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• Octopus slithers away from New Zealand Aquarium

  13-04-2016 23:46
  
  After busting through an enclosure, the nimble contortionist appears to have quietly crossed the floor, slithered through a narrow drain hole about 6 inches in diameter and jumped into the sea.
  
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• Stream Seattle Garage-Rockers Acapulco Lips' Fab New Self-Titled Album

  13-04-2016 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  As noted in this week's feature, Killroom Records is issuing on April 15 Seattle band Acapulco Lips' self-titled debut album, which you can stream above. To reiterate, it's a vibrant, hook-heavy fusion of garage- and surf-rock that's sweetened by bassist/singer Maria-Elena Juarez's alluringly defiant vocals. The Magalie Laroche-directed video for the album's first single, the mood-elevating "Awkward Waltz," has just dropped, too, and you can view it after the jump. Juarez explained
  
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• Dear Superman: Fine. You Win. I'm Sorry, I Guess.

  13-04-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Batman
  Dear Superman,
  Everyone in Gotham keeps asking why you're so mad at me in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I was also confused, but then the Flash, who has been my absolute rock through all of this, reminded me of some stuff. The Flash also suggested I apologize.
  Fine. Here:
  • I am sorry for filling Chipotle with bats when you and Martian Manhunter were trying to have lunch.
  • I am sorry for telling you that since the sun gives you your powers, the moon takes them away. I
  
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• Scientists: Greenland ice sheet is melting freakishly early

  13-04-2016 23:04
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Greenland’s massive ice sheet this week started melting freakishly early thanks to a weather system that brought unseasonably warm temperatures and rain, scientists say. While this record early melt is mostly from natural weather on top of overall global warming, scientists say they are concerned about what it means when the melt […]
  
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• Attorneys: Seattle foster parents abused kids on state’s watch

  13-04-2016 22:58
  
  Five former residents of a now shuttered Seattle foster home say state officials failed to protect them from physical and sexual abuse.
  
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• What We Know So Far About the Murder of Ingrid Lyne

  13-04-2016 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel Herz"We do not believe there are any outstanding suspects" says chief. Ingrid Lyne went missing after Mariners game Fri. pic.twitter.com/NjU6zCHauL
  — Lindsay Cohen (@lindsaycohen) April 12, 2016
  On Friday, April 8, Ingrid Lyne, a 40-year-old nurse at Swedish Medical Center and divorced mother of three daughters, was believed by her friends to have gone to a Mariners baseball game with 37-year-old John Charlton, who she had reportedly been dating for one month. Her kids to stayed t
  
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• Woman fatally shot by bail bondsman while serving warrant in Graham

  13-04-2016 22:38
  
  A woman was shot and killed by a bail bondsman after she brandished a weapon as her son was being taken into custody in Graham.
  
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• Bail bondsman fatally shoots armed woman in Graham

  13-04-2016 22:38
  
  A woman was shot and killed by a bail bondsman after she brandished a weapon as her son was being taken into custody in Graham.
  
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• How Lisa Herbold Wants to Save Seattle's Affordable Housing

  13-04-2016 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover"We have no strategy in our affordable housing goals to deal with preservation," says Seattle City Council member Lisa Herbold. "I think that is a big problem." City of Seattle
  In the spring of 2014, low-income tenants at an apartment building in Ballard had taken on what has become a classic Seattle battle: fighting a wealthy real estate developer.
  The building, called the Lockhaven, had once offered apartments from $650 to $1,050 a month, an affordable anomaly in an increasingl
  
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• Coastal razor clam digs will be finalized Thursday, and more digs could happen in May

  13-04-2016 22:25
  
  Marine toxin testing results for another round of coastal razor clam digging dates should be announced by state Fish and Wildlife as soon as Thursday (April 14). “We have more coastal razor clam digging opportunities tentatively scheduled, and added a couple days at Copalis,” said Dan Ayres, the head state Fish and Wildlife coastal shellfish […]
  
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• Record Store Day Is April 16, and Here's What You Can Do

