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• Payday lender Moneytree hit with $500,000 in fines and refunds

  21-12-2016 23:59
  
  Seattle-based payday lender Moneytree has been hit with more than $500,000 in fines and refunds by federal regulators over deceptive ads and collection letters.
  
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• What Do We Do With Youth Who Attempt To Kill?

  21-12-2016 23:43 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThis appeared on SLOG yesterday in Ana Sofia's anti-new-juvie fact check...
  The protesters are asking for the city and county to move towards zero youth detention, a system in which kids are not locked up for committing crimes.
  And this appeared in Morning News today...
  Three Charged in Shooting of Mount Vernon Police Officer: A 44-year-old man and two teenagers have been charged in connection to the shootings, KING 5 reports.
  Here are the charging documents from Mount Vernon—
  
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• Get Tickets For These New Year's Eve Concerts Now

  21-12-2016 23:27 via thestranger.com
  
  21 Shows Including Thunderpussy, Black Umbrella NYE, And Poncho Sanchezby Stranger Things To Do StaffWant to engage in celebrating New Year's Eve without red carpets and bottle service? Good news—live music exists, with the sole intent of distracting you from everything but having a fun, loud, and dancey time. Whether you're into orchestral interpretations of Motown, retro rock, or local hiphop, there's something for you in this list of shows you should buy tickets or make reservations for
  
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• 21 New Year's Eve Concerts In Seattle To Get Tickets For Now

  21-12-2016 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Reserve your spot at these New Year's Eve 2016 shows now.by Stranger Things To Do StaffWant to engage in celebrating New Year's Eve without red carpets and bottle service? Good news—live music exists, with the sole intent of distracting you from everything but having a fun, loud, and dancey time. Whether you're into orchestral interpretations of Motown, retro rock, or local hiphop, there's something for you in this list of shows you should buy tickets or make reservations for ahead of time
  
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• Vice Is Ditching Comments, Too. Santa Must Be Real After All!

  21-12-2016 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonCommentary and dissent really have merged to form Dissentary
  