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• Surprise! Bertha's Tunneling Restart Date Postponed Another Month

  22-10-2015 23:56 via thestranger.com
  
  This is the fourth time that the state's contractor, Seattle Tunnel Partners, has extended the tunnel's opening date. First it was December 2015. Then it was November 2016, August 2017, March 2018, and now April 2018. Washington State Department of Transportation
  "It's like a practical joke at this point, right?" That's what Heidi Groover asked me after I opened the e-mail from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). It announced that Bertha's restart and completion dates woul
  
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• One of the world's 'most haunted hotels' is in Seattle

  22-10-2015 23:46
  
  USA Today names Seattle's Sorrento Hotel one of the world's 13 most haunted hotels. 
  
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• Idaho agency finds historic footage of parachuting beavers

  22-10-2015 23:45
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than half a century after a group of beavers parachuted into the Idaho backcountry, officials have uncovered video of the quirky wildlife management moment. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game was struggling with an overpopulation of beavers in some regions in the 1940s when wildlife managers settled on a […]
  
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• ‘What we have learned here is nothing,’ Rep. Adam Smith on Clinton’s Benghazi interrogation

  22-10-2015 23:43
  
  Veteran U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., came out swinging in defense of Hillary Clinton on Thursday as Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee staged a day-long inquisition of ex-secretary of state and front runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. “It is a prosecution, it is a partisan exercise: We are now five hours into it, and we have learned nothing about what happened in Benghazi.,” said Smith, a panel member and ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Co
  
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• Savage Love: One Last Time

  22-10-2015 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  I'm a straight guy, married for 16 years, kids in school. My wife cannot find a way to be intimate with me. We've had therapy individually and together. I nearly divorced her, but we decided to stay together—we do love each other, and the economics and child-rearing favor it. After I asked for a divorce, she fucked the shit out of me for the first time in 10 years. That was the last time she fucked me. She's "broken"—her word, not mine, and her final answer. When the subj
  
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• If You Like to Complain About Millennials, You Should Calm Down and Read Rookie

  22-10-2015 22:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Penguin Random HouseThere's a reason so many grown-ass women read this website for the youths.
  A review copy of Rookie Yearbook Four just arrived at the office, and I can't stop reading it. The online magazine for teenage girl geniuses, created by actual teenage girl genius Tavi Gevinson, Rookie has grown a lot in its four years of existence, and Gevinson will be on hand for a book release at University Book Store on Wednesday, October 28.
  In the interim, Vanity Fair has a great interview with G
  
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• Bertha’s restart delayed again; will there be drilling by Christmas?

  22-10-2015 22:38
  
  Tunnel-boring machine Bertha’s restart date will be delayed a few weeks, until Dec. 23, a month beyond the latest projection.
  
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• Stuart McLeod's Tetraktys Is a Pyramid Scheme Dream in Sound

  22-10-2015 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  "Tetraktys" by Stuart McLeod
  Unbeknownst to most in the universe, Seattle composer/vibraphonist Stuart McLeod released in July one of the region's best albums of 2015. Tetraktys (China Sea Recordings) somehow eluded me until this month, but I'm making up for lost time by immersing myself in its special aural glow.Tetraktys consists of four tracks of minimalist mesmerism. There's a complicated relationship with numbers in McLeod's work (which he explains below), but even if you're a math dunce, y
  
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• Hillary Clinton Wows Auds at Spectacular Benghazi Variety Show

  22-10-2015 22:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Benghazi hearings: ugh, if we must. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  Today's the big day when Republicans and Hillary Clinton get to grandstand at each other, make noises that will sound bold to their respective supporters, and then hopefully take a bow and move on their their lives.
  Naturally, the hearings were tense and bitter and unpleasant, so please do not subject yourself to the misery of watching them. (Obama certainly isn't.) As Bernie Sanders and Larry David have pointed out, America is s
  
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• I, Anonymous: Just Can't Hide It

  22-10-2015 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  It's a wonderful thing to be told you can't have a job because you're not excited enough for it. The phone interview was fine, I can do the job, I'm willing to do it, and the wage is okay. But the voice on the phone said that it would just be a waste of time for everyone if I didn't actually enjoy data entry…
  
