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• Crab truck wrecks Alaskan Way Viaduct

  04-04-2016 23:44
  
  A crab truck crash on the northbound Alaskan Way Viaduct jammed traffic just before the start of the afternoon rush hour, and city officials say repairs will be necessary before the road fully reopens.
  
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• Alaska Airlines Is Buying Virgin America

  04-04-2016 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageForbes:
  Alaska Airlines and Virgin America, two of the most profitable and best performing airlines, are merging in an effort to create the nation’s fifth largest carrier with an increased presence in high growth cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington and New York City. Alaska Airlines will pay $57 a share in cash, or an equity value of $2.6 billion for Virgin America, capping a brief but successful run on public stock markets and generating a strong pa
  
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• Bernie Sanders Allies Criticize His Campaign's Failures, Including a Lack of Early Outreach to Black Voters

  04-04-2016 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersDidn't focus on reaching out to black voters until way too late in the game. Crush Rush / Shutterstock.com
  This New York Times article exploring the failures of the Bernie Sanders campaign groups them into three major areas:1) A failure to take his own campaign seriously early on.2) A failure to directly point out Hillary Clinton's flaws early on.
  3) A failure to invest any serious time campaigning for the attention of black voters before it became clear he was losing them by huge
  
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• Homosexual Sympathizers Infiltrate GOP Platform Committee; Republicans & Queers Equally Aghast

  04-04-2016 21:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeHere's Phyllis Schlafly endorsing Donald Trump, so you know she's definitely got her wits about her. R. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com
  As if Republicans don't have enough to fight about already, a bunch of rich gays/allies are poking their rainbow noses into the party platform, trying to get the party to be ever-so-slightly less dreadful. Will they be successful? Not if a bunch of bigots have anything to say about it!
  Right now the GOP seems a bit like an old sweater that got p
  
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• The Walking Dead Recap: You Picked a Fine Time to Beat Me, Lucille

  04-04-2016 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Wm. Steven HumphreyHello fans of The Walking Dead and/or sadism! Did you watch last night's tediously nail-biting season ending episode? Well, it was certainly an hour-and-a-half of something! Let's recap the episode with lots of spoilery-spoilers after the jump, because it's (sniff!) the final WALKING DEAD CHITTY CHAT CLUB of the year! Let's get chatting.
  "Durrrrrrr... me am a big dumb dum-dum! Durrrrrr!" Here's what I'm thinking about the season ending episode, "Last Day on Earth."
  1) The e
  
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• Forbes: The best 'value colleges' in Washington, Oregon

  04-04-2016 21:19
  
  These schools will give students the best return on their investment, according to Forbes' analysis.
  
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• You Can Both Eat Food and Watch Baseball This Summer

  04-04-2016 21:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Spike FriedmanNachos made with potato chips for some reason. Seattle Mariners
  Baseball is almost back, and while this year's Mariners team is not coming into the season with much (any?) hype, going to Safeco Field is still the best. And this year, as they do every year, the Mariners upgraded the food options inside the park with some carb heavy new options so that you can properly destroy your physique in honor of new Mariners first baseman Dae-Ho Lee.The new food, created under the direction
  
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• Are You A Current or Former Starbucks Barista?

  04-04-2016 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufI’m looking for baristas who have had to deal with injection needles being left in their store’s bathrooms.
  Send me an email.
  
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• This Digital Mosaic of 75,000 Boiler Room Attendees' Faces Is Stunning

  04-04-2016 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalAashish Gadini (left), image magician extraordinaire. Kelly O
  Aashish Gadani of local video-art team Coldbrew Collective recently created a mosaic of 75,000 faces captured from videos of Boiler Room DJ sets. (Boiler Room is a music platform that webcasts DJ performances in various venues for an invitation-only crowd. The sets stream on YouTube, Dailymotion, and Boiler Room's site.) If you go to this page and keep magnifying, the Faces of Boiler Room gradually come into focus. At fir
  
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• UW study: People online aren't as stupid as we think

  04-04-2016 20:38
  
  The Internet is synonymous with rumor, rumors of rumor and interlacing theories with very little basis in reality. Twitter and Facebook are often the hotbeds of such rumors and disinformation. So, it was a little surprising when researchers at the University of Washington discovered that companies and government officials can in fact stamp out online rumors, if they act fast enough.
  
