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• Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump: Bristol Palin blasts Ted Cruz as a ‘typical politician’

  19-01-2016 23:39
  
  Ex-Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has endorsed Donald Trump for President, becoming the highest ranking Republican officeholder or ex-officeholder to support the Republican presidential frontrunner. “She is a friend and a high quality person I have great respect for: I am proud to have her support,” Trump said in a statement. He described the endorsement of John McCain’s 2008 running mate as “coveted and influential.” Sarah Palin: A big name Republ
  
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• Detective: Shot car thief wanted cops to ‘finish the job’

  19-01-2016 22:54
  
  A man shot by Seattle police has been charged with assault following allegations that he threw a knife at one of the officers.
  
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• Win a pair of tickets to see IN-Spired presented by Whim W'HIM!

  19-01-2016 22:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Entries accepted until 4pm (PT) on Friday, January 22nd
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  Entries will also be accepted via social media. Just upload a photo of what inspires you and include #whimwhiminspired!
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• Italian surgeon seeks cash for human head transplant

  19-01-2016 22:43
  
  The last time we heard from maverick Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero, a Russian suffering from Werdnig-Hoffman disorder had volunteered for and been accepted to have his head removed from his troubled body and patched onto a donor body.
  
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• Mayor Murray to open parking lots for homeless living in cars

  19-01-2016 22:38
  
  Mayor Ed Murray announced Tuesday an emergency order to fast-track two "safe" parking lots for homeless people living in vehicles.
  
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• Woman’s body found off Vashon Island

  19-01-2016 22:35
  
  The sheriff’s office is asking for the public’s help in identifying the body of a woman found Friday in the water off Vashon Island.
  
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• What did Seattle’s dumped bride do after donating her wedding party to the homeless?: ‘Xanax and chill’

  19-01-2016 22:35
  
  The would-be bride and her family donated the wedding party this weekend to Mary's Place, a homeless shelter for women and children.
  
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• Judge will rule Thursday on Eyman tax measure

  19-01-2016 22:32
  
  A judge says he intends to rule Thursday on the legality of Tim Eyman’s latest anti-tax measure.
  
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• City Council Majority to Seattle Police Department: Put Your Disciplinary Data Online

  19-01-2016 22:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Last year, the SPD launched an online crime dashboard to give everyone easy access to crime data. Why not post data on complaints against police, too? SPD
  Its name may be a mouthful and the group's future may be uncertain, but the ideas of a scrappy police oversight body known as OPARB—that's the Office of Professional Accountability Review Board—are getting some traction. Five out of the nine members of the Seattle City Council are now joining the group in urging the department to b
  
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• King County's most in-demand jobs

  19-01-2016 21:40
  
  We looked at the Employment Security Department's top jobs in King County by online ads and the top employers based on the number of ads they posted.
  
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• Distracted Pedestrians Are Not the Same As Distracted Drivers

  19-01-2016 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Look at how a person texting and driving is just like a person texting and walking. Mike Focus/shutterstock.com
  This morning's column by the Seattle Times' Nicole Brodeur, "Seattle pedestrians bad at walking, motorists bad at driving," continues the century-old and very deadly tradition of insisting that the natural features of a big city (density, crowds, small roads) must conform to the extravagant and costly needs of car transportation. The car must not conform to the city (become smaller, mo
  
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• SMASH Offers Healthcare Aid to Low-Income Seattle Musicians and Industry Professionals

  19-01-2016 21:22 via thestranger.com
  
  A new nonprofit organization called SMASH (Seattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare) has arisen to provide "health education, advocacy, and healthcare" to low-income Seattle-area musicians and music­-business professionals, according to its website. SMASH's board of directors consists of Ian Moore, Jacqueline Ryall, Angila Jaeggli, Denise Stiffarm, Joleen McCauley, Steph Fairweather, and Aaron Starkey. Jaeffli, a naturopathic physician at Sage Integrative Medical Clinic, wrote on
  
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• City of Seattle Invests in the Development of the Central District’s "Africatown"