  13-04-2016 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffAcapulco Lips are releasing their full-length debut album on new Seattle label Killroom Records, and will be doing a free, in-store performance at Easy Street for Record Store Day. Trevor Crump
  Scourge or savior, Record Store Day is this Saturday, April 16. For those of you who aren’t music nerds, Record Store Day (or RSD) was conceived in 2007 as a day of celebration for vinyl enthusiasts and the more pragmatic people who love them, in which all facets of rec
  
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• Science News: UW/Microsoft Researchers Can Insert Your Smartphone Picture of Your Beloved Kitty into DNA, Sydney Brownstone Talks with Dr. Hope Jahren About Being a Lab Girl

  13-04-2016 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan Linck DNA can store information millions of times more compactly than any hard drive.Elya Vatel/shutterstock.com
  A UW/Microsoft Collaboration Places a Digital Photo in DNA and Even Retrieves It Perfectly Intact: The University of Washington has recently begun developing research partnerships with the major players in Seattle’s tech economy. By expanding beyond the usual constraints of academic funding, the reasoning goes, scientists are given the opportunity to take greater risks
  
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• Science News: UW/Microsoft Researchers Can Insert Pic of Your Kitty into DNA, Sydney Brownstone Talks with Hope Jahren About Lab Girl

  13-04-2016 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan Linck DNA can store information millions of times more compactly than any hard drive.Elya Vatel/shutterstock.com
  A UW/Microsoft Collaboration Places a Digital Photo in DNA and Even Retrieves It Perfectly Intact: The University of Washington has recently begun developing research partnerships with the major players in Seattle’s tech economy. By expanding beyond the usual constraints of academic funding, the reasoning goes, scientists are given the opportunity to take greater risks
  
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• UConn receives grant to exhibit collection of 2 million ants

  13-04-2016 21:06
  
  STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Former University of Connecticut biologist Carl Rettenmeyer and his wife Marian made more than 20 expeditions to the jungles of Central and South America following, studying and collecting army ants. Their work, including about 2 million specimens of ants and other critters that also live in army ant colonies, soon will […]
  
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• After 3 anti-Semitic incidents, Western Washington University forms task force

  13-04-2016 20:54
  
  Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard is forming a task force after several anti-Semitic incidents involving students at the Bellingham school.
  
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• Want to Relax? Don't Let Them Talk You Into High-THC Weed

  13-04-2016 20:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueBlueberry Essence: This high-CBD plant has THC levels as low as 1 percent or less, but CBD levels of 5 to 15 percent.MICHELLE CONNER
  For every weed smoker who wants to get as high as possible, there's someone else who has a light-duty panic attack—or maybe a heavy-duty panic attack—whenever they try cannabis. Most of these people eventually just decide they're "not a pot person." They want to relax, and even the strains that are said to be relaxing don't help
  
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• Did You Miss the #JournalismSoWhite Conversation? We've Got You Covered.

  13-04-2016 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufAs Heidi mentioned this morning, a panel of local journalists assembled last night at the Rainier Arts Center to discuss diversity (or, really, the lack thereof) in journalism. The panelists: Yes! Magazine editor Yessenia Funes, The Seattle Globalist's Venice Buhain, news editor, and Christina Twu, community engagement editor; and the Seattle Times' Tyrone Beason, editor of their Pacific Northwest Magazine, and Jerry Large, columnist.According to The Atlantic:
  92 percent of jou
  
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• Alaska woman charged with starving, abusing 3 adopted sisters

  13-04-2016 19:43
  
  The woman faces 15 felony counts, including assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The children are biological sisters, placed in the woman’s care in 2011.
  
