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• Jim Jarmusch Lionizes Iggy and the Stooges in Gimme Danger

  08-11-2016 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Jim Jarmusch Lionizes Iggy and the Stooges in Gimme Dangerby Dave SegalDirector/writer Jim Jarmusch doesn't pull any punches in his Stooges documentary, Gimme Danger, calling the Ann Arbor group "the greatest rock and roll band ever" in the first two minutes. He spends the next 100 or so demonstrating why in a mostly chronological manner, with animated sequences and interpolations of relevant pop-culture effluvia thrown in to avoid talking-head overdose, the plague of most music docs. At this po
  
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• If White Voters Want to Understand Black Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election, Watch 13th

  08-11-2016 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  If White Voters Want to Understand Black Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election, Watch 13thby Ijeoma OluoThe last few days, I’ve been hearing from white people concerned about lower voter turnout of black Americans. Some have implored me to “do my part” to help get out the black vote. Others have reached out to try to understand why—why when there is such risk of a nightmare Trump presidency would black voters not be coming out in droves? Why would so many people come o
  
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• See Stunning Photos of President Obama, FLOTUS, and Hillary Clinton at Huge Election Eve Rally in Philadelphia

  08-11-2016 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerHillary Clinton, at one of the final rallies of the 2016 presidential election. Nate Gowdy
  Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign came to a close last night. In one of her final rallies, 33,000 supporters gathered in Philadelphia's Independence Hall to hear addresses from the Democratic nominee, President Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama.
  Nate Gowdy—photographer for Bernie Sanders' TIME cover—was there, and took these stunning photos of the rally:
  FLOTUS Mich
  
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• Witnessing democracy at work on my first presidential election as a U.S. citizen

  08-11-2016 23:58
  
  Sketched Nov. 8, 2016 Election Day is finally here! I became a U.S. citizen in 2015, so this is the first time I’ve been able to vote in a presidential election. Since I had already dropped off my ballot at a ballot box over the weekend, I thought I wouldn’t get to see actual humans […]
  
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• Witnessing democracy at work in my first presidential election as a U.S. citizen

  08-11-2016 23:58
  
  Sketched Nov. 8, 2016 Election Day is finally here! I became a U.S. citizen in 2015, so this is the first time I’ve been able to vote in a presidential election. Since I had already dropped off my ballot at a ballot box over the weekend, I thought I wouldn’t get to see actual humans […]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Spotted a Friend's Husband On Tinder—Now What?

  08-11-2016 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I need expert advice. I'm a single woman on Tinder and I recently ran across a friend's husband on Tinder.I am not extremely close with her but I do have mutual friends who are. Should she be told that her husband is looking to hook up? I checked her social media accounts and she's definitely still married and posts about him regularly. Maybe they have an open marriage? If it were me I would want to know but it would shatter her world, what to do?
  SLK In CAMy expert advice: Keep yo
  
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• Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray re-elected

  08-11-2016 23:44
  
  Democrats' dominance of in Washington state was affirmed Tuesday night, even as the party's pick for president saw her prospects dim.
  
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• Clinton, Inslee, Murray headed for victory in this Washington

  08-11-2016 23:44
  
  Democratic dominance continues:  Clinton carries Washington, Sen. Murray reelected, Gov. Inslee moves ahead of challenger Bryant
  
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• ICYMI: We Might Be on the Cusp of a Political Apocalypse, But Least It's Nice Outside!

  08-11-2016 23:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufTHE SUN'S OUT, WHICH MEANS EVERYTHING IS FINE. ASK
  Tonight's election might be a garbage fire waiting to happen. But look on the bright side: It's basically 70 degrees outside today!
  It's like the Seattle weather is giving us a break since it knows that there's even a remote possibility that the Fascist Cheeto could be our president tomorrow. How thoughtful.
  You've got about two more hours of sunlight before you really have to deal with the darkness/election. So get outside and
  
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• Can a Cake Have an Internal Monologue?

