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• Climate Change Is Bad for Macy's Business But Good for the Squirrels of Seattle

  15-02-2016 23:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Retailers planned for a cold winter but a cold winter did not show up. Charles Mudede
  As I wrote this morning, I noticed yesterday that the squirrels near Jefferson Park Golf Course are unusually big. Also, they did not hop about in their usual shivery fashion, but sat on a spot and plain stuffed their faces. When you passed them, they did not notice you. The abundance of food had made them that stupid.Apparently, these Beacon Hill squirrels, which tend to be aggressive, are sharing the same dum
  
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• Rightwing Loons: Obama Had Scalia Killed!

  15-02-2016 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Well, I saw that coming.RightWingWatch:
  In an “emergency transmission” to his Facebook fans today, conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones floated his suspicions that the late Justice Antonin Scalia was “murdered,” just like conservative activist Andrew Breitbart. While accusing Obama of a litany crimes, including secretly funding ISIS and blackmailing Supreme Court justices, Jones said that “this is the season of treason, this is the time of betrayal and we would
  
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• Right-Wing Loons: Obama Had Scalia Killed!

  15-02-2016 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Well, I saw that coming.
  RightWingWatch:
  In an “emergency transmission” to his Facebook fans today, conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones floated his suspicions that the late Justice Antonin Scalia was “murdered,” just like conservative activist Andrew Breitbart. While accusing Obama of a litany crimes, including secretly funding ISIS and blackmailing Supreme Court justices, Jones said that “this is the season of treason, this is the time of betrayal and we woul
  
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• Inslee to announce I-405 tolling changes, I-5 improvements

  15-02-2016 22:01
  
  After criticism of the new Interstate 405 toll system and GOP lawmakers’ vote to fire Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson, Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to announce changes Tuesday.
  
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• The Walking Dead Recap: The Convenient Rocket Launcher

  15-02-2016 21:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Hello, and welcome back to The Walking Dead Chitty Chat Club! Did you happen to catch last night's mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead? Oh boy, it was a crazy-ass barn burner! Let's chat about it (and the show's newest character, Convenient Rocket Launcher) after the jump! SPOILERS AHOY!
  Courtesy AMC"Okay, I promise not to scream, if you promise to stop nagging me about my underpants on the floor. SHAKE ON IT!"
  RECAP AFTER THE JUMP!Here's what I'm thinking about last night's mid-season premi
  
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• Secretary Jewell on national monuments: 'Everybody is coming to me with their wish list'

  15-02-2016 21:43
  
       
  
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• Cartoonsmiths Tacocat Cut New Version of The Powerpuff Girls Theme, Prep New LP

  15-02-2016 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Tacocat got the power: Eric Randall, Emily Nokes, Bree McKenna, Lelah MaupinMichael Lavine/Hardly Art
  What has former Stranger music editor Emily Nokes been up to since leaving the paper? Quite a bit, it turns out. For one, she and her band Tacocat have been recording the anticipated follow-up to 2014's NVM with producer and 2014 Stranger Genius nominee Erik Blood. It's titled Lost Time and will be available on LP, CD, cassette, and MP3 on April 1 through Hardly Art Records. For another thing, T
  
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• Magnitude-6.2 earthquake recorded off New Zealand coast

  15-02-2016 21:03
  
  GOLDEN, Colorado (AP) — A magnitude-6.2 earthquake has been recorded off the coast of New Zealand. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck shortly before 1930 GMT Monday and was centered 136 miles (219 kilometers) northwest of Auckland Island and 735 miles southwest of Wellington. It was at a depth of 6.2 miles. There […]
  
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• Stanwood girl, 17, dies in single-car crash east of Arlington

  15-02-2016 20:45
  
  A teenager was killed late Sunday when her car crashed into a tree east of Arlington.
  
