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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man Throws Boasts (and Dark Roasts) in a Belltown Elevator

  29-01-2016 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
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• I, Anonymous: Quit Your Bitchin'

  29-01-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  Dear Anonymous: You are the embodiment of everything that sucks about the PNW. Your inability to deal with situations in the moment and subsequent need to then harp about them behind a wall of anonymity in the only fucking newspaper Seattle has is an embarrassment. You are trying to escape the blame for your own inability to act in the moment—and every week, without fail, it's a fucking cringefest. Grow the fuck up…
  
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• Searchers find body of missing 2-year-old near Monroe

  29-01-2016 23:02
  
  The body of a 2-year-old who disappeared from his Monroe-area home Friday afternoon has been found in a nearby creek.
  
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• Search under way for missing 2-year-old in Monroe area

  29-01-2016 23:02
  
  A 2-year-old boy has been reported missing from his home near Monroe.
  
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• Did You See Chris Christie Pivot From Kim Davis to ISIS Last Night?

  29-01-2016 22:42 via thestranger.com
  Said Christie...
  "They want to impose their faith upon each and every one of us.... they want everyone in this country to follow their religious beliefs they way they do."
  He was talking about ISIS when he said that. But he could've just as easily been talking about Kim Davis and her BFF Tony Perkins.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• New to Town: An Incomplete Timeline of How Rap Replaced Rock as Seattle's Dominant Musical Force

  29-01-2016 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Shabazz Palaces: Ishmael Butler’s band has crafted a sonic cosmology as obscure as it is addictive. SUB POP
  Seattle used to be known for a handful of clichés: rain, coffee, Frasier, passive-aggression. And, of course, grunge. For a minute back in the era of George Herbert Walker Bush, Seattle was the hot spot for label scouts to discover the next Nirvana, the next Pearl Jam, the next Alice in Chains. This led to some bizarre bedfellows, as well as the beginning of a hesitant and ong
  
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• Massive sinkhole opens up near highway along Oregon coast

  29-01-2016 22:25
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Transportation officials say a massive sinkhole has opened near a highway along the southern coast of Oregon. The Oregon Department of Transportation says a sinkhole off Highway 101 has been plaguing the Curry County town of Harbor since heavy rains last month. A contractor was working on it Thursday when the […]
  
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• Seemingly Reasonable Bill Banning "Sex-Selection Abortions" to Get Hearing in Washington State Senate (Spoiler Alert: The Bill Isn't Reasonable and Women Will Suffer)

  29-01-2016 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The three Republicans behind the latest terrible anti-abortion bill in the Washington State Legislature: Ann Rivers, Mike Padden, Mark Miloscia. Washington state legislature
  Three Republican state senators have introduced a bill to outlaw abortions based on the fetus's sex. Unlike Republicans' other abortion-related nonsense this year, this bill is set to get a hearing and possible committee vote.
  Under this bill, doctors who were found to have knowingly committed an abortion knowing "the pregna
  
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• Medical-pot shops sue state, call licensing process ‘a mess’

  29-01-2016 21:53
  
  Several Seattle medical marijuana businesses have sued the state Liquor and Cannabis Board, alleging that regulators are not following rules in issuing new licenses for retail stores.
  
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• KPLU Raises $1 Million From Supporters In Less Than Three Weeks

  29-01-2016 21:49 via thestranger.com
  In December, all these people came out in the middle of the afternoon to protest the sale of KPLU, including one man who drove up from Tacoma. Ansel Herz
  Over the past eighteen days, supporters of public radio station KPLU have put their money where their mouths are, donating $1,032,517 to keep the station independent."We still have another six million dollars to raise by June 30th, but we’re off to a fast start," said KPLU general manager Joey Cohn, in a statement. "I want to offer my tha
  
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• This Week on Blabbermouth: If Seattle's Music Biz Is Worth $1.7 Billion, Why Are the Musicians All Broke?

