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• Pierce County faces lawsuit for telling voters to mail ballots by Nov. 4

  27-10-2016 23:22
  
  Pierce County Auditor Julie Anderson sent 484,000 voters an insert telling them:  "Return your ballot early!' and "Mail by November 4."  Election day is Nov. 8.   
  
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• $400K in diamonds stolen in highway heist in SeaTac, officials say

  27-10-2016 23:16
  
  Three men robbed couriers of an estimated $400,000 in diamonds Tuesday in a robbery on Interstate 5 in SeaTac, authorities say.
  
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• Savage Love: Seven Nights

  27-10-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe Newton
  I love my wife, but I have a lot of resentment, disappointment, and insecurity over our sex life. After four years of marriage, huge angst remains that I have yet to get a handle on. Right now, with kids and our busy lives, she's content with sex once a week or so, and I need relief pretty much every night to help with my insomnia. What's more, I really don't enjoy porn at all, so if we aren't having intercourse, there's pretty much no other way for me to get off. Blame
  
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• US asks to store nuke waste aboveground after leak shut dump

  27-10-2016 23:08
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy wants to clear away nearly two football fields of desert in southern New Mexico to use as temporary storage for containers of radioactive waste coming from around the country while it works to reopen the government’s only underground nuclear waste repository. The agency is asking state […]
  
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• Police, protesters clash at pipeline encampment

  27-10-2016 22:27
  
  Police encircled the camp in North Dakota, moving closer to Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.
  
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• Seattle in costume

  27-10-2016 22:16
  
  Seattle doesn't wait for Halloween to dress silly.We don costumes for festivals and fun runs, for conventions large and small. We greet summer and fall in our strangest gear. And then the bedazzled 12s take the stands.Check out the gallery above for a look at the best dressing Seattle has seen in the past y
  
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• New Video Poem by Nikkita Oliver Imagines Trayvon Martin Shooting from Gun's Perspective

  27-10-2016 22:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithHer new poem is called "Firearms."TIMOTHY AGUERO
  Nikkita Oliver has been a staple in Seattle poetry for a few years. (She's also a lawyer, a mentor artist in 4Culture's Creative Justice department, an activist, and a writer whocontributed a guest ed to the Stranger.) If you didn't see her win Seattle Poetry Slam's Grand Slam in 2014, you may have even seen her perform on the Late Show with Macklemore back in February. If you didn't see any of that, you can catch her tonight at Lit C
  
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• Bandits at large in bizarre SeaTac roadway diamond heist

  27-10-2016 22:01
  
  No what happened on a SeaTac freeway on-ramp Tuesday wasn't an action movie filming.
  
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• Dems say they may sue over misleading election info from Pierce County auditor

  27-10-2016 21:58
  
  The state Democratic Party is threatening court action against the Pierce County auditor unless she takes steps to clarify that ballots can be returned by mail until Election Day, so long as they are postmarked by Nov. 8.
  
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• Dems say they may sue over misleading election info by Pierce County auditor

  27-10-2016 21:58
  
  The state Democratic Party is threatening court action against the Pierce County auditor unless she takes steps to clarify that ballots can be returned by mail until Election Day, so long as they are postmarked by Nov. 8.
  
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• After Dems threaten suit, Pierce County auditor clarifies ballot mail deadline

  27-10-2016 21:58
  
  Threatened with a lawsuit by the state Democratic Party, the Pierce County auditor is taking steps to clarify that ballots can be returned by mail until Election Day, so long as they are postmarked by Nov. 8. An insert in the nearly 500,000 ballots had said, “Mail by Nov. 4.”
  