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• AllMusic.com's Stephen Erlewine on the Pluses and Minuses of Record Store Day

  13-04-2016 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  You may have heard: Record Store Day's coming up on Saturday, April 16. It's a "holiday" that inspires conflicted thoughts among serious music heads and indie-label owners, which you can read about in this Slog post from earlier this year. Above you can hear AllMusic.com editor and Pitchfork contributor Stephen Thomas Erlewine discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of RSD. You can also check out Seattle RSD activities on The Stranger's calendar.[ Comment on this story ][
  
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• Intuition helps humans beat computers in thorny physics game

  13-04-2016 19:22
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Computers may have us beat at chess and checkers, but new research suggests our brains still have an edge when it comes to solving certain tricky problems thanks to a very human trait: intuition. Scientists in Denmark have found that people who played a game that simulated a complex calculation in physics […]
  
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• Study: Brain implant lets paralyzed man regain use of hand

  13-04-2016 19:11
  
  A man paralyzed by a spinal cord injury has regained some use of his right hand, controlling it with signals relayed from electronic sensors in his brain. Signals from the brain implant are interpreted by a computer, which then stimulates the man's hand muscles by using electrodes strapped to his forearm.
  
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• Dildogazi: I Disapprove of Ted Cruz Stimulating His Genitals—But I Will Defend to the Death His Right to Rub One Out

  13-04-2016 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageGood morning, Slog! Thanks to Mother Jones and Ted Cruz's former college roommate... we get to think about Ted Cruz laying back in his bed in college dorm, slipping his right hand into his ripe boxer shorts, and slowly and carefully cranking one out while his traumatized college roommate pretends to sleep in the next bed.
  Take it away, Mother Jones:
  In 2007, Cruz's legal team, working on behalf of then-Attorney General Greg Abbott (who now is the governor), filed a 76-page brief cal
  
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• After Reversal by Chief, Police Watchdog Defends His Conclusions About Officer-Involved Shooting

  13-04-2016 18:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel Herz"They have to have a reasonable belief that the source of the threat is what they're firing at." SPD
  For the fourth time in the nearly two years since she joined the department, police chief Kathleen O'Toole has overruled the disciplinary findings of the department's civilian-led watchdog, the Office of Professional Accountability.In an interview, the head of the OPA, Pierce Murphy, defended his conclusion that three officers who opened fire at a man driving a car, on the night of N
  
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• One Artist, One Writer, and Beginning to See Something You'll Never Unsee: Ramiro Gomez and Lawrence Weschler

  13-04-2016 18:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThis outdoor installation (painting on cardboard on driveway), is by Ramiro Gomez. It's called Las Meninas, Bel Air, from 2013. One of Gomez's mediums is placing cardboard paintings outdoors in unsanctioned public settings where they surprise people. Artwork © Ramiro Gomez, photo © David Feldman
  It’s easy to forget that Diego Velazquez’s 1656 painting Las Meninas is, first and foremost, a painting of nannies at work.
  Velazquez puts it right in the title: &ldquo
  
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• Soccer star Abby Wambach pleads guilty in Portland DUI case

  13-04-2016 17:52
  
  PORTLAND — Court records show U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants Tuesday in a county courtroom in Portland. The Oregonian reports the plea means Wambach could have her charges dismissed within a year by enrolling in a diversion program available to first-time offenders. A Multnomah County Circuit […]
  
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• Woman charged with livestreaming alleged rape of 17-year-old

  13-04-2016 17:45
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman used a social media app to livestream the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl, an Ohio prosecutor said Wednesday as a grand jury indicted the woman and a co-defendant on several charges including rape and kidnapping. The case came to light when authorities were contacted after an out-of-state friend […]
  
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• The Morning News: New Details about Renton Woman's Murder and Ethics Investigation of Transportation Head Scott Kubly

  13-04-2016 17:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSeattle Transportation Director Scott Kubly (front left) used to work as the president of Alta Bicycle Share, which operates Seattle's Pronto bike share system. City of Seattle
  Why the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission Is Investigating Transportation Director Scott Kubly: "Kubly didn’t obtain a waiver from the ethics commission allowing him to work on business regarding Alta Bicycle Share, which was operating the Pronto bike-share system in Seattle when he was hired,"
  
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• Uber expands uberPOOL ride-sharing to Central Seattle

  13-04-2016 17:00
  
  The new uberPOOL option will allow riders to hail less expensive Uber vehicles if they’re willing to share a car with strangers traveling to similar destinations.
  
