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• Mountaineers sell Snoqualmie Pass site, with likely benefit to Pacific Crest Trail

  29-03-2016 23:55
  
  77-acre parcel was former home to club’s historic Snoqualmie Lodge, which burned in 2006; ski area is buyer.
  
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• 38 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do This Week

  29-03-2016 22:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffMeet some darling hedgehogs (or take your pet out for some socialization) at the Hedgehogs of UW club's hedgehog playtime.
  Our critics have already recommended 61 great things to do this week, but there are hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the quirkier and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, we've compiled them here—from a Duran Duran party featuring superfan Durandy to a BDSM Dungeon Party to hedgehog playtime. For even
  
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• Washington’s electorate whiter, wealthier than that of U.S. as a whole

  29-03-2016 22:14
  
  Analysis of Census data also reveals that Washington has more Asians, American Indians and Alaska Natives -- and more people with bachelor’s degrees -- than the nation as a whole.
  
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• Kshama Sawant Takes Her Push for Rent Control to Small Businesses

  29-03-2016 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSocialist city council member Kshama Sawant: friend of...business? City of Seattle
  Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant built her campaign for reelection last year on housing affordability—particularly, on a call for rent control. But, as many predicted, she's made little progress since then on actually making rent control a reality.
  In order for Seattle to even consider rent control (which Sawant envisions as tying rent increases to inflation), state lawmakers must li
  
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• Santa Barbara Zoo shares video of newborn baby giraffe

  29-03-2016 21:54
  
  SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — The public is getting its first glimpse of a baby Masai giraffe born over the weekend at the Santa Barbara Zoo. The zoo posted online video Monday of the still-unnamed calf bonding with its mother, Audrey, behind the scenes in their barn. The calf, born Saturday, is already 191 pounds […]
  
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• The Sound of Five Poems Being Read All at Once at The Alice

  29-03-2016 21:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesIn Katherine Behar's video series Modeling Big Data, she wears suits and performs the glut of four data gestures: clicking, buffering, caching, and pinging. Courtesy of the artistInside The Alice gallery last weekend, I was immersed.
  There are five different sound and video installations by five different artists, brought together and arranged as though in conversation by curator Molly Mac. There is no theme. Instead there's a thick atmosphere where one experience colors another and
  
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• Who Won This Ten-Minute Debate About Caucuses vs. Primaries?

  29-03-2016 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersSaturday's Democratic caucuses at Miller Community Center. On KUOW yesterday, Erica C. Barnett and I debated whether or not caucuses are a good thing. E.S.
  After praising caucuses on Slog on Saturday, I was summoned onto KUOW's The Record yesterday to defend caucuses in a 10-minute debate with Erica C. Barnett of The C is for Crank.
  I know a lot of 2016 Slog commenters disagree with me about the glories of caucusing. (Interestingly, things were a bit different in the comments in 20
  
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• Pickathon Adds to 2016's Lineup, Plus the Starlight Series Premiere!

  29-03-2016 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannPickathon's Starlight Stage Tim LaBarge
  Pickathon has announced some new additions to their lineup this year. Some great new performers have been added to the 2016 festival, which takes place at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, on August 5-7. Joining the ranks of Wolf Parade, Jeff Tweedy, Beach House, and many more are the following:
  Mac DeMarcoKing Sunny AdeThao & The Get Down Stay DownJosephRy XCory Henry
  Promised Land Sound
  Town MountainMyke Bogan
  Blossom
  Caleb Klau
  
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• Why Is Hillary Clinton Entitled to Any Washington Superdelegates At All?

  29-03-2016 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt Baume"Just checking, we still call it 'the DEMOCRATIC party,' right?" Trevcor Collens / Shutterstock.com
  So not only is Washington a Bernie state, it's a very Bernie state. In last weekend's caucuses, he won 73% of the vote, a landslide over Hillary's 27%. That means Bernie crushed it with pledged delegates — he gets 25, Hillary gets 9.
  And yet ... there's a possibility that Washington state's nomination could still go to Clinton, thanks to the superdelegates. None of our state's a
  
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• Prepare Thyself to Deal with This Essential-Looking Rahsaan Roland Kirk Doc

  29-03-2016 20:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalRahsaan Roland Kirk was way out there.The Case of the Three Sided Dream
  A true iconoclast and original, the blind soul-jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk is the subject of a documentary titled The Case of the Three Sided Dream. Directed by Adam Kahan, the film explores Kirk's idiosyncratic music, his unique playing techniques that often involved him blowing through three horns simultaneously, his staunch, pro-black political views, and more. “I set out to find the
  
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• Correction: I Goofed On My Analysis of Joanna Newsom's Song "Leaving the City"

  29-03-2016 19:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithJoanna Newsom, throwing shade at my failure to accurately describe her rhyme scheme. She plays tonight with Robin Pecknold at the Paramount.Annabel Mehran
  I know I should probably hold this confession for the next regrets issue, but I noticed an error in my analysis of Joanna Newsom's song "Leaving the City" two days ago and it has been HAUNTING ME ever since. Like one of those mocking ghost emojis (👻), the mistake keeps sticking out its tongue and goading me into a Slog pos
  
