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• Kshama Sawant Provides an Excellent Assessment of the Political Situation in the US

  22-09-2016 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeIf Trump wins because many on the left voted for a doomed candidate, it will hurt Sawant. Verso Books
  Sadly, her assessment, which is in the venerable leftist journal The Nation, reaches a conclusion that makes sense in the mind but not in reality. Sawant recommends that progressive Americans vote for a person, Jill Stein, who has no chance of winning instead of one, Hillary Clinton, who does. True, Clinton is a neoliberal (check out out Blabbermouth's episode on neoliberalism),
  
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• Arrest Warrant and Manslaughter Charges Issued for Police Killer of Terence Crutcher

  22-09-2016 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzIf convicted, Betty Shelby could face at least 4 years in prison. The maximum is life in prison. #terencecrutcher https://t.co/nQDLWBiTRH pic.twitter.com/kppUcWBpJI
  — Tulsa World (@tulsaworld) September 22, 2016NPR:
  Betty Shelby, the Tulsa Police Department officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, is being charged with first-degree manslaughter in the case, Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler says.
  Kunzweiler announced the charge Thursday afternoon, six days a
  
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• Abandoned Puget Sound Energy Pipeline Likely Caused Greenwood Explosion

  22-09-2016 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufThree small businesses were destroyed by the natural gas explosion. ASK
  Back in March, an explosion caused by a natural gas leak leveled three small businesses—Mr. Gyros, Neptune Coffee, and Quik Mart—all of which sat in the heart of Greenwood. The blast damaged a number of the surrounding businesses on the intersection of 85th Street and Greenwood Avenue and even made one resident homeless. Nine firefighters who were investigating the gas leak were also injured.
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• If a City Could Have a Nightmare, It Would Look Like Bridge Over Mud

  22-09-2016 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithYou will have at least one encounter with the Norwegian industrial sublime at this show.On the BoardsRight now the stage at On the Boards looks like a landfill. A miniature train track snakes around glass plates, bones, crystal balls, angular sculptures, and piles of crepe paper fringe. Bullhorn speakers line the floor and ceiling. It's a mess.When it's showtime, the lights go out.Then stuff starts to move.It turns out all the junk on the ground is a complex, room-sized instrument c
  
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• Here and Queer? Our Guide to Safe Space for College Kids

  22-09-2016 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kim SellingHero worship: Pony. KELLY O
  It 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 queer bar housed in an old flower sho
  
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• Mr. Robot Recap:A Confusing Finale for Season Two

  22-09-2016 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeNordic villian Tyrell Wellick goes kind of soft in the last show of Mr. Robot's second season.USA Network
  As I wrote in my preview of Mr. Robot's season two, this popular show makes many references to late-20th century science-fiction films and literature. We can discern, for example, the character elements of The Matrix in show's main character, Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), and the structural elements of the novel that launched the cyberpunk movement, Neuromancer, in the machi
  
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• Mr. Robot Recap: Confusing Finale

  22-09-2016 22:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeNordic villian Tyrell Wellick goes kind of soft in the last show of Mr. Robot's second season.USA Network
  As I wrote in my preview of Mr. Robot's season two, this popular show makes many references to late-20th century science-fiction films and literature. We can discern, for example, the character elements of The Matrix in show's main character, Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), and the structural elements of the novel that launched the cyberpunk movement, Neuromancer, in the machi
  
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• Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson Among the 2016 MacArthur Fellows

  22-09-2016 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith"Because white men can't police their imaginations / Black men are dying."—from Claudia Rankine's Citizen. JAMIYLA LOWE
  If you've been keeping up with the book section right here in the Stranger, then you've already met this year's literary MacArthur fellows.In addition to changing the way academic leaders talk about race in literature, Claudia Rankine's Citizen explored the dailiness of racism, the near constant clashes of our contemporary and historical selves.
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• Sonics dream? Chris Hansen drops $32 million on more land in Sodo

  22-09-2016 22:19
  
  Records filed with King County show Chris Hansen's company, WSA Properties, just bought two more parcels in Sodo near other properties that, in theory, could house a new basketball arena.
  
