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• Why you should vote for the $930 million Let’s Move Seattle levy

  20-10-2015 23:55
  
  Editor’s note: We are taking a look at the $930 million transportation levy on the November ballot in Seattle. Today, we look at reasons for voting for it. Next we look at reasons to vote against it. In Seattle we dream big dreams,and try to realize those dreams in an hourglass-shaped city built on hills and bounded by water. The necessity, as Emerald City voters decide the fate of Proposition 1 on their November ballot, is to create and rehabilitate an infrastructure that will keep pace w
  
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• Cancer group’s mammogram advice: Start later and get fewer

  20-10-2015 23:42
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The American Cancer Society now says women should start mammograms later in life and get fewer of them, a stance that puts the trusted group closer to an influential government task force’s advice. In new guidelines out Tuesday, the cancer society recommends that most women should begin annual screening for breast cancer […]
  
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• Vigilant dog named Egypt foils Mount Baker burglary despite injuries

  20-10-2015 23:13
  
  Seattle police are crediting a dog named Egypt with scaring off a suspected burglar despite suffering cuts to her paws.
  
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• NTSB: Capt. of sunken ship intended to sail 65 mi from storm

  20-10-2015 23:06
  
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal investigators said Tuesday that the captain of the doomed cargo ship that sank after being battered by a hurricane intended to pass 65 miles from the center of the storm, a decision maritime experts say was risky. The 790-foot El Faro left after the National Hurricane Center sent out an […]
  
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• Like Comedy, Blood, Vampires, Zombies, Aliens, and Patton Oswalt? You May Like Freaks of Nature

  20-10-2015 22:38 via thestranger.com
  
  If you're a fan of the horror/comedy genre, then direct your attention to this red band (read: DIRTY!) trailer for Freaks of Nature (coming to theaters October 30). It's about a young man whose small hometown is the WORST—primarily because along with humans, it's populated by vampires, zombies, and now? Aliens. This is one of those "throw everything at the screen" flicks (including buckets of blood and gore), and has a very fun cast that includes Ed Westwick, Patton Oswalt, Keegan-Michael
  
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• From One Reprobate To Another

  20-10-2015 22:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Your recent story live for This American Life went straight to my cold, sinful heart. My parents were Amish until the year I was born after which they transferred to a very conservative Mennonite community. The main difference from the Amish was we could have cars and electricity in our home. Like you, it was at age 14 that I began to rebel directly against the church and demanded answers to questions like "Why would wearing jeans and a belt (as opposed to suspenders) send me to hell?" and "Wha
  
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• Reichert decided to skip governor’s race after poll

  20-10-2015 22:28
  
  Congressman Dave Reichert’s decision not to challenge Gov. Jay Inslee in 2016 came after a poll paid for this summer through the state Republican Party.
  
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• Man who killed 5 relatives with meat cleaver gets 125 years

  20-10-2015 21:54
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man who used a meat cleaver to butcher five of his relatives, including four children under 10, was sentenced Tuesday to 125 years to life in prison. Mingdong Chen had pleaded guilty to murder and manslaughter charges under a plea deal accepted on the condition that he “be incarcerated until […]
  
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• Seattle Is Not Being Changed by Amazon but by Financial Institutions

  20-10-2015 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Amazon's new headquarters in downtown Seattle. Charles Mudede
  Much of the blame—maybe too much—on the rising costs of living in Seattle has been placed on Amazon and tech workers. But the source of the major housing issues Seattle faces will eventually prove not to be in the sectors of production (Boeing) or distribution (Amazon) but in finance. We pick on Amazon because, despite being a tech company, it is a visible and hard entity. Finance capital, on the other hand, is as substant
  
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• Inslee reverses panel’s decision to increase cougar hunts

  20-10-2015 21:21
  
  The governor said a state wildlife panel’s April decision to expand cougar hunting in areas of Washington occupied by wolves was an improper application of state law.
  
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• Jim "Do You Know How Many People I've Killed?" Webb Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race

  20-10-2015 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  He's considering a run as an independent. He also thinks the confederate flag should still be flying above capitol buildings in the South.United States SenateLast we heard of Jim Webb he was talking about how we weren't hearing enough from him during the first Democratic debate last Tuesday. At one point, he tried to hide his boner while alluding to the fact that he'd killed a combatant during the Vietnam War. Glad he's finally coming to terms with that, and in such a healthy, public way.But no
  
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• What's Very Wrong with "How Not to Be a Restaurant Racist"

  20-10-2015 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  You should go read "How Not to Be a Restaurant Racist."
  Last week, local writer (and Stranger contributor) Naomi Tomky wrote an article published on CityLab titled “How Not to Be a Restaurant Racist.” You should read it. Tomky explores what she calls the “restaurant racism” of diners who are unwilling to pay higher prices for non-Western food, as well as only classify Chinese, Ethiopian, and Mexican cuisines as “ethnic” although French, Italian, and German foo
  
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• New breast cancer screening guidelines: clarity or confusion?

