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• What Happened When the City of Kent Lost Nearly All of Its Newspapers

  08-03-2016 23:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersThe Green River bending through the nearly newspaperless city of Kent, Washington. George Cole/Shutterstock
  Americans are increasingly skeptical about whether the news media does them any good.Well, one under-appreciated benefit of this country's shrinking and disappearing newspapers is that they pay—or, in the cases of America's already disappeared newspapers, used to pay—journalists to sit through boring civic meetings and then report back to the general public on wha
  
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• Flight to Hawaii promises prime view of total solar eclipse

  08-03-2016 23:27
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Skygazers from around the country caught a flight from Alaska to Hawaii on Tuesday for prime viewing of a total solar eclipse that will unfold over parts of Indonesia and the Indian and Pacific oceans. A dozen eclipse enthusiasts were among the 181 passengers on the plane that departed Anchorage for […]
  
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• Woman, 92, dies from mauling by dogs at neighbor’s house

  08-03-2016 23:22
  
  The woman mauled by four dogs in Thurston County has died of her injuries, according to Harborview Medical Center.
  
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• Othello homeless camp opens in South Seattle

  08-03-2016 23:05
  
  Yet another city-sanctioned homeless camp opened Tuesday, this time in South Seattle.
  
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• SLOG POLL: Trump's Face or Labia?

  08-03-2016 22:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneIt's time to take a stand. GAGE SKIDMORE/FLICKR; FERVENT-ADEPTE-DE-LA-MODE/FLICKR; ARROWS BY THE STRANGER
  Please review the pictures below and help America decide whether the images are of presidential candidate Donald Trump, or an intimate feature of a woman's anatomy. We'll reveal the answers in the comments after this Slog poll receives 1,000 votes.
  Happy International Women's Day.1) Labia majora and labia minora belong to the part of a person's body called the vulva. Gage
  
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• Season Six Game of Thrones Trailer Poll

  08-03-2016 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Via NYMag...
  The first trailer for Game of Thrones season six is here, and it's scored, appropriately or not, with a version of "Wicked Game," Isaak's 1990 soft-rock hit. It's a metaphor! In less than two minutes, we've got Daenerys in chains, Cersei taking on the Faith, and Bran Stark meeting the Night's King — and for the first time, no one knows whether any of it is accurate to the books.
  No word yet on whether Jon Snow is really most sincerely dead or if he was just prete
  
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• Tell These Republican Senators to Support Protections for Pregnant Workers

  08-03-2016 22:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverState Rep. Jessyn Farrell (D-Seattle): Women should not "have to choose between a healthy pregnancy and providing for their families." HG
  Democratic Washington State Rep. Jessyn Farrell has a message for Republicans who claim they're pro-women and pro-family: "It's one thing to say you stand with women, but you have to be really willing to take action to do that."
  So far, the Republican-controlled state senate is showing little appetite for action. That body has two days left to
  
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• Tell Republican Senators to Support Protections for Pregnant Workers

  08-03-2016 22:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverState Rep. Jessyn Farrell (D-Seattle): Women should not "have to choose between a healthy pregnancy and providing for their families." HG
  Democratic Washington State Rep. Jessyn Farrell has a message for Republicans who claim they're pro-women and pro-family: "It's one thing to say you stand with women, but you have to be really willing to take action to do that."
  So far, the Republican-controlled state senate is showing little appetite for action. That body has two days left to
  
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• What Serena Williams Has to Say About Maria Sharapova's Failed Drug Test Scandal

  08-03-2016 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Serena Williams' body is too much for European and American standards of beauty.Michele Eve Sandberg / Shutterstock.com
  Serena Williams, who is black, 34 years old, and ranked number 1 in women's singles tennis, told reporters that Maria Sharapova, the Russian superstar who has been in her shadow for years, showed"a lot of courage" by being "upfront and honest" about her failed drug test.This was very gracious of Serena Williams, whose black body, by the way, has been the objec
  
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• 30 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do This Week

  08-03-2016 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  The Pancakes & Booze Art Show, The Rainbow Bingo Pajama Party, Emerald City Comicon's Official Beer Launch Party, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffOur critics have already recommended 44 awesome things to do this week, but there are many, many more events happening. To save some of the stranger, quirkier, and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, we've compiled them here—from the launch party for Emerald City Comicon's official beer to the Rainbow Bingo Pajama
  
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• 5th Avenue Theatre's New Sound System Comes Online for the 2016/17 Season

  08-03-2016 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith5th Avenue announced their new 2016/17 yesterday. They're starting late this year to allow time for the installation of a new sound system and other scheduled improvements. 5th Avenue TheatreBack in December of last year, 4Culture gave 5th Avenue Theatre a $217,645 grant to fix its legendarily bad sound system. As Misha Berson reported in the Seattle Times, that money would cover 10 percent of the cost of a new system, which was scheduled for installation in August 2016.Looks like t
  
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• Charges: Driver blamed GPS for deadly Burien red-light wreck

  08-03-2016 20:23
  
  A 20-year-old Kent man accused of causing a deadly wreck by blowing through a red light in Burien has been charged with vehicular homicide.
  
