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• Approval rating of Seattle police reaches new high in latest independent survey

  24-10-2016 23:58
  
  “The most dramatic this year was among African Americans, who today view the SPD better than whites did three years ago,” according to a survey commissioned by the federal monitor overseeing court-ordered reforms.
  
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• Uber Urges Voters to Support Sound Transit 3

  24-10-2016 23:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverRide-sharing doesn't replace mass transit. It supplements it. Sound Transit
  Attention light rail skeptics who claim Uber's self-driving cars and carpooling services are going to solve traffic and make trains unnecessary!
  Today, the ride-sharing company endorsed Sound Transit 3, the massive light rail expansion measure on your November ballot.
  In a blog post, the company's Pacific Northwest general manager explains how ride-sharing supplements, not replaces, mass transit:Here in S
  
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• One of Our Favorite Food Essays: Angela Garbes Bonds With Her Family Over a Whole Fried Catfish

  24-10-2016 23:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Angela Garbes Vince Cruz
  I come from a family of chronic over orderers. If you've ever been to a Filipino family party, or just a Tuesday night dinner at a Filipino household, you understand. My husband likes to tell the story of the first time he went to dinner at my parents' house. There were four of us, and my mom and dad served a dinner of salad, pancit, baked salmon, and white rice. Oh, and two racks of smoked pork ribs.
  At restaurants, our usual formula for ordering is one dish for ever
  
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• The Stranger Releases its 2016 Newsroom Diversity Report in Advance of #JournalismSoWhite

  24-10-2016 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tricia RomanoPanelists from the #JournalismSoWhite event at Town Hall. https://townhallseattle.org/event/journalismsowhite/
  Tomorrow is the #JournalismSoWhite talk at a Town Hall. The panel discussion is being led by local journalists: Reagan Jackson, writer and editor, South Seattle Emerald/Seattle Globalist; Tyrone Beason, writer, Pacific Northwest Magazine/Seattle Times; Monica Guzman, 2016 Nieman Fellow; Andrew Simon, Director, Fellowship Program and Creative Projects, Grist; and Venice B
  
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• Obama administration confirms double-digit premium hikes

  24-10-2016 23:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That’s sure to stoke another “Obamacare” controversy days before a presidential election. Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an […]
  
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• Obama administration confirms double-digit health-care premium hikes

  24-10-2016 23:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That will stoke another “Obamacare” controversy days before a presidential election. Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average […]
  
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• When do we vote? Auditor misstates Election Day date

  24-10-2016 22:55
  
  An insert with Pierce County ballots tells voters:  "Mail by November 4."  Election day is November 8.
  
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• Alan Alda asks scientists to explain energy to children

  24-10-2016 22:40
  
  STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Alan Alda wants scientists to answer a question for 11-year-old children: What is energy? The actor is a visiting professor at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University on eastern Long Island. He has been posing similar vexing questions to scientists since 2011. He says it’s […]
  
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• Police search for suspect after man shot in Tukwila

  24-10-2016 22:32
  
  The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center with what police described as life-threatening injuries.
  
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• Police search for assailant after man shot in Tukwila

  24-10-2016 22:32
  
  The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center with what police described as life-threatening injuries.
  
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• ‘Your vote! Our future!’ Why you should vote, in the voices of seventh-grade girls

  24-10-2016 22:22
  
  They did the research. They wrote their speeches. They practiced. Then finally, the Seattle Girls’ School seventh-graders took the stage at Westlake Park, urging people to vote.
  
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• ‘Your vote! Our future!’ Why you should vote, from the voices of seventh-grade girls

  24-10-2016 22:22
  
  They did the research. They wrote their speeches. They practiced. Then finally, the Seattle Girls’ School seventh-graders took the stage at Westlake Park, urging people to vote.
  
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• Voter alert: In some places, one stamp is not enough to return your ballot

  24-10-2016 22:02
  
  Snohomish, Whatcom and some Douglas County voters will have to pay a little extra in postage to vote this year because of extra-long ballots. Ballots can also be returned for free, via a county drop box.
  
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• Voter alert: In 3 Washington counties, one stamp is not enough to return your ballot

  24-10-2016 22:02
  
  Snohomish, Whatcom and some Douglas County voters will have to pay a little extra in postage to vote this year because of extra-long ballots. Ballots can also be returned for free, via a county drop box.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren: "Get This, Donald. Nasty Women Are Tough. Nasty Women Are Smart. And Nasty Women Vote."