  20-10-2015 20:40
  
  The American Cancer Society issued revised guidelines for mammograms Tuesday, but local experts worry that women will remain confused about their care.
  
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• Vote Jeanne Kohl-Welles for County Council District No. 4

  20-10-2015 20:08 via thestranger.com
  
  The Notorious JKWAs a state senator down in Olympia, JKW was a good, solid Democrat. But JKW will have to step that lefty shit up if she's going to be on the King County Council. Being a good progressive in King County means being further left than what we expected of you in the morally bankrupt, right-tilting state legislature.
  In Olympia, Kohl-Welles worked on issues we care about like marijuana and paid parental leave, but she has also depended on deeply flawed anti-sex-work "research" to def
  
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• Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do This Week: Back to the Future Day Edition

  20-10-2015 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Tomorrow is Back to the Future day, the day Marty McFly traveled to in the movie.
  There are hundreds of events happening this week, and our critics have recommended the very best for you. But there are many, many more that fall outside of their carefully curated scope. Here are the top ten Stranger than usual picks for the upcoming week, including an adult Legos session, a creepy-crawly cocktail evening, and some Back to the Future-related parties.
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  Legos and Libation
  The Library teams up w
  
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• Hillary Clinton is on the rebound in new polls

  20-10-2015 20:03
  
  Hillary Clinton has endured a summer and early fall of falling poll numbers, East Coast media preoccupation with her emails and being the object of ceaseless Sunday psychobabble columns by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times. Now, on the eve of her House Benghazi committee testimony, scheduled for Thursday, two newly released national polls show Clinton on the rebound. Hillary Clinton’s book was a snoozer, but last week’s Democratic debate performance has bucked up her poll ratin
  
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• Democrats May Have to Bail Out Republicans After Boehner Resignation Chaos

  20-10-2015 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Nancy Pelosi may get a chance to realize the dream of really sticking it to those Republican SOBs. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  John Boehner has about a week and a half left until the day he said he'd be leaving Congress, but Congress doesn't seem to be any closer to figuring out his replacement. In fact, things have only gotten crazier in the last month, and it's starting to look like the Republican control of the House could collapse without a bailout from an unlikely source: Democrats.
  That
  
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• Gilmore Girls Is the Latest Dead TV Show to Get a Revival on Netflix!

  20-10-2015 19:28 via thestranger.com
  
  I hope Logan isn't getting revived along with Gilmore Girls.
  Ready your coffee cups! According to TVLine, beloved-but-jumped-shark-and-canceled TV show Gilmore Girls is getting a limited-series revival thanks to Netflix, the cryo-lab of television.
  This is great news, especially for the show's original creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, who left after season six during Gilmore Girls' initial run. In her absence, the show's final season presented a remarkably terrible devolution of a great show, on
  
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• Man clipped by freight train dies in Clark County

  20-10-2015 19:09
  
  A man is in critical condition after being struck by a freight train early Tuesday morning in Clark County.
  
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• Diver dies in waters off Port Gamble

  20-10-2015 18:45
  
  A 25-year-old commercial diver was working on an underwater environmental study when he failed to surface Monday afternoon.
  
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• The Dodgiest of Amazon-Themed Artworks Just Got Dodgier

  20-10-2015 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  This is how Amazon Art pictures pieces for sale so that people can see what the art would look like in their living room... Courtesy of the artist and Aktionsart
  ...but this particular video, Video Art General Intellect Query III, for sale on Amazon Art now, is not exactly a pretty picture that looks good with your couch.
  It's James Coupe's chilling work of art generated by hiring workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk online market, where there is no minimum wage and no legal authority to enforce
  
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• Dalai Lama calls action on climate a ‘human responsibility’

  20-10-2015 18:22
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — The Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged strong global action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments, including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau. Calling climate change a “problem which human beings created,” the 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said all of humanity was now responsible for taking action. But […]
  
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• Philippine storm blows away after leaving 22 dead

