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• Science News: The White Cops Killing African Americans are the Recent Descendents of Africans, and the Science of Presidential Debates

  23-09-2016 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckLet's talk about science, baby, let's talk about you and me. Science Debate/CNNThe Four Presidential Candidates Debate Science: Despite its outsized impact on our lives, science policy is rarely a topic of discussion during presidential debates. To provide an alternate way for candidates to share their views on science issues in a public venue, a coalition of scientific societies and universities has instead organized an online “debate” for the past three election cycle
  
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• Science News: The White Cops Killing African Americans are the Recent Decedents of Africans, and the Science of Presidential Debates

  23-09-2016 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckLet's talk about science, baby, let's talk about you and me. Science Debate/CNN
  The Four Presidential Candidates Debate Science: Despite its outsized impact on our lives, science policy is rarely a topic of discussion during presidential debates. To provide an alternate way for candidates to share their views on science issues in a public venue, a coalition of scientific societies and universities has instead organized an online “debate” for the past three election cycl
  
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• Science News: The Science of Presidential Debates, The White Cops Killing African Americans are the Recent Decedents of Africans

  23-09-2016 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckLet's talk about science, baby, let's talk about you and me. Science Debate/CNN
  The Four Presidential Candidates Debate Science: Despite its outsized impact on our lives, science policy is rarely a topic of discussion during presidential debates. To provide an alternate way for candidates to share their views on science issues in a public venue, a coalition of scientific societies and universities has instead organized an online “debate” for the past three election cycl
  
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• California governor backs protecting whales from crab traps

  23-09-2016 23:39
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday that he signed legislation meant to bring down the record numbers of whales getting caught in fishing gear meant for Dungeness crabs, causing unknown numbers of the entangled mammals to drown or starve. The Democratic governor approved the bill that allows fishermen to collect abandoned […]
  
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• The Stranger Genius Awards Are Saturday Night at the Moore Theatre—With Amazing Live Performances and a Dance Party

  23-09-2016 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleDoors open at 8 pm at the Moore Theatre. Show starts at 8:30 pm. Everyone in the audience hops up onstage and dances next to the orchestra usually around 10 pm. Kelly O
  As you have heard over and over—we get excited for this party—the 2016 Stranger Genius Awards are tomorrow night.The party is free for the whole city. It's the only party where all the different kinds of artists in Seattle come together to drink and dance and celebrate together. Seattle Rock Or
  
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• After Block the Bunker Protests, City Council to Hold Private Meeting to Discuss "Recent Disruptions"

  23-09-2016 23:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzFollowing interruptions by Block the Bunker activists, the city council will go into executive session on Monday morning to discusshow to deal with "disruptions." Heidi Groover
  On Monday, before Mayor Ed Murray's planned 2 p.m. budget speech, Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell plans to hold an executive session—a meeting behind closed doors—with other members to address "recent activities" and "disruptive conduct" in council chambers.In a message to council mem
  
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• Snohomish County budget calls for $6 million in cuts

  23-09-2016 23:27
  
  Snohomish County officials have shaved $6 million from their proposed 2017 budget, after voters last month rejected a sales-tax increase.
  
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• Why You Should Totally Join a Fraternity or Sorority While You Are in College

  23-09-2016 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith
  VS. DO NOT JOIN A SORORITY or FRATERNITYI'm not sure how my opponent earnestly plans to advise against living in a neocolonial mansion teeming with gym-sculpted men, but I ASSume he'll mention that frat houses are basically expensive, booze-soaked rape dens that also torture young men and encourage them to hate other young men because they belong to an alphabetically dissimilar booze-soaked rape den. He would be right to mention that indefensible history, and I'd be wrong to defend
  
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• Joining a Fraternity or Sorority While You Are in College Is Totally Pointless