  19-01-2016 20:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Africatown seems to be slowly but surely coming to fruition in the Central District.Africatown
  If you live in Seattle and you're not familiar with the idea of Africatown, well, you should be. Think Chinatown, but for African-Americans and African immigrants in the historically black Central District. This new video, produced by community activist Wyking Garrett, introduces the concept in a brisk two minutes:On Saturday, Garrett hosted the third annual State of Africatown event at the Langston H
  
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• The nation’s largest gay rights lobby endorses Clinton, catches flak from Sanders campaign

  19-01-2016 20:39
  
  The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s most influential lobby for gay and lesbian rights, on Tuesday endorsed ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for President. The HRC’s ties with the “other” HRC are longstanding. Clinton’s national campaign manager Robby Mook told “HRC-HRC jokes when he spoke to a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Seattle last fall. Mook is the first openly gay manager of a presidential campaign. Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights
  
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• Puyallup woman killed in front of daughter is identified

  19-01-2016 20:30
  
  The woman who was shot and killed in front of her 5-year-old daughter outside their Puyallup home has been identified as Teresa Ryan.
  
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• A Few Bernie Sanders Victories Could Be Just What Hillary Clinton Needs

  19-01-2016 20:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Hillary clutches her pearls in mock surprise at the turnout. "You're all here to see ME?" Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  So far it's been a slow news day, election-wise. None of the candidates have dropped any babies they were trying to kiss, or hacked each others' mailing lists, or called for the deportation of an entire religious group. Good job, candidates!
  That means it's time for a little reflection on Hillary Clinton's rivalry with Bernie Sanders. Bernie was thought to be one of those long
  
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• East Coast, Ohio Valley brace for possible big snowstorm

  19-01-2016 20:00
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of millions of Americans from Washington to Boston and the Ohio Valley could be walloped by an end-of-the-week snowstorm, meteorologists say. Although it’s still early, computer forecast models all see a windy, strong slow-moving storm. The big questions are where and how much. “There’s going to be a big storm. Somebody’s […]
  
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• When It Comes to Housing, San Francisco Is Doing It Wrong, Seattle Is Doing It Right, Cont.

  19-01-2016 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Remember Sonja Trauss? She's the SF-based "deeply eccentric city-government nerd" and housing activist Kathleen mentioned in this recent Slog post. Trauss is a rarity among housing activists: she's pro-development, she wants to see more construction, not less, because she takes the long view:
  Here is how Trauss’s thinking goes: We need more housing units, and the market-rate units we build now will become tomorrow’s middle-income apartments. Her theory is based on her experience work
  
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• Ex-Sec. of Defense Gates on Republican candidates: ‘They don’t know what they’re talking about’

  19-01-2016 19:54
  
  Ex-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a Republican, cut loose on the GOP field of presidential candidates Tuesday morning during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “First of all, they don’t know what they’re talking about,” said Gates, a bestselling author who now lives and writes in Washington’s Skagit County. Robert Gates served as CIA director under President George H.W. Bush, and as Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and
  
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• Pickathon Lineup Announcement! And Slab Sessions, Episode 5: Joseph

  19-01-2016 19:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Last night Pickathon announced the first part of its lineup for the 2016 festival at a special event at Revolution Hall in Portland, and today, to celebrate, we're posting the latest episode of our Slab Sessions series. This one's pretty fantastic, with Oregon sister trio Joseph playing some stripped-down but rambunctious folk in the form of this song, "Wind."As with previous installments, Half Stop Sessions and Pickathon shot this on the mysteriously located Pickathon "slab," away from the hust
  
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• Center for Wooden Boats building new education center

  19-01-2016 19:25
  
  The 9,600-square-foot building will be adjacent to the center's South Lake Union headquarters.
  
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• Lawmakers move toward getting subpoenas in prison-release probe

  19-01-2016 19:09
  
  A state Senate committee has taken a step toward getting the subpoena power GOP lawmakers say is needed to investigate the mistaken early release of up to 3,200 prisoners since 2002.
  
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• Bellevue police detective will take fresh look at cold cases

  19-01-2016 19:09
  
  A Bellevue police detective will take a fresh look at several unsolved homicides and missing-person cases, including the 2011 disappearance of Sky Metalwala.
  