  20-10-2015 18:00
  CABANATUAN, Philippines (AP) — A storm finally blew away from the main northern Philippine island Tuesday, after leaving at least 22 dead over the weekend and forcing more than 100,000 villagers into emergency shelters and destroying rice fields ready for harvest. Disaster-response agencies said the rain dumped by Tropical Storm Koppu in the mountainous north […]
  
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• The Morning News: Voting Party Tonight, a CEO's $4.3 Million Bonus, and Next Year's Transit Overhaul

  20-10-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  These ballot boxes are sitting in The Stranger's office, ready for your votes! Do not spill beer on these bad boys. ES
  Got Your Ballot? Bring it to our Voting Party at the Comet tonight! Several of the candidates will be in attendance, as well as Mayor Ed Murray and Governor Jay Inslee (!!! for 15 to 20 minutes !!!).Endorsements and Cheat Sheet? We've got 'em right here.
  The Average Capitol Hill Property Value Nears $1 Million: "Property values on Capitol Hill have gone up 15% this year &md
  
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• Olympia brewery going on the auction block

  20-10-2015 17:43
  
  The vacant site will be sold in four separate pieces -- not including the historic brewhouse, which may be redeveloped.
  
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• American Cancer Society says start mammograms at 45, not 40

  20-10-2015 17:27
  
  New American Cancer Society breast screening guidelines recommend annual mammograms at age 45 instead of 40, switching to every other year at age 55.
  
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• Monitors arrive after radioactive waste site fire in Nevada

  20-10-2015 16:45
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Radiation wasn’t immediately detected during fly-overs of a burned trench containing long-buried radioactive waste at a commercial disposal site in rural southern Nevada, state and federal officials said Monday. Ground testing was scheduled next, headed by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency radiological emergency team sent to the site about 115 miles […]
  
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• Idaho man gets jail time for offering scholarships for sex

  20-10-2015 16:01
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An Idaho college’s former financial aid director has been sentenced to 107 days in jail for charges related to offering students financial aid in exchange for sex. The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/1kmqlH9) that a judge also gave 37-year-old Joseph Bekken three years of probation and a $10,000 fine. He will be allowed […]
  
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• Monarch butterflies get help from unlikely source: California’s drought

  20-10-2015 15:34
  VISTA, Calif. (AP) — The struggling monarch butterfly is getting help from an unlikely source: the California drought. Californians have been ripping up their lawns in record numbers and many are planting native, drought-tolerant plants instead — including milkweed species native to California that can thrive in arid conditions. The female monarch butterfly will only […]
  
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• Sheriff’s deputy injured when patrol car crashes in Shoreline

  20-10-2015 15:32
  
  The deputy was en route to the Fred Meyer in Shoreline — where another deputy was involved in a foot pursuit — when his patrol car struck a fire hydrant and embankment at North Richmond Beach Road and Dayton Avenue North.
  
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• Scientists enlist mussels to monitor pollution in Puget Sound

  20-10-2015 15:28
  
  Because the shellfish do not metabolize contaminants, state scientists will be able to see what pollutants are being washed into the Sound with stormwater.
  
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• Who Do We Want as Our New King County ASSe$$or? John Wilson!

  20-10-2015 15:03 via thestranger.com
  
  John Wilson Courtesy John WilsonInterviewing county tax assessor candidates? How the fuck were we going to stay awake for that? So the SECB broke into Savage's cocaine drawer before this one. And while cocaine is bad for you and no one should do it—except for Savage, who tells us he has a medical cocaine license—we're sure glad we! Did the! Cocaine! Because thanks to our EYES WIDE AWAKE state we could see that the challenger in this race, John Wilson, is the cool dad we wish we had g
  
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• Seattle middle and high schools would start later under superintendent’s proposal

  20-10-2015 14:00
  
  Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Larry Nyland will introduce his recommendation for changing bell times at Wednesday’s School Board meeting.
  
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• Demeaning mascots and skewed history lessons makes school unfriendly for Native Americans

  20-10-2015 14:00
  
  Native American youth, parents and advocates told federal officials that their efforts to make school more inviting are frequently dismissed or met with hostility, according to a report on a nine-city "listening tour" that concluded in Seattle last November.
  
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• Man in black SUV tried to lure a 13-year-old into his car in Seattle

  20-10-2015 06:26
  
  The student said the man approached her on her way to school Monday morning in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, according to Seattle police.
  
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• Everett officer charged with DUI after rollover crash

  20-10-2015 06:21
  
  At least one blood-alcohol test registered at .207. The state legal limit is .08.
  
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• Racing to the finish line at Magnuson Park

  20-10-2015 05:45
  
  Bicyclists work their way throughout the muddy course during a cyclocross race at Magnuson Park.
  
