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• GOP rival accuses governor of incompetence, deception at Western State

  21-09-2016 23:47
  
  Republican gubernatorial challenger Bill Bryant on Wednesday sought to turn festering problems at a state psychiatric hospital into a central campaign issue, calling Gov. Jay Inslee’s record one of “mounting incompetence.” During a news conference at his south Seattle campaign headquarters, Bryant displayed 25,000 keys on a table — the number of master keys that […]
  
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• GOP challenger Bill Bryant accuses Gov. Jay Inslee of incompetence, deception at Western State

  21-09-2016 23:47
  
  Republican gubernatorial challenger Bill Bryant on Wednesday sought to turn festering problems at a state psychiatric hospital into a central campaign issue, calling Gov. Jay Inslee’s record one of “mounting incompetence.” During a news conference at his south Seattle campaign headquarters, Bryant displayed 25,000 keys on a table — the number of master keys that […]
  
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• In Honor of His 82nd Birthday: 22 Essential Leonard Cohen Songs That Aren’t "Hallelujah"

  21-09-2016 23:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson"And she will learn to touch herself so well/ as all the sails burn down like paper/ And he has lit the chain of his famous cigarillo.
  Leonard Cohen, the whispering titan of singer-songwriters, and one of the only living music artists whose song lyrics are worth reading in a book, celebrates his 82nd birthday today. This fact is all the more resonant and delightful in light of how much time we've spent mourning our beloved artists this year. In a demonstration of his artistic and h
  
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• I, Anonymous: Chain Reaction

  21-09-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anonymous Steven Weissman
  Years ago, you hit me on I-5 north. I was driving an old Honda hatchback. You were in a newer white sedan. You offered to pay with cash instead of going through insurance. I felt guilty for taking the money because the damages were so insignificant, but I was newly married at the time and really struggling. Shortly after that accident, my husband (a veteran who was suffering from severe PTSD and substance abuse) had a complete breakdown.
  
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• DelBene tells House probe: Stop 'harassing' medical researchers

  21-09-2016 22:47
  
  A witch hunt-like probe of Planned Parenthood and medical research firms by House Republican conservatives has caused always-cool U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., to do a slow burn.
  
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• Real-life Goldilocks intruder nabbed in Westlake

  21-09-2016 22:32
  
  A Westlake family arrived home at their Lake Union houseboat Tuesday night to discover that someone had been eating their food, drinking their booze and using their shower, following the trail of freeloading to the real-life Goldilocks in their bed.
  
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• Your Guide to The Best Places to See Music if You Are Under 21

  21-09-2016 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalBlack Lodge KELLY O
  If you're not yet 21, don't despair: You still have many nightlife options. Several traditional venues and clubs recognize the attraction of holding all-ages events, and why not? Building customer loyalty at an early age only benefits them. If you want to stay informed about all-ages shows, check The Stranger's online calendar daily, and if you're on Facebook, you should think about joining the Seattle DIY Shows! group for on-the-downlow intel.
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• Sawant, UW researchers clash over study of $15 minimum-wage law

  21-09-2016 22:26
  
  Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is raising concerns about research into the city’s landmark minimum-wage law, prompting a University of Washington team to defend its work.
  
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• Sawant, UW researchers clash over impact of $15 minimum-wage law

  21-09-2016 22:26
  
  Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is raising concerns about research into the city’s landmark minimum-wage law, prompting a University of Washington team to defend its work.
  
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• 10 Seattle bars that stand out from the crowd

  21-09-2016 22:00
  
  If you’re paid to visit bars, where do you go to drink after work? Reporter Tan Vinh recommends these 10 bars in Seattle, Tacoma and beyond.
  
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• Dave Kennedy Uses Photography Because It's the Medium That Makes Us the Dumbest

  21-09-2016 21:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesDave Kennedy, Framed between two others, 2016, photocopies, wood scraps, duct tape, tape, light grey tube, blue cap, and rusty clip, 113 by 73 inches by 6 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Bridge Productions
  Sometimes what an artist wants is so simple. It might be put this way, as a request to anyone viewing their work: If you don't know what it is, don't stop looking.
  We can talk about the fact that Seattle-based, Tacoma-born artist Dave Kennedy takes his mixed-race identity&mdash
  
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• ‘My God, that’s Kimberly!’: Scientist solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

  21-09-2016 21:30
  
  The Seattle Times in 2013 published a real-life mystery story about Lori Ruff, who died in 2010, leaving a husband and child in Texas. Years earlier, she had stolen another person’s identity. Who was she really? Finally, we have an answer.
  
