development, working for Gov. Jay Inslee. Hatfield has worked in southwest Washington politics for more than a quarter-century. He was an aide to two state senators, served in the state House of Representatives from 1994 to 2004 and has been in the state Senate since 2006. Hatfield said in a statement that he will &ldqu
  
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• Charges: Shooter at Seattle school carried police evidence tag for gun

  02-09-2015 00:11
  
  A 23-year-old Seattle man alleged to have narrowly missed five other young men after opening fire at Rainier Beach High School has been charged with assault.
  
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