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• Actress Patty Duke dies at age 69

  29-03-2016 19:15
  
  NEW YORK — Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for “The Miracle Worker” and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life, has died at the age of 69. Duke’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. She died in Coeur D’Alene, […]
  
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• Seattle Must Learn Public Transportation

  29-03-2016 19:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeHow you do bags in a crowded train. Charles Mudede
  The good news is that the recent addition of two new stations to Link's line has triggered a surge in ridership. The bad news is that many of this town's inhabitants have a very poor idea of and little experience with an entity that has only begun toappear here and there in recent years: the crowd. A consequence of this impoverished notion of and exposure to the crowd has sometimes been the complete (and barbaric) absence of beh
  
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• Pregnant woman suspected of killing boyfriend interviewed by Seattle police

  29-03-2016 18:47
  
  Seattle police have located a woman who they believe fatally stabbed her boyfriend early Friday in Seattle’s Delridge neighborhood.
  
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• Washington Superdelegates Still Endorsing Clinton, Spurning Pro-Sanders Majority of State Voters

  29-03-2016 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzGovernor Inslee is out of step with his Democratic constituents. WA.Gov
  A whopping seventy-two percent of Washington Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders in the state's caucus on Saturday. The socialist Senator from Vermont won every single county in the state.
  But Governor Jay Inslee, a superdelegate who can cast his own vote for whoever he wants at the national convention in July, isn't budging on his support for Sanders' opponent, Hillary Clinton."Superdelegates find themselves dra
  
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• REI plans to move headquarters to Bellevue’s Spring District

  29-03-2016 18:45
  
  The outdoors co-op says it has outgrown its current headquarters, in Kent, and has been looking for a new campus. If all goes as planned, the move would take place in 2020.
  
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• Kennewick girl, 15, on trial for kidnapping her great-grandmother

  29-03-2016 18:31
  
  The Kennewick teen and two older boys are accused of abducting the 87-year-old woman, who eventually escaped in the parking lot of an Oregon Wal-Mart store.
  
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• New cafeteria to replace site of Marysville-Pilchuck High shootings

  29-03-2016 18:25
  
  The cafeteria has been closed since four students were killed there in October 2014.
  
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• An RV Caught Fire In Capitol Hill This Weekend. Here's What We Know.

  29-03-2016 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufNeighbors believe this RV belonged to a homeless person who had been in the area for a night. ASK
  A plateless Chevy Travel Master RV caught fire early Saturday morning at the intersection of 14th Ave. and Marion St. in Capitol Hill."I heard a blast and it shook the whole house. I actually thought it was an earthquake. ... I saw, out of my periphery, [an] orange light. And I saw a big fireball," said Elizabeth Mars, who lives just two houses away from where the RV exploded aroun
  
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• The Morning News: Sound Transit 3 Gets a Signal Boost, West Seattle Tree Cutters Turn Themselves In

  29-03-2016 17:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneSound Transit 3 will add new light rail lines to Ballard, West Seattle, Everett, Redmond, Issaquah, and Tacoma. Sound Transit
  King County Executive Dow Constantine Urges Everyone to Vote for Sound Transit 3: During Constantine's "State of King County" address on Monday, the King County Executive urged citizens to vote for the upcoming $50 billon light rail expansion. Sound Transit 3, which will appear on the ballot in November, "is the most important decision our generation w
  
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• FTC sues VW over false ‘Clean Diesel’ advertising claims

  29-03-2016 17:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal consumer watchdog sued Volkswagen on Tuesday, charging the company made false claims in commercials promoting its “Clean Diesel” vehicles as environmentally friendly. The German automaker hastily pulled the ads following last year’s admission it had installed illegal software on its diesel vehicles to cheat emissions tests. U.S. regulators say Volkswagen’s […]
  
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• Bloomberg, others donate $125M for new cancer institute

  29-03-2016 14:11
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others are donating $125 million to create a cancer-fighting institute at Johns Hopkins University focused on the immunotherapy, which uses patients’ immune systems to destroy cancer cells, the school in Baltimore said Tuesday. Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to attend a formal announcement […]
  
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• Seattle Public Schools improves online access for people with disabilities

  29-03-2016 14:02
  
  The portal will be linked to every Seattle district and school site.
  
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• 7 charged with murder in death of Georgia Lottery winner

  29-03-2016 12:50
  
  FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say seven people have been charged in the shooting death of a recent Georgia Lottery winner. Ben Hill County Sheriff Bobby McLemore tells WFXL-TV (http://bit.ly/1UrgZcK ) the seven suspects, who range in age from 17 to 28 years old, all face charges of malice murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and […]
  
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• Report: Prosecutors rarely disciplined for misconduct

  29-03-2016 10:15
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Prosecutors are rarely held accountable for misconduct and mistakes that have left innocent people imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit, according to report Tuesday by a nonprofit group that investigates possible wrongful convictions. The Innocence Project’s report coincides with the fifth anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned […]
  
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• King County executive says transit, not freeways, is growing region’s only option

  29-03-2016 05:26
  
  Dow Constantine talks about the expansion of light rail and transit’s importance to the region’s growth and economy in his 2016 state-of-the-county address at Redmond City Hall.
  