  08-11-2016 23:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageA Donald Trump cake being wheeled into Trump Tower @abc #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/HSkHChfUSA
  — Jason Volack (@jasonvolack) November 8, 2016
  I'll take a stab at it:
  "So, yeah. I'm what you get when Mike Pence insists on ordering your election night 'victory' cake from a bakery that won't make cakes for gay weddings."
  Take your stab at in comments, Sloggers.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• An Election Day Note from Dow Constantine: Vote "Approved" on Proposition 1!

  08-11-2016 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dow Constantine"I say vote your ballot in reverse order: last item first," says King County Executive Dow Constantine. "That way you can start by fixing our transit system and finish by raising the minimum wage." HG
  Hey, you.Not you. YOU! Yes, you reading the SLOG and waiting for the orange madness to stop.You’re just sick of it all and no one can blame you. The rest of SLOG will surely provide distractions (Babeland! The Bundy Brothers! HUMP!) But here’s the thing: that unopened
  
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• The U-District's Cafe Racer Is Raising Money to Keep Its Doors Open

  08-11-2016 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufA refuge in the University District. ASK
  Cafe Racer sits unassumingly on the border of Ravenna and the University District. The coffee bar—which can be more dive bar than coffee shop, depending when you drop in—is home to a strange bunch: crust punks, cartoonists, casual musicians, science-fiction writers, old-timers, students, and a slew of others.But despite having a dedicated community, the cafe is struggling to stay afloat thanks to a construction project on Roo
  
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• Baby-sitter walks into a bar, police say, leaves 4-year-old to wander parking lot

  08-11-2016 22:48
  
  Witnesses reported seeing the child in the parking lot, then a man came out of the bar and put the child back into a vehicle and returned to the bar.
  
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• Patty Murray re-elected: Easy ride in-state, bumpy road ahead in D.C.

  08-11-2016 22:30
  
  U.S. Sen. Patty Murray was cruising to an easy re-election as vote totals came in across the state, with her usual top-heavy majority in populous King County.
  
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• Synth Genius and Musical Prankster Jean-Jacques Perrey Has Died

  08-11-2016 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalOne of Perrey and Kingsley's most popular and influential albums—especially with Beastie Boys.
  This year has been rough for keyboardists of great repute. We've lost Bernie Worrell, Keith Emerson, Prince, synth inventor Don Buchla, and most recently, the wonderfully whimsical French analog-synth prankster Jean-Jacques Perrey, who succumbed to lung cancer on November 4. He was 87.Perrey, often in tandem with fellow synth pioneer Gershon Kingsley, created playful, buoyant composi
  
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• Local Bernie Supporter: I'm With Grandma

  08-11-2016 22:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  "Here's a photo of my 92-year-old grandmother drinking vodka and voting for a woman for President for the first time in her life on Saturday night," writes DOUG. "My grandma's name is Ollie. She was very disappointed in 2008 when Hillary didn't get the nomination. She liked Obama but wanted to see a woman president in her lifetime. She assumed—as we all did—that she wouldn't still be around in 2016. But she made it. I was a Bernie supporter, but seeing history made toni
  
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• Come to The Stranger's Election Night Party. There Will Be a Balloon Drop!

  08-11-2016 22:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger
  You’ll already be drinking on election night, so wouldn’t you rather be drinking and watching live, unfettered democracy with Dan Savage and the Stranger Election Control Board? If you vote yes to this idea, come to The Stranger's Election Party tonight at the Showbox. Stranger staffers be working like little elves, slogging election results while you get to relax (ha!) with a beer in your hand and watch the future of the country unfold live on a big screen. What coul
  
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• Pot legalization movement faces biggest test yet in 9 states

  08-11-2016 21:57
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The movement to legalize marijuana faced its biggest test yet Tuesday as voters in nine states, including the nation’s most populous, considered proposals to expand legal access to the drug, which is still forbidden by the federal government. California, the first state to approve medical marijuana two decades ago, was among […]
  
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• Legalization movement faces biggest test yet in 9 states

  08-11-2016 21:57
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The movement to legalize marijuana faced its biggest test yet Tuesday as voters in nine states, including the nation’s most populous, considered proposals to expand legal access to the drug, which is still forbidden by the federal government. California, the first state to approve medical marijuana two decades ago, was among […]
  
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• California voters approve recreational marijuana

  08-11-2016 21:57
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California voters approved a ballot measure Tuesday allowing recreational marijuana in the nation’s most populous state, handing the legalization movement its biggest victory yet. Voters in nine states considered proposals to expand legal access to the drug, which is still forbidden by the federal government. California was the first state to […]
  
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• Live coverage: Election Day 2016

  08-11-2016 21:55
  
  Live coverage as Joel Connelly and seattlepi.com staffers bring you breaking news, reactions and analysis on local, statewide and national elections.
  
