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• Fixing troubled banks became Patrick’s specialty

  15-08-2016 23:58
  
  Patrick Patrick, a bank turnaround artist who led four small lenders during more than 50 years in the industry, died Thursday at age 74.
  
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• I Will Never Vote for Donald Trump... But I Might Vote for This Trump T-shirt?

  15-08-2016 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Wm. Steven HumphreyThis weekend I saw a guy walking around the airport dressed in this T-shirt—and it made me have FEELINGS!At first I was like, "Boy, that guy flew into the wrong city." But then I was like, "Ummm... wait... I think that t-shirt might be awesome?" What follows are eight reasons why it might be awesome.
  REASON ONE: It is a muscle tee.
  REASON TWO: It depicts Trump riding atop a GOLD-PLATED Trump tank (bearing a Trump license plate, just in case you didn't know the tank be
  
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• Bill Bryant Finally Says He Won't Vote for Trump

  15-08-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverIt's just sooooo hard to decide whether or not to vote for Trump. HG
  Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant has spent months refusing to say whether he'll answer for his party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump. At times, Bryant's maneuvering has been downright gross to watch. Today—after Trump said he would ban Muslims from entering the United States, after Trump attacked the parents of a slain Muslim soldier, after he suggested his supporters shoot Hillary Clint
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Daddy's Pretend Girl Worried About Daddy's Actual Girl

  15-08-2016 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageI am sexually aroused by daddy/daughter role-play. I have no experience with it, but for many years have been extremely turned on by the idea of having sex with a man who pretends to be my father. I have been talking to a man online about this and our conversations are getting explicit. In the back of my mind I'm worried that he may be actually be into children. He has a daughter. Should I be worried that he fantasizes about her? Or actually abuses her?
  Gross In Real LifeYou have a
  
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• Pramila Jayapal Lands Congressman Adam Smith's Endorsement in the Race for the 7th

  15-08-2016 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneCongressman Adam Smith (left) has thrown his support behind Pramila Jayapal. But who will Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott endorse, if anyone? Brian Dalbalcon Photography/Pramila Jayapal
  State Senator Pramila Jayapal, currently running for Seattle's open 7th Congressional District seat, has won the first Congressional endorsement of the race. US Congressman Adam Smith, who represents Seattle's neighboring 9th District, has thrown his support behind her.
  "I’ve watched P
  
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• Candidate for governor Bill Bryant answers nagging question: No, he doesn’t support Donald Trump

  15-08-2016 22:59
  
  Washington’s Republican candidate for governor has finally taken a public stand on the Donald Trump question — he doesn’t support the GOP nominee for president. Nor does he support the Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Bill Bryant finally answers nagging question: No, he doesn’t support Donald Trump

  15-08-2016 22:59
  
  Washington’s Republican candidate for governor has finally taken a public stand on the Donald Trump question — he doesn’t support the GOP nominee for president. Nor does he support the Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
  
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• NASA: Last month was Earth’s hottest in recorded history

  15-08-2016 22:45
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth just broiled to its hottest month in recorded history, according to NASA. Even after the fading of a strong El Nino, which spikes global temperatures on top of man-made climate change, July burst global temperature records. NASA calculated that July 2016 was 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit (0.84 degrees Celsius) warmer than the […]
  
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• Creepy New Details Connect Trump's Campaign to Pro-Putin Forces Within Ukraine

  15-08-2016 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleThe New York Times broke news last night about Trump's campaign manager, allegedly involving "undisclosed cash payments," an "illegal off-the-books system," and "offshore shell companies" used to "launder public money" in Ukraine.Ukraine/Shutterstock
  Late last night, the New York Times published reporting on "cash" payments to Trump campaign director Paul Manafort back when he worked for the political party in Ukraine sympathetic to Putin."Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 m
  
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• Roadies Finally Plays Some Skynyrd in Episode 8: The All Night Bus Ride

  15-08-2016 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Megan Koester"Hey Googe, is this show still on TV?" "Can it, Wilson. I'm pretending to be on the phone!"
  It’s a pity, I thought to myself as the credits rolled on episode eight of Roadies, that Lester Bangs didn’t live to see this show on television. Then it occurred to me that perhaps I could aspire to honor his legacy with my scathing indictments of this trainwreck of rock-era nostalgia. Get ready for “The All Night Bus Ride.” We open on seasoned road dog Phil (you k
  
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• For the First Time in Two Decades, Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series Comes West