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• See the best views in Seattle before you even land

  13-04-2016 17:00
  
  Sketched April 9, 2016 On a clear day, how many of our tallest mountains can be seen as you fly into Sea-Tac? Last weekend, as I returned home from spending spring break with my family on the East Coast, our American Airlines flight treated us to excellent views of some of the volcanoes in the Cascade Range. […]
  
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• Man injured in officer-involved shooting in Lake Stevens

  13-04-2016 15:33
  
  A 22-year-old man was hurt in an officer-involved shooting in Lake Stevens Tuesday night.
  
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• Inslee signs bill requiring community truancy boards, but vetos potential source of funding

  13-04-2016 15:00
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a new law requiring school districts and juvenile courts to create community truancy boards, but districts can't pay for them with money set aside to help students struggling in reading, writing and math.
  
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• Three Military Veterans Explain What Weed Does for Their PTSD

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Three Military Veterans Explain What Weed Does for Their PTSDby Tobias Coughlin-BogueTwenty-two veterans a day commit suicide in the United States. Why anyone commits suicide is something only they can know, ultimately, but it wouldn't be a stretch to surmise that post-
  traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) might have something to do with it.The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health system is quick to prescribe antianxiety drugs, antidepressants, sedatives, and other meds for PTSD, but that ha
  
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• The Gimmick Excels in the Postmillennial Noir Too Late

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Gimmick Excels in the Postmillennial Noir Too Lateby Kathy FennessyGimmicky films can be a drag. All flash and no substance, they grab your attention for a few minutes, but then your mind begins to wander once you realize that the filmmaker has no interest in actual human beings (the audience included). Against all odds, first-time feature director Dennis Hauck has made a film that's as gimmicky as hell—shot on 35 mm in five unbroken 20-minute takes—and yet it becomes more involv
  
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• Space Travel Is Useless—A Space Program Is Anything But

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Space Travel Is Useless—The Performance Documentary A Space Program Is Anything Butby Charles MudedeThat every moment in A Space Program makes abundantly clear is the utter uselessness of human space travel.Sending people to the moon was useless in the past, and sending people to Mars will be useless in the future. Space turns out not to be the place. We are here to stay; we are earthlings. Distant planets are and will be for robots like Opportunity.But this fact, the uselessness of humann
  
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• My Philosophy: What Do We Do with the Allegations Against Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa?

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  My Philosophy: What Do We Do with the Allegations Against Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa?by Larry Mizell Jr.Recently, two men at two completely opposite ends of the hiphop spectrum—Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa—were alleged to have committed multiple counts of sexual assault. Ian Connor is pretty much contemporary fashion-rap's premier famous-for-nothing hypebeast, uh, stylist—who I admit I never thought much of. In fact, I always thought less of cats who kept him around or
  
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• My Philosophy: What Do We Do with the Accusations Against Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa?

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  My Philosophy: What Do We Do with the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa?ONLINE HEADLINE: What Do We Do with the Accusations Against Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa?by Larry Mizell Jr.Recently, two men at two completely opposite ends of the hiphop spectrum—Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa—were alleged to have committed multiple counts of sexual assault. Ian Connor is pretty much contemporary fashion-rap's premier famous-for-nothing hypebeast, uh, stylist&
  
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• Five More Seattle Labels You Should Know About

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome to the World, Killroom Records. Here Are Five Other Under-the-Radar Seattle Labels You Should Know Aboutby Dave SegalAbduction
  suncitygirls.com/abductionUnderground-music legend Alan Bishop splits his time between Seattle and Cairo, Egypt, these days, but the commitment to high-quality releases for his Abduction imprint hasn't wavered. Abduction made a huge splash with the 2015 reissue of Sun City Girls' long out-of-print, singular ethnodelic masterpiece Torch of the Mystics. But the lab
  
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• Criminal: It's Like Face/Off, but Worse!