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• What Will It Take for ST3 to Win?

  08-11-2016 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverST3 needs to win big in Seattle. Sound Transit
  Transit nerds across the region are waiting nervously (but optimistically, they assure me!) for tonight's results on Proposition 1, the measure at the verrrry end of your ballot to dramatically expand light rail in Seattle and beyond. (It's also known as Sound Transit 3. You should vote for it.)
  For ST3 to win, the measure will need support from voters across Puget Sound. But strong support in Seattle could help carry it despite "no"
  
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• I Love New Yorkers

  08-11-2016 21:25 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageNew Yorkers boo Trump as he enters his polling place to vote...
  VIDEO: Donald Trump gets booed as he arrives at his polling place. pic.twitter.com/CJcmBIt9Zl— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) November 8, 2016
  New Yorker forced to stand against the wall while Trump and his family members voted exercises his First Amendment rights...
  I was standing in line inside PS 59 in midtown and security told all of us to stand against wall. In walks Ivanka, her husband, Melania and Donald. One gu
  
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• The Stranger Endorses Gerry Pollet for Legislative District No. 46, Representative Position No. 1

  08-11-2016 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board
  Gerry Pollet is a principled Democrat who we once called an "abrasive liberal dickhead." That remains true. In the state house, Pollet has courageously led opposition within the Democratic Party to charter schools—calling out his own colleagues for their spinelessness. He's also sponsored bills to strengthen mental-health and chemical-dependency programs, and he's challenged Seattle mayor Ed Murray to push for real transparency and openness in how police
  
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• You Voted Against a Bully—Remember the Seattle Butch Lesbian Who Died Fist-Fighting Bullies

  08-11-2016 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesLou Lou Couch and her girlfriend Dawn Wade. Courtesy of Frank Couch
  Lou Lou Couch was a young girl when she was held down and hurt by an older man in her mother's house. Her mother was an addict with 10 kids and zero fathers. Lou Lou told her family, but no one protected her. The man didn't leave. So Lou Lou did. She went out onto the streets of downtown Seattle, and there, she fought every bully she met, with her fists and her gravelly voice and her 5-foot-11 stature, until she los
  
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• Mollusk Has a New Direction, But Still Feels Stuck in Its Shell

  08-11-2016 20:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueMOLLUSK PRIDES ITSELF on a variety of housemade beers, made in the brewery that’s also located in the restaurant. Pictured here is a pint of the house lager. SUZI PRATT
  Mollusk is the gorgeous, expansive South Lake Union reboot of Gastropod, a tiny Sodo brewery and restaurant with a devoted cult following. At Gastropod, chef Travis Kukull and brewmaster Cody Morris converted their faithful with boldly experimental beers and creative, unexpected food, which Kukull se
  
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• There's More to This Election Than Clinton and Trump: Universal Healthcare, Legal Pot, Rank-Choice Voting, And More

  08-11-2016 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzDemocracy is more than picking a president. Baimieng/Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com
  If you're sick of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, The Intercept has a helpful list of cool ballot initiatives—measures in which voters have direct opportunities to turn progressive reforms into law—around the country. (Obviously, there are some fantastic initiatives and downballot candidates to support right here in Washington, too, if you haven't mailed in your ballot already.) So
  
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• $200,000 Bail Set for Man Accused of Killing Neighbor While Shooting at a Car Thief

  08-11-2016 20:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeWoman was sleeping in her bedroom when stray bullet from outside killed her.frees/shutterstock.com
  Just before midnight on Thursday, November 3, a Bonney Lake woman, Linda Green, was sleeping in her bedroom when a bullet hit her window and struck her head. A relative found her bleeding on the bedroom floor. She was rushed to the hospital and died there. Where did the bullet come from? An investigation connected it to a gun allegedly fired by Green's neighbor, Tobin Panton. While
  
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• Dash-cam video shows car swerve in front of semi, strike dump truck, Jeep on I-90

  08-11-2016 20:25
  
  One person was injured Tuesday in an I-90 crash.
  