  29-01-2016 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  If you're half as excited as Django is about the new Blabbermouth, you're in for the ride of your life! Mary Seton
  This week, Arts & Music Editor Sean Nelson fills in for Eli Sanders, who is gearing up for the release of his book, While the City Slept. (Don’t forget to check out Eli's reading Wednesday Feb 3 at Town Hall.) In the meantime, we blabber with Megan Brown, author of the new report that details the music industry’s impact on Seattle’s economy—spoiler: there
  
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• Ballard Record Store Sonic Boom for Sale

  29-01-2016 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Jason Hughes (left) and Nabil Ayers, circa 2003. Bradley Hanson
  Via Seattle Times
  Jason Hughes, owner of Sonic Boom is putting the Ballard record store up for sale. Asking price? $850,000, according to Puget Sound Business Journal. In that PSBJ entry, the reason listed for the sale is "Owner moving out of state."Reached for elaboration on the decision, Hughes said, "I have no comment. It's business as usual around here."
  UPDATE: A source says that Sonic Boom is doing well financially, especially
  
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• A Note on the iPad Waiters at JFK

  29-01-2016 21:16 via thestranger.com
  
  These iPads in Loft Kitchen & Bar are your waiters. Charles Mudede
  The moment I saw iPads on the tables of a restaurant, Loft Kitchen & Bar, in JFK, I knew exactly what they were doing, exactly who they had replaced: the waiter. As a consequence, I was thrown back to a conversation I had a year or so ago with an employee at the Safeway in University Village.I will not name this employee, nor specify his/her sex. What needs to be known is that s/he at that time was about to retire, had be
  
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• Fugitive found in ‘elaborate tunnel system’ at Alaska trailer park

  29-01-2016 21:15
  
  SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Authorities arrested a fugitive convicted on drug and theft charges after finding him hiding this week in what they called an “elaborate tunnel system” dug underneath a trailer home in Alaska. The tunnels narrowed as officers walked further in, forcing them to trudge through on their knees and then on their […]
  
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• 13 Movies To Help Cure Your Winter Doldrums This Weekend

  29-01-2016 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  It may feel like you're living the same day over and over, but it's actually just winter in Seattle. Liven things up with a movie, like Groundhog Day at Central Cinema.
  Our critics selected their favorite films this week, from wide releases to one-time showings, and we have the details on when and where to see all of them, from 45 Years to a documentary made from a book that was "indispensable" in Charles Mudede's film education to the continuing run of The Big Short. For even more movie times (
  
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• Raz Simone's Long-Awaited Trap Spirituals is Now Available for Free Download

  29-01-2016 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Worth the wait!
  If the temporarily blinding flash of Macklemore's "White Privilege II" sent you hurtling toward Raz Simone—who undoubtedly helped inspire that ungainly release—you're not alone. Not that you need a specific reason, of course.
  The process may have gotten you wondering when the prolific talent would let Trap Spirituals—the new EP/mixtape/whatever you're supposed to call albums-that-aren't-entirely-albums now (it feels like an LP; it has one song more than Blacksta
  
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• "New Jim Crow" Author Michelle Alexander on Hillary Clinton's Embrace of Mass Incarceration

  29-01-2016 21:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Hillary Clinton in 1994: "There is something wrong when a crime bill takessix years to work its way through the Congress, and theaverage criminal serves only four. There is something wrongwith our system." C-SPAN
  Acclaimed "The New Jim Crow" author and Ohio State University professor Michelle Alexander, one of the first to draw the nation's attention to the mass incarceration problem, posted this to her Facebook page yesterday:
  If anyone doubts that the mainstream media fails to tell the truth a
  
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• New to Town: A Guide to Coffee Shops Based on the Baristas You Will Be Supporting

  29-01-2016 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Caffe Vita: You want your tips to support drag queens? Then get your coffee at Vita.KELLY O
  If you're new here, you're going to need to find your local coffee shop pretty soon. Tons of factors go into this decision, such as location, coffee excellence, efficiency, number of outlets, and wi-fi generosity. But have you considered the fact that your daily nonfat latte in some ways helps to sustain the bodies and minds of young artists, and that you might include "artistic genre" among your java-joi
  
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• Theater shooting victim: ‘Can’t believe it happened to me’

  29-01-2016 20:42
  
  Michelle Mallari, who was wounded by gunfire last week in a Renton movie theater, said she didn’t realize she had been hit by a bullet until she reached the lobby.
  