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• ‘My God, that’s Kimberly!’: Online sleuth solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

  21-09-2016 21:30
  
  The Seattle Times in 2013 published a real-life mystery story about Lori Ruff, who died in 2010, leaving a husband and child in Texas. Years earlier, she had stolen another person’s identity. Who was she really? Finally, we have an answer.
  
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• Mr Robot Season Two Ends Tonight: Perhaps the Post-Revolution Should Not Be Televised

  21-09-2016 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeRami Malek made a little history by winning Best Actor in a Drama at the 68th Emmy Awards. USA Network
  On Sunday night, Rami Malek won an Emmy for best actor in a drama for his portrayal of Elliot Alderson on Mr. Robot. This was a big deal. Malek, an Egyptian-American actor, was the "first non-white actor to win the category in 18 years." And there would certainly have been more noise about this achievement had the actor's name not been swamped by names that sound like his, Musl
  
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• Well, Here's an Image of Donald Trump That's Enough to Make Your Heart Stop

  21-09-2016 21:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleNo, not this photo... uplift_the_world / Shutterstock.com
  THIS photo. Which, I guess isn't a photo. It's a heart attack courtesy of Photoshop.
  You ought to read the piece this photo illustration accompanies, too. It's called "President Trump's First Term." Fascinating reporting and analysis by the New Yorker's Evan Osnos. The gist:
  His victory is no longer the stuff of dark comedy or fan fiction. It is fair to ask: What would he actually be like as a President?In other pr
  
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• Sheriff's office seeks ID of human remains from Mount Si

  21-09-2016 21:06
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office seeks the public's help in identifying skeletal remains recovered from Mount Si during the summer.
  
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• Victim’s stolen iPhone leads police to robbery suspect on Beacon Hill

  21-09-2016 21:02
  
  The victim was robbed early Wednesday in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.
  
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• Possible hybrid threatens native iguanas in Cayman Islands

  21-09-2016 20:52
  
  GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) — Researchers are studying a possible hybrid species of iguana found in the Cayman Islands that could pose a new risk to a native variety that officials have declared critically endangered. Three hatchlings were found on Little Cayman island with a mix of characteristics that normally distinguish the invasive green […]
  
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• Thinking About Dropping Out of College to Find Yourself? Think Again, Kid.

  21-09-2016 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson
  Fourteen years ago, I wrote a piece for the Back to School issue entitled "How to Be a Dropout." The gist of the article was, in effect, that dropping out of college is not only not the end of the world, but it can actually help lead you into a more interesting, intentional life.
  Some highlights:
  Like many of you, I had it drilled into my skull from a very early age that a university degree was the only hope a person had of succeeding in the world. Without it, the best you could l
  
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• The Stranger's Back to School Advice: Thinking About Dropping Out of College to Find Yourself? Think Again, Kid.

  21-09-2016 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson
  Fourteen years ago, I wrote a piece for the Back to School issue entitled "How to Be a Dropout." The gist of the article was, in effect, that dropping out of college is not only not the end of the world, but it can actually help lead you into a more interesting, intentional life.
  Some highlights:
  Like many of you, I had it drilled into my skull from a very early age that a university degree was the only hope a person had of succeeding in the world. Without it, the best you could l
  
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• The Stranger's Back to School Advice: Drop Out of College vs. Stay in School

  21-09-2016 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson
  Fourteen years ago, I wrote a piece for the Back to School issue entitled "How to Be a Dropout." The gist of the article was, in effect, that dropping out of college is not only not the end of the world, but it can actually help lead you into a more interesting, intentional life.
  Some highlights:
  Like many of you, I had it drilled into my skull from a very early age that a university degree was the only hope a person had of succeeding in the world. Without it, the best you could l
  
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• Tufts University gets $15 million to expand anatomy lab

  21-09-2016 20:35
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Tufts University in Boston is receiving a $15 million donation to expand its anatomy lab where medical students dissect cadavers. The donation comes from the Jaharis Family Foundation. It was founded by pharmaceutical executive and former Tufts trustee Michael Jaharis, who died in February at age 87. Tufts plans to build an […]
  
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• Greenland ice loss 40 trillion pounds bigger than thought

  21-09-2016 20:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Greenland is losing about 40 trillion pounds more ice a year than scientists had thought, according to a new study that used GPS to help estimate how much is melting. So instead of losing on average 550 trillion pounds of ice each year between 2003 and 2013, Greenland lost about 590 trillion […]
  
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• Scanning software deciphers ancient biblical scroll

  21-09-2016 20:06
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form. The passages from the Book of Leviticus, scholars say, offer the first […]
  
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• Court directs parole board to reinstate Oregon cop killer’s release date

  21-09-2016 20:02
  
  The killer bludgeoned the officer with firewood in 1992 after the police officer responded to a domestic-violence call in John Day, Ore.
  
