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• SPD: Boy, 15, targeted robbery victims through Craigslist

  10-02-2016 23:44
  
  Seattle police have arrested a 15-year-old boy suspected of robbing people of high-end sneakers after meeting them through Craigslist.
  
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• Beef Week Revisited

  10-02-2016 23:43 via thestranger.com
  
  We recently had ourselves the beefiest week EVER. While some beefs fade away, other beefs die hard. Here are some updates on resolved, latent, and ongoing beefs.Wiz enjoying victory and his cool pants
  RESOLVED BEEF: Wiz vs. KanyeRecap: Kanye West has renamed his upcoming self-described "album of the life" (as opposed to album of the year) three times so far (WAVES, SWISH, and So Help Me God). Wiz Khalifa questioned the name WAVES due to its similarity to the WAVY movement. This unleashed 30-plus
  
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• Seattle police arrest teen in armed Craigslist shoe robberies

  10-02-2016 23:26
  
  Seattle detectives arrested a a 15-year-old boy Tuesday in connection with a series of armed shoe robberies dating to December.
  
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• The Stoners Who Called the Cops on Themselves—And More Marijuana News

  10-02-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The entire 911 call is a superb blend of schadenfreude, comedy, and face-palm. THINKSTOCK
  It's been a few weeks now, but ICYMI, two guys who were trafficking 20 pounds of weed from Las Vegas to Montana apparently got really high, got really paranoid, and called the cops on themselves.
  According to East Idaho News, they over-toked, dreamed up a sophisticated undercover police operation far beyond what you would expect from a rural Idaho police department, and pulled over in the town of Rexburg to
  
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• King County Plans to Add a Bunch of New Ballot Drop Boxes Before This Fall's Election

  10-02-2016 23:08 via thestranger.com
  
  King County's permanent ballot drop boxes will hopefully look more legit than these boxes they gave us for our voting party last year. The Stranger
  Great news just in from the King County Elections Office and its new director, Julie Wise:
  The number of ballot drop boxes in King County will be quadrupled now that the County Council’s Budget Committee has approved a proposal by Director of Elections Julie Wise. The additional funding will also increase voter outreach in communities where Eng
  
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• For virtual reality pioneers, no rush to succeed in 2016

  10-02-2016 23:04
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Palmer Luckey doesn’t just want to sell a bunch of virtual reality headsets. He wants buyers to use them every day. The founder of Oculus told a group of developers working on VR content Wednesday that the immersive medium’s success should be measured by time— not necessarily money — spent on […]
  
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• Inslee appoints acting transportation chief

  10-02-2016 22:58
  
  The appointment of state Deputy Transportation Secretary Roger Millar to the top post follows the Washington state Senate’s move vote to oust Lynn Peterson.
  
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• Donate Tampons and Pantyliners To Help Homeless Women at a Party This Saturday

  10-02-2016 22:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Show up. Wear red. Bring a box of tampons for the insecurely housed and others in need.Kieran Archer
  Perhaps you've been following my esteemed colleague Heidi Groover's coverage of Seattle's homelessness crisis. Maybe you've read my other esteemed colleague Jen Graves's articles about artist and activist Martha Rosler swooping into Seattle and encouraging artists to start organizing to fight homelessness. If you haven't, then go read all that stuff and come right back here.If you just got done r
  
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• Could the Federal Trade Commission Ban Gay "Conversion Therapy" for Good?

  10-02-2016 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Being gay: totally healthy for you. KELLY O
  Three states and the District of Columbia have already banned "conversion therapy," the ludicrous, damaging practice of trying to turn gay people straight. The American Psychological Association has thoroughly debunked the idea that therapeutically changing someone's sexuality is even possible. Last year, progressive legislators floated a bill to try and get the federal government to ban the practice, but it withered in an obstructionist Congress.Today
  
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• Guest Editorial: Young Women Don't Owe Clinton

  10-02-2016 22:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Shasta Willson runs the publishing and marketing company Litsam. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
  I'm a feminist of a certain age. I earned degrees in math and computer science before STEM was a term, and I have made my career in technology. During the years when feminism was a dirty word, I used it frequently. When Hillary Clinton ran in 2008, I enthusiastically supported her. My husband reminds me that when he first supported Obama, I snarled, “Must women, who are not even a minority, be t
  
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• My Philosophy: Football Is Anti-Black, but Silas Blak Is at His Best

  10-02-2016 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Kevin Gates is performing at Showbox Sodo on February 12.
  There's no escaping racism in America's pastimes. (By that I meant pro sports—not lynching, invading, or any of its other hobbies.) There's just no missing it.
  Every year there's a new negro (to use the preferred nomenclature set forth by King Beyoncé) that's been tagged "it." Just find them and you'll hear it—the barely coded language, the double standards, the howls for blood. Even the little bit that filters into my
  
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• 'Nike phenomenon' resurfaces in B.C. with discovery of foot in shoe

  10-02-2016 22:03
  
  If you die in coastal waters and are not discovered and you are wearing a running shoe — especially one with with gas injected into the shoe soles — then one or both of your feet could end up as the newest case of the "Nike Phenomenon."
  