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• Internet finds Christian cross on Mars

  08-03-2016 20:09
  
  And now the Internet has found a sign of Jesus on Mars. (See photos.)
  
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• The Closest Thing We Have to an Illuminati Secretly Met on a Private Island to Plot Against Trump

  08-03-2016 19:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzIt doesn't sound real, but it is. Gail Johnson/Shutterstock
  The Huffington Post reports:
  Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.
  The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
  Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founde
  
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• Serbian government approves help for flooded areas

  08-03-2016 19:23
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s government has declared emergency measures to help more than a dozen municipalities where swollen rivers have flooded hundreds of homes, farmland and roads this week. The government said Tuesday that emergency measures have been declared in 15 areas after 710 houses were soaked by the floods caused by torrential rains. […]
  
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• Mitt Romney, What Are You Even?

  08-03-2016 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeRomney: "People still listen to me, right?"Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Mitt Romney is probably not running for president again, so why has he popped on our nation's greatest political forum, Saturday Night Live?
  It looks as though he's been drafted by the Republican establishment in the anyone-but-Trump arsenal. This is an unfathomable tactic. Who is the audience that Mitt Romney is supposed to activate? Mormons, I guess?
  So far, Mitt's contributions to the circus have been a sp
  
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• Pedestrian Deaths Increase by 10 Percent in 2015

  08-03-2016 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA car that hits a person tends to be in much better condition than one that hits a tree, like this one on Beacon Avenue. Charles Mudede
  The news only gets worse for pedestrians. Not only does new data show a 10 percent increase in pedestrian fatalities in 2015 but they also accounted for nearly 15% of all car crash-related deaths (it was 11% a decade ago). The reason for the spike? Cars are becoming safer for drivers but are still as dangerous for pedestrians. There are more peo
  
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• The War On Cars: Pedestrian Deaths Skyrocketing

  08-03-2016 18:52 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThis just in from the front: the cars are still winning...
  Safer cars and safer roads have resulted in an overall decline in driver and passenger fatalities in recent years, but pedestrians are as vulnerable as ever and the number killed by vehicles continues to increase, according to a new study. The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) estimates that the number of pedestrian fatalities jumped by 10 percent last year, a year-to-year increase that comes after a 19 percent inc
  
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• Spokane boy allegedly stabs mom in argument over chores

  08-03-2016 18:52
  
  A Spokane teen is accused of stabbing his mother last week during an argument about chores.
  
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• Winter warmer-land: US breaks record for hottest winter

  08-03-2016 18:20
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal meteorologists say the winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records, thanks to the combination of El Nino and manmade global warming. The average temperature for the Lower 48 from December through February — known as meteorological winter — was 36.8 degrees, 4.6 degrees above normal. It breaks […]
  
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• Health law fines double for many uninsured at tax time

  08-03-2016 18:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Many people who went without health insurance last year are now seeing fines more than double under President Barack Obama’s health care law, tax preparation company H&R Block said Tuesday. Among its customers who owe a penalty for the 2015 tax year, the average fine is $383, compared with $172 for 2014, […]
  
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• The Morning News: Do You Even Know What Day it Is?

  08-03-2016 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneWhose streets? Our streets!United Steelworkers/Flickr
  It's International Women's Day! IWD, which is now organized by the UN, originated with the Socialist Party of America to commemorate the day in 1908 when thousands of women workers—immigrants, mainly—took to the streets of New York City in solidarity with a International Ladies' Garment Workers Union strike. Two years after the first strike, women garment workers helped organize another three-month-long strike
  
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• About Those Consent Is Simple PSAs...

