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• Northeastern gives tuition cut to parents, siblings in grad school

  17-10-2015 22:23
  
  Officially called the Lifetime Learning Membership, it’s meant to show parents that the university is looking out for them, too.
  
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• Father held in son’s shooting

  17-10-2015 19:16
  
  A Snohomish County man was shot in an apparent domestic violence dispute.
  
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• Vote Yes on City of Seattle Proposition No. 1, the "Let's Move" Levy for Transportation Improvements

  17-10-2015 17:46 via thestranger.com
  
  When was the last time Seattle traffic made you feel this sunny? Checubus/Shutterstock
  Yes, this is a huge levy. At $930 million, it's the biggest one in Seattle's history. The city estimates it will increase property taxes for the median Seattle homeowner by about $145 a year or $12 a month.
  And yes, property tax levies are inherently problematic and we're sick of paying for everything with them. We've already endorsed—what—40 or 50 property tax levies in this one batch of endorseme
  
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• Vote Yes on City of Seattle Proposition No. 1 (AKA the "Let's Move" Levy for Transportation Improvements)

  17-10-2015 17:46 via thestranger.com
  
  When was the last time Seattle traffic made you feel this sunny? Checubus/Shutterstock
  Yes, this is a huge levy. At $930 million, it's the biggest one in Seattle's history. The city estimates it will increase property taxes for the median Seattle homeowner by about $145 a year or $12 a month.
  And yes, property tax levies are inherently problematic and we're sick of paying for everything with them. We've already endorsed—what—40 or 50 property tax levies in this one batch of endorseme
  
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• Roseburg, Oregon: a community of contradictions

  17-10-2015 17:00
  
  In the days after a mass shooter shattered this conservative timber town, a journalist returns to find the people of her hometown to be sharply opinionated, even stubborn, yet eager to do all they can to help each other heal.
  
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• Authorities arrest Lynnwood murder suspect in California

  17-10-2015 14:32
  
  LYNNWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Officials say a suspect has been arrested in the September murder of a man in his apartment north of Seattle. Lynnwood police said Friday that after Christopher Davis was found dead by officers called to check his welfare on Sept. 20, detectives learned his vehicle had been stolen and entered it […]
  
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• Scores join coach in postgame prayer

  17-10-2015 07:24
  
  A huge crowd joins in a show of support for a Bremerton assistant, who conducted his traditional postgame prayer in defiance of orders from school district officials.
  
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• Crowd prays with coach as he defies school district

  17-10-2015 07:24
  
  A huge crowd joins in a show of support for a Bremerton assistant coach, who conducted his traditional postgame prayer in defiance of orders from school district officials.
  
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• Shrugging at squatters is the new normal for Seattle

  17-10-2015 06:24
  
  What’s happening with the squatters in the old Seattle Times building is a metaphor for the whole city.
  
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• The little steamboat that could …

  17-10-2015 06:09
  Sketched June 11 and Oct. 6, 2015 When I arrived at the Center for Wooden Boats North Lake Union Workshop and Warehouse back in June, Team Puffin volunteers looked at me like I just dropped from another planet. “You haven’t taken a ride on the Puffin?” Puffin, a little steam launch built in 1906, is […]
  
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• Teenaged girl, man found dead in Lynnwood are identified

  17-10-2015 05:57
  
  Snohomish County medical examiner identified the two people who were found dead from gun shot wounds in Lynnwood Thursday as a 16-year-old girl and 33-year-old man.
  
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• Mountlake Terrace High student fatally shot, man kills self in Lynnwood

  17-10-2015 05:57
  
  Snohomish County medical examiner identified the two people who were found dead from gun shot wounds in Lynnwood Thursday as a 16-year-old girl and 33-year-old man.
  
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• Egg donors challenge pay limits, saying they shortchange women

  17-10-2015 05:42
  
  A federal class-action lawsuit questions compensation guidelines in a largely unregulated industry and seeks to increase egg donors’ negotiating power.
  