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• What the Candidates Are Saying about All That Special Interest Money Flowing into City Council Races

  22-10-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Pamela Banks says Kshama Sawant should denounce all independent expenditures—even the union-funded independent expenditures supporting Sawant. Banks photo courtesy of campaign; Sawant photo by Kelly O
  On Friday, a blip appeared on the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission website announcing that a new group had formed to support city council candidate Pamela Banks. It quickly sent Kshama Sawant supporters into a frenzy.The group (officially an independent expenditure committee) hadn't ye
  
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• About Bill Bradburd's Campaign Slogan

  22-10-2015 21:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Unless the candidate is a Native American... I don't think "Take Back Seattle" is an appropriate campaign slogan. Bill Bradburd is not Native American.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• SPD’s chief operating officer, on job for 15 months, is resigning

  22-10-2015 21:46
  
  Mike Wagers, the Seattle Police Department’s chief operating officer, will leave his job and move back to Virginia.
  
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• SPD’s chief operating officer of 15 months leaving; successor named

  22-10-2015 21:46
  
  Mike Wagers, Seattle Police Department’s chief operating officer, is moving back to Virginia. SPD attorney Brian Maxey will take over the job.
  
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• Police find no evidence after caller says shots fired near Bailey Gatzert school

  22-10-2015 21:43
  
  Students at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School in the 1300 block of East Yesler Way are sheltering in place as Seattle police investigate a report of shots fired in the area, according to school-district authorities.
  
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• Support for legalized marijuana rises to 58 percent in Gallup Poll

  22-10-2015 21:42
  
  Fifty-eight percent of Americans now believe that use of marijuana should be made legal, “tying the high point in Gallup’s 46-year trend,” according to a Gallup Poll released on Thursday. The support for legalization is highest among so-called millennials, with 71 percent of those 18 to 34 saying that cannabis should be legal.  Sixty-four percent of those 35 to 49 years old agree, along with 58 percent in the 50-64 age group. At the same time, other data show increasing&nb
  
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• Today in "Perfect": Laverne Cox to Play Rocky Horror's Frank-N-Furter

  22-10-2015 21:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Sometimes Hollywood and the TV industry gets things so wrong, it makes you wonder, "Will they ever get anything right?" Well, here's something that's not just "right," it is absolutely "PERFECT."From Deadline:
  Laverne Cox already made history as the first transgender actor to receive an Emmy nomination. Now the Orange Is The New Black standout is breaking new ground for transgender performers as star of Fox’s TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Cox will play Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the
  
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• Police: Man admits to road-rage killing of New Mexico girl

  22-10-2015 21:09
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man confessed to fatally shooting a 4-year-old girl while arguing with her father as the two men drove down a freeway in separate vehicles, police said, without offering more details on what led to the apparent road-rage slaying. Tony Torrez, 32, was arrested Wednesday and admitted shooting Lilly Garcia while […]
  
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• Fatal shooting of 4-year-old began with traffic lane dispute

  22-10-2015 21:09
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Alan Garcia had just picked up his two children from school when it happened. He was trying to get off a freeway, and another car forced him out of his lane. Garcia gestured toward the other driver and swore at him. Then, authorities said, the seemingly trivial episode turned deadly. A […]
  
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• Plague spread 3,000 years earlier than 1st thought: 2,800 BC

  22-10-2015 21:08
  
  LONDON (AP) — The plague was spreading nearly 3,000 years before previously thought, scientists say after finding traces of the disease in the teeth of ancient people — a discovery that could provide clues to how dangerous diseases evolve. To find evidence of the prehistoric infection, researchers drilled into the teeth of 101 individuals who […]
  
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• NASA’s New Horizons on new post-Pluto mission

  22-10-2015 21:08
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights. NASA’s New Horizons was programmed to fire its thrusters Thursday afternoon, putting it on track to fly past a recently discovered, less than 30-mile-wide object out on the solar system […]
  
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• Letters to the Seattle Public Library About the Rebranding

  22-10-2015 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Have you written to the library board yet? Kelly O
  At the end of Rich's piece about the library's potentially multimillion dollar rebranding effort, he included a very important email address: [email protected].
  That is the email address for the board the city librarian reports to. If the library is going to go ahead with the next stage of the rebranding effort, the board has to approve it. So a lot of people have been writing letters to the board, and since we broke the news of the rebrandi
  