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• Clarence Thomas After Scalia's Death

  15-02-2016 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  In Ride with the Devil, a black man in a militia of racist white men. Universal Pictures
  These thoughts occurred to me the day after the death of the hyper-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. I first recalled, as I walked down Beacon Avenue South (the squirrelsthere have clearly been fattened by the warm winter), the strange thing that happens at the end of Ride with the Devil, an underappreciated Civil War epic by the Taiwanese American director Ang Lee (Eat Drink Man Woman, Crouching Tiger, H
  
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• The 56 Best Things To Do This Week

  15-02-2016 20:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Cold weather means delicious oysters, and what better place to indulge than Oyster Fest at Fremont's Vif? dvoevnore / Shutterstock
  This week, our arts critics have recommended the best events in every genre—from an oyster festival to the Seattle Festival of Improv Theater, and from Seattle Immersive Theatre's Romeo and Juliet to Joel McHale. See them all below, and find even more events on our complete Things To Do calendar.Want this in your inbox? Sign up for the Stranger Things To Do new
  
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• Nickelsville Residents Oust Leader, Face Eviction

  15-02-2016 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  About 30 people currently live at the Nickelsville homeless encampment on South Dearborn Street.Kelly O
  The Nickelsville homeless encampment near I-5 on Dearborn Street is counting down to an eviction.In recent weeks, the camp's residents have twice voted to oust Scott Morrow, the camp's longtime staff person. That move effectively invalidates the agreement that allows them to occupy their current home at 1010 South Dearborn Street and severs their ties with the nonprofit organization Nickelsvil
  
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• John Oliver Is Back

  15-02-2016 20:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Oliver wanted to open his first show after a three month hiatus with Kanye West's finger-in-butt-gate, but... events intervened...Oliver urges the Senate Republicans to honor Scalia's memory by "swiftly and efficiently replacing him." I had different ideas about honoring his memory...
  Dedicating the rest of this weekend's marital sodomy to the memory of Antonin Scalia.
  — Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) February 13, 2016
  And one of the audience members at last night's live Valentine's Day tapin
  
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• How to #StopErasingBlackPeople in the Arts, Starting Tonight in Seattle

  15-02-2016 20:11 via thestranger.com
  
  This Under Armour ad featuring Misty Copeland makes it look like Copeland is one in a long line of Black dancers to be spotlighted, but actually, only last year she became the first Black principal dancer in the history of American Ballet Theatre. Under Armour
  Tonight in Seattle, Spectrum Dance Theater artistic director Donald Byrd leads a discussion called "Invisible: The Dilemma of the Black Artist in America." Admission is free, it starts at 6:30, and the conversation couldn't be more timely,
  
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• Antarctica study: Iceberg nearly erases penguin population

  15-02-2016 20:10
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Scientists say an estimated 150,000 Adelie penguins have been wiped out on Antarctica’s Cape Denison in the five years since a giant iceberg blocked their main access to food. A study recently published in the journal Antarctic Science says the B09B iceberg crashed with the Mertz Glacier Tongue and got stuck […]
  
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• New tarantula species named after singer Johnny Cash

  15-02-2016 20:05
  
  A tarantula named after singer Johnny Cash is among 14 new species identified by scientists who spent a decade collecting the hairy spiders and studying nearly 3,000 of them. The spider doesn’t sing, but it’s black and can be found near the California prison that was the setting of Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” The researchers […]
  
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• Ski report: Soggy affair on hillsides, but possibly changing to snow later in week

  15-02-2016 19:23
  
  Skiers and snowboarders continue to deal with another rollercoaster of weather for the next few days with mostly saturated slopes, but there is hope on the horizon. There is very strong warm front laden with moisture and a high snow level (4,000 to 8,000 feet) that will stall over the state through Monday, but the rain […]
  
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• New Head of Kinsey Institute: "I think human sexuality must be viewed in the context of relationships."

  15-02-2016 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Some distressing bullshit to kick off the week: USA Today profiles the new head of the famed Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. The piece is sunny and upbeat but it's packed with bad news for anyone interested in sex research and/or conducting sex research (particularly those conducting at the Kinsey Institute):
  Under the aegis of a new director who took the Kinsey helm just over a year ago, the Kinsey Institute is reframing itself. Where once research into sex, gender and reproduction form
  
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• Body of missing Mountlake Terrace woman found by search party

  15-02-2016 18:29
  
  Police said it was a search party for 54-year-old Cheryl DeBoer that discovered the body of a woman in a culvert located at Cedar Way and 244th Street SW.
  