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• How the Greenwood explosion and investigation unfolded

  21-09-2016 19:45
  
  Buildings flattened. Businesses shattered. A neighborhood torn. Who's at fault?
  
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• TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR THE 12TH ANNUAL HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL!

  21-09-2016 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  The Pacific Northwest's biggest, best, and only amateur porn film festival returns in November!
  What is HUMP!? It's a festival featuring five-minute-or-less films that run the gamut from hardcore to softcore, live action to animation, serious to comic. HUMP! is queer and straight, cis and trans, vanilla and kinky, binary and non, inside your comfort zone and outside your comfort zone. HUMP! is now in its 12th year and has been touring the country for the last three. And because we
  
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• Human DNA tied mostly to single exodus from Africa long ago

  21-09-2016 19:11
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The genetic ancestry of people living outside Africa can be traced almost completely to a single exodus of humans from that continent long ago, new studies suggest. Still, a tiny legacy from an earlier exit may persist in some native islanders in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. That’s the conclusion from three […]
  
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• Detectives hope sketch IDs man whose remains were found on Mount Si

  21-09-2016 19:08
  
  The man’s skeletal remains were found last year by two off-trail hikers near the haystack on Mount Si.
  
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• Detectives hope sketch can ID man whose remains were found on Mount Si

  21-09-2016 19:08
  
  The man’s skeletal remains were found last year by two off-trail hikers near the haystack on Mount Si.
  
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• Wendy Red Star Wins the Betty Bowen Award

  21-09-2016 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesWendy Red Star's new photography is about generational inheritances and adaptations, specifically matrilineal relationships in Crow culture. Images courtesy of the artist
  Portland-based artist Wendy Red Star is the winner of this year's Betty Bowen Award, which recognizes Northwest artists. The award is administered by Seattle Art Museum and carries a prize of $15,000. You may remember Red Star from 2014's Bumbershoot, where she curated the festival’s first all-Native contempo
  
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• The Morning News: We Need to Talk About Skittles and Nuremberg

  21-09-2016 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThe logic of Don Jr's Skittles tweet has origins in Nazi propaganda. ANTON_IVANOV/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  Did You See that Trump/Pence Skittles Propaganda and Roll Your Eyes? Donald Trump Jr. tweeted it out. He compared Syrian refugees to a bowl of skittles, in which some of the skittles are poison.
  Maybe You Skipped the Flurry of News About It: Understandable. There are a million posts all over social media simply echoing what happened, and some posts just focus on the fact that it
  
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• View-Obsessed West Seattle Homeowners Who Illegally Cut Trees Sued for $1.6M

  21-09-2016 17:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufHomeowners felled about 150 trees along a steep slope in West Seattle back in January. Ezume Images / Shutterstock
  Suck it, view-mongers. Yesterday, city officials announced that they are finally suing a group of West Seattle homeowners who illegally cut down around 150 big leaf maples and Scouler willow trees that once stood on either side of 35th Avenue Southwest.Through two lawsuits filed in King County Superior Court, the city is seeking $1.6 million in damages for timber t
  
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• Public Schools Superintendent Candidate Erin Jones Tries to Have it Both Ways on Race, Too

  21-09-2016 17:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzGoaded by a right-wing troll, Erin Jones accused us of engaging in racial "tokenism." Let's look at the record. Jones Campaign
  This evening, the two candidates to lead Washington's public school system will face off in a debate hosted by the Greater Seattle Business Association. In an e-mail, the LGBTQ business association asks:
  In a year when LGBT students are directly targeted by enemies of equality, how will Erin Jones and Chris Reykdal work to ensure an inclusive, equitable and
  
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• Staff cuts at Sea-Tac may signal a return to long security screening lines

  21-09-2016 16:53
  
  Long lines may be about to return to Sea-Tac Airport now that dozens of security screeners hired over the busy summer months are about to go away.
  
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• Dead whale washes up on second Oregon beach

  21-09-2016 15:11
  
  The dead humpback whale spent three days at Falcon Cove beach before being swept out to sea, then making a reappearance on a beach nearby.
  