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Criminal: It's Like Face/Off, but Worse!by Ben ColemanCriminal is the answer to a question no one asked: "What if someone took the basic plot of Face/Off and made a dour espionage thriller out of it?" The obvious problem is that Face/Off is not remembered for its plot, as it is a film in which a good man and a bad man switch bodies via super-science and experience life on the other side of the law. No, Face/Off is remembered for its gold-plated hand cannons, its multistage boat chase, and two of
  
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• Artistic Crap: Part One of a Serialized Interview with Andy Partridge of XTC

  13-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Artistic Crap, Part One of a Serialized Interview with Andy Partridge of XTCby Sean NelsonThe last record of new songs by XTC came out in 2000, about 22 years after the first one. In the intervening decade and a half, cofounder Andy Partridge has acted as a steward of his band's legacy—overseeing reissues, remasters, and maintaining a vivid, gregarious web presence. It's not quite as good as if he were making new music, but for his fans, who tend to be devout, it will do.The end of March s
  
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• Rescuers dug through 4 feet of snow to reach stranded skiers

  13-04-2016 10:03
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helicopters charged with rescuing two skiers trapped on an Alaska glacier for days waited out whiteout conditions that one pilot said were like trying to fly inside a pingpong ball. The winds and blowing snow subsided enough Tuesday — the fourth day of the rescue mission — that an Alaska Air […]
  
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• Alaska rescuers dug through 4 feet of snow to reach skiers stranded on glacier for 4 days

  13-04-2016 10:03
  
  ANCHORAGE — Helicopters charged with rescuing two skiers trapped on an Alaska glacier for days waited out whiteout conditions that one pilot said were like trying to fly inside a pingpong ball. The winds and blowing snow subsided enough Tuesday — the fourth day of the rescue mission — that an Alaska Air National Guard […]
  
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• Obama plans to attend his final White House Science Fair

  13-04-2016 09:27
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of America’s brightest children will visit the White House as President Barack Obama holds his final science fair to highlight work that excelled in a broad range of competitions. Obama began the science fair in 2010, saying the students who produce the best experiments and products ought to be recognized like […]
  
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• Review: 1957 cold case conviction riddled with missteps

  13-04-2016 07:28
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Half a century after the mysterious abduction and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl, authorities found a suspect — a former neighbor of the child — secured his conviction and put an end to a small town’s agony. Jack McCullough, by that time a 73-year-old retired policeman, was sentenced to life in […]
  
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• Guest Editorial

  13-04-2016 05:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Guest Editorial: Dear Superman, Fine. You Win. I'm Sorry, I Guess, by Batmanby BatmanDear Superman,Everyone in Gotham keeps asking why you're so mad at me in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I was also confused, but then the Flash, who has been my absolute rock through all of this, reminded me of some stuff. The Flash also suggested I apologize.Fine. Here:• I am sorry for filling Chipotle with bats when you and Martian Manhunter were trying to have lunch.• I am sorry for telling you
  
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• The lapse that led to Seattle ethics probe of transportation chief Scott Kubly

  13-04-2016 05:08
  
  The investigation into Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly is looking into whether he violated the city’s Ethics Code by not obtaining a waiver allowing him to work on matters involving his former employer, Alta Bicycle Share.
  
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• The lapse that led to Seattle ethics probe of Scott Kubly

  13-04-2016 05:08
  
  The investigation into Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly is looking into whether he violated the city’s Ethics Code by not obtaining a waiver allowing him to work on matters involving his former employer, Alta Bicycle Share.
  
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• Record Store Day drives worldwide vinyl revival

  13-04-2016 04:24
  
  Record Store Day, which launched in 2008, has become an international celebration for lovers of vinyl albums — and has contributed to a logjam of orders for record-pressing companies.
  
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• SPD overtime blues — $24.2 million in 2015 — now a 64-page audit

  13-04-2016 04:17
  
  An auditor’s 64-page report is unsparing about Seattle police overtime, which has doubled in a decade and reached $24.2 million last year.
  
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• Seattle Police Department’s overtime blues — $24.2M last year — now a 64-page audit

  13-04-2016 04:17
  
  An auditor’s 64-page report is unsparing about Seattle police overtime, which has doubled in a decade and reached $24.2 million last year.
  
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• Discussions air issues, build toward city Education Summit

  13-04-2016 04:16
  
  Mayor Ed Murray’s Education Summit will be held April 30 at the Garfield Community Center.
  
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