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• Shockingly, Rich Weirdo's SuperPAC Is Overflowing with Eccentrics and Ted Cruz

  29-01-2016 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Who would give $11 million to support this guy's presidential run? A hedge fund manager Bloomberg calls "one of the wealthiest, most secretive, influential, and reactionary Republicans in the country." Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com
  Politics is the art of lying, but sometimes that art comes off more like a child's messy finger-paint splatter. An occasionally, that child is mystifyingly wealthy.
  For example, the eccentric case of Raynard Jackson and "Black Americans for a Better Future," a SuperPA
  
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• Dirty Bernie: The Phone Sex Hotline from the Only Democratic Candidate Who Elongates His Diphthongs

  29-01-2016 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  This week, the Democratic Socialist loses his temper and denies militiaman Ammon "Mundy" the release he seeks. Also, for seemingly no reason at all, the Batman villain Bane calls up the hotline.Mike Force
  Though the Iowa caucus is just a few days away, Bernie hasn't forgotten about his amorous, telephonic constituency.Return-caller Ammon "Mundy" finds himself locked up in county, far away from his beloved wildlife refuge. The feds have confiscated his dildo, "Mr. Chocolate," and so he's forced t
  
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• Soccer player Marco Pappa and ex-Miss Washington give conflicting accounts of December stabbing

  29-01-2016 19:52
  
  Former Miss Washington USA Stormy Keffeler and professional soccer player Marco Pappa gave police conflicting stories after the ex-Seattle Sounder suffered a stab wound in his apartment in December, according to a newly released police report.
  
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• Marco Pappa and ex-Miss Washington give conflicting accounts of December stabbing

  29-01-2016 19:52
  
  Former Miss Washington USA Stormy Keffeler and professional soccer player Marco Pappa gave police conflicting stories after the ex-Seattle Sounder suffered a stab wound in his apartment in December, according to a newly released police report.
  
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• Seattle’s Pronto bike-share program at risk of shutting down

  29-01-2016 19:39
  
  The city transportation department wants to take over the troubled, insolvent program. The City Council will be asked next week to approve $1.4 million to buy it.
  
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• The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Is No Longer Called the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

  29-01-2016 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  It's now called Twist.
  Why Twist? According to a statement from Three Dollar Bill Cinema, which produces the festival (this year's will be October 13-23, 2016):
  The word has film connotations: a physical filmstrip winding through a projector, or the elements of story structure such as a plot twist or an intriguing revelation.
  Moreover, “twist” evokes a festive, social, and celebratory spirit that is so often cited by Three Dollar Bill Cinema audiences and industry, who applaud the un
  
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• New One-Night Count Numbers Show 19 Percent Increase in Unsheltered Homelessness Across King County

  29-01-2016 19:18 via thestranger.com
  
  The number of people sleeping unsheltered in Seattle last night: 2,942. Ansel Herz
  Early this morning, volunteers fanned out across Seattle and King County to count the number of people sleeping in tents, doorways, vehicles, and parks or otherwise unsheltered.In a county that has declared a state of emergency because of homelessness, volunteers found a significant increase: 19 percent more people were sleeping unsheltered in King County last night than during a similar count at this time last ye
  
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• You Should Strongly Consider Attending the Conversation between Eli Sanders and Jennifer Hopper Next Week

  29-01-2016 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  What are you doing Wednesday, February 3? Do you have a thing? A previous engagement? Were you thinking about maybe just laying low and catching up on a few things? Maybe domestic duties call, or you want to re-commit to your self-care regimen, or you don't feel like you've been paying enough attention to your dog, or whatever I don't really care.Cancel whatever you have going on between 7:30 and 9:00 pm so that you can go to Town Halland hear the bravest woman in Seattle talk to the Stranger's
  
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• Bernie Bros: Same Old Trolls, Brand New Name?