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• Woman, 64, dies after being found lying in Kitsap County road

  17-10-2015 04:26
  
  Authorities are seeking the public’s help in investigating the death of a 64-year-old woman who may have been the victim of a hit and run in Port Orchard, Kitsap County.
  
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• State authorities investigating fatal road accident

  17-10-2015 04:26
  
  Authorities are seeking the public’s help in investigating the death of a 64-year-old woman who may have been the victim of a hit and run in Port Orchard, Kitsap County.
  
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• For some Eastside voters, voter pamphlets missing info

  17-10-2015 04:13
  
  The King County Elections Department said details on a ballot measure and candidate were missing from some residents’ voter guides.
  
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• Federal appeals court hears fish-blocking-culvert case

  17-10-2015 04:02
  
  The long-running culvert case, filed by Western Washington tribes in 2001, potentially has far-reaching consequences for development and hundreds of millions of dollars of state spending to fix salmon-blocking road culverts.
  
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• Plastic debris, textile fibers found in fish sold at markets

  17-10-2015 03:25
  
  Researchers California and Indonesia are reporting some of the first findings of plastic debris and textile fibers in fish on consumers’ dinner plates.
  
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• Pope Francis, the way of St. Francis, and Sandy Brown a trekking Methodist from Seattle

  17-10-2015 03:08
  
  Before doorbelling on streets without sidewalks, as a candidate in the City Council District 5 race, Seattle Methodist minister Sandy Brown crossed The Pond last year and took a post-pastoral trek in Italy between Florence and Rome. It was a literary and spiritual journey as well as a very long walk.  Brown was retracing paths used by St. Francis of Assisi, taking copious notes that went into his newly published guidebook,  “Trekking the Way of St. Francis” (www.ciccerone.c
  
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• Authorities issue arrest warrant in Lynnwood homicide

  17-10-2015 02:40
  
  Officers believe they found the person who killed Christopher Davis, who was found dead inside a Lynnwood apartment on Sept. 20.
  
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• Threatened sea duck may be reintroduced in SW Alaska

  17-10-2015 02:26
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A colorful, threatened sea duck whose numbers plummeted in Alaska may be reintroduced to the southwest corner of the state. Federal wildlife officials are taking public testimony on possible environmental effects of a plan to move breeding pairs of Steller’s eiders to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, where the birds once thrived. Only […]
  
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• A place in Seattle to remember, and learn from, the Holocaust

  17-10-2015 02:01
  
  The Holocaust Center for Humanity — the first Holocaust museum in the Pacific Northwest — opens Sunday in Seattle.
  
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• Chris Jeffries and Sarah Rudinoff Perform at the Frye Tonight at 7 pm and Saturday at 2 pm

  17-10-2015 01:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Here they are getting ready in a Frye Art Museum storage closet. The Frye doesn't have a green room. Kelly O
  On opening night of Genius/21 Century/Seattle, a retrospective of artists who've won Stranger Genius Awards, Frye Art Museum director Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker admitted to the crowd that they didn't know what a green room was before they undertook this exhibition.The reason the Frye needs a green room these days is because, in addition to the four-month-long art exhibition, the Frye commissi
  
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• Kirkland bear’s busy day: trip to Fred Meyer, nap, ride in a pickup

  17-10-2015 00:57
  
  The wanderings of the elusive Kirkland Bear ended on Thursday night when he was treed and captured.
  
