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• British Columbia Premier Christy Clark describes Sounders as ‘Seattle Princesses’

  21-09-2015 23:43
  
  She has blown off Gov. Jay Inslee and Washington’s congressional delegation when they complained about Victoria sewage dumping, and now the British Columbia premier has insulted the Seattle Sounders. In the midst of the Sounders’ 3-0 thrashing of the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday, Clark tweeted: The Seattle Princesses are putting on quite a performance tonight. So many miraculous recoveries. #VWFC #VANvSEA — Christy Clark (@christyclarkbc) September 20, 2015 The trash-talking
  
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• Marysville motorcyclist dies in crash witnessed by family

  21-09-2015 23:34
  
  A 41-year-old Marysville man died in a motorcycle accident witnessed by his relatives on Sunday morning.
  
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• Seattle orchestras in full swing

  21-09-2015 23:23
  
  Prompted by the first concerts of the Seattle Symphony's season, Seattle Sketcher brought out some previously unpublished drawings inspired by local musicians.
  
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• Scott Walker Drops Out of 2016 Presidential Race

  21-09-2015 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Walker had to be this high to ride the 2016 roller coaster. When he slipped off his platforms and put his back against the giant ruler, he was found wanting. Bye. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Two down, fifteen to go.The New York Times reports that Scott Walker has decided to end his campaign. Those close to the candidate say he had to shut it down for one reason: money. He hasn't raised enough.Walker billed himself as a fighter, someone who could go up against liberals and win, just like he w
  
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• PDC probe: Eyman used $170,000 in initiative donations for ‘personal living expenses’

  21-09-2015 22:12
  
  Initiative promoter Tim Eyman diverted donations from one signature campaign to finance another, took a $308,000 payment without telling officers in his Voters Want More Choices and put $170,000 to his “personal use,” according to an investigation by the state Public Disclosure Commission. “Beyond using at least $182,000 in contributions raised by Voters Want More Choices for Initiative 1185 to support another initiative, staff found evidence that Mr. Eyman made personal use of
  
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• PDC probe: Eyman used $170,00 in initiative donations for ‘personal living expenses’

  21-09-2015 22:12
  
  Initiative promoter Tim Eyman diverted donations from one signature campaign to finance another, took a $308,000 payment without telling officers in his Votes Want More Choices and put $170,000 to his “personal use,” according to an investigation by the state Public Disclosure Commission. “Beyond using at least $182,000 in contributions raised by Voters for More Choices for Initiative 1185 to support another initiative, staff found evidence that Mr. Eyman made personal use of a
  
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• "I'm Not a Child Having a Fit." Noise Music Phenom Pharmakon on the Difference Between Making Art and Exorcising Demons

  21-09-2015 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Pharmakon: "I am not a 'hysterical' woman flailing about to exorcise inner demons." Sacred Bones Records
  Pharmakon (aka New York’s Margaret Chardiet) thrust herself into the underground-music limelight right out of the gate in 2013 with her debut album, Abandon, on Sacred Bones Records. For a noise opus, it exhibited a rare command of dynamics and drama. Its opening track, “Milkweed/It Hangs Heavy,” begins with a shattering scream (think Diamanda Galás gone death metal),
  
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• "I'm Not a Child Having a Fit." Noise Music Phenom Pharmakon on the Difference Betw Making Art and Exorcising Demons

  21-09-2015 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Pharmakon: "I am not a 'hysterical' woman flailing about to exorcise inner demons." Sacred Bones Records
  Pharmakon (aka New York’s Margaret Chardiet) thrust herself into the underground-music limelight right out of the gate in 2013 with her debut album, Abandon, on Sacred Bones Records. For a noise opus, it exhibited a rare command of dynamics and drama. Its opening track, “Milkweed/It Hangs Heavy,” begins with a shattering scream (think Diamanda Galás gone death metal),
  
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• Now Tim Burgess Has His Own Rent Control Resolution

  21-09-2015 21:49 via thestranger.com
  
  What the hell is Tim Burgess up to with this rent control resolution? City of Seattle
  After a split vote in a city council committee last week, a rent control resolution sponsored by Council Members Nick Licata and Kshama Sawant looked headed for defeat. Now, a stripped down version may have a shot.
  Even more interesting is who's bringing it forward: Council President Tim Burgess, who wasn't at last week's vote but has said he opposes asking the state to lift its ban on rent control.
  Even weirde
  
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• 3 injured — 1 lost a hand — in pipe bomb explosion near Woodinville

  21-09-2015 21:35
  
  One man lost a hand and two others were injured when a pipe bomb exploded Sunday near Woodinville.
  