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• Flint mayor seeking help from Washington over water crisis

  19-01-2016 19:00
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The mayor of Flint, Michigan, is in Washington hoping to meet with President Barack Obama’s administration about the city’s water crisis. Mayor Karen Weaver joined Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on a conference call Tuesday. She says Obama “needs to hear first-hand what’s going on in Flint.” Corrosive water from the Flint River […]
  
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• Aurora lane closures, Day 1: Morning commute wasn’t too bad

  19-01-2016 18:57
  
  The first commute during what will be a weekslong construction project on Aurora Avenue North went pretty well. Will the rest of the week go as smoothly?
  
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• The Morning News: The Stranger Getting Rid of Weed Delivery Ads, State Legislator Asks Teens About Virginity Status

  19-01-2016 18:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Looks like pot delivery guys are going to have to find a new place to advertise starting in February. THE STRANGER
  City Attorney Pete Holmes Is Coming After "Black Market" Pot Delivery Services: Heidi wrote about the city's policy shift toward weed delivery guys last year. Yesterday, in a story on Pete Holmes' renewed push for a crackdown, KING 5 called out The Stranger's advertising section for hosting ads for delivery services.The Stranger Is Discontinuing Unlicensed Weed Delivery Ads: I e-mai
  
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• Salmon Bay K-8 and Ballard High briefly locked down after man seen with gun

  19-01-2016 18:33
  
  Seattle police are searching for a man who apparently dropped a gun near a school in Ballard then ran across the school campus with it. All students are safe, police say.
  
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• Everett to consider settlement in bikini-barista video case

  19-01-2016 18:31
  
  An Olympia man may get $45,000 from the city of Everett to settle a case about public-records requests for surveillance videos showing bikini baristas engaging in illegal activity.
  
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• Kayaker tangled in kite strings rescued by Coast Guard near Ilwaco

  19-01-2016 18:29
  
  Coast Guard crews have rescued a man whose kite-powered kayak had overturned in Baker Bay near Ilwaco on the Washington coast. The 55-year-old kayaker was in good condition Sunday night when helicopter crews hoisted him from the water.
  
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• Soon you’ll be able to drive faster in parts of Oregon

  19-01-2016 18:09
  
  Drivers in some areas of central and eastern Oregon will be allowed to travel at higher speeds under a new law set to take effect in March.
  
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• The Morning News: The Stranger Is Getting Rid of Unlicensed Weed Delivery Ads

  19-01-2016 18:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Looks like pot delivery guys are going to have to find a new place to advertise starting in February. THE STRANGER
  City Attorney Pete Holmes Is Coming After "Black Market" Pot Delivery Services: Heidi wrote about the city's policy shift toward weed delivery guys last year. Yesterday, in a story on Pete Holmes' renewed push for a crackdown, KING 5 called out The Stranger's advertising section for hosting ads for illegal delivery services.The Stranger Is Discontinuing Unlicensed Weed Delivery Ads:
  
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• Today, Mayor Ed Murray Will Issue Emergency Order to Open Two "Safe Lots" for Homeless People Living in RVs

  19-01-2016 17:21 via thestranger.com
  
  The first city-sanctioned homelessness encampments opened in Seattle in November. The safe lots will be similar, but will house RVs instead of tents. Kelly O
  The Seattle City Council and Mayor Ed Murray will officially announce their plans to open "safe lots" for homeless people living in RVs today, according to a source inside city hall. The idea, which has been recommended by homelessness advocates, rose to new prominence earlier this month after neighbors railed against RVs parked in their ne
  
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• Astronaut nurses zinnia to full bloom after mold invasion

  19-01-2016 17:20
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station is home to a new life form: a thriving zinnia with a beautiful orange-yellow bloom. Space station commander Scott Kelly showed off his gardening results over the weekend. He posted photos of the flower on his Twitter account. Last month, Kelly had to fight off mold […]
  
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• Hawking: Threats to human survival likely from new science

  19-01-2016 16:47
  
  LONDON (AP) — Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that new technologies will likely bring about “new ways things can go wrong” for human survival. When asked how the world will end — “naturally” or whether man would destroy it first — Hawking said that increasingly, most of the threats humanity faces come from progress made […]
  
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• Suspect, pit bull captured after 100-mph chase down I-405

  19-01-2016 16:28
  
  A high-speed police chase through Snohomish and King counties ended in Bellevue overnight as officers took out the suspect's car with a pivoting "PIT" maneuver.
  