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• Girin Is a Great Steak House, and the Kimchi Is Good, Too

  22-10-2015 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Ssam kind of wonderful: pork belly. KELLY O
  It's a widely accepted practice for restaurants to describe their food as "elevated"—which drives me crazy. Whether applied to burgers, tacos, or bulgogi, it usually just means that a place is charging higher prices for something diners are accustomed to paying less for. It also implies that the original or traditional version of that food is somehow less valuable.Girin, which has been open in Pioneer Square for a little more than six months, bil
  
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• WSU researchers find wasp that kills stink bugs

  22-10-2015 20:39
  
  The discovery is good news because the wasp kills a type of stink bug that harms fruit orchards.
  
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• Sawant Defends Her Love of Sex and the City (and Other Stuff That Happened at Brett Hamil's New Show Last Night)

  22-10-2015 20:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Joel Connelly would have hated this show. It featured a lot of Sawant supporters and a nearly naked photo of a certain Seattle City Council candidate. Alex Garland
  That thing about Sex and the City is not a jokey clickbait headline under which I'm actually going to teach you about some wonky shit happening at City Hall. That's a real thing that happened, and it was one of the highlights of last night's "The Seattle Process," a new local-politics-focused live show from joke teller/writer/podcaste
  
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• Police release video of possible suspect in West Seattle arsons

  22-10-2015 20:36
  
  Police have released surveillance video of a potential suspect in a string of arsons in West Seattle.
  
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• Vancouver to clear out homeless encampments

  22-10-2015 20:35
  
  Vancouver, Wash., police are trying to clear out homeless encampments after a change to the city’s camping ordinance.
  
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• 2 Idaho officers injured during gun training

  22-10-2015 20:24
  
  Two officers were wounded after a gun discharged in the basement of the Lewiston Police Department.
  
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• Don't Miss These Three Lit Crawl Events

  22-10-2015 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  No one can listen to three hours of people reading poetry and prose and have a good time. Too many words. Brain fries up. So here are my own personal highlights of tonight's Lit Crawl Seattle. Alex Mit / shutterstockAs I mentioned in yesterday's post, there's an old man in me who reaches for his shakin' cane every time he hears the phrase "lit crawl." He remembers having to turn up his hearing aid to catch the carefully measured rhythms of the poets, to fully immerse himself in the novelist's wo
  
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• Victim of dam blast improves from critical to serious condition

  22-10-2015 20:16
  The condition of one of two men being treated at Harborview Medical Center for burns suffered in an explosion at the Priest Rapids Dam has improved from critical to serious condition.
  
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• 1 killed, 2 injured in shooting at Lacey home

  22-10-2015 19:10
  
  One person was killed and two others wound in a shooting at a Lacey home that police say may have been drug-related.
  
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• Person of Interest: Mal DeFleur, Drag Chanteuse

  22-10-2015 19:03 via thestranger.com
  
  KELLY O
  
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• Woman: Drop charge because blood was drawn 1 minute too late

  22-10-2015 18:53
  
  EMPORIUM, Pa. (AP) — A woman charged with drunken vehicular homicide is fighting to exclude blood-alcohol evidence from her case by arguing the sample was drawn too late. One minute too late. State Trooper Josiah Reiner testified Tuesday in Cameron County that a phlebotomist drew 22-year-old Kaitlyn Wolfel’s blood sample two hours and one minute […]
  
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• 3-year-old Oklahoma boy drives pickup after mother falls out

  22-10-2015 18:51
  
  ADA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old boy took the wheel of a pickup truck and drove it several blocks across four lanes of an Oklahoma highway after his apparently intoxicated mother fell out. Pontotoc County District Attorney Chris Ross says his office is preparing drunken driving charges against the child’s mother following the […]
  
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• Schools Superintendent Dorn won’t run for third term in 2016

  22-10-2015 18:50
  
  Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn says he will not run for a third term in office.
  