  15-08-2016 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesPanel 12 of the Migration Series, captioned in 1941 by the artist, Jacob Lawrence: "The railroad stations were at times so over-packed with people leaving that special guards had to be called in to keep order." Courtesy of Seattle Art Museum
  Last year around this time, I was so excited about the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of all 60 of Jacob Lawrence's paintings of the Great Migration that I wrote about it, even though I couldn't get there to see the art in person.
  But now all
  
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• Forest officials issue closure order over endangered mouse

  15-08-2016 21:11
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials are closing off sections of national forest land in southern New Mexico to protect an endangered mouse and keep people from getting tangled up in barbed wire and electric fencing meant to ward off cattle. Supervisors with the Lincoln National Forest say campers are tearing down fences that had […]
  
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• Forest officials in New Mexico issue closure order over endangered mouse

  15-08-2016 21:11
  
  ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials are closing off sections of national forest land in southern New Mexico to protect an endangered mouse. They say campers are tearing down barbed wire and electric fences that had been put in place to protect the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse and that disbursed camping is damaging the […]
  
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• Study: Most sources of methane hot spot are gas facilities

  15-08-2016 21:03
  
  DENVER (AP) — Scientists say most of the sources contributing to a puzzling concentration of the greenhouse gas methane over the Southwestern United States appear to be natural gas production facilities. NASA researchers said Monday they identified more than 250 sources contributing to a methane hot spot over the Four Corners region of Arizona, Colorado, […]
  
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• Study: Most of methane hot spot comes from natural gas leaks

  15-08-2016 21:03
  
  DENVER (AP) — A puzzling concentration of the greenhouse gas methane over the Southwestern United States appears to come mostly from leaks in natural gas production, scientists said Monday. Researchers identified more than 250 sources of a methane hot spot over the Four Corners region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. They include gas […]
  
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• Food News: Mollusk Has a New Chef, Ballard Has a New Nordic Restaurant, and Capitol Hill Loses Two New Places

  15-08-2016 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueOld Ballard Liquor Co. now does food. Their crayfish party, pictured here, should be lit AF. More details on that in a second. But first... Courtesy of OBLC
  Mollusk Has a New Chef
  After losing original chef and co-owner Travis Kukull rather abruptly, South Lake Union restaurant Mollusk was left in the lurch chef-wise. No longer. They've hired Seamus Platt, who was most recently sous chef at Girin. He's taking over dinner service now, with plans to expand into lunch and br
  
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• Meet The All-American Weed Family

  15-08-2016 20:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Sustainable, Sunshine-Raised Cannabis Joins the Fold of This Eastern Washington Clanby Ana Sofia KnaufAll in the Family: Mark, Leslie, and Annalise Olson stand inside Quincy Green’s techie greenhouse. Quincy Gree
  Annalise Olson says she still remembers the days when her dad grounded her for smoking weed as a teenager. When she would come back home from hanging out with her high-school friends, Olson says her dad was paranoid that they spent their nights smoking.
  Needless to say, she was su
  
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• When 17 monkeys battled for control of Woodland Park Zoo’s Monkey Island

  15-08-2016 20:34
  
  In August 1940, Woodland Park Zoo put 17 male monkeys in a single enclosure with a bit of moat-surrounded land they dubbed “Monkey Island.” The rumble for simian supremacy drew quite the crowd and made the front page of The Seattle Times.
  
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• Feds issue safety alert stemming from Tesoro refinery blast

  15-08-2016 20:22
  
  Federal investigators issued new safety recommendations aimed at preventing accidents similar to the 2010 explosion that killed seven workers at the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery in Anacortes.
  
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• 2 people found dead in Spokane Valley home

  15-08-2016 20:09
  
  Police say the victims are a brother and sister and that the suspect is still on the loose.
  
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• Guns N'Roses Played Seattle Friday Night. It Was Fucking Crazy

  15-08-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithIf you went to CenturyLink Field on Friday night, you would have heard this ginger opossum cackle-scream for two and half hours in front of 44,000 people. RS
  When asked to cover the Guns N' Roses "Not In This Lifetime" semi-reunion tour, I protested for like 10 minutes. Sure there was a moment in 6th grade when I snake-danced on the couch to "Sweet Child O' Mine,"but I've never had strong feelings about the divisive band. Hadn't John Jeremiah Sullivan already written everything ther
  
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• Man found dead on Camano Island was under DOC supervision in Wisconsin

  15-08-2016 19:53
  
  Scott Schwantes, 47, had been living in a van in Cama Beach State Park, the Island County Sheriff’s Office says.
  