  23-09-2016 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  VS. JOIN A FRATERNITY OR SORORITYThe university I attended—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—had the largest Greek system in the whole country.
  I heard it all the time when I was an undergrad in the theater department there. (How long ago did I go to college? So long ago that I was the only out gay guy in the acting program at a big state school.) Frat boys on campus boasted about it constantly, and feminists on campus complained about it constantly. I'm not su
  
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• Salmon runs, gun rights, job growth: Different politics in SW Washington

  23-09-2016 22:27
  
  ABERDEEN -- Cuts to salmon hatcheries, cormorants devouring ocean-bound fish, getting a gateway center to boost Aberdeen's economy, and Attorney General Bob Ferguson's proposal to ban assault rifles -- it's what they're debating in southwest Washington's 19th District.
  
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• Remembering the Black Central District, Part One: Two Small Dogs and a Great Fire

  23-09-2016 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe colors of black nationalism in a neighborhood that's no longer black. Charles MudedeAs I prepared to take a picture of the symmetrically basic and boxy facade of the doomed Red Apple at the Promenade 23 shopping center, a middle-aged black man said to me that I had better take the picture quick, because the Red Apple would not be around for much longer. There was no humor in his words. He said them as plainly as someone giving useful advice. The disappearance of the big buil
  
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• A Darker Film Struggles to Breathe in the Comedy My Blind Brother

  23-09-2016 22:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Fennessy
  The parade of projects featuring Parks and Recreation alumni continues with British filmmaker Sophie Goodhart's directorial debut, an expansion of her 2003 New York University short. Ohio-based brothers Robbie (Adam Scott with an odd little-boy haircut) and Bill (Nick Kroll, believably down-to-earth) are fully grown adults who still live at home. Bill, a pot-smoking sugar addict who manages a print shop, has been catering to the needs of his visually impaired sibling for years,
  
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• Politics podcast: Talking bike-share and Seattle’s #BlocktheBunker movement on The Overcast

  23-09-2016 21:58
  
  Reporters Jim Brunner and Daniel Beekman unveil their winner and loser of the week in local politics and then discuss the state of Seattle's bike-share system with City Councilmember Lisa Herbold and Seattle Bike Blog editor Tom Fucoloro.
  
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• You Don't Have to Save the World While You're in College

  23-09-2016 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer Campbell
  VS. BE A STUDENT ACTIVISTYou are about to start college in Seattle, one of the most aggressively liberal cities in America. Social activism is a way of life here, and the city is packed with attractive, engaged people carrying clipboards who are going to try to make you believe that it's your duty to get involved and change the world.
  Counterpoint: It's not.
  Yes, rolling up your sleeves to stop gentrification/save the glaciers/curb tuition hikes looks like the righteous path
  
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• The Debates Look Like a Contest Between the Student Council President and the School Bully

  23-09-2016 21:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThis election is a teen movie I wanted to walk out of a month ago.Jemastock / Shutterstock.com
  Eli Sanders, Dan Savage, and I discussed Clinton/Trump debate strategies on this week's newly reformatted Blabbermouth.Dan thinks Clinton's actually very good in debates (he's old enough to remember how well she did during the Benghazi hearings), and that all this hoo-ha about the many ways she might lose severely underestimates her skills. Eli agrees, and reminds us all that she's got a g
  
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• Why You Should Be a Student Activist During Your Four Years in College

  23-09-2016 21:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel Herz
  VS. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAVE THE WORLD
  Many people roll their eyes when they hear the word "activist." They think of some holier-than-thou street hollerer, ineffectually marching around holding up a sign and screaming. I get it. You don't want to waste time with these people.
  You want to be an "organizer."
  The president of the United States, Barack Obama, cut his teeth in politics as a community organizer. Obama called his organizing years in Chicago "the best education I ever had, b
  
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• Calendar says autumn, weather says summer in California

  23-09-2016 21:04
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just days into autumn, a summer-like heat wave descended on California on Friday, accompanied by strong winds and low humidity levels that brought increased fire danger to the parched state. Powerful Santa Ana winds whipped up late Thursday, bringing down trees and knocking out power to residents in Los Angeles. Potentially […]
  
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• Is Someone Sabotaging Seattle Cyclists With Upholstery Tacks?