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• Panama Papers and Model 3

  04-04-2016 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedePanama City, the place where kids hide their piggy banks from the nanny state. GTS Productions/Shutterstock.com
  We are entering a strange world and it's hard to see or say how things from the past might end up in the future that's currently taking shape all around us. The past 40 years have been dominated by two sectors: finance and energy, in the form of fossil fuels. But two very recent events have shocked this order: one is the Panama Papers and the other is the unveiling of
  
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• Local Scientists Say We Have to Do Something About Ocean Acidification Before It's Too Late

  04-04-2016 20:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneIncreasing carbon dioxide emissions may be a global problem, but local scientists say we need to take local action. Edmund Lowe Photography/Shutterstock
  After three years of studying changing ocean chemistry, a 20-scientist panel has concluded that action needs to be taken against the impacts of ocean acidification—now. The panel, which published its final report this morning, says that global carbon emissions are the "dominant" cause of ocean acidification, but regiona
  
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• Five Ways to Make Sound Transit 3 Better Before Sending it to Voters

  04-04-2016 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverClick here to see the full draft ST3 map. Sound Transit
  The initial response to Sound Transit's draft plan for this year's $50 billion light rail package, Sound Transit 3, was a mix of thrill and angst. For the advocates who pay attention to these kinds of things, the agency's decision to go for a long tax package—25 years instead of 15—was great news. But the timelines that come with a 25 year plan are jarring. Light rail won't reach West Seattle for another 17 years
  
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• Mass Incarceration Scholar Michelle Alexander on the 2016 Race

  04-04-2016 19:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzAs of 2012, there were more African-Americans in prison or jail or on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850. txking/Shutterstock
  I agree with just about everything that Dan said about Bernie supporter Susan Sarandon's flippant stupidity on MSNBC last week, where she brushed off the possibility of a Trump victory by claiming it would lead to a glorious revolution. Especially this part:It's easy for white people with a lot of money to fantasize about what might happen if Dona
  
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• Edouardo Jordan Is a Food & Wine Best New Chef

  04-04-2016 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Angela Garbes"I need to be open about my path and the road I traveled so that other young black cooks understand the road is not easy," said Edouardo Jordan, the first African-American chef to be named a Food & Wine Best New Chef.Jenny Jimenez
  It's been a good year for chef Edouardo Jordan. Last June, he opened his first restaurant, Salare, in Ravenna. Since then, he's gotten a three-star review, been on the cover of the fall issue of our food magazine The Sauce, been written up in the Ne
  
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• When An Artist Points at Something

  04-04-2016 18:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThis is an installation shot of Jason Hirata's solo exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery right now. JG
  Part of the pleasure of looking at art is learning by looking where it's pointing. (This does not constitute me saying that art that does not point is not pleasurable or its own sort of learning.)
  Through Jason Hirata's work at the Henry this month, an installation about food and business cultures (about which I plan to write more later), I came to know about the famine food Plumpy'
  
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• The Morning News: Whale Tales, Traffic Jams, Charter School Frustrations, and Two Important Reports

  04-04-2016 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufSR 520 had a traffic jam on its first day. Who is surprised? Anna Hoychuk / Shutterstock.com
  There Was a Different Kind of Backup on the 520 Bridge: Nearly 30,000 people swarmed to celebrate the opening of the new SR 520 bridge on Saturday, KING 5 reports. SR 520, which was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's longest floating bridge, reached capacity during the event. This created a traffic bottleneck that left some people waiting an hour for a shuttle bus, the S
  
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• Krugman On Development, Construction, Housing, and Cities

  04-04-2016 17:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavagePaul Krugman writing this morning in the NYT:
  [Living] in the city isn’t like living on the beach, because the shortage of urban dwellings is mainly artificial. Our big cities, even New York, could comfortably hold quite a few more families than they do. The reason they don’t is that rules and regulations block construction. Limits on building height, in particular, prevent us from making more use of the most efficient public transit system yet invented—the elevato
  
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• Dog show: Canines go to the theater for ‘Rescue Dogs’ premiere

  04-04-2016 05:08
  
  The Seattle premiere of “Rescue Dogs” offered interactive, pet-oriented fun. In addition to the film, there were treats, prizes and adoption events.
  
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• Sound Transit pulls survey question that may break state law

  04-04-2016 04:45
  
  The question in the online survey sought to gauge why people would be willing to support a ballot measure to fund more public-transit services. The Public Disclosure Commission says it may violate a law that bars using public funds for political purposes.
  
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• Memorial grows at Rainier Valley site where man was fatally shot

  04-04-2016 04:36
  
  A makeshift memorial is set up in Rainier Valley, where a man was shot and killed Saturday night.
  
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• State project to evaluate whether prescribed burns help prevent wildfires

  04-04-2016 04:03
  
  New legislation signed by governor would give a boost to controlled burns, which can help reduce the risk of runaway blazes
  
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