  24-10-2016 21:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleElizabeth Warren: “Get this, Donald: Nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote.” https://t.co/RvU6qnJr8s
  — Joshua Chavers (@JoshuaChavers) October 24, 2016
  In case you haven't been paying attention, the Most Stressful Election of All Time has weirdly become Xanax Xanadu, at least when it comes to the White House. Even Republican boogeyman Karl Rove "said on Sunday on Fox News that he no longer believed Mr. Trump had a realistic p
  
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• Walkinshaw vs. Jayapal: 7th District Race Heats Up (Also: Why I'm Ignoring the SECB and Voting Walkinshaw)

  24-10-2016 21:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Brady Piñero Walkinshaw kindasorta went negative Pramila Jayapal over the weekend. Jayapal is holding a press conference at 1 PM today to respond to the ad, above, and its companion website PramilaFacts.com.
  As far as negative ads go, this is pretty weak tea, thin gruel, watery cum, etc. (Now this is a negative ad.) At her presser Jayapal will no doubt condemn Walkinshaw for going negative—she'll gonegative on him for going negative on her—but responding to the a
  
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• Read Eli Sanders's Pulitzer Prize Winning Story, "The Bravest Woman in Seattle"

  24-10-2016 21:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger AARON BAGLEY
  The prosecutor wanted to know about window coverings. He asked: Which windows in the house on South Rose Street, the house where you woke up to him standing over you with a knife that night—which windows had curtains that blocked out the rest of the world and which did not?
  She answered the prosecutor's questions, pointing to a map of the small South Park home she used to share with her partner, Teresa Butz, a downtown Seattle property manager. When the two of
  
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• The 38 Best Concerts to See in Seattle This Week: October 24-30, 2016

  24-10-2016 21:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffStranger Genius winners Industrial Revelation will play a show with Earshot Jazz Festival Resident Artist D'Vonne Lewis and Triplified this week. Kelly O
  Halloween weekend is quickly approaching, but there's more going on in Seattle this week than just haunted houses and costume parties—there's also plenty of excellent live music from local and touring bands. This week, we've got everything from public fornication wizards to pop-punk punning to a high-note-bel
  
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• Jesse Wineberry angles for Jayapal Senate seat as she runs for Congress

  24-10-2016 21:06
  
  Jesse Wineberry ran for Congress in the August primary, and was buried by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith.  Now, he's angling for Pramila Jayapal's State Senate seat.
  
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• U.S. agency acted reasonably to protect seals, court rules

  24-10-2016 21:05
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An appeals court panel has ruled that a federal agency acted reasonably in proposing to list certain populations of bearded seals threatened by the sea-ice loss. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reverses a lower court ruling that found the […]
  
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• Court: US agency acted reasonably to protect seals

  24-10-2016 21:05
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An appeals court panel on Monday ruled that a federal agency acted reasonably in proposing to list a certain population of bearded seals threatened by sea ice loss. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reverses a lower court ruling that […]
  
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• The Stranger Endorses a "YES" Vote on Initiative No. 732

  24-10-2016 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board 3dfoto/shutterstock.com
  If you could do something right now to fight climate change, and that something was endorsed by more than 50 climate scientists at the University of Washington, you'd do it, right? Of course you would.
  You'd also do it because we told you to. But mainly, you'd do it because filling in the "yes" oval for Initiative 732 is one thing—not everything, but one important thing—that we all can do right now to keep this planet livable
  
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• Food News: Catfish Corner Returns to the CD, Bruce Nafalty Comes Out of Retirement, and FlintCreek Cattle Opens

  24-10-2016 20:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueYessssssss. Catfish Corner is coming back to the Central District. Kelly O
  Catfish Corner Comes Home to Central District After a Sojourn to South Seattle
  Jackson's Catfish Corner, the beloved fried-fish restaurant that used to be at MLK and Cherry and then moved down to South Seattle, is coming back to the CD. The original owners' grandson, Terrell Jackson (on the right, above), is in charge. The short version: After getting priced out of the CD and doing pop-ups around t
  
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• Huge, free health clinic running again this week at Seattle Center

  24-10-2016 20:38
  
  The Seattle/King County Clinic, held at KeyArena, will offer free medical, vision and dental care to more than 4,000 people Thursday-Sunday. No identification or proof of residence or citizenship is required, but people are advised to arrive early and be prepared to wait.
  