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• Greece's Radical Left Party Wins Support of Voters in Snap Election

  21-09-2015 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Alexis Tsipras returns to power after winning Greece's second national election this year. Arvnick/Shutterstock.com
  This is how it happened. In January 2015, the citizens of Greece voted into power a leftist party, Syriza, for one reason: end the austerity program imposed by the German and French banks who loaned the country a ton of cheap cash after it entered the eurozone in 2001. Deep cuts in government spending (austerity) has resulted in the collapse of the Greek economy, the privatization
  
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• SPD credits ‘superhero’ Phoenix Jones with pointing out assault suspect

  21-09-2015 21:21
  
  Credit self-styled crime-fighter Phoenix Jones with an assist after helping Seattle police in the arrest of an armed man for investigation of assault.
  
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• Audit comes down hard on state’s first charter school

  21-09-2015 20:55
  
  First Place Scholars, the state’s first charter school, got more state money than it should have after providing inaccurate information, says the audit, part of an investigation that began last year when the school was put on probation for other issues.
  
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• The 11 Best Things To Do This Week

  21-09-2015 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Decibel Festival's Optical Kick-off Party is on Wednesday.
  FESTIVALS
  Decibel Festival
  For the 12th year in a row, director Sean Horton has lined up a world-class bill for Decibel Festival. It's another bountiful smorgasbord of electronic-music and digital visual art, featuring an exciting array of artists working in techno, house, hiphop, ambient, footwork, night bus, R&B, and other genres. See the full Decibel schedule on our Things To Do calendar.DAVE SEGAL (Starts Wednesday)
  Washington St
  
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• Eyman received secret payments from signature firm, PDC says

  21-09-2015 20:30
  Tim Eyman received secret payments from a signature-gathering firm and illegally used campaign donations for personal expenses, according to an investigation by the state Public Disclosure Commission, which wants the attorney general to get involved.
  
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• Artist Jack Daws Wins the Betty Bowen Award

  21-09-2015 20:25 via thestranger.com
  
  This is Jack Daws's sign that's not a sign but that's art, part of this summer's Duwamish Revealed. Courtesy of the artist
  Today, the art of Seattle's Jack Daws (most recent work) is declared officially "original, exceptional, and compelling" by the Betty Bowen Award committee, which annually gives a Northwest artist $15,000 in unrestricted funds.
  Two artists also win $2,500 each in Special Recognition Awards, and this year those are Eirik Johnson of Seattle (one of my favorite of his photograph
  
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• Alaskans to receive $2,072 each in this year’s payout from state’s oil investment fund

  21-09-2015 20:21
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaskans to receive $2,072 each in this year’s payout from state’s oil investment fund.
  
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• Incorrect GPS may have led Oregon man to remote road — and death

  21-09-2015 19:56
  Investigators say a 69-year-old man on an extended fishing trip appears to have taken a wrong turn on the way to a lake in far Eastern Oregon.
  
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• Man arrested for shoving cop after wedding bells turn to blows on Capitol Hill

  21-09-2015 19:44
  
  Wedding bells turned to blows on Friday, prompting Seattle police to arrest one rowdy for investigation of assault.
  
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• Bremerton woman ejected from car, killed in Idaho crash

  21-09-2015 19:23
  
  A Bremerton woman was killed after rolling her car over in south-central Idaho.
  