  23-09-2016 20:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufWatch out, Westlake bikers. wk1003mike / Shutterstock
  Beware, bicyclists: Some local bike repair shop workers are reporting that someone may have littered tiny tacks along the newly-opened Westlake Avenue Cycle Track, which runs from the Fremont Bridge to Lake Union Park. The tacks are "rough hewn, black-steel tacks … the length is about 10 mm long … and they taper down into a sharp point," Max Rogan-Goddard, assistant manager of Fremont's Recycled Cycles', told T
  
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• University of Hawaii cited for safety violations after lab explosion

  23-09-2016 20:39
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — University of Hawaii faces more than $100,000 in fines in connection with a lab explosion earlier this year that resulted in a researcher losing her arm. The university was cited this week for 15 violations by the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Office related to the March 16 incident. UH officials are […]
  
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• Seattle buys restoration credits for Duwamish cleanup

  23-09-2016 20:34
  
  The City of Seattle has agreed to pay a company to restore natural resources as a way to settle its liability for pollution in the Lower Duwamish Waterway.
  
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• To train doctors, Vermont school shifts to hands-on learning

  23-09-2016 20:30
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The University of Vermont College of Medicine is changing the way physicians are trained by switching exclusively to a hands-on approach to learning designed to encourage students to solve medical puzzles rather than just memorizing body parts and diseases. While most medical schools recognize the importance of active learning and use […]
  
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• Nearly every Alaskan gets $1,022 from oil wealth fund

  23-09-2016 20:09
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Most every Alaskan will be just over a thousand dollars richer next month. Gov. Bill Walker’s office on Friday announced the amount of this year’s annual oil-wealth check at $1,022. The checks will be distributed beginning Oct. 6. Even though it’s seen as free money for just living in the state, […]
  
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• Tragedy on the Aurora Bridge: Ride the Ducks crash was one year ago

  23-09-2016 20:07
  
  A year later, the amphibious vehicles are back on the roads (and in Lake Union). The jokes are still corny, but safety improvements have been made. Lawsuits are working their way through the courts, and some victims are still struggling with their injuries.
  
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• Lawsuits, safety changes: What’s happened in the year since the Ride the Ducks crash on the Aurora Bridge

  23-09-2016 20:07
  
  A year later, the amphibious vehicles are back on the roads (and in Lake Union). The jokes are still corny, but safety improvements have been made. Lawsuits are working their way through the courts, and some victims are still struggling with their injuries.
  
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• Mariners Suspend Catcher Steve Clevenger Without Pay for Black Lives Matter Tweets

  23-09-2016 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSeattle Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger is suspended for the rest of the season without pay. alens/shutterstock
  Seattle Times:The Mariners have suspended catcher Steve Clevenger without pay for the remainder of the season following a pair of tweets he sent out on Thursday afternoon that were critical of the Black Lives Matter movement and president Barack Obama.“As soon as we became aware of the tweets posted by Steve yesterday we began to examine all of our options in reg
  
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• SpaceX: Accident points to breach in rocket’s helium system

  23-09-2016 19:54
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX said Friday that evidence points to a large breach in the rocket’s helium system during a routine prelaunch test that turned into a devastating fireball three weeks ago. The Falcon rocket and a satellite were destroyed in the Sept. 1 explosion, which occurred on the pad two days before […]
  
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• UN ready to implement climate deal in Morocco

  23-09-2016 19:17
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With the Paris Agreement on climate change poised to take effect, diplomats now head to Morocco to hammer out the difficult details of how to make it work and raise the $100 billion needed each year to meet its ambitious goals. Morocco’s Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar said he expects to announce […]
  