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• Guest Editorial: Voting Yes On Prop 1 Is the Only Way to Get Light Rail Faster

  21-09-2016 15:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Seattle SubwayThe authors, transit advocates at Seattle Subway, say we can speed up building the new light rail lines in ST3—but first you have to vote yes. Sound Transit
  Have you heard that we have a transportation problem? Everyone is experiencing a worsening commute to work. Those living near Everett and working in Seattle must leave home nearly an hour and a half before work to confidently arrive on time, and across the region delays are increasing 25 percent each year. This is the
  
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• Guest Editorial: Why You Should Sign Initiative 873 to Change the State Law on Police Killings

  21-09-2016 15:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Adam SmithThe writer, who represents Seattle's 9th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives, says we need Initiative 873 on the ballot in order to reform this state's law on unjustified police killings. COURTESY OF JERRY SAVAGE
  Initiative 873 is aiming to amend our laws to make it easier to achieve justice for the victims of bad police shootings. Under the current law, it is nearly impossible to convict an officer involved in a bad shooting, meaning prosecutors rarely, if eve
  
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• Mexican police: Van with cannon used to shoot drugs to U.S.

  21-09-2016 13:24
  
  DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Drug smugglers employ very creative methods to get their loads across the U.S.-Mexico border. But it’s not every day they use a van outfitted with a 10-foot (3-meter) air cannon to shoot projectiles into the United States. Mexican federal police said in a statement last week they found such van parked […]
  
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• Authorities probe oil sheen in bay north of San Francisco

  21-09-2016 13:18
  
  VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday were investigating whether a mysterious odor is linked to a 40-foot wide oil sheen on San Pablo Bay, north of San Francisco, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The probe came after Vallejo residents were told Tuesday to stay inside when the odor prompted several people to go to […]
  
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• Authorities investigate reports of oil sheen, strong odor

  21-09-2016 13:18
  
  VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating reports of an oil sheen on waters near a northern California community where local authorities are trying to determine the source of a strong odor. The Coast Guard didn’t spot a sheen around Vallejo from the air on Tuesday but said crews will look again […]
  
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• The College Student's Guide to Buying Legal Weed for the First Time

  21-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The College Student's Guide to Buying Legal Weed for the First Timeby Tobias Coughlin-BogueSo you're coming to the green, green Emerald City for school, among other things. Is one of those other things weed? Of course it is, you're in college. Experimenting with mind-altering substances is about as much of a requirement for graduation as completing English 101. Lucky for you, weed is legal here in Washington, which makes your experimenting a whole lot less fraught (although you still run the ris
  
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• Sady Doyle's Trainwreck Deconstructs Our Obsession with Suffering Women

  21-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sady Doyle's Trainwreck Deconstructs Our Obsession with Suffering Womenby Megan BurbankBritney Spears became human to me in 2007. Until her very public breakdown that year, Britney had seemed like a robot built in a lab according to the exact specifications of the male gaze. She wasn’t for me. From the comfort of my feminist-populated women’s college in New England, I’d scoffed at Britney. And then, as I watched on a friend’s computer in our dorm as Britney shaved her hea
  
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• Jerry Lewis Shines in the Manipulative Max Rose

  21-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Jerry Lewis Shines in the Manipulative Max Roseby Wm. Steven HumphreyWhile everyone remembers Jerry Lewis’s hilarious youth with comedy partner Dean Martin, less is said about his flings with drama. His turn as a burned-out late-night talk show host in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy was a revelation: Lewis’s every glance and movement revealed a lifetime of Hollywood bullshit and demonstrated the depth of his talent. Almost 35 years after that role, Lewis is back with a si
  
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• Here and Queer? Here's Our Guide to Safe Spaces for College Kids

  21-09-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Here and Queer? Here's Our Guide to Safe Spaces for College Kidsby Kim SellingIt is totally possible to swan around town as an out-and-loud queer without limiting yourself to queer-only spaces. But a rise in anti-LGBTQIA violence means the city is not quite the queer bastion it once was, so it's important to create and uphold spaces that are built with the safety, comfort, and interests of the queer community as the central focus.Number one is Pony (1221 E Madison St, ponyseattle.com), a tiny qu
  
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• Settlement reached in damages from Exxon’s Yellowstone spill

  21-09-2016 11:53
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State and federal officials say they have a settlement with Exxon Mobil over environmental damage caused by an oil spill beneath Montana’s Yellowstone River. Gov. Steve Bullock and Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Cruden plan to announce terms of the settlement Wednesday. The 2011 pipeline break upstream of Billings left oil […]
  
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