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• Person of Interest: Emily Denton, yogi

  21-09-2015 19:07 via thestranger.com
  
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• Children OK after school-bus crash in North Bend

  21-09-2015 18:41
  
  The driver of a vehicle involved in a head-on collision with a school bus has been taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
  
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• Tropical Storm Ida strengthening in the Atlantic

  21-09-2015 18:33
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Ida is getting stronger in the open Atlantic but isn’t a threat to any land. The storm’s maximum sustained winds Monday morning increased to near 50 mph (80 kph). The U.S. National Hurricane Center says additional strengthening is forecast during the next day or so, followed by slight weakening on […]
  
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• New York Military Academy closes after 126 years

  21-09-2015 18:10
  CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — The 126-year-old New York Military Academy — once attended by Donald Trump, Stephen Sondheim and John Gotti — has closed its doors and is up for auction. The New York Times reports (http://nyti.ms/1Kqcnw3 ) the doors of the financially-struggling private boarding school were closed for good last Monday, despite promises of […]
  
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• Authorities: Trap explodes near marijuana grow; man injured

  21-09-2015 17:55
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Authorities say a man was injured by an explosion after stepping on one of several booby traps set to protect a large marijuana growing operation in Detroit. Officer Dan Donakowski says the 28-year-old man apparently tripped the explosive Sunday morning while walking in a vacant field on the city’s west side. Donakowski […]
  
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• Study: Twice as much trash put in landfills as estimated

  21-09-2015 17:54
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are sending more than twice as much trash to landfills as the federal government has estimated, according to a new study. It turns out that on average America tosses five pounds of trash per person per day into its landfills, according to an analysis of figures from the same study, which […]
  
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• The Morning News: A Human Blockade in Tacoma, an Injured Bear in Port Orchard, and Not Enough Urinals at Amazon

  21-09-2015 17:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Protesters are blockading the Northwest Detention Center this morning to keep buses of deportees from leaving. Ansel Herz
  The protest group includes environmentalists and queer activists. Ansel Herz
  More than 20 People Locked Themselves Together:Outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma this morning, blocking three exits to stop buses from leaving.Another Protester Climbed a Lamppost: And unfurled a banner facing the cellblocks that says, "You are not alone." The protester was still there
  
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• Survey: 1 in 4 college women report unwanted sexual contact

  21-09-2015 17:42
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A quarter of undergraduate women surveyed at more than two dozen universities say they experienced unwanted sexual contact sometime during college, according to a report released Monday. The results of the Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey come at a time of heightened scrutiny of the nation’s colleges and universities […]
  
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• Protesters Are Blocking Three Exits at One of the Biggest Immigrant Detention Centers in the US Right Now

  21-09-2015 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Last year, a smaller action reportedly inspired a weeks-long hunger protest inside the detention center.Ansel Herz
  More than 20 people are blocking exits at the Northwest Detention Center, a privately-run immigrant detention center in Tacoma with 1,575 spaces for detainees. The protesters, whose arms are locked together, deployed at 5:30 this morning. Stranger reporter Ansel Herz is embedded with them, tweeting live.Last year, a smaller-scale blockade reportedly inspired a hunger strike inside t
  
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• WSU student hospitalized after fall from fraternity fire escape

  21-09-2015 17:36
  Police were called to the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on Colorado Street just after 10 p.m.
  
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• Kelso teachers vote to defy court order to go back to school

  21-09-2015 17:19
  
  Negotiations between striking teachers and the Kelso School District are set to resume Monday.
  
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• Trial set to begin for father of teen who killed 4 classmates in Marysville

  21-09-2015 17:13
  
  Raymond Lee Fryberg is charged with six counts of illegally possessing firearms, including the one used by Jaylen Fryberg at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.
  
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• Seattle's Teachers Ratify Contract and End Strike, But Now the Fight Goes to Olympia

  21-09-2015 16:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Now that teachers won gains for students in their contract, they plan on fighting for adequate school funding at the state level.Kelly O
  Seattle's unionized teachers, paraprofessionals, and office staff voted to ratify a contract with the school district on Sunday night, ending a five-day strike that was suspended after bargaining teams reached a tentative agreement last week. The educators'fight for legal school funding, however, is far from over.Unlike the thunderous, unanimous "AYE!" vote to
  
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• The Who 50th Anniversary Concert at Key Arena Postponed Until Next Year Because Roger Daltrey Has Viral Meningitis