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• Hey, College Kids, Get All the Credit Cards

  22-09-2016 22:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  VS. DON'T GET A CREDIT CARD, IT'LL RUIN YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE
  The economy is not about the past, or even the present, but exploiting something that does not exist: the future. The stock market exists to exploit the future. Some will say the stock exchange is about the allocation of money; it moves funds from here (a place where they are doing nothing) to there (a place that can make good use of them). If you believe this, then you may as well believe in Santa Claus. Stock markets
  
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• Hillary's Poll Numbers Are Improving (But There's No Improving the Electoral College)

  22-09-2016 22:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageSensible people everywhere spent the last week freaking out about the election. Donald Trump was closing the gap to Hillary Clinton in the polls—inching closer! pulling even! within the margin of terror!—and for a suddenly we were within one half of one horsemen of the Apocalypse. But the latest poll numbers show Clinton maintaining a solid lead among likely voters, and Slate's Trump Apocalypse Watch is back down to a less-terrifying-but-nevertheless-terrifying two horse
  
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• Angle Lake Station opens Saturday with celebration

  22-09-2016 22:00
  
  The start of service at Angle Lake Station in SeaTac will be the last light-rail station opening for five years.
  
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• Angle Lake light-rail station opens Saturday with party

  22-09-2016 22:00
  
  The start of service at Angle Lake Station in SeaTac will be the last light-rail station opening for five years.
  
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• The 32 Best Shows in Seattle This Week

  22-09-2016 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Our Music Critics' Picks For September 26-October 2by Stranger Things To Do StaffPurse your lips against a pumpkin spice latte in anticipation of these truly enjoyable shows happening in town, many being cultural throwbacks of the most satisfying variety, including everyone's favorite rock-star-turned-TV-doctor-turned-butt-weapon, a Bowied-out riot angel of pop-doom, and Tacocat bassist Bree McKenna's biological father on tour. For other events to fill the seasonal darkness in your heart, go to
  
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• "He’s Not Smart at All. He’s Just Very Good at Performing." Talking Trump with Mike Daisey

  22-09-2016 21:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonMike Daisey performs The Trump Card tonight at 8pm at the Neptune. 8pm, $25
  Before Mike Daisey became briefly but intensely notorious for his show about Steve Jobs a few years back, he made a name for himself as a solo performer, doing what you might call moral inventories of thorny subjects and complex humans via comedic monologues. (He also happens to be a Seattle theater and comedy veteran, who performed in at least two of the best shows I ever saw here, not for nothing.)Tonight
  
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• Animal rescue team captures wayward manatee off Cape Cod

  22-09-2016 21:13
  
  FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — An animal rescue team has captured a manatee that repeatedly had been spotted off Cape Cod, far from its usual Florida haunts. Rescuers with the International Fund for Animal Welfare netted the 8-foot-long animal off Washburn Island near Falmouth, Massachusetts. IFAW spokeswoman Kerry Branon says experts planned to evaluate the manatee’s […]
  
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• Seattle Central College turns 50, celebrates history of social activism

  22-09-2016 21:00
  
  Seattle Central College is celebrating its history as an epicenter of social activism. The Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, Occupy Seattle, WTO, May Day — Seattle Central has been the starting or ending point of all these demonstrations and marches.
  
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• Hey, New Students, Don't Get a Credit Card

  22-09-2016 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tricia Romano
  VS. GET ALL THE CREDIT CARDS
  Eleventy million years ago, when I was in college, credit card companies were always hawking their wares on campus. Like many young college kids, I was broke, and a credit card seemed like a good way to provide a buffer between me and homelessness. I had no help from my father, and student aid didn't cut it. But by signing up for a credit card, I'd get 50,000 airline miles so I would be able to fly across the country for Christmas.
  Besides, I reasone
  
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• Local Sightings, a Film Festival that Captures the Essence of the Northwest, Opens Tonight

  22-09-2016 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeMilk Men: Who wants to have their toes cut?
  The beauty of our part of the world can be attributed to three things: the greenness of its many trees, the watery duskiness of its light, and the silent sublimity of its volcanoes. Because all these aesthetic elements are natural—they were here before humans arrived and will be here after humans are gone—it is easy for us Cascadians to feel that, though our cities are big, busy, and choked with traffic, we are still in the
  
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• Trump Clarifies He Was Just Opportunistically Trying to Get People to Stop Asking About the Birther Thing

  22-09-2016 20:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleThe face he made right after saying Obama was born in the United States last week. Really looks contrite, huh?
  In case Trump didn't seem sincere to you last week when he said, disdainfully, "President Barack Obama was born in the United States period"—a statement he punctuated with a look of exasperation:Well, yes, you are correct, you read that right. He confirmed to a TV station yesterday that he only said Obama was born in the United States because it's the truth
  
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• Microsoft researcher Bill Thies wins MacArthur grant

  22-09-2016 20:19
  
  Bill Thies, who works at a Microsoft Research unit in Bangalore, India, helped build a low-cost system to monitor delivery of medication to tuberculosis patients.
  
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• Freaked-out woman flips car after spider drops from rearview mirror

  22-09-2016 20:13
  
  The driver’s car was totaled in the rollover crash, but she was not hurt. No word on what happened to the spider.
  