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• Authorities ID man killed by police in Forks standoff

  08-11-2016 20:06
  
  The 59-year-old man was shot and killed in the doorway of his recreational vehicle at a mobile-home park in Clallam County.
  
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• Make America Come Again: Vote and Get a Free Sex Toy at Babeland Today

  08-11-2016 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSydney Brownstone: "If we replaced all men with vibrators, Donald Trump wouldn't be running for president." HG
  Still looking for a reason to vote? (What the fuck is wrong with you?)Babeland is giving away free sex toys today to anyone who mentions the word "vote."
  The women-owned store is offering a mini vibrator or anal beads to the first 100 customers today who say the word "vote." They're offering the deal online too (enter "blue" at checkout for the vibrator or "red1" for the
  
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• Required Reading: "Election Day," A Collaborative Poem from Gramma Press

  08-11-2016 19:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithI'd pick any one of them for president OF MY HEART: (L-R): Dominic Ng, Michael Harper, Kim Selling, Drew Swenhaugen, Mary Anne Carter.
  Gramma, Seattle's new poetry press, published a pretty incredible collaborative poem this morning called "Election Day." Read it.
  Portland poet Lillian Ruth Nickerson edited and arranged the verses from the twenty-six contributing poets, all of them women except for Stranger Genius in Literature, Maged Zaher. Seattle poets who contributed to the piec
  
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• What Happened When #NoDAPL Activists Interrupted an Inslee Clean Energy Rally Last Week

  08-11-2016 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneGovernor Jay Inslee meeting with tribal leaders, including Swinomish Indian Tribal Community chairman Brian Cladoosby (pictured here).Jay Inslee/Flickr
  America's "greenest" governor dropped by Western Washington University last week for a standard get-out-the-vote appeal to campus environmentalists, but student activists were determined to make the stop anything but routine. A separate rally of Native students and their non-Native allies flooded Inslee's campaign stop and dem
  
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• 2016 Election Results: National, Washington, King County and Seattle

  08-11-2016 19:14 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger Election Control Board PresentsELECTION RESULTSFor the November 8, 2016 General ElectionFederal
  President and Vice President of the United StatesHillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D)No DataDonald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence (R)No DataAlyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart (SWP)No DataGloria Estela La Riva and Eugene Purgera (PSL)No DataJill Stein and Ajamu Baraka (GRE)No DataDarrell L. Castle and Scott N. Bradley (CON)No DataGary Johnson and Bill Weld (LIB)No Datalast updated at 0:00PM 11/8/
  
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• Crews battle fire at Eastlake Mexican restaurant.

  08-11-2016 19:10
  
  A fire erupted at an Eastlake Mexican restaurant Tuesday morning, according to a Seattle Fire Department tweet. The cause of the fire at Pescado Bueno, located in the 2300 block of Eastlake, is unclear. No injuries were reported. Fire Department officials could not immediately be reached for comment. SFD crews fighting a restaurant fire at […]
  
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• Jazmyn Scott Is Leading the Charge for Black Arts and Culture at Langston

  08-11-2016 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich Smith Stanton Stephens
  Jazmyn Scott is the program manager at Langston, a new nonprofit housed within the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. The organization aims to be a beacon of black arts and culture in Seattle, and with her mandate to energize the historic Central District venue with new programs and activities, Scott is in charge of lighting that particular fire.You won an award for courting the Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop exhibit at MOHAI, so I have to ask: Which local music
  
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• City Council Majority Supports New Affordable Housing Plan—But Not Stopping New Police Precinct to Pay for It

  08-11-2016 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe mayor and city council announced in September they were pausing work on a new police precinct in North Seattle. spd
  After weeks of Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant calling on her colleagues to redirect money intended for a new police precinct to fund affordable housing, a majority of the city council has come on board with her idea—sorta.Six council members including Sawant have announced a proposal to sell city bonds to fund 500 units of affordable housing. Bu
  
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• OMG: Now someone has seen a ‘pyramid’ on Mars

  08-11-2016 18:26
  
  Pyramids fascinate us. On Earth, they are the source, the wellspring for nearly every theory of extraterrestrials kicking off life, human culture, even evolution on this planet. So, finding one on Mars fits very nicely with our fascination.
  