  21-09-2015 15:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Roger Daltrey's viral meningitis has necessitated that the Who postpone the tour celebrating their first half-centaury. Ride a Rock Horse (1975) cover designed by Graham Hughes
  The Who have announced that all 50 dates of their 50th Anniversary American tour, which was scheduled to begin this week (with a Seattle date Sunday Sept 27 at Key Arena), will be postponed until next year, because Roger Daltrey, the band's 71-year-old lead singer, has contracted viral meningitis. The band's website publi
  
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• Oregon power company seeks to change renewable-energy rules

  21-09-2015 15:43
  
  The power company PacifiCorp is asking Oregon to change green power rules so as to reduce contract lengths and lower the amount of renewable power it is required to accept.
  
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• Goddamn It, Several Great People Won Emmys and Several More were Nominated

  21-09-2015 15:03 via thestranger.com
  
  "And let me tell you something," said Viola Davis, accepting her award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama. "The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there."It feels stupid to feel stupid about getting emotionally involved in Hollywood awards ceremonies, but, you know, life is suffering short, so one may as well be candid. The 67th Emmy Awards happened last night, and an impressive number of massively t
  
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• Drivers should expect major traffic headaches during Chinese president's visit

  21-09-2015 14:20
  
  Drivers should expect major traffic headaches during Chinese president's visit
  
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• Chinese president's visit: What you need to know

  21-09-2015 14:20
  
  Drivers should expect major traffic headaches during Chinese president's visit
  
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• Buses rerouted for Chinese president's visit to Seattle

  21-09-2015 14:20
  
  Drivers should expect major traffic headaches during Chinese president's visit
  
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• New business degree speeds up process of getting a college credential

  21-09-2015 14:02
  
  A new competency-based business degree offered by Washington community colleges will allow students to skip material they've already mastered.
  
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• Body of hiker found covered in mud on California mountain

  21-09-2015 07:24
  GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say the body of a man was found covered with mud and debris in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Glendora. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says a hiker found the dead man near a trail, just south of the Bridge to Nowhere in the Angeles National Forest on […]
  
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• Alaskans eager to learn amount of upcoming oil payout

  21-09-2015 05:40
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Oil prices are so low, they’re hovering at benchmarks not seen in years, plunging oil-dependent Alaska into a crippling budget deficit. But the industry’s woes won’t affect the payout from the state’s oil investment account to Alaskans even though state government has been scrambling to pay the bills. In fact, most […]
  
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• Seattle teachers ratify contract

  21-09-2015 04:50
  
  With the approval of the contracts, the strike, which was suspended, now officially ends.
  
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• Army re-christens Stryker Brigade at Lewis-McChord

  21-09-2015 04:36
  
  What looks like a simple name change for a Stryker Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord means much more for thousands of military families who passed through the South Sound during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
  
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• KPLU changes tune, courts Seattle jazz community

  21-09-2015 03:54
  
  A new KPLU general manager is upping the station’s game with more jazz programming and education, a news/culture show and a beefed-up online video series offering more opportunities to local musicians.
  
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• Dancers celebrate Latino community

  21-09-2015 03:51
  
  Fiestas Patrias celebrates Western Washington’s Latino community and independence in several Latin American countries.
  
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• For 2 homeless families, a simple parking lot meant relief

  21-09-2015 03:33
  
  A woman with her 7-year-old son puts her many worries to rest each night in a van outside the church. A family of five spent six months in their vehicle in the parking lot, and now works to pay back the church’s generosity.
  
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• ‘Desperately needed’: safe parking spaces for homeless

  21-09-2015 03:33
  
  A Kirkland church has opened its parking lot to homeless families living in their cars. It’s a low-cost lifeline for the one-third of King County homeless people who still have a vehicle to sleep in, but the model has only been duplicated a handful of times.
  
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• ‘Desperately needed’: Church provides safe parking spaces for homeless

  21-09-2015 03:33
  
  A Kirkland church has opened its parking lot to homeless families living in their cars. It’s a low-cost lifeline, but the model has only been duplicated a handful of times.
  
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• Seahawks Sherman, Bennett add different nuances to race question

  21-09-2015 03:01
  
  Debate between two Seahawks illustrates the need for context in discussions about race.
  
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