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• What to Make of the Girl Who Feeds Crows and the Lawsuit Against Her Family

  22-10-2015 18:49 via thestranger.com
  
  People in Portage Bay claim their neighborhood has become like Hitchcock's Bodega Bay.Charles Mudede
  Back in February, the BBC posted a story about a Seattle girl who got gifts from crows. She was brought bolts, beads, buttons, earrings, and bones, among other things. It was also revealed that she feeds these animals. The essence of the story, the reason it went viral, is it so perfectly, in the popular imagination, captured an innocent relationship between a child and the wild. The birds unders
  
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• Suspect in NYC officer’s fatal shooting a longtime criminal

  22-10-2015 18:35
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s mayor and police commissioner say a career criminal accused of gunning down a police officer should never have been out on the streets, and they blasted the legal system for sending him to drug treatment instead of jail months ago. Tyrone Howard, 30, is charged with first-degree murder and […]
  
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• Pacific nation of Palau making most of its seas a sanctuary

  22-10-2015 18:05
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Lawmakers in the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau passed a law Thursday to make almost all its coastal waters a marine sanctuary in the latest move to expand ocean protections. A news release said Palau’s president plans to sign the legislation next week. Friday is a national holiday in Palau. The […]
  
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• The Morning News: A Worrisome Poll for Patty Murray, a Council Majority Against Sawant, and Free Healthcare!

  22-10-2015 17:23 via thestranger.com
  
  Patty Murray: Politically vulnerable? Courtesy of Senator Patty Murray
  Potentially Bad Poll Numbers for Patty Murray: "A new poll finds U.S. Sen. Patty Murray with tepid job-approval numbers — but a big early lead over her Republican challenger — as she gears up for her re-election campaign in 2016," Jim Brunner reports. "Just 41 percent of voters surveyed gave the four-term Democrat a positive job rating, while 49 percent rated her performance 'only fair' or 'poor,' according to the
  
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• Coast Guard suspends search; no one went overboard from ferry

  22-10-2015 16:14
  
  Ferry staff confirmed that no one had gone missing from the vessel, after reviewing videotapes and checking to see that no personal items had been left on board.
  
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• 5 best bets for traditional Korean barbecue

  22-10-2015 16:00
  
  For galbi, bulgogi and banchan, the tastiest spots in the area.
  
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• Rainier Avenue closed for crash investigation

  22-10-2015 15:24
  
  Rainier Avenue South is closed both directions at the 9700 block due to a crash that sent two people to Harborview.
  
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• Excessive speed called factor in Rainier Avenue crash; 2 injured

  22-10-2015 15:24
  Rainier Avenue South was closed both directions at the 9700 block for six hours after the crash.
  
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• Vote Courtney Gregoire for Port Commission Position No. 2

  22-10-2015 15:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Courtney GregoireYou wise-asses must think you're real funny. More than 23,000 of you voted in the primary for Goodspaceguy, a perennial candidate who, by his own estimation, has lost at least 15 local races and HATES THE MINIMUM WAGE. No, not just $15. He doesn't think a minimum wage—any minimum wage—should exist. Do you want to burn it all down? All of it? Seriously, don't try to burn it all down just for the fun of watching Goodspaceguy light the match. There's actually a lot at s
  
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• What are you curious about when it comes to education in Washington?

  22-10-2015 14:01
  
  Participation in Education Lab IQ -- for "interesting questions" -- a new Education Lab project inspired by other reader-powered reporting across the nation.
  
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• UW regents didn’t comply with state open-meetings law when new president named, attorneys and advocates say

  22-10-2015 05:33
  Did the University of Washington Board of Regents follow the state Open Public Meetings Law when it named Ana Mari Cauce as the new UW president? Some aren’t so sure.
  
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• Did UW board comply with state open-meetings law when it named new president?

  22-10-2015 05:33
  
  Did the University of Washington Board of Regents follow the state Open Public Meetings Law when it named Ana Mari Cauce as the new UW president? Some aren’t so sure.
  
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• Fire district hopes to raise property taxes for facility repairs, tech updates

  22-10-2015 04:53
  
  South King Fire and Rescue is hoping voters approve a measure to fund building improvements, ranging from earthquake retrofitting to updating dispatch equipment.
  
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• WSP enforcing new open-container law for pot

  22-10-2015 04:52
  
  Bremerton-area state troopers are targeting motorists with open containers of marijuana in vehicles.
  
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