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• What We Learned From The Seahawks First Preseason Triumph

  15-08-2016 19:30 via thestranger.com
  What We Learned From The Seahawks First Preseason Triumph: Everything and nothing!by Spike Friedman🚨🚨 Hail Mary Alert!!! 🚨🚨Trevone Boykin converts the deep ball at the buzzer! 😱 #SEAvsKC https://t.co/vYt2OYzfG0
  — NFL (@NFL) August 13, 2016 After what felt like literally months without football (my perception of time is A+) the Seahawks beat the Kansas City Chiefs 17-16 in a dramatic and meaningless football game on Saturday. The game was won on a Tre
  
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• Latest poll shows Clinton, Inslee leading in Washington

  15-08-2016 19:19
  
  A new poll shows that the Democratic candidates for president and governor hold strong leads in Washington state, though neither is above 50 percent.
  
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• The POTUS Mix Tape Shows Us the "Real America"

  15-08-2016 19:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by C. Davida IngramThe POTUS mix is available on Spotify, which means none of the artists will be paid much, if at all, but think of the exposure!
  I have what I feel is a healthy emotional (rather than a political) attachment to our 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama. He dropped his summer playlist on Friday and I acted like it was an old school mix tape with “Just the Two of Us” by Chubb Rock. The POTUS mix tape signals what “the real” America actually is. It’s h
  
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• So Very Hard to Go: Emotional and Political Reflections on the 2016 POTUS Summer Playlist

  15-08-2016 19:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by C. Davida IngramThe POTUS mix is available on Spotify, which means none of the artists will be paid much, if at all, but think of the exposure!
  I have what I feel is a healthy emotional (rather than a political) attachment to our 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama. He dropped his summer playlist on Friday and I acted like it was an old school mix tape with “Just the Two of Us” by Chubb Rock. The POTUS mix tape signals what “the real” America actually is. It’s h
  
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• More Than 4,000 Seattleites Showed Up for SAM/PNB's Sculptured Dance at the Olympic Sculpture Park

  15-08-2016 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithBallet in jorts. RICH SMITH
  On the afternoon of August 11, more than 4,000 people showed up to Olympic Sculpture Park to watch a contemporary dance performance. That's more than the number of people who showed up for the Trump rally in Lynden, Washington. Four thousand is the conservative estimate from Seattle Art Museum—emotionally, the number felt closer to a bajillion.
  The Pacific Northwest Ballet/Seattle Art Museum event was part of the Summer at SAM series. A typical Thur
  
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• Watch This: Why People Rioted in Milwaukee

  15-08-2016 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzJust watch this:this is the brother of the man that was killed in #milwaukee by the police last night pic.twitter.com/TNBjRQbQvb
  — Sarah Nyberg (@srhbutts) August 14, 2016
  The New York Times reports today:
  Milwaukee is one of the United States’ most segregated cities, where black men are incarcerated or unemployed at some of the highest rates in the country, and where the difference in poverty between black and white residents is about one and a half times the national a
  
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• Here’s Some Stuff the Seattle Times Didn’t Tell You About Bill Bryant

  15-08-2016 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneBill Bryant, in jauntier hair times. Don Wilson/Port of Seattle
  On Friday, the Seattle Times published a piece introducing their readers to Bill Bryant, Governor Jay Inslee's Republican challenger. The piece said that Bryant, a former Seattle port commissioner, characterized himself as "a moderate with environmental, education, and business credentials while downplaying his GOP ties."Bryant told the Times that his childhood in Hood Canal shaped his commitment to protect and c
  
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• The Morning News: A Seattle Restaurant Update, State Races in General Election Likely Neck and Neck, and Milwaukee Protests

  15-08-2016 18:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufThe world might be garbage, but at least Jackson's Catfish Corner will be back soon. Kelly O
  Another Violent Night in Milwaukee: Police officers fatally shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith in Milwaukee, Wisc. on Saturday, which resulted in two days of rioting. During the protests, an 18-year-old man was shot and was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. "Just after midnight, lines of police holding riot gear began moving down Burleigh Street telling people they were in
  
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• Two-state crime rampage leaves many in Oregon town reeling