  29-01-2016 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Rude, obnoxious, trolling Bernie Sanders supporters come to the attention of the BBC:
  After the 25 January Democratic town hall, Emily Nussbaum, television critic for the New Yorker magazine, tweeted some positive feedback for Hillary Clinton. "I'm into Hillary, obviously, but I genuinely thought she did really well tonight," Ms Nussbaum wrote. About a half an hour later, she followed up with this: "Man, the Feel The Bern crew (as opposed to Bern himself) is such a drag. Say anything pro-Hil &am
  
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• Ski report: Heavy snowfall in Cascades will be joyful for skiers and snowboarders

  29-01-2016 19:13
  
  Skiers and snowboarders are rejuvenating themselves for what should be a wintery weekend filled with powdery fun. The heavy rain that made a quagmire of the hillsides will quickly be covered with plenty of snowfall as a winter-storm warning is posted for the southern Cascades, and a winter-storm watch to the north. Every ski area […]
  
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• Count of Seattle, King County homeless finds 4,505 people sleeping outside

  29-01-2016 19:13
  
  The 2016 tally of people without shelter represents a 19 percent increase over last year and comes in a week when homelessness took center stage in the news.
  
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• Where To Eat Valentine's Day Dinner

  29-01-2016 19:12 via thestranger.com
  
  TOMSHINKA / SHUTTERSTOCK
  What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than showing your taste buds a little love at one of the restaurants offering a decadent February 14th meal? You can find a list of our favorites on our Valentine's Day calendar, but, to give you a taste, here are 10 recommendations from Angela Garbes—just make sure to make your reservations now.
  1. Cafe Juanita
  This gem of a northern Italian restaurant serves up a tasting menu with options including guinea fowl, Roman
  
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• The Frye's Mounting a Double Exhibition by Noah Davis and Kahlil Joseph

  29-01-2016 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  That's Noah Davis in 2010 with his son Moses, who's five years old now. They're sitting on the floor of the James Harris Gallery in Pioneer Square. Kelly O
  This is big news: The Frye Art Museum in April, working with guest curator Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, is mounting an exhibition of the work of two brothers who grew up in Seattle and then moved to LA, Noah Davis and Kahlil Joseph.
  Davis was a painter, a terrific one, who broke out into the wider art-world consciousness in the late 2000s and in 20
  
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• The Morning News: The Jungle Shooting Victims Were "Likely" Seeking Drugs, State Republicans Refuse to Say the Words "Planned Parenthood"

  29-01-2016 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The Jungle. SPD
  Seattle Times Reports That the Two People Killed in The Jungle Were There for Drugs: "Most likely, it was drugs," reports Mike Carter, citing interviews with family members of the victims. James Tran had recently sought drug treatment outside of Washington, while Jeannie Zapata had reportedly lived in The Jungle for years.
  The One Night Account of the Region's Homeless Population Happened Last Night: Dozens of volunteers fanned out across King County to count how many people are
  
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• Starfish piling up on along some Florida Panhandle beaches

  29-01-2016 17:46
  
  PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife officials say cold weather, storms and high tides have led to thousands of starfish washing up along the shoreline in Gulf County on Florida’s Panhandle. The Tallahassee Democrat (http://on.tdo.com/1TrvlrE ) reports that residents in Port St. Joe and visitors to Cape San Blas have been reporting and taking […]
  
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• New to Town: What You Need to Know About Your Rights as a Renter in Seattle

  29-01-2016 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  If you're new to Seattle, chances are you're a renter. Renters occupy more than half of the housing units in this city. And many more are on the way—the city expects about 100,000 people to move here in the next 20 years. Although the city is in the middle of a housing construction boom, rents are continuing to steadily increase (the average one-bedroom apartment in Seattle costs $1,592 a month, according to RentJungle.com).
  This is one reason that Seattle is, unfortunately, not the frien
  