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• State’s I-1401 seeks to fight slaughter of elephants, other wildlife in peril

  20-10-2015 05:43
  
  Proponents say I-1401 would provide another tool to fight illegal wildlife trafficking that imperils species. Opponents, however, say the law would not stop poaching but would penalize antique owners.
  
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• Initiative seeks to stem slaughter of elephants, other threatened wildlife

  20-10-2015 05:43
  
  Proponents say I-1401 would provide another tool to fight illegal wildlife trafficking that imperils species. Opponents, however, say the law would not stop poaching but would penalize antique owners.
  
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• Seattle School Board races: Transparency, funding issues loom large

  20-10-2015 05:29
  
  At least three and possibly four of the Seattle School Board’s seven members will be newcomers after the November election.
  
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• Trudeau is in as Canada’s next prime minister; Harper and his Conservatives are out

  20-10-2015 04:03
  
  Justin Trudeau learned to navigate tricky rapids of Canada’s wildest rivers and to dig honey pots in camp at night, a version of the skills the 43-year-old will need in and out of parliament as Canada’s next prime minister. Trudeau’s Liberal Party won an outright majority in parliament. The election marks a decisive rejection of, and end to the political career of, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Justin Trudeau:  Canada’s next Prime Minister “My fri
  
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• Election night in Canada: Trudeau is in as Canada’s next Prime Minister: Harper and his Conservatives are out

  20-10-2015 04:03
  
  Justin Trudeau learned to navigate tricky rapids of Canada’s wildest rivers and to dig honey pots in camp at night, a version of the skills the 43-year-old will need in and out of parliament as Canada’s next Prime Minister. Canada’s TV networks were projecting by early evening that Trudeau’s Liberal Party would form the country’s next government.  The election marks a decisive rejection of, and end to the political career of, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen
  
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• All boats great and small

  20-10-2015 03:56
  A variety of watercraft are moored in South Lake Union, from high-end yachts to decommissioned fireboats.
  
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• 15 Photos from the Treasure Island Music Festival, a Floating Carnival in the Clouds

  20-10-2015 02:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Treasure Island: a fan-friendly festival in the Bay Area.
  Have you ever wondered what it feels like to attend a music festival inside a cloud? It's no accident that the logo for the Treasure Island Music Festival features a pirate ship. Situated on its namesake artificial island between Oakland and San Francisco, the event felt like being at sea in the seemingly ever-present fog of the bay. Although it made for a cool and damp evening, the watery remove from the city gave the festival the intima
  
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• TOMORROW: The Stranger's Voting Party!

  20-10-2015 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Why vote alone at home with your cheat sheet when you can grab your cheat sheet and a beer and vote in public with Dan Savage and the Stranger Election Control Board?We'll be at The Comet from 6 - 9 p.m. tomorrow night, along with a number of politicians who'll deliver SHORT speeches at an appropriate distance from these:
  Look what King County Elections dropped off this morning! ES
  Already planning to show up: Mayor Ed Murray, who wants to talk about the "Let's Move Seattle" levy; Port Commissi
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Problem With My Gay Brother Isn't That He's Gay

  20-10-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  I know that family issues aren't exactly your specialty but I am a huge fan of your column and would love to hear your advice. I am an almost 30 straight-ish woman.I have a brother "Ed" in his early 20s who is gay. I knew when he was about 12 because he frequently used my laptop to look for porn. He came out to me when he was around 16. I told him I supported him and that when/if he wanted to come out to our parents I would be there.He officially came out a few years ago. I'm happy that he is ab
  
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• Trump dropping out? Nope, he’s picking up support in new national survey

  20-10-2015 01:42
  
  Weekend predictions of Donald Trump’s demise, delivered by Washington, D.C., pundits, get followed early in the week by polls showing Trump leading the Republican field. Ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: “Across the spectrum of foreign policy, Mr. Trump talks about things as if he’s still on The Apprentice.” “When Trump quits” is the latest such story on Politico, followed by a Politico magazine piece, beneath a big picture of “The Donald”, in which Britis
  
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• Police: Lynnwood man likely killed by man met through online ad

  20-10-2015 01:40
  
  A Lynnwood man who was found dead inside his town house last month was apparently killed by a man he had recently met through Craigslist, police say. California authorities have arrested the suspect and recovered the victim’s stolen car.
  
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• Lynnwood man likely killed by man he met through ad, police say

  20-10-2015 01:40
  
  A Lynnwood man who was found dead inside his town house last month was apparently killed by a man he had recently met on Craigslist, police say.
  
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