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• Pierce County braces for Roaches as mother, son put hats in the ring

  03-09-2015 23:56
  
  Dan Roach announced Thursday that he is running for Pierce County executive, on the heels of declaration by his mother, state Sen. Pam Roach, R-31, that she has moved into the county and will run for the Pierce County Council. The younger Roach already chairs the Pierce County Council. As with his mother, the Legislature’s most contentious member, he is not up for reelection in 2016 so has a bye to pursue another office. Co-owner with wife, Melanie, of Roach Gymnastics, Dan Roach laun
  
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• Savage Love: The Asexual Dom

  03-09-2015 23:16
  
  JOE NEWTON
  I'm confused about my sexuality. For many years, I thought I preferred hetero-romantic asexual relationships. Exposure to select reading material-thanks to my gender-studies classes-has me convinced I'm an asexual t-type (i.e., "top," but I prefer not to use such connotative terms) female who is attracted to slight and feminine men. I do not want to take off my clothes or engage in oral, anal, digital, or vaginal sex. Instead, I want to design sexual situations that comely young gent
  
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• You May Not Have Heard or Even Heard Of These Bumbershoot Artists, but They're Worth Taking a Chance On

  03-09-2015 22:11
  
  Brag later about seeing Phoebe Bridgers.PHOEBE BRIDGERS
  It 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 playing this weekend, Bridgers seems the most likely to be the one you brag
  
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• Has Amazon Prime Delivered Anything to Your Door in Under an Hour or Two?

  03-09-2015 22:03
  
  What's in the booooooooox? Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com
  What was your experience like? Did you have a really good time? Did the delivery person ding-dong-ditch? Did you get your shit stolen? Are you someone who steals Amazon shit off people's stoops and can prove it?To be clear: I'm talking about the new hour-long or two-hour long delivery service.Send me an e-mail and tell me about it: [email protected] call me, maybe?206.323.7101 ext. 3034
  I only want to know the hottest of the hot,
  
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• Has Amazon Prime Delivered Anything to Your Door?

  03-09-2015 22:03
  
  What's in the booooooooox? Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com
  What was your experience like? Did you have a really good time? Did the delivery person ding-dong-ditch? Did you get your shit stolen? Are you someone who steals Amazon shit off people's stoops and can prove it?Send me an e-mail and tell me about it: [email protected] call me, maybe?206.323.7101 ext. 3034
  I only want to know the hottest of the hot, the goodest of the good, the baddest of the bad, and the weirdest of the weird, an
  
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• Kim "KISS" Davis Caption Contest

  03-09-2015 21:15
  
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• The Life and Death of Amazon Is the Life and Death of Seattle

  03-09-2015 20:43
  
  A two-bedroom condo in Luma, a building under construction in First Hill, will be priced between $700,000 and $1,000,000. That's what happens when you live in a city with a thriving premier company like Amazon. Charles Mudede
  Few discussions are as uninteresting and useless as those concerning Amazon's impact on Seattle, its culture, and its housing market. Such conversations are motivated only by the mistaken assumption that there are lots of choices or alternatives to the kinds of cities we ca
  
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• Seattle Labor Day forecast: So long summer

  03-09-2015 20:32
  
  It's beginning to look a lot like ... well, not Christmas, exactly. September-uary?Seattle's endless summer appears to have come to a close, though, with the Weather Service predicting that highs will barely hit 70 in Seattle over the holiday weekend. Snow showers have arrived in the high country and there's no warmer weather on the horizon.
  
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• It's Time to Submit Food & Drink Events and Update Listings for the Fall Issue of The Sauce!

  03-09-2015 20:30
  
  The next issue comes out October 7.
  Good news, foodies: the second edition of The Sauce, the food and drink publication we launched in April, is coming out on October 7! In addition to great food writing, it will also have listings of food events and happy hours for the entire city.If you're not a restaurant or bar owner or an event producer, you should probably stop reading now and, while you wait for October, check out our food and drink event calendar. But, if you do fall into one of those ca
  
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• Rep. Larsen is latest in Washington delegation to back Iran agreement

  03-09-2015 20:27
  
  U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., announced Thursday he will vote to support the Iran nuclear deal, the fifth member of Washington’s congressional delegation to back the agreement negotiated between the U.S., five other major powers and Iran. “While the agreement is not perfect, it is a major step in preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” said Larsen, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen:  Will support Iran nuclear agreement. &ldqu
  
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• Trump Poised to Pledge He Won't Run As an Independent

  03-09-2015 19:47
  
  Is Trump making peace with the GOP, or is he flashing his V for VICTORY? Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com
  Politico reports that a "close associate" of the ginger windbag said that Trump will sign the GOP loyalty pledge, which makes him promise he won't run as an independent if the party doesn't hand him the nomination. I want the oath to be administered by Tom Sawyer in a tree house behind Aunt Polly's house, but what's actually going to happen is that Trump will fold the document into a pa
  
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• Federal Judge Orders Kim Davis Jailed for Refusing to Issue Marriage Licenses to Same-Sex Couples

  03-09-2015 19:26
  
  From the New York Times:
  A federal judge here on Thursday ordered a Kentucky clerk jailed for contempt of court because of her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
  The clerk, Kim Davis of Rowan County, was ordered incarcerated after a hearing here before Judge David L. Bunning of Federal District Court. The contempt finding was another legal defeat for Ms. Davis, who has argued that she should not be forced to issue licenses that conflict with her religious beliefs.
  “The
  
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• For Christopher—an Orca Flipping a Dolphin