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• Apptio’s stock soars as Bellevue tech company makes trading debut

  23-09-2016 18:36
  
  Apptio’s stock popped more than 47 percent Friday morning in the Bellevue technology company’s first day of trading.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Sleep/Theft in Seattle

  23-09-2016 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
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• Residents reeling after tornados, flooding rip through Utah

  23-09-2016 18:02
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — People across Utah were reeling Friday after storms ripped through the state, including two tornados that damaged more than a dozen buildings hundreds of miles apart. Thousands of people remained without power after the severe weather that also flooded streets and dropped golf-ball-sized hail. No serious injuries have been reported, […]
  
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• 2 tornados touch down hundreds of miles apart in Utah

  23-09-2016 18:02
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two tornados touched down hundreds of miles apart in Utah, damaging about two dozen buildings and knocking out power to thousands of people. The severe weather also flooded streets and dropped golf-ball-sized hail in some areas. No serious injuries were reported, but damage from one tornado left 21 homes unlivable […]
  
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• The Morning News: Man Charged for Alleged Bomb Threat Against Police, Seahawks' Michael Bennett Calls on White Player to Join Anthem Protests

  23-09-2016 17:54 via thestranger.com
  by Ansel HerzWATCH: Suspicious package outside @SeattlePD East Precinct https://t.co/SHvcyqgZOk pic.twitter.com/mwf4UdiL4e— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) September 18, 2016
  Man Charged for Alleged Fake Bomb Threat to Capitol Hill Police Station: The incident occurred Sunday. The man is David Gurz, a 44-year-old homeless man. He's been charged with "malicious placement of imitation explosive device." Police say he wore a mask and left a suspicious bag in front of the East precinct, then strip
  
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• The Last Thing the World Needs This Week: How to Erase Black Artists and Then Make It Even Worse

  23-09-2016 17:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesOne component of the project included a hundred photos of loved ones submitted to the artists. Courtesy of Christopher Paul Jordan and Jaleesa Trapp
  Christopher Paul Jordan and Jaleesa Trapp's art didn't get shown at this past weekend's Black Box festival opening.
  It took a group effort to undercut Jordan and Trapp, and you can sort through the mess here on Facebook.
  Or, if you would like to make a mess like this yourself, follow these easy steps.
  1. Organize an event on the topic o
  
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• How to Create a Situation in the Seattle Art Community That's the Last Thing the World Needs This Week

  23-09-2016 17:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesOne component of the project included a hundred photos of loved ones submitted to the artists. Courtesy of Christopher Paul Jordan and Jaleesa Trapp
  Christopher Paul Jordan and Jaleesa Trapp's art didn't get shown at this past weekend's Black Box festival opening.
  It took a group effort to undercut Jordan and Trapp, and you can sort through the mess here on Facebook.
  Or, if you would like to make a mess like this yourself, follow these easy steps.
  1. Organize an event on the topic o
  
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• More Iowa cities mobilizing for flooding along Cedar River

  23-09-2016 17:20
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities in several Iowa cities were mobilizing resources Friday to handle flooding from the rain-swollen Cedar River, which has already forced evacuations in several communities along its path through northeastern Iowa. More rain fell Thursday night and earlier Friday, and the National Weather Service said the threat for flash flooding […]
  
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• Where to watch the presidential debate in Seattle and Bellevue

  23-09-2016 15:30
  
  In an election where Skittles, emails, birthers and the size of Trump’s fingers have taken center stage, this presidential debate will be either — depending on one’s perspective —  frightening or amusing. But admit it, you can’t turn away. You wanna watch. Goodness knows there’s enough bars hosting debate viewing parties across the city, especially on […]
  
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• Cuba Rediscovered, part three: Lessons from Cuba’s renowned health-care system

  23-09-2016 15:04
  
  Cuba’s renowned health-care system, which flourishes despite the country’s poverty, still has lessons to teach the world, experts say. Hundreds of U.S. students have attended medical school tuition-free in Cuba, including a UW grad who plans on returning home to practice in underserved communities in Kitsap County.
  