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• Today in Third-Party Candidates

  27-10-2016 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageJill Stein's ideology says one thing. Her investment portfolio says another: https://t.co/vrlei02brn pic.twitter.com/sfas1Rc9BN
  — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 27, 2016
  Jill Stein, hypocrite:
  Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has largely based her campaign on her uncompromising positions on the environment, opposition to big banks and Wall Street, defense contractors, and the pharmaceutical industry. But an analysis of her financial disclosures, which she
  
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• Meet Gramma, Seattle's Promising New Poetry Press

  27-10-2016 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithGramma editors (L-R): Dominic Ng, Michael Harper, Kim Selling, Drew Swenhaugen, Mary Anne Carter.
  The Seattle area boasts two renowned poetry presses (Copper Canyon Press and Wave Books), and it may find its third in Gramma.
  The press will spring forth fully formed at its public launch party on November 12 at Generations, but it's already operational and prepared to announce the first two titles: Sarah Galvin's second full-length, Ugly Time, and Christine Shan Shan Hou's third book,
  
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• The Washington Poll: Bill Bryant is in striking distance of Gov. Jay Inslee

  27-10-2016 21:25
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee is not the sure bet for reelection thought by the state's political community.  He leads Republican challenger Bill Bryant by just 6 points in the new Washington Poll.
  
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• 2 arrested in death of man found in forest near Olympia

  27-10-2016 21:24
  
  Detectives believe the 18-year-old victim was shot to death to keep him quiet about certain crimes.
  
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• The Stranger Endorses a "MAINTAINED" Vote on Advisory Vote No. 15

  27-10-2016 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board shutterstock
  Some more antimatter for you, courtesy of Shitstain. This is about a tax exemption for folks who buy electric cars. It was passed overwhelmingly by the state legislature. More electric cars are a good thing for our state, nation, hemisphere, and planet. Once again: Fuck Shitstain, who is a bad thing for our state. Vote maintained.
  
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• Uber backs Sound Transit 3 measure

  27-10-2016 21:13
  
  Uber’s endorsement of Sound Transit 3 is in line with the company’s sense ride-service companies can complement that public transportation with “first- and last-mile” service.
  
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• Naked, Sweaty Macklemore Rails Against Pharmaceutical Addiction in New Video for "Drug Dealer"

  27-10-2016 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalMacklemore's new song's a bitter pill to swallow.Seattle rapper Macklemore's new single, "Drug Dealer," tackles the widespread problem of addiction to pharmaceuticals over-prescribed by doctors. The song—Macklemore's first new material since This Unruly Mess I've Made came out in February—features Ariana DeBoo singing the hook ("My drug dealer was a doctor, doctor/He said he would heal me, but he only gave me problems, problems/I think he tryin' to kill me for a dollar,
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Tinder Insights From a Former Tinder User

  27-10-2016 20:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageA reader weighs in on yesterday's Tinder-related SLLOTD dilemma...
  As a former Tinder user, here are my four cents...
  1. Not just a straight app: It’s for the gays too. It’s just the most popular app for the straights. As far as my straight friends go, anyway.
  2. My theory of what happened: He “un-matched” her after they’d matched. Lots of guys just swipe everyone right and then see who that wide net catches, then choose from their matches. Ladies don&r
  
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• Pumpkins. Hay rides. Swimming pools? Fall heat hits Arizona

  27-10-2016 20:56
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — In Arizona, jack-o’-lanterns may not be the only things melting this Halloween. The state is in the midst of a heat wave that has made this October one of the hottest in years, with lengthy runs of 90-plus degree days in Phoenix and Tucson that could break a record Thursday. “Fingers crossed […]
  
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• Halloween brings little respite from heat in Arizona

  27-10-2016 20:56
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — In Arizona, jack-o’-lanterns may not be the only things melting this Halloween. The state is in the midst of a heat wave that has made this October one of the hottest in years, with lengthy runs of 90-plus degree days in Phoenix and Tucson that could break a record Thursday. “Fingers crossed […]
  
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• Court affirms conviction of teen who told therapist he wanted to kill classmates

  27-10-2016 20:34
  
  The defendant was a student at Yakima County’s Naches Valley High School when he told his therapist that he wanted to kill three boys at the school so that they would know the pain he felt.
  