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• Satellite-based radar confirms man-made Texas earthquakes

  22-09-2016 20:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists used radar from satellites to show that five Texas earthquakes, one reaching magnitude 4.8, were caused by injections of wastewater in drilling for oil and gas. In 2012 and 2013, earthquakes — five of them considered significant — shook East Texas near Timpson. A team of scientists for the first time […]
  
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• Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list

  22-09-2016 20:06
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Thursday made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species because it has disappeared from about 90 percent of its historic range in just the past two decades. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service made the recommendation after the Portland, Oregon-based […]
  
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• 75 apartments in 5-story building planned for Greenwood explosion site

  22-09-2016 20:02
  
  A Seattle developer wants to build a five-story, mixed-use building to replace several Greenwood Avenue businesses destroyed in an explosion.
  
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• 75 apartments in 5-story building considered for Greenwood explosion site

  22-09-2016 20:02
  
  A Seattle developer wants to build a five-story, mixed-use building to replace several Greenwood Avenue businesses destroyed in an explosion.
  
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• 5-story building, 75 apartments planned for Greenwood explosion site

  22-09-2016 20:02
  
  A Seattle developer wants to build a five-story, mixed-use building to replace several Greenwood Avenue businesses destroyed in a March explosion.
  
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• WTO: Europeans subsidize Airbus, costing Boeing billions in business

  22-09-2016 19:57
  
  European Union subsidies to Airbus have cost Boeing billions of dollars and many jobs
  
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• Hey, College Kid, Don't Listen to Your Parents, It's Okay to Do Drugs (Some of Them)

  22-09-2016 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher Frizzelle
  VS. STAY CLEAN AND HEALTHYYou shouldn't do all drugs. You should never try meth or heroin. Their addictiveness is ruthless and will destroy your life. Cocaine is also not a good idea—it will turn you into a jackal with no sense of how you're coming across, and it will make you seem alert even while you're blackout drunk. Don't.
  But weed? Anyone who tells you never to try weed is being ridiculous.
  
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• In Amanda James Parker's The Ghosts of Flesh Avenue, Are You the Dancer or the Peeper?

  22-09-2016 19:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesThe Ghosts of Flesh Avenue is an ongoing installation by Amanda James Parker at __brainfreeze__. Images JG
  "It's not that different—to inspire somebody to make a great work of art, and to get somebody off," Amanda James Parker told me.
  She's been an art model for years. She's been drawn, sculpted, painted, and cast in bronze. For two years, she was also a stripper, and her new installation, The Ghosts of Flesh Avenue, is in the gutted-out building that used to house a historic
  
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• Bicyclist killed in collision with pickup in North Seattle

  22-09-2016 19:20
  
  The 50-year-old driver who struck the bicyclist was interviewed by police and released. The driver showed no signs of impairment
  
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• A-tacked? Cyclists wonder if tires sabotaged on Westlake North bike lane

  22-09-2016 19:04
  
  Cyclists are blowing tubes along the Westlake Avenue North Cycle Track. Bike-shop owners say the culprit is small, black tacks. They wonder if someone deliberately sprinkled the tacks there.
  
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• Jails not liable for crimes after release, state Supreme Court says

  22-09-2016 19:02
  
  The ruling came in the case of Isaac Zamora, who was held in the Skagit County Jail and released a month later. Zamora had a psychotic episode and went on a shooting spree that left six dead.
  
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• US astronaut will vote from orbit if homecoming is delayed

  22-09-2016 19:00
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The lone American in orbit will end up voting for president from the International Space Station, if her homecoming is delayed. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins said Thursday that she doesn’t know yet whether she’ll return to Earth in late October as planned. The Russians have delayed the next crew launch […]
  
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• Allow Satan club, lawyer tells Mount Vernon schools

  22-09-2016 18:49
  
  The lawyer said the Mount Vernon School District would face costly litigation if it opposed the after-school club proposed by the Satanic Temple of Seattle.
  
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• Hillary Clinton Sits Down With Zach Galifianackis On Between Two Ferns

  22-09-2016 18:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageBetween Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis: Hillary Clinton from Funny Or Die
  Says Reason...Sad Between Two Ferns w @HillaryClinton & @galifianakisz one more dreary exercise in liberal virtue signaling https://t.co/7GVpeH4b8c— reason (@reason) September 22, 2016
  Perhaps. But I'll take Hillary and Zach and their dreary liberal virtue signaling over Donald and Mike and their terrifying rightwing racism signaling, xenophobia signaling, anti-Semitism signaling, homophobia signal
  
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• Lawsuit settlement could mean housing for Yakima’s homeless

  22-09-2016 18:31
  
  Yakima Neighborhood Health Services plans to open a facility that would house up to 40 homeless people after it dropped a federal lawsuit against the city.
  