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• The Morning News: Driver Plows Into N. Seattle Curling Club, More Delays on Police Accountability Reform

  15-02-2016 17:48 via thestranger.com
  
  A Buick crashed into the Granite Curling Club in North Seattle, one of only two curling clubs on the West Coast. .Sergey Lavrentev/Shutterstock
  Driver Crashes Into North Seattle Building, Flees "Police are looking for the driver of a car that took out the corner of a building early Monday in North Seattle, injuring a passenger," reports KOMO. The passenger was found trapped inside the vehicle and taken to the hospital. The driver was gone. The building is home to the nonprofit Granite Curling Cl
  
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• 1 hurt as car plows into side of N. Seattle building; driver flees

  15-02-2016 16:41
  
  Police are looking for the driver of a car that took out the corner of a building early Monday in North Seattle, injuring a passenger.
  
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• MIT students turn their brainpower toward suicide prevention

  15-02-2016 10:46
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — After seven suicides in two years, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking for their own solutions to prevent more deaths. The school unveiled a sweeping plan to bolster mental health last fall, adding staff psychologists and expanding counseling hours, among other measures. But students have added their own […]
  
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• Things to know about the space tourism industry

  15-02-2016 07:40
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space tourism projects leaped off the drawing board when a $10 million prize was offered as an incentive for private development of manned rockets, but it took years to make a winner. Many more years have passed since, but the only space tourists have been a few wealthy people who paid […]
  
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• Space tourism projects at a glance

  15-02-2016 07:35
  
  Virgin Galactic later this month in Mojave, California, is preparing to roll out its new SpaceShipTwo, a vehicle the company hopes will one day take tourists to the edge of space. It comes roughly 15½ months since an earlier incarnation was destroyed in a test flight, killing one of the pilots. Despite the setback, the […]
  
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• Bye, dangerous cold; Hello, sleet and snow along eastern US

  15-02-2016 07:25
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Residents along the eastern U.S., freed from bitter, dangerous cold temperatures on Valentine’s Day, couldn’t even pause to take a slightly warmer breath before the next winter weather hurdle showed up. Snow, sleet and rain fell across the mid-Atlantic states while tornados rolled through the South. With federal offices and many […]
  
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• Valentine’s Day in Seattle

  15-02-2016 05:25
  
  View photos of how people around Seattle spent their Valentine’s Day.
  
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• Acumatica focuses its tools on small, midsize companies

  15-02-2016 05:00
  
  Bellevue-based Acumatica takes to the cloud to provide businesses with business-planning software as it competes in a crowded field.
  
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• Idaho increasingly saying ‘no’ to local government control

  15-02-2016 04:28
  
  Two proposals have been introduced during this year’s legislative session that would prevent local governments from implementing their own rules on plastic-bag bans and minimum-wage levels. The measures follow similar trends in other states.
  
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• UW Bothell dorm would be too close to home, neighbors say

  15-02-2016 03:51
  
  People who live near the UW Bothell campus are upset about a proposal to build a dorm for 500 students 60 feet from their backyards. They worry about noise, lights and the inevitable bad behavior of young adults away from home for the first time.
  
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• Vietnamese mark Lunar New Year at Seattle Center

  15-02-2016 03:40
  
  Performances, foods, crafts, games, martial arts and shopping were part of a two-day celebration of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year at Seattle Center.
  
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• Colville tribes’ risky bid: bring back pronghorn antelope

  15-02-2016 03:17
  
  Long locally extinct, the relocation of 52 pronghorn native to their lands is part of an ongoing effort by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to restore populations of animals that used to thrive on their lands before white settlement.
  
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• Student journalists in state may get more free-speech protection

  15-02-2016 03:00
  
  Washington state senators are considering legislation that would ensure student journalists are not subject to unnecessary censorship by school authorities, following a wave of efforts nationwide to clarify students’ rights to free speech in publications and broadcasts.
  
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• Amid national push, state lawmakers consider student free-press protections

  15-02-2016 03:00
  
  Washington state senators are considering legislation that would counteract a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says administrators can regulate students’ expression in school media.
  
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• Police: Shots fired into officer’s home in Klamath Falls

  15-02-2016 01:37
  
  Authorities are investigating incident where officer’s car and house were riddled with bullets
  
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• A job or The Jungle? State must help more ex-prisoners adapt

  15-02-2016 01:00
  
  The state is trying to improve its efforts to prepare prison inmates for release, but it needs the capacity to do much more.
  
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• Fred Hutch: Body found in Mountlake Terrace is missing employee

  15-02-2016 00:09
  
  The body of 54-year-old Cheryl DeBoer was found in a wooded area along Cedar Way in southeast Mountlake Terrace by a volunteer search party.
  
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