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• New taxi company to take over at Sea-Tac as Uber, Lyft airport rides surge

  23-09-2016 15:00
  
  Last month, ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft served nearly as many customers at Sea-Tac airport as taxis did.
  
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• Vancouver smacks Chinese with real estate tax, but will they head south?

  23-09-2016 05:14
  
  Vancouver, B.C.'s foreign buyer tax put the hurt on real estate sales there, but are those buyers rushing the gates of Seattle, like everyone seems to be screaming they are? Not necessarily.
  
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• Man charged with leaving suspicious device near Seattle police station

  23-09-2016 04:30
  
  Police used a bomb-handling robot and X-ray equipment to investigate the suspicious bag, which the man is accused of placing below a patrol vehicle on Sunday.
  
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• New affordable, outdoor preschool brings breath of fresh air to Seattle

  23-09-2016 04:08
  
  Tiny Trees Preschool is based on a longtime Scandinavian model of education that says there are some things you can seriously only learn outside.
  
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• Bots, begone! U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell takes steps to ban online scalping

  23-09-2016 03:38
  
  This week, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell helped shepherd toward the Senate floor a bill banning the use of automated online scalpers — which recently marked up prices for a Seattle Adele concert by thousands of dollars.
  
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• EOD: The Hamdog—Better or Worse Than the Whopperito?

  23-09-2016 03:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer Campbell
  This...this here is a hamdog. No, not a wiener dog, a ham dog, a delicacy that consists of a tube steak nestled between two halves of a beef patty and sandwiched in a sesame seed bun that looks like it's bulging from some kind of bacterial contamination.This beauteous creation, foisted up on us by an Aussie (Australia! Wasn't Foster's beer bad enough?), is patented, so you can't steal the idea. Don't even try.
  EOD=End of day. We're done. Go home. Sorry not sorry if I spoiled
  
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• Apptio prices stock at $16 in IPO

  23-09-2016 03:17
  
  The Bellevue company, which helps corporate clients manage their IT operations, is raising $96 million in its stock-market debut.
  
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• Campaign watchdog decides Sound Transit did not break laws in release of ORCA emails

  23-09-2016 02:50
  
  The state’s campaign watchdog says Sound Transit didn’t violate the law after all when it improperly released email addresses of ORCA transit cardholders to the campaign promoting the $54 billion ballot measure to expand light rail.
  
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• Seattle elephant advocates join global march on eve of crucial conservation meeting in Africa

  23-09-2016 02:34
  
  Billionaire Paul Allen put Seattle on the map in the world of wildlife conservation, but grass-roots activists are also making an impact.
  
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• Washington colleges with most debt per student, ranked

  23-09-2016 02:26
  
  Federal data shows how much debt student borrowers leave school with.
  
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• Toulouse Petit Kitchen in Queen Anne closed amid food-poisoning probe

  23-09-2016 02:02
  
  King County health officials have temporarily closed a Seattle restaurant, Toulouse Petit Kitchen & Lounge, amid an investigation of possible food poisoning.
  
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• Savage Love: Quickies

  23-09-2016 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Quickiesby Dan Savage Joe Newton
  I'm a 27-year-old straight male and a high-school teacher held to a strict code. I left my fiancée in June and haven't had sex since. Needless to say, I'm really horny. I'm also in that weird in-between age where I'm not comfortable hanging out at college bars but I'm also a bit younger than most of the women in other bars. But when I scour dating apps, I see profiles of women ages 18 to 22—women who, for all I know, could have been students at my sc
  
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• Eyman, committees pay AG $20,000 for investigation delays

  23-09-2016 01:29
  
  State officials say Tim Eyman and his political committees have paid $20,000 in costs connected to delaying an investigation of campaign-finance practices.
  
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