  03-09-2015 18:44
  
  Christopher has been on an orca kick lately—and I hope whatever story he writes will include at least a parenthetical rumination on how sudden obsessions develop—so I hope he enjoys this gif of an orca flipping a dolphin into the air during a hunt.
  According to a Canadian whale biologist, orcas tend to head-butt prey—sometimes a whole pod rams a sperm whale, stuns it, and then nips off pieces of flesh. (That head-butting of large objects explains how orcas have been able to si
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Teachers To Take Strike Vote This Afternoon, No Charges Against Officer in Olympia Shooting

  03-09-2015 17:16
  
  Seattle Public School teachers demonstrating at Garfield High School yesterday afternoon. "We hope that school starts on time," said a man with a bullhorn. "But whenever it starts, it's gonna be with a fair contract." ES
  Seattle Teachers Vote Today on Whether to Strike: "Seattle educators will vote Thursday on whether to strike after contract negotiations with the school district ended earlier this week without a tentative agreement," the Seattle Times reports. "Organizers expect the largest tur
  
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• Widow Protests Darigold For Safety

  03-09-2015 04:31
  
  Widow Protests Darigold For Safety
  
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• Obama first US president to visit Arctic, offers aid for climate-stricken Alaska coastal villages

  03-09-2015 03:59
  
  Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to cross the Arctic Circle on Wednesday, visiting Kotzebue, Alaska, and focusing on native coastal villages hit hard by eroding shorelines, loss of protective sea life and other consequences of climate change. The worst-hit villages, in northwest Alaska, sit along shores of the Chukchi Sea, where the Obama administration has permitted Shell Oil to resume drilling despite protests by major environmental groups. President Barack Obama poses for a photo
  
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• B-17 bomber runs above Seattle? Passenger runs, anyway

  03-09-2015 02:26
  
  A WWII-era Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress will be on display and conducting passenger (not bombing) runs over Seattle Friday through Monday.A ride aboard the craft gives a hint of what its crew must have endured on sometimes 12-hour missions during the war.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: My Son Just Came Out As Poly

  03-09-2015 02:16
  
  Our son, who is almost 30 years old, was married four years ago. He just shared with us that for the last three years he and his wife have been practicing polyamory. They are committed to their relationship, but have each had relationships with both men and women over the last three years. We are trying to get our heads around this, as we come from a more traditional background (we've been married 40 years in a loving and respectful relationship), and we find ourselves feeling very sad. We are a
  
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• Olympia Police Officer Who Shot Two Black Men Won't Face Charges

  03-09-2015 01:59
  
  The second-story window of a home in Olympia was pierced by a bulleton May 21, when Olympia police officer Ryan Donald shot two men with skateboards who he was chasing after a reported robbery. Kyle LaCasse
  The AP reports:A prosecutor says no charges will be brought against an Olympia, Washington, police officer who shot and injured two men he says repeatedly threatened him, including with a skateboard.
  At a news conference Wednesday, Thurston County Prosecutor Jon Tunheim said the officer had j
  
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• Actor Dean Jones is Dead at 84. Here He is Singing the Sondheim Song "Being Alive" at 49.

  03-09-2015 01:57
  
  Dean Jones and co-star in Monkeys, Go Home (1967)
  Dean Jones, who died yesterday from Parkinson's Disease, had a peculiar kind of career. He was a character actor who looked just enough like a leading man to be able to swerve between principal roles in goofy Disney trash like The Love Bug, That Darn Cat!, Monkeys, Go Home, and The Shaggy D.A. and parts on the legitimate stage. It was a very 20th century kind of showbiz life, and one which any actor could be proud of—he worked consistently
  
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• Actor Dean Jones is Dead at 84. Here He is Singing the Sondheim Song "Being Alive" at 39.

  03-09-2015 01:57
  
  Dean Jones and co-star in Monkeys, Go Home (1967)
  Dean Jones, who died yesterday from Parkinson's Disease, had a peculiar kind of career. He was a character actor who looked just enough like a leading man to be able to swerve between principal roles in goofy Disney trash like The Love Bug, That Darn Cat!, Monkeys, Go Home, and The Shaggy D.A. and parts on the legitimate stage. It was a very 20th century kind of showbiz life, and one which any actor could be proud of—he worked consistently
  
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• British Columbia uses transfer to punish wildlife officer who saved two bear cubs

  03-09-2015 01:53
  
  The British Columbia government has used a transfer to punish a Vancouver Island wildlife officer who refused to shoot two orphaned black bear cubs after the cubs’ mother was killed for raiding homes near Port Hardy. Bryce Casavant has been transferred out of the Conservation Officer Service, even as the two cubs are thriving at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Service and are scheduled for release in a remote wild setting next year.  Casavant has been given another government job,&
  
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• The Reading Party Is Tonight! At 6 pm! I Can't Believe It's September Already!

  03-09-2015 01:36
  
  Are you aware that it's September already?I can't believe it's the first Wednesday of the month. I almost forgot that the reading party is tonight. It's minutes away. Here's where the reading party happens.Here's what the reading party sounds like.Paul Matthew Moore will be on piano from 6 pm to 8 pm.If you're new: You bring whatever you feel like reading, and sit there and read to yourself while waiters bring you things. That's it. I'll be reading Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. And you?
  
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• Panasonic Is Bringing Back the Technics Turntable

  03-09-2015 00:56
  
  Technics' new prototype turntable, soon to be back in heavy rotation.
  Panasonic has announced that it will relaunch its beloved Technics turntable—albeit in revamped form—as early as 2016, according to wired.co.uk. The Japanese company discontinued the popular deck in 2010, probably from a combination of declining demand and its disinterest in manufacturing replacement parts for malfunctioning units. Certainly over the last decade DJs have been increasingly moving away from using vin
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of September 2

  03-09-2015 00:11
  
  FESTA/SHUTTERSTOCK
  VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22): "I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand." So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)." We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say it's a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, let's go with the latter
  
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