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• Kirkland bear’s busy day: trip to Fred Meyer, climb a tree, ride in a pickup

  17-10-2015 00:57
  
  The wanderings of the elusive Kirkland bear ended on Thursday night when he was treed and captured.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 13 Free and Easy Things To This Weekend

  17-10-2015 00:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Chris Jeffries and Sarah Rudinoff, two Stranger Geniuses, will perform Friday evening and Saturday afternoon at the Frye. Kelly O
  You made it to the end of another week: congratulations. Unfortunately, you're also strapped for cash and/or time. No worries: here's a bunch of free stuff happening around town this weekend, including Uncle Ike's first birthday, a reading by "kick-ass lesbian punk bard" Eileen Myles, and a vaudeville show at the Sorrento.
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• Department of the Interior Cancels Arctic Lease Sales in 2016 and 2017

  17-10-2015 00:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Kayaktivists are going to be happy about this.Alex Garland
  Whoa. It looks like Shell's decision to suspend its quest for Arctic oil is having far-reaching consequences for the country's drilling strategy.Today, the Department of the Interior announced that it would cancel lease sales in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in 2016 and 2017."In light of Shell’s announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales i
  
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• Insider vs. outsider in race for director of elections

  17-10-2015 00:45
  
  Zack Hudgins and Julie Wise, candidates for King County elections director, differ on the quality of job the office has been doing.
  
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• The Real Late-Night Food Scene in Seattle—and Its Challenges

  17-10-2015 00:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Ho Ho Seafood: Very fresh seafood in the International District at any hour.KELLY O
  A rock band sits at the bar as three guys—one wearing a fur coat and no shirt—are kicked out. Then the assistant chief of the Seattle Police Department and his son walk in for breakfast. According to Dave Meinert, this is the type of crowd that comes into his 5 Point Cafe (415 Cedar St), one of Seattle's few 24-hour restaurants.
  While people may complain about the lack of late-night food options in Se
  
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• Flint reconnects to Detroit water to resolve health concerns

  17-10-2015 00:43
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Flint reconnected to Detroit’s water system Friday in hopes of resolving a health emergency spurred by a switch to river water that was aimed at saving money but left children with elevated lead levels. The city said Detroit water would be introduced into the system through the evening, with a complete […]
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Lose the Moral Panic

  17-10-2015 00:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on September 25, 2013.
  My girlfriend and I have a vibrant relationship. Sex is great and adventurous when we have it, but I have one small issue that clouds up the sexual chemistry and turns me into a somber theologian: Since the earliest days of my childhood, I was told by my family that abortion was a horrible, horrible thing. And that thought has complicated my relationships. I simply don't know how to get past this thought and indulge my partner and myself sexually without
  
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• The New Cover of Ebony Shatters the Image of The Cosby Show

  17-10-2015 00:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Bill Cosby's family might have been fictional, but it was very real to Ebony and its readers.Ebony Magazine
  The new cover of Ebony says it all. The glass of a framed portrait of one of the most famous fictional American families, the Huxtables, has been smashed. And not by accident. This was done deliberately by one whose heart has been broken. There is no picking up the pieces after this.Ebony worshiped The Cosby Show. It exactly represented its idea of black middle-class prosperity. The Cosby
  
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• Government cancels upcoming oil lease sales in the Arctic, citing ‘low industry interest’

  17-10-2015 00:16
  
  The Obama Administration is canceling 2016 and 2017 oil lease sales in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas of Arctic Alaska, weeks after Shell Oil’s decision to end its exploration efforts in the Arctic after disappointing drilling results this summer. “In light of Shell’s announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half,” Interior Secretary Sally Je
  
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• The Forbidden Room Is Like Guy Maddin’s Greatest Hits

  17-10-2015 00:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room plays like a super cut of films from different countries, genres, and eras (but mostly the late 1920s and early 1930s). Using title cards, on-screen text in varying fonts, German Expressionist lighting, Soviet-style montage, and artificially aged digital imagery, he constructs a labyrinthine narrative that doubles as a sort of miniature film festival.
  Maddin begins and ends the proceedings with Marv (Louis Negin), an avuncular fellow in big black glasses and a lo
  
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• Seattle man charged with killing stranger after minor argument

  17-10-2015 00:03
  
  King County prosecutors have charged a 34-year-old South Seattle man with second-degree murder, alleging he pulled a gun and fatally shot a 20-year-old following a minor argument outside a Rainier Valley gas station.
  
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