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• The 42 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: October 24-30

  24-10-2016 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffIn Engelbert Humperdinck’s adaptation of Hansel & Gretel for the Seattle Opera, "Hansel and Gretel's family are forced to live in a cardboard house following economic collapse; the Witch's gingerbread residence is a free-for-all supermarket." Philip Newton
  Our music critics have already chosen the 38 best concerts in Seattle this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn. Here are their picks for the best events in every genre—from Lit Crawl to Mama
  
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• See Photos of Butts, Spray Tan and Night Boss from Friday's Punk the Vote Show

  24-10-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Photos from Friday Night's Punk the Vote Show in Seattle, where Weirdo Bands Reminded People to Register and Voteby Victoria HoltVocalist Dan Enders of Seattle band Night Boss performing at the Funhouse last Friday, as part of the "Punk the Vote" series. Victoria Holt
  Rachel Ratner of local band Wimps has organized Punk the Vote, a series of shows to remind folks of the importance of voting in the upcoming election. The presidential race has brought rampant prejudice painfully into the spotlight
  
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• Seattle Duo Butts Reunited For a Punk the Vote Show on Friday

  24-10-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Photos from Friday Night's Punk the Vote Show in Seattle, where Weirdo Bands Reminded People to Register and Voteby Victoria HoltVocalist Dan Enders of Seattle band Night Boss performing at the Funhouse last Friday, as part of the "Punk the Vote" series. Victoria Holt
  Rachel Ratner of local band Wimps has organized Punk the Vote, a series of shows to remind folks of the importance of voting in the upcoming election. The presidential race has brought rampant prejudice painfully into the spotlight
  
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• Celebrated Duo Butts Reunited For a Punk the Vote Show on Friday

  24-10-2016 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Photos from Friday Night's Punk the Vote Show in Seattle, where Weirdo Bands Reminded People to Register and Voteby Victoria HoltVocalist Dan Enders of Seattle band Night Boss performing at the Funhouse last Friday, as part of the "Punk the Vote" series. Victoria Holt
  Rachel Ratner of local band Wimps has organized Punk the Vote, a series of shows to remind folks of the importance of voting in the upcoming election. The presidential race has brought rampant prejudice painfully into the spotlight
  
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• Kshama Sawant Proposes Tax Increase on Investment Firms to Help Fund Social Services

  24-10-2016 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSeattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant says this tax code change could generate $2 million a year.City of Seattle
  Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant says she's found a way the city can generate $2 million a year in new money and make investment managers pay.
  As part of the council's ongoing budget negotiations, Sawant has proposed increasing taxes on international investment management services, which currently pay less in city business license taxes than any other type
  
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• Authorities clearing France’s Jungle, which bears some resemblance to Seattle’s

  24-10-2016 19:44
  
  The two Jungles on two continents illustrate different sets of problems — but both are filled with people without a home.
  
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• See Nate Gowdy's Photos of Chelsea Clinton at Town Hall Seattle

  24-10-2016 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerChelsea Clinton addresses the crowd at Town Hall Seattle. Nate Gowdy
  Chelsea Clinton was in Seattle on Saturday for a rally at Town Hall in support of the Clinton-Kaine ticket. The once and (god, we hope) future first daughter, who was introduced by Senator Patty Murray, encouraged the crowd to vote, and spoke about protecting America from the Big Orange Windbag (our words).
  Check out Nate Gowdy's photos of Clinton from the event—he was our eyes at the Donald Trump rally in
  
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• Green Party candidate Jill Stein has pneumonia, cancels local appearances

  24-10-2016 19:26
  
  Presidential candidate Jill Stein has canceled planned speeches in Seattle and Olympia as she recovers from pneumonia.
  
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• Mayor Murray Torpedoed Advocates' Efforts to Reduce Encampment Sweeps. This Is His New Plan

  24-10-2016 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverMayor Ed Murray has promised to open new city-supervised tent encampments, but his administration will continue removing homeless people from parks. City of Seattle
  Earlier this month, as the Seattle City Council was poised to debate how to reduce the forced evictions of homeless people sleeping on the streets, Mayor Ed Murray swept in at the last second to offer his own alternative.
  Instead of allowing homeless people to camp on limited public land, as the council had been debat
  
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• Mayor Murray Torpedoed Advocates' Efforts to Reduce Encampment Sweeps. Here's His New Plan.

  24-10-2016 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverMayor Ed Murray has promised to open new city-supervised tent encampments, but his administration will continue removing homeless people from parks. City of Seattle
  Earlier this month, as the Seattle City Council was poised to debate how to reduce the forced evictions of homeless people sleeping on the streets, Mayor Ed Murray swept in at the last second to offer his own alternative.
  Instead of allowing homeless people to camp on limited public land, as the council had been debat
  
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• Seattle police seek suspect in bank robbery on Capitol Hill

  24-10-2016 18:38
  
  The suspect robbed a Wells Fargo Bank on Saturday, police said.
  
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• Driver killed after fleeing police, crashing into house in Centralia

  24-10-2016 18:24
  
  The 19-year-old driver and a passenger were both ejected from the car when it struck a house, police said. The driver died at the scene.
  
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• Slippery slope: Study finds little lies lead to bigger ones

  24-10-2016 18:18
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Telling little fibs leads down a slippery slope to bigger lies — and our brains adapt to escalating dishonesty, which makes deceit easier, a new study shows. Neuroscientists at the University College London’s Affective Brain Lab put 80 people in scenarios where they could repeatedly lie and get paid more based on […]
  
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• King County Officers Shot a Pregnant Woman on the Muckleshoot Reservation. Here's What We Know.