  08-03-2016 17:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Tons of people sent me links over the weekend to three "Consent Is Simple" ads produced by Project Consent—and the general/overwhelming consensus seemed to be, "These PSAs great, Dan, you need to promote them!" I dutifully watched all three PSAs and didn't help promote them because I didn't think they were really that great. But if virality is any measure of quality... mine would seem to be the minority opinion. These PSAs have racked up millions of views and likes, so lots o
  
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• New York City museum explores dinosaur-bird links

  08-03-2016 17:14
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine a Tyrannosaurus rex with feathers. That idea and the links between some dinosaurs and today’s birds are explored in an upcoming exhibition. “Dinosaurs Among Us” opens March 21 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Birds belong to a group called the Dinosauria. While they drastically differ […]
  
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• New UPS president: ‘It’s hard to listen your way into trouble’

  08-03-2016 15:02
  
  Isiaah Crawford expects to draw on his experience as a clinical psychologist in leading the University of Puget Sound, a 128-year-old private liberal arts university.
  
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• Slovenia awaits birth of new generation of ‘baby dragons’

  08-03-2016 14:59
  
  POSTOJNA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia is counting down the days until the birth of a new generation of “baby dragons.” Scientists in the Central European country have proudly announced that a female olm — a Gollum-like, lizard-sized amphibian living in an aquarium in the country’s biggest cave — has laid eggs. They have described it […]
  
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• Weight isn’t only indicator of health, experts say; check fitness, body fat

  08-03-2016 10:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The bathroom scale may show a good number, but how much of that weight is fat, not muscle? New studies are adding to the evidence that the scale doesn’t always tell the whole story when it comes to weight-related health risks. Keeping body fat low is more important for healthy aging than […]
  
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• Sign of spring: Cherry blossoms appear early this year on the UW campus

  08-03-2016 06:41
  
  On the UW campus, the blooms are forming earlier than usual this year in the Quad.
  
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• Cherry blossoms giving winter the boot

  08-03-2016 06:41
  
  On the UW campus, the blooms are forming earlier than usual this year in the Quad.
  
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• Few NIH research chimps moved to safe haven

  08-03-2016 06:21
  
  The National Institutes of Health vowed to move its research chimps from labs, but only 7 got safe haven in 2015. Some chimpanzees have died waiting.
  
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• Security guard uses pepper spray on man in Magnolia; police investigating

  08-03-2016 05:17
  
  Both the man, who works in the neighborhood, and the guard told investigators different accounts of what happened before the guard used the weapon, police said.
  
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• Violent car crashes tied to rapidly changing drug spice alarm police, health experts

  08-03-2016 05:08
  
  A violent car crash involving Seahawk Derrick Coleman raises questions about the drug Spice, which is unregulated, unlicensed and doesn’t show up in standard drug tests.
  
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• Rudy Martin, Evergreen College founding faculty member, dies at 80

  08-03-2016 05:07
  
  Mr. Martin helped write a series of essays in 1973 that were used to identify and clarify Evergreen’s mission and later played a crucial role in shaping the direction of Evergreen’s curriculum.
  
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• Penny LeGate on daughter’s heroin death: ‘Hiding the disease … allows people to die’

  08-03-2016 04:36
  
  The death of Penny LeGate’s daughter from a heroin overdose in 2012 was once impossible for the former KIRO-TV anchor to discuss. Now her story makes a powerful point, in a PBS documentary and on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
  
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• Guards fire warning shots to end inmate fight at Monroe prison

  08-03-2016 03:52
  
  Corrections officers fired two warning shots Monday afternoon to stop an attack on an inmate at the Monroe Correctional Complex, according to the state Department of Corrections.
  
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• Marijuana lab suspends operations in dispute over results

  08-03-2016 03:36
  
  One of Washington state’s labs certified for testing pot has suspended operations after its owner fired the lab’s science director, accusing him of falsifying results.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Of Cake and Cocks

  08-03-2016 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageAfter many years of being in a sexless marriage with my wife (female), I (male) started exploring more "content" online to get off to, got bored with never getting my needs met, and decided to finally meet real, warm, breathing people who liked sex, orgasms, and touch. Do what you have to do to stay sane.
  After a couple of Craigslist Casual encounters with women that I felt guilty about, or felt I needed to pay for (I'm cool with that but just don't have the $$$ on a regular basis),
  
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• Tacoma teacher accused of drinking in class fired

  08-03-2016 02:35
  
  The Tacoma kindergarten teacher has been fired over an alcohol-related offense in February.
  
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• Army panel backs doctor trying to clear name after discredited drug test

  08-03-2016 02:30
  
  A panel of senior Army officers has recommended against an attempt to further punish a doctor who spent seven months in Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s jail for a drug-use conviction based on the results of a contaminated urine sample.
  
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