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• Carly Fiorina Just Announced on Facebook That She's Quitting the Republican Race for the Nomination

  10-02-2016 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Her exact words are that she's decided to "suspend my candidacy." Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Er, I'm sorry, "suspending" it. She says:This campaign was always about citizenship—taking back our country from a political class that only serves the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and the well connected. Election after election, the same empty promises are made and the same poll-tested stump speeches are given, but nothing changes. I've said throughout this campaign that I will not sit dow
  
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• A "Proud" NIMBY Sent Us an Unhinged Letter About Heidi’s Homelessness Reporting

  10-02-2016 21:08 via thestranger.com
  
  RARRRR! (Yes, I got Heidi's permission to post this image.) Hawk Krall
  We received this enjoyable letter to the editor yesterday, responding to Heidi's recent article on homelessness and affordable housing, which argued that city officials were wrong to give in to NIMBYs and abandon plans to increase the amount of multi-family zoning in the city:
  [T]o the Stranger Editor,
  So…Heidi Groover is an enabler…slamming the hard working, tax paying, families, both wealthy and struggling cit
  
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• Police: ‘Putting all our resources’ into search for Mountlake Terrace woman

  10-02-2016 20:59
  
  Police are checking whether surveillance video may have captured images of a Mountlake Terrace woman who was reported missing Monday after she failed to arrived at work.
  
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• Chris Christie Is Returning to New Jersey; No Bridge Is Safe

  10-02-2016 20:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Some of the nicest things that have been said about Chris Christie. L.E.MORMILE / Shutterstock.com
  This is indeed a dark day for the Garden State. Our sympathies go out to anyone trapped in New Jersey, which will once again fall prey to Monster Governor Chris Christie."We're going to take a deep breath," he said after finishing sixth place in yesterday's primary. (Don't take TOO deep a breath, Chris — you know how Jersey smells this time of year.)
  Having been rejected by humanity, Christie
  
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• King County Metro chief to take top job at Vancouver, BC transit

  10-02-2016 20:06
  
  King County Metro's general manager Kevin Desmond will start March 21 as the new CEO of TransLink, Vancouver, BC's regional transit authority. 
  
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• Inay's Has Closed, But You Can Still Get Served By Atasha Manila at Baja Bistro

  10-02-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Atasha Manila is now serving fish tacos and fierceness every Wednesday at Beacon Hill's Baja Bistro.Courtesy Atasha Manila
  If you are missing the homey Filipino food of the recently closed Inay's Asian Pacific Cuisine, well, I'm sorry to say, I can't help you there. (Although I do recommend hitting up Beacon Hill's Kusina Filipina or Pike Place Market's Oriental Martfor an adobo or sinigang fix.)However, if you are missing the experience of being served and sung to by the charminglybejeweled, ag
  
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• Excellent razor clam digging at Long Beach; Copalis to reopen Feb. 19-20 and possibly Mocrocks sometime soon

  10-02-2016 19:49
  
  Coastal razor clam digging is open daily on the southern coast at Long Beach during evening low tides only through March 10, and has been excellent when the weather cooperates. “We had 8,000 people out on Saturday, and it was limits across the board (first 15 clams dug regardless of size or condition is a […]
  
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• Rare weather event produces spontaneous snowballs in Idaho

  10-02-2016 19:42
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Thousands of snowballs rolled in a flat central Idaho field look like the work of hundreds of ambitious kids — except there are no human tracks. A rare weather event caused the spontaneous snowballs at the Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve and surrounding fields near the tiny town of Picabo. Preserve […]
  
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• Coast Guard, other agencies to conduct drills on Bainbridge ferry

  10-02-2016 19:37
  
  Several law-enforcement agencies and the U.S. Coast Guard will conduct drills on the ferry Hyak between Seattle and Bainbridge.
  
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• Driver who collided with school bus may have been distracted by cellphone

  10-02-2016 19:10
  
  The driver of a car that veered into oncoming traffic and hit a school bus may have been distracted by her phone, police say.
  
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• Oregon school shooter’s bid for shorter sentence denied

  10-02-2016 18:54
  
  Kip Kinkel has lost his latest bid to reduce the 111-year sentence he received for the 1998 mass shooting at a Springfield, Ore., high school.
  