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• State Republicans Refuse to Use the Words "Planned Parenthood" When Condemning Terrorism Against Planned Parenthood

  29-01-2016 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Pullman Planned Parenthood—or, as Republicans would like to call it, "women's health center"—that was heavily damaged in a September arson. courtesy of planned parenthood
  Republicans in the state legislature are on a roll this week: Weakening plans to address education funding, trying to prevent trans people from being able to use the bathroom, claiming the state should "quarantine" other cities from wage increases. Still, even amid all that, they found time to deal their latest
  
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• Guest essay: The conversation I’m tired of not having

  29-01-2016 16:00
  
  Amid all the different conversations happening in education policy, teacher Nathan Gibbs-Bowling writes about the one conversation he's tired of not having.
  
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• Eli Sanders revisits dark days of South Park rape and murder

  29-01-2016 16:00
  
  In the new book “While the City Slept,” writer Eli Sanders expands on his Pulitzer Prize-winning article.
  
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• Police-involved shooting leads to manhunt in Tacoma

  29-01-2016 15:54
  
  An officer-involved shooting led to an hourslong manhunt in South Tacoma early Friday morning, but the subject of the search eluded police.
  
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• Whatcom County man dies after being hit head-on by car trying to pass

  29-01-2016 15:31
  
  A 22-year-old man in a BMW caused the death of a Maple Falls man when he tried to pass a tractor trailer in Whatcom County on Thursday, police say.
  
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• Apartment owner ordered to install alarms after deadly Everett fire

  29-01-2016 15:08
  
  The city of Everett is ordering a company to install fire alarms on its residential buildings after a deadly apartment complex fire on New Year’s Eve.
  
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• Life at Zika epicenter a struggle for afflicted family

  29-01-2016 14:05
  
  RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — Around the fifth month of her pregnancy, Daniele Ferreira dos Santos fell ill with a high fever and angry red splotches on her skin. She soon recovered. But weeks later, when she went to the hospital for a prenatal exam, the news was horrific: The baby she was carrying likely had […]
  
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• Regulators get input — sort of — on self-driving car rollout

  29-01-2016 11:17
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators deciding how to permit the future rollout of self-driving cars have been told by consumer advocates that their cautious approach was right on, and by companies developing the technology that the current course will delay deployment of vehicles that promise huge safety benefits. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles […]
  
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• FBI shows video of Tuesday shooting of Oregon occupier

  29-01-2016 09:45
  
  BURNS, Ore. (AP) — A video showing the shooting death of an occupier of an Oregon wildlife refuge appears to show the man reaching into his jacket before he fell into the snow. The FBI said the man had a loaded gun in his pocket. Authorities played the video shot by the FBI at a […]
  
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• Meeting draws hundreds frustrated by RVs, property theft in Seattle

  29-01-2016 07:57
  
  A community meeting drew several hundred people. Drug and property crimes associated with homelessness took center stage.
  
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• Chinese ship with advanced sonar to search for Flight 370

  29-01-2016 06:14
  
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese ship equipped with advanced sonar equipment will soon join the search for the Malaysian airliner believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean almost two years ago, an official said on Friday. The Dong Hai Jiu 101 will leave Singapore on Sunday to join the hunt for Malaysia […]
  
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• Officials hopeful spring chinook will return as forecast

  29-01-2016 05:08
  
  Last fall, officials predicted more than 500,000 coho would return to the Columbia River, but the number turned out to be only about 100,000.
  
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• A rendezvous of boat seekers

  29-01-2016 04:30
  
  The Seattle Boat Show opens Friday, Jan. 29, at the CenturyLink Field Event Center and also at South Lake Union. It ends Feb. 6.
  
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• Seattle schools seek $1 billion through special-election levies

  29-01-2016 03:39
  
  Sixteen school districts in King and Snohomish counties will have levy or bond measures on the Feb. 9 special election ballot.
  
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