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• A Standing Rock Blockade Is Burning

  27-10-2016 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstone"Hands up, don't shoot," crowd chants. #DAPL #NoDAPL pic.twitter.com/kxxUkbFWL3
  — wes enzinna (@wesenzinna) October 27, 2016
  Update 11:45 AM:Layha Spoonhunter, a youth activist at Standing Rock who has met with President Obama twice, has put out a plea for others to join him.Layha Spoonhunter/Facebook
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  Armed police are moving in on activists who set up a winter camp in the direct path of the Dakota Access pipeline on Highway 1806 in North Dakota. As I reported back i
  
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• Group headed by Tim Leiweke interested in KeyArena renovation for NBA, NHL

  27-10-2016 20:29
  
  A city-hall source has confirmed that the Los Angeles-based Oak View Group, founded in a partnership between Leiweike and entertainment mega-manager Irving Azoff, is interested in developing KeyArena into a multi-purpose facility that could handle NBA or NHL teams.
  
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• Experts uncover hidden layers of Jesus’ tomb site

  27-10-2016 20:28
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes is the original rock surface where Jesus’ body was laid. Many historians have long believed […]
  
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• Suspected South Park tire shop burglar 'just looking for his cat'

  27-10-2016 20:15
  
  A man arrested in South Park early this morning told police he was just looking for his cat while picking through rims at a tire shop and loading merchandise onto his truck, Seattle police say.
  
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• Response to ‘TRUMP’ license plate is bigly negative for Oregon man

  27-10-2016 20:13
  
  “I’ve gotten a couple of thumbs up,” Brian Trump says. “But it’s generally the vulgar language, mean looks, flipping you off — that kind of thing has unfortunately been a lot more common.”
  
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• Someone Destroyed Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

  27-10-2016 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufThe LAPD is looking for the man who destroyed Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star with a sledgehammer and a pick ax https://t.co/DOUNaEr81d pic.twitter.com/A1S2dQqfSe
  — CNN (@CNN) October 27, 2016James Otis donned a neon reflective vest and a hard hat before going to town on Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star with a pickaxe early Wednesday morning. He was dressed as a construction worker, but he wasn't employed as one. Otis was just another sane American who was f
  
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• Study predicts deserts in Spain if global warming continues

  27-10-2016 20:04
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Southern Spain will become desert and deciduous forests will vanish from much of the Mediterranean basin unless global warming is reined in sharply, according to a study released Thursday. Researchers used historical data and computer models to forecast the likely impact of climate change on the Mediterranean region, based on the targets […]
  
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• Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden, Is Charged by Erotic Bodies

  27-10-2016 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe Handmaiden: Eroticism of the flesh.
  These are my favorite vampire movies: The Hunger, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Thirst. The third film is distinct from the first two in three ways: It's Asian, it is about illness and not so much immortality, and it is erotic in a very visceral sense. The eroticism in The Hunger and especially in Only Lovers Left Alive is nimbus-like. These vampires are more about the aura than the electrical shock of desire. Indeed, there is no sex for the
  
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• New images show crater created on Mars by European lander

  27-10-2016 19:28
  
  BERLIN (AP) — New images from a NASA satellite indicate that the European Space Agency’s experimental Schiaparelli lander created a shallow crater on Mars when it plummeted to the surface last week. ESA lost communication with Schiaparelli shortly before the probe was supposed to touch down on Oct. 19. Two days later, pictures taken by […]
  
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• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Are Skipping Seattle on Their 2017 Tour Because... Sasquatch?

  27-10-2016 19:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal"Hands up—who wants to buy?!"
  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced the dates for their 2017 North American tour. A quick perusal of the itinerary reveals the glaring absence of a Seattle date, though there are Portland and Vancouver shows scheduled for June 21 and 22, respectively. There's also a conspicuous two-day gap in the band's itinerary between May 26 and May 29—which is around the time of Sasquatch!. Festival organizer Adam Zacks wouldn't say whether or n
  
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• State GOP says PDC chief is biased for Dems, needs to resign

  27-10-2016 18:43
  
  Top Republican leaders are demanding the resignation of Evelyn Fielding Lopez, the head of the state’s campaign-watchdog agency, accusing her of anti-GOP bias.
  