  15-08-2016 18:07
  
  BEND, Oregon (AP) — He had everything going for him: a job and good career path in law enforcement in a scenic Oregon mountain town, the trust of his colleagues, a wife and a house. Then one recent night, police say, he killed a young woman. Edwin Lara then traveled to the state capital, kidnapped […]
  
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• Advisers charged in tribe’s marijuana resort enter pleas

  15-08-2016 16:46
  
  FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — Two consultants who helped a Native American tribe plan the nation’s first marijuana resort entered opposing pleas Monday to drug offenses, with the attorney for the man who pleaded not guilty arguing outside of court that South Dakota’s top prosecutor is proceeding under a “legal fiction.” Jonathan Hunt, who oversaw the […]
  
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• Adviser in tribe’s pot resort pleads guilty to drug charge

  15-08-2016 16:46
  
  FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — One of two consultants who worked with a Native American tribe on its plans to open the nation’s first marijuana resort pleaded guilty Monday to a drug offense stemming from his role in the operation, including ordering pot seeds that were shipped surreptitiously from the Netherlands to the reservation last year. […]
  
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• What Do You Know: Millennial Voters Flocking to Clinton

  15-08-2016 15:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageUSA TODAY:
  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is consolidating the support of the Millennials who fueled Bernie Sanders' challenge during the primaries, a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote Poll finds, as Republican Donald Trump heads toward the worst showing among younger voters in modern American history. The survey shows Clinton trouncing Trump 56%-20% among those under 35, though she has failed so far to generate the levels of enthusiasm Sanders did—and the high turn
  
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• Tree on power line blamed for early-morning N. Seattle outage

  15-08-2016 15:20
  
  About 2,700 Seattle City Light customers lost power Monday morning, but the lights were back on within a few hours.
  
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• Power outage hits North Seattle

  15-08-2016 15:20
  
  About 2,700 Seattle City Light customers lost power Monday morning.
  
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• In Washington, average college debt is lower than most other states

  15-08-2016 15:05
  
  Washington college students amass less debt than students who study in neighboring states, owing $24,997 on average upon graduation.
  
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• Neighbors worry about Mercer Slough amid East Link light-rail construction

  15-08-2016 15:00
  
  As construction of Sound Transit’s East Link line through Bellevue begins, neighbors worry about the promised protections to Mercer Slough Nature Park and the historic Winters House and whether the city needs stronger protections for the use of parkland.
  
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• Hempfest approaches 25th anniversary, but financial outlook is hazy

  15-08-2016 15:00
  
  Hempfest has been advocating for the legalization of marijuana for the past 25 years. If it doesn’t turn a profit this year, it could go up in smoke.
  
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• Billionaire developer Selig racks up $2M in unpaid Seattle City Light bills

  15-08-2016 14:50
  
  Seattle developer and billionaire Martin Selig has racked up nearly $2 million in delinquent electric bills with Seattle City Light, records show.
  
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• Billionaire developer Martin Selig racks up $2M in unpaid Seattle City Light bills

  15-08-2016 14:50
  
  Seattle developer and billionaire Martin Selig has racked up nearly $2 million in delinquent electric bills with Seattle City Light, records show.
  
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• Portugal, Spain try to stamp out wildfires after deadly week

  15-08-2016 13:46
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — As residents doused their homes with water, firefighters in Portugal and Spain kept battling scores of wildfires Monday after a week of the worst fire destruction in years on the mountainous Iberian Peninsula. Stoked by winds and high temperatures, the wildfires have killed at least four people in Portugal and one […]
  
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• Webcam whale research buoyed by viewers around the world

  15-08-2016 08:05
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The underwater webcam attached to Hayley Shephard’s boat captures what at first appear to be green glowing orbs as she motors through an estuary in remote Canada. Then the orbs come into focus, revealing some of the more than 3,000 beluga whales that gather in the waters in and around Hudson […]
  
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• Tainted tap water sickens hundreds in New Zealand town

  15-08-2016 07:48
  
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tainted tap water has sickened hundreds of people in a small town on New Zealand’s North Island and forced schools to close. Health officials said Monday that two patients were in a critical condition and 19 others remained in a local hospital after testing positive for campylobacter bacteria. Anna Kirk, […]
  
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• Trial of alleged Russian master hacker begins this week

  15-08-2016 06:43
  
  Trial begins this week for Roman Seleznev, an accused master hacker and son of a Russian lawmaker, who federal prosecutors say stole credit-card numbers used in a $170 million fraud
  
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