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• The Morning News: Trump and Sanders Win in New Hampshire, School Levies Win in Seattle, Christie Suspends Campaign

  10-02-2016 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Albert H. Teich/ShutterstockAn Anti-Muslim Billionaire and a Socialist Just Won a Presidential Primary: "We are going to start winning again, and we are going to win so much, you are going to be so happy," Donald Trump told supporters. Bernie Sanders told his supporters, “Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California."Then They Danced:In Case You Didn't Realize It: Sanders is the first Jew and non-Christia
  
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• Senate Republicans' Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Are Unlikely to Pass—But the Damage Is Already Done

  10-02-2016 17:09 via thestranger.com
  
  State senator Steve O'Ban (R-Pierce County) cracked open a can of carbonated something before settling into his vice chair's seat on the state senate's Law and Justice Committee, where dozens of people had signed up to testify about the "Genital Check" bill.
  It's not every day that state legislators hold public hearings on how to match penises and vaginas to their owners, but the hearing on SB 6548 concerned just that. Sponsors of the bill—all Republicans, including the chair of the Law a
  
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• Powerful California coastal panel weighs leadership shake-up

  10-02-2016 16:36
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The powerful agency that manages development on California’s coastline could oust its top executive Wednesday in what has emerged as a showdown between environmentalists and business groups. The potential shake-up at the California Coastal Commission raises questions about the direction of an agency often caught in the clash between property rights […]
  
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• Graduation rates on rise in the seven districts of the Road Map Project

  10-02-2016 15:15
  
  The average graduation rate in seven south King County districts was 77 percent in 2015, according to a report by the Road Map Project.
  
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• Rocket with government payload launches from California

  10-02-2016 14:25
  
  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A rocket carrying a payload for the U.S. government has successfully launched from the central California coast. The Delta IV rocket lit up clear night skies at 3:40 a.m. Wednesday as it lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base and into orbit. The rocket carried a payload for […]
  
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• Washington State Law Makes It Virtually Impossible to Charge Police Officers Who Kill

  10-02-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Washington State Legislature Kills a Proposal to Make It Easier to Charge Police Officersby Ansel HerzThere is an extraordinarily high bar to criminally prosecute police officers when they kill someone in Washington State—one that the legislature decided last week to leave in place.State law requires prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that officers used deadly force "with malice." The law, passed in 1986, is one of the most restrictive in the nation. When Seattle police off
  
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• Returning Column!

  10-02-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The You're Wrong About That Valentine's Day Special!by Francine Colman-GutierrezHi. I'm Francine Colman-Gutierrez. Here are some Valentine's Day things that you are wrong about.• Buying her chocolate: You're wrong about that—unless she specifically asked for diabetes.• Buying her flowers: Thanks for the dead plants.• Buying her lingerie: ...is gross.• Buying her sex toys: Does she buy you power tools?• Writing her a love song: Ugh. Just please don't.• Writing
  
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• From Amniotic Warmth to Ominous Buzz, Madeleine Cocolas Offers Cinematic Ambient Beauty on Cascadia

  10-02-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  From Amniotic Warmth to Ominous Buzz, Madeleine Cocolas Offers Cinematic Ambient Beauty on Cascadiaby Kyle FleckMADELEINE COCOLAS
  Cascadia
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  For her formidable Fifty-Two Weeks project, Australian sound-sculptor Madeleine Cocolas composed and recorded a track a week for a whole year. Drawing from the best cuts, and rounding it out with some new material, her debut album, Cascadia, is a distinctly cinematic, almost synesthetic entry into Seattle's ambient/electronic scene.Openin
  
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• All of Our Readers' Valentines

  10-02-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Court: No new trial after judge mistakenly declares mistrial

  10-02-2016 10:34
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A woman pleaded with the Georgia Supreme Court not to let the man accused of killing her mother go free because of a judge’s mistake during his murder trial. But the high court on Monday said a judge can’t set a new trial for Geary Otis after having erroneously declared a mistrial […]
  
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• Supreme Court deals surprise setback to Obama greenhouse-gas plan

  10-02-2016 09:24
  
  WASHINGTON  — The administration of President Obama is vowing to press ahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions after a divided Supreme Court put his signature plan to address climate change on hold until after legal challenges are resolved. Tuesday’s surprising move by the court is a blow to Obama and a victory for the […]
  
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• Seattle schools levies easily passing in Tuesday election

  10-02-2016 07:01
  
  In King and Snohomish counties, 14 of 16 districts garnered early support for their levy and bond measures.
  
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• Seattle schools and other levies, bonds passing in election

  10-02-2016 07:01
  
  In King and Snohomish counties, 14 of 16 districts garnered early support for their levy and bond measures.
  
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• Feds offer big grants for Puget Sound-area transit projects

  10-02-2016 05:19
  
  The Federal Transit Administration has offered grants to a First Avenue streetcar line, Community Transit’s Swift 2 bus-rapid transit line, and Northgate-Lynnwood Link light rail. The grants would have to be approved by Congress first, but history suggest that will happen.
  
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• Foot-ferry fantasy has no place in our grown-up region

  10-02-2016 05:06
  
  King County is back with its romantic, quixotic and nonsensical plan to revive the Mosquito Fleet foot ferries across Lake Washington.
  
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• Generous scholarships were big boost to low-income kids

  10-02-2016 04:17
  
  A majority of the low-income, B-average students who received college scholarships from the Gates Foundation are doing very well after graduation, a new study shows.
  
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• College scholarships a big boost to break cycle of poverty in students, study finds

  10-02-2016 04:17
  
  A majority of the low-income, B-average students who received college scholarships from the Gates Foundation are doing very well after graduation, a new study shows.
  
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