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• State GOP says campaign-watchdog agency chief is biased, must resign

  27-10-2016 18:43
  
  Top Republican leaders are demanding the resignation of Evelyn Fielding Lopez, the head of the state Public Disclosure Commission, accusing her of anti-GOP bias.
  
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• Funniest political ad of the year is respite from usual negativity

  27-10-2016 18:09
  
  An ad out of Texas shows that good political advertising doesn't have to be negative.
  
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• In new song, Macklemore condemns ‘big pharma,’ docs for opioid addiction

  27-10-2016 18:04
  
  In a newly released video for his single called "Drug Dealer," the Seattle rapper talks mournfully about an epidemic that's swept the nation from "Seattle to South Philly" and into the suburbs where it's become everyone's problem.
  
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• Feds release strategy for dealing with artificial intelligence - is it enough?

  27-10-2016 18:04
  
  The White House has release its strategies for a future dominated by artificial intelligence and learning machines. Will they be enough?
  
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• The Morning News: Trump's Supporters Threaten to Start a Revolution If Hillary Is Elected, Seattle Needs to Raise More Kids in Apartments

  27-10-2016 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeWe need more children should live in our city's apartments/ borbapereira/Shutterstock.com
  Seattle Not Big On Raising Kids in Apartments: This is sad news.Out of the biggest 50 cities in the US, Seattle is second to last when it comes to the percentage of children raised in apartments (33 percent). Portland is rock bottom with 31 percent. Miami is at the top with 75 percent. Of course, New York City is not far behind Miami with 69 percent. Why aren't there more children in Seattl
  
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• Is Seattle Experiencing Music Festival Fatigue?

  27-10-2016 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalCapitol Hill Block Party: Some festivals continue to thrive.KELLY O
  Earlier this month, 1990s Northwest punk-pop darlings Hazel climbed onto the main stage at Macefield Music Festival for what one assumed would be a hotly anticipated reunion show... only to be greeted by around 20 audience members. Granted, it was outdoors in nasty weather, and the crowd doubled in size before it was all over, but the setting called for hundreds of people, not dozens.
  At this fall's inaugural editio
  
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• Accidental thief returns Subaru with apology, gas money

  27-10-2016 16:52
  
  A woman in Portland said she meant to pick up a friend’s car instead.
  
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• Live updates from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests: ‘We want to protect our water’

  27-10-2016 15:15
  
  Hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to block construction of the pipeline they say threatens water supplies and sacred sites. Follow our live coverage.
  
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• Live updates from Dakota Access Pipeline protests: ‘We want to protect our water’

  27-10-2016 15:15
  Hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to block construction of the pipeline they say threatens water supplies and sacred sites. Follow our live coverage.
  
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• Live updates from Dakota Access Pipeline protests: Protesters set tractors ablaze

  27-10-2016 15:15
  
  Hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to block construction of the pipeline they say threatens water supplies and sacred sites. Follow our live coverage.
  
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• Live updates from Dakota Access Pipeline protests: Police move in, highway barricade set ablaze

  27-10-2016 15:15
  
  Hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to block construction of the pipeline they say threatens water supplies and sacred sites. Follow our live coverage.
  
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• Teaching about politics is tough during this uncivil presidential race

  27-10-2016 15:05
  
  Teachers are finding themselves in new territory as they try to bring the increasingly contentious presidential election into the classroom.
  
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• Washington beats national average on science exams

  27-10-2016 15:01
  
  Washington was one of 21 states where student performance exceeded the national average for fourth-graders, and one of 22 for eighth-graders.
  
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• The Stranger Endorses Cyrus Habib for Lieutenant Governor

  27-10-2016 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board
  According to The Google—ALL HAIL—our lieutenant governor is a freaky mash-up of a public office. It's a legislative-executive hybrid who presides over the state senate, figures out which bills move forward, heads up a committee on economic development and international relations, and fills in for our governor when they're out of state. State senator Cyrus Habib wants to use the office to advocate for causes he's passionate about, such as getting K&n
  
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