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• Second body recovered from Astoria, Ore., plane wreckage

  29-03-2016 04:56
  
  About 1:30 p.m. Monday, divers working with the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body of 63-year-old Irene Mustain.
  
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• How tango lessons helped man learn to walk again, years after stroke

  29-03-2016 04:42
  
  “I’ll be your human walker,” tango instructor Gabriela Condrea told Tho Nguyen when he showed up to class in a wheelchair. He stood, and though he hadn’t walked in many years, the intimate dance led to a breakthrough.
  
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• Humans, reptiles get up close and personal

  29-03-2016 04:28
  
  Isaac Petersen, owner of The Reptile Zoo, east of Monroe, often brings a traveling menagerie of surprises to the community. This time he visited the University Heights Center in Seattle.
  
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• Floating-homes savior Bill Keasler dies at 69

  29-03-2016 04:27
  
  Bill Keasler was a longtime, tenacious leader of Seattle’s houseboat community and its Floating Home Association. He passed away March 17 at age 69.
  
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• Sunny, springtime weather warming up Seattle this week

  29-03-2016 03:47
  
  The National Weather Service's forecast, as of Monday evening, called for temperatures above 60 degrees each day through Friday with sunny skies.
  
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• City Attorney: West Seattle tree cut ‘extensive,’ long-running

  29-03-2016 02:44
  
  The Seattle city attorney has called for a criminal investigation into unpermitted tree cutting in West Seattle that saw 150 trees felled on city property.
  
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• Volcano cancels 41 Alaska Airlines flights, cutting off Fairbanks

  29-03-2016 02:06
  
  Ash cloud moves quickly across state, stranding 3,300 air passengers.
  
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• The 61 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week

  29-03-2016 01:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss Ahamefule J. Oluo's "autobiographical odyssey" Now I’m Fine this weekend.
  This week, our arts critics have recommended the best events in every genre—from the Edible Book Festival to a concert highlighting the father of the father of science's music to Ahamefule J. Oluo's autobiographical odyssey. 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 n
  
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• Homeowner responsible for chopping down 153 trees told city about destruction

  29-03-2016 01:43
  
  A lawyer representing a homeowner responsible for the unpermitted cutting down of more than 153 trees on public property in West Seattle reported the destruction to the city early last month.
  
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• City considers felony charges in illegal West Seattle clear-cut

  29-03-2016 01:43
  
  A lawyer representing a homeowner responsible for the unpermitted cutting down of more than 153 trees on public property in West Seattle reported the destruction to the city early last month.
  
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• Submissions Are Now Open for Washington 129, an Anthology of Poetry from Citizens of Washington State

  29-03-2016 01:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithAs spring continues, crocus by crocus, to creep into the new year, this mountain view will slowly be suffocated by the the leaves of trees. Time to write poems about it!Jack DoritoWashington's new state poet Laureate, Tod Marshall, is making good on his promise to spearhead the publication of an anthology of poems. The collection will be called Washington 129, in honor of the state's age at the time of the book's anticipated publication date. Submissions are open to all people. The
  
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• Witness says man killed by SPD appeared to pull out gun

  29-03-2016 00:55
  
  Seattle police released new information Monday on the Feb. 21 fatal shooting of Che Taylor by two officers, including patrol-car video, recorded soon after the incident, in which a woman spontaneously said she believed Taylor pull a handgun before officers opened fire.
  
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• Seattle mayor bans city-employee travel to North Carolina

  29-03-2016 00:55
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has banned city-employee travel to North Carolina after a law was signed last week there preventing all cities and counties from passing anti-discrimination rules.
  
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• Man shot by Seattle police pulled a handgun on officers, witness reports

  29-03-2016 00:55
  
  Seattle police released new information Monday on the Feb. 21 fatal shooting of Che Taylor by two officers, including patrol-car video, recorded soon after the incident, in which a woman spontaneously said she believed she saw Taylor pull a handgun before officers open.
  
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• Traffic snarled after semi-truck crash on southbound Highway 167

  29-03-2016 00:48
  
  Shortly after 3 p.m., traffic was backed up almost 7 miles past the crash site at Highway 410 and expected to grow, according to the Washington Department of Transportation.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The Terminator

  29-03-2016 00:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageI'm a 27-year-old straightish girl who likes a little dominance in her life. I'm not into being humiliated or extreme pain, but I like to be lovably forced into rougher sex. Lots of talk, caressing, and deep fucking.I've recently met this guy who's dominant—and holy shit is he hot. Before meeting with him I was very clear that I don't like anal; in fact I reiterated it several times. When we met, he had the perfect loving dominant attitude, something I've never experienced bef
  
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• Campbell to remove BPA chemical from its cans by mid-2017

  29-03-2016 00:13
  
  CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Campbell Soup Co. will stop using the chemical Bisphenol A in its canned products by the middle of next year to reassure consumers worried that the substance may harm their health. The pledge announced Monday is a response to concerns that the commonly used chemical known as BPA raises the risk […]
  
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