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• The Election Is TODAY: Here's Your Voting Cheat Sheet

  08-11-2016 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger
  Today is election day. POLLS CLOSE AT 8 PM. Get your damn ballot in.
  The Stranger Election Control Board has boiled down their legally-binding endorsements into one easy-to-read Cheat Sheet. Click the link below and VOTE!
  
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• The Stranger Endorses Ruth Kagi for Legislative District No. 32, Representative Position No. 2

  08-11-2016 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board
  Ruth Kagi is an establishment Democrat who has served in the state house, representing Shoreline's 32nd District, for 18 years. Based on the 65 percent of the vote she won in the primary, we assume she's going to be reelected. There's really no other choice. Her opponent, Republican David Schirle, texted his platform to the SECB instead of e-mailing like a respectable human being. That platform went like this: "Individual freedom and limited government." Later,
  
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• In Another Stressed-Filled Game, Seahawks Beat Bills, Shave More Time Off My Life

  08-11-2016 17:46 via thestranger.com
  
  In Another Stressed-Filled Game, Seahawks Beat Bills, Shave More Time Off My Lifeby Spike FriedmanJimmy Graham is awesome By Mike Morris (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  The Seahawks provided a hell of a distraction from Tuesday’s election with another stressful, controversial football game, because that’s what they do every damn week. This time the game was of the stressful winning variety, as Seattle beat the Buffalo Bil
  
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• Morning News: Don't Know Where to Put Your Ballot? Lost It? We've Got You.

  08-11-2016 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneVote. Vote. Vote. VOTE. Vote.Nick Pinto
  VOTE, YOU DINGUSES: Today's the last day to mail in your ballot. Here are the endorsements that we PAINSTAKINGLY made for you after spending days of our lives trapped in a windowless conference room with the good candidates, the bad candidates, and the very sweaty candidates. (And here are two dissents.)
  Worried About Making It to the Post Office? Some post offices close at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., or even earlier. Put your vote in a ballot box
  
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• Live updates from Election Day 2016 in Washington state

  08-11-2016 17:07
  
  Follow along with The Seattle Times on this historic Election Day. We’ll have results as they come in, plus coverage and analysis throughout the evening.
  
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• Live updates from Election 2016: Trump, Clinton in tight race; Washington state results come in

  08-11-2016 17:07
  
  Follow along with The Seattle Times on this historic Election Day. We’ll have results as they come in, plus coverage and analysis throughout the evening.
  
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• Live updates and results from Election Day 2016 in Washington state

  08-11-2016 17:07
  
  Follow along with The Seattle Times on this historic Election Day. We’ll have results as they come in, plus coverage and analysis throughout the evening.
  
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• DeVitta Briscoe Lost Her Son and Her Brother to Guns. Now She's on a Mission to Keep People "Alive and Free"

  08-11-2016 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzDeVitta Briscoe. STANTON STEPHENS
  On September 26, DeVitta Briscoe found herself inside Seattle City Hall, a guest of Mayor Ed Murray. The irony was not lost on her. There she was, the sister of a man killed by Seattle police in February, the mother of a teenager killed by another teenager in Tacoma during a 2010 gang fight. She sat in the back, several rows behind Seattle police chief Kathleen O'Toole. She wore white pants and a white shirt, had put on nice earrings and makeup for
  
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• Oregon hunter impaled by antler of elk he just killed

  08-11-2016 16:12
  
  The hunter was dragging the elk’s carcass behind his four-wheeler when it flipped, authorities said.
  
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• Seattle U says its financial-aid experiment is working

  08-11-2016 16:02
  
  A new financial-aid approach that offers extra aid to low-income students with strong GPAs is showing promise at Seattle University.
  
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