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• Seattle to open parking areas for homeless in Ballard, Delridge

  19-01-2016 16:19
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray plans to issue a homelessness-emergency order Tuesday to quickly open safe sites in Ballard and Delridge for people living in vehicles.
  
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• Seattle pedestrians bad at walking, motorists bad at driving

  19-01-2016 16:00
  
  Between 2013 and 2014, there was a 200 percent increase in the number of collisions related to distracted driving, according to new data from the Seattle Department of Transportation. And drivers aren't the only ones distracted.
  
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• Amazon’s South Lake Union turf: Do you recognize this place?

  19-01-2016 15:10
  
  South Lake Union’s transformation — largely fueled by the growth of its highest-profile employer, Amazon — has had a ripple effect that’s reshaped the surrounding city, for better or worse.
  
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• Why the UW is bullish on innovation

  19-01-2016 15:05
  
  The University of Washington wants its students to become more innovative, and is discussing ways to foster that kind of education.
  
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• Panel’s goal: Make it easier for those with criminal records to get place to live

  19-01-2016 14:00
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is asking a new task force to help the city decide how to reduce barriers to housing for people with criminal records.
  
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• Star of film about dolphin killing detained at Tokyo airport

  19-01-2016 10:08
  
  TOKYO (AP) — The star of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove,” about a dolphin-killing village in Japan, has been detained by immigration authorities at Tokyo’s Narita international airport. Ric O’Barry, the former dolphin trainer for the “Flipper” TV series, said immigration officials barred him at the airport Monday and told him he couldn’t enter Japan […]
  
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• Seattle Clipper sold to German company; new routes planned

  19-01-2016 09:01
  
  The Clipper sale to Förde Reederei Seetouristik is not expected to bring changes to the Victoria Clipper lines. In fact, the acquisition is to allow Clipper to open a route between Vancouver and Victoria.
  
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• State lawmaker asks teens about their virginity

  19-01-2016 05:49
  
  Walking into a meeting with state Rep. Mary Dye, a group of high school students visiting Olympia with Planned Parenthood didn’t expect to be asked if they were virgins.
  
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• Canceled wedding reception a gift to homeless

  19-01-2016 05:42
  
  The hall had been rented and everything paid for, so a canceled wedding gave a gathering of homeless families a special night at a fancy venue in Sodo.
  
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• UW to demolish 2 old dorms, build 5 new ones

  19-01-2016 05:14
  
  The University of Washington is preparing to rework student housing on the north end of campus, replacing two old dorms with five new ones.
  
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• Two big environmental groups back Sen. Murray’s reelection: In lockstep with the Democrats?

  19-01-2016 04:15
  
  Two big, established environmental lobbies — the Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters Action Fund — are backing Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s bid for a fifth term. The endorsements signal that “big green” groups that once endorsed candidates of both parties have become a virtual functioning arm of the Democratic Party, in Washington and other states. Big environmental groups back Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., solidifying links to the Democratic Party. T
  
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• Arsonist targets Bellingham store for people in need

  19-01-2016 04:04
  
  Arsonist targets Bellingham store for people in need
  
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• Senators grill corrections head over early release scandal

  19-01-2016 03:56
  
  Senators grill corrections head over early release scandal
  
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• Search for the origins of dogs delves into murky roots of man’s sometimes best friend

  19-01-2016 02:25
  
  The popular origin story about where dogs came from (wolves?) does not pass muster with some experts. A large study being run out of the University of Oxford may soon provide some answers.
  
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• Voices from the Protest Part II: Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2016

  19-01-2016 02:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Ansel Herz
  MAYOWA AINA
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  University of Washington student
  President of the UW Black Students UnionWhy are you marching today?
  First of all, I think there's extreme economic inequality, there's extreme rent hikes. People don't have enough jobs. I feel it as a student, not being able to always pay on time. Secondly, I think there's an overall climtate of disguised liberalism. Seattle has this reputation of being a very liberal city, and me, as a black person in Seattle, I don't always feel that'
  
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