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• Welcome to College, Here's Why You Shouldn't Rape Your Classmates. No, Seriously, Don't Do It. (And Don't Let Your Friends Do It.)

  22-09-2016 18:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover
  More than one in five women will be sexually assaulted while in college. Most of them—around 80 percent—will know their attackers. One recent survey of 379 male undergraduates at a large public university found that more than half of survey respondents who played sports reported coercing a partner into sex. Among types of coercion cited was "I used threats to make my partner have oral or anal sex." That same survey found that 38 percent of non-athletes said they used
  
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• The Morning News: Seattle Used to Have Sex, Portlanders Suffer from White Guilt

  22-09-2016 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeRise of New Wealth on First Hill. Charles MudedePill Hill Luxury Tower Officially Opens Today: Puget Sound Business Journalreports that when the 24-story Luma condominiums open today it will be the "first modern-design condo building to open in Seattle's historic First Hill neighborhood in 34 years." It will also be just for rich people, as its units range from $565,000 to $1.36 million. The tower will also remind us that developers can only build for rich people because there i
  
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• Passenger on Canada-bound cruise ship evacuated by Coast Guard

  22-09-2016 16:47
  
  A 66-year-old man was airlifted to a hospital from a Victoria, Canada-bound cruise ship, authorities said. The ship had left from Seattle last week.
  
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• Summer was blazing hot — but not in Seattle

  22-09-2016 16:21
  
  The rest of the country, and the world, had a toasty summer, while we remained at average temps.
  
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• Private wells in Northeast US coming up empty amid drought

  22-09-2016 16:07
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Private wells across the Northeastern United States are drying up in the face of a punishing drought that has lasted for much of the summer. Scores of homeowners from Vermont to Connecticut with shallow wells have in the past month found them depending upon relatives and neighbors for bottled water to […]
  
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• Private wells in New England coming up empty amid drought

  22-09-2016 16:07
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — When Roxanne Moore got up to make her morning coffee a few weeks ago, she turned on the faucet and got a burst of water — then nothing came out but air. That was the last time Moore had water at her home in Kingston, New Hampshire. The 70-year-old woman has […]
  
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• The I-405 traffic monster snakes through Bothell

  22-09-2016 15:00
  
  Sketched Sept. 21, 2016 The experience of drawing traffic from the Denny Way overpass a couple of days ago piqued my interest in documenting our congested roads. I usually avoid walking on freeway overpasses for two reasons: mild vertigo and the buzzing noise of traffic. But freeway overpasses are much better sketching locations than I […]
  
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• EU chief says bloc’s credibility at stake over climate pact

  22-09-2016 14:14
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Union’s executive arm is lambasting member states for failing to ratify the Paris climate change pact, saying the EU is losing credibility for lagging behind. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday that “the U.S. are ratifying, China is ratifying, India will ratify, Japan will ratify and […]
  
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• Tropical Depression Karl forecast to strengthen in Atlantic

  22-09-2016 12:24
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Depression Karl is forecast to strengthen in the Atlantic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the depression’s maximum sustained winds early Thursday are near 35 mph (56 kph) with some strengthening forecast during the next two days. As of 5 a.m. EDT Thursday, Karl was centered about 625 miles (1,006 kilometers) […]
  
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• South Carolina medical school to stop using live pigs

  22-09-2016 10:47
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina’s School on Medicine will stop using live pigs in its emergency training after an animal-rights group complained about the practice. The State of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/2cSQexS) that the school’s dean sent an email with its decision Tuesday to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The group, […]
  
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• Mylan CEO infuriates lawmakers at hearing on EpiPen costs

  22-09-2016 09:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mylan CEO Heather Bresch infuriated lawmakers as she tried — and mostly failed — to explain steep cost increases of her company’s life-saving EpiPens. Outraged Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday grilled Bresch about the emergency allergy shot’s sky-high price and the profits for a company with sales in excess of $11 […]
  
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• Cows in Fukushima radiation zone find new purpose: science

  22-09-2016 09:06
  
  NAMIE, Japan (AP) — In an abandoned Japanese village, cows grazing in lush green plains begin to gather when they hear the familiar rumble of the ranch owner’s mini-pickup. This isn’t feeding time, though. Instead, the animals are about to be measured for how they’re affected by living in radiation — radioactivity that is 15 […]
  
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• Officials to tour Utah’s drought-stricken Great Salt Lake

  22-09-2016 08:08
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — On the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, more than 100 boats are sitting high and dry in a parking lot, unable to sail the shallow, drought-stricken sea. North of the nearly empty marina, salt-loving bacteria thriving in the low water has turned the liquid pink. The massive lake, […]
  
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