  24-10-2016 18:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneActivists in Canada hold up the names of missing and murdered indigenous women at the 2014 Toronto Strawberry Festival. arindambanerjee / Shutterstock.com
  King County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed Renee Davis, a 23-year-old pregnant woman living on the Muckleshoot Reservation, on Friday night. Davis had most recently worked as a teacher's aide at a Head Start program, the Seattle Times reports.
  According to the Sheriff's Office, the deputies were there to check on Davis'
  
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• With treaty claim, pipeline protesters move to private land

  24-10-2016 18:12
  
  CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — The long-running dispute over the Dakota Access oil pipeline expanded to private land recently purchased by the pipeline builders, with protesters who say the area rightfully belongs to Native Americans setting up camp and vowing to stay put until the project is stopped. The protesters erected tents and teepees on […]
  
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• 1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73

  24-10-2016 18:11
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73. Vee, […]
  
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• The Morning News: Pregnant Muckleshoot Woman Fatally Shot by Deputies, 83 Protesters Arrested at Standing Rock

  24-10-2016 17:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf ZORAN KARAPANCEV / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
  Pregnant Muckleshoot Woman Killed by Deputies in Auburn: Her name was Renee Davis and she was 23 years old. Two King County Sheriff's deputies fatally shot Davis, a single mother, during a wellness check after receiving reports that she may have been suicidal on Friday night. When the deputies entered the house, they reported that Davis was armed with a handgun. They fatally shot her in front of two of her children, aged 2 and 3. Davis was f
  
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• UN weather agency: Heat-trapping gas surges beyond milestone

  24-10-2016 17:15
  
  The World Meteorological Organization says heat-trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere are growing faster than before, surging permanently beyond a troubling milestone. The United Nations agency says global carbon dioxide levels, which first reached 400 parts per million last year, are likely to stay above that symbolic 400 milestone all year and for generations to come. […]
  
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• Very cool 3D maps show river basins in U.S., Europe

  24-10-2016 17:01
  
  New 3D maps created by geographer Robert Szucs show not only the rivers, as many maps do, but also the massive, sprawling basins that feed them.
  
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• Looking out for No. 2: Dogs sniff out fecal pollution

  24-10-2016 16:15
  
  FAIR HAVEN, N.J. (AP) — Some specially trained dogs are helping humans curb themselves. A company that has trained dogs to recognize the smell of human fecal bacteria has been sniffing out sources of water pollution nationwide, discovering broken sewer pipes, leaking septic tanks and illegal sewage discharges, to the delight of environmental groups and […]
  
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• SpaceX’s Elon Musk elaborates on plan to colonize Mars

  24-10-2016 15:31
  
  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has given more details about his plan to colonize Mars. Musk answered questions on Reddit on Sunday. The session was a follow up to Musk’s comments at a space conference in Mexico last month during which he unveiled his plan to send up to 1 million people to Mars within the […]
  
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• Guest Editorial: To Fight Climate Change and Poverty, Vote YES on Initiative 732

  24-10-2016 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ramez NaamThe writer, a leader of the campaign to bring a carbon tax to Washington State, says Initiative 732 also "has the potential to be the biggest anti-poverty program in our state." I-732 campaign
  Want to fight climate change? Want to make polluters pay for the damage they cause our air, water, trees, and health? Want to give that money back to the people of Washington, especially the poorest among us?
  Well, welcome to Initiative 732!
  Last week, The Stranger endorsed I-732, an initiativ
  
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• Education Lab IQ: Should we prepare all students for college?

  24-10-2016 15:02
  
  In the latest round of Education Lab IQ, we answer the question that received the most votes from readers: Do we focus too much on preparing students for college?
  
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• UW plans to expand upward in big growth spurt

  24-10-2016 15:01
  
  The University of Washington’s master plan sketches out an ambitious future, with about 6 million square feet of new academic, research and office space added in the next dozen years.
  
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• Classes resume at 14 Pennsylvania universities after profs reach contract deal

  24-10-2016 14:34
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Classes have resumed for more than 100,000 students who attend Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities. Classes resumed Monday after the union representing more than 5,000 faculty members and coaches reached a tentative contract agreement Friday with the State System of Higher Education. The new contract provides raises for all employees but also […]
  
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• Classes resume at 14 Pennsylvania universities

  24-10-2016 14:34
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Classes have resumed for more than 100,000 students who attend Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities. Classes resumed Monday after the union representing more than 5,000 faculty members and coaches reached a tentative contract agreement Friday with the State System of Higher Education. The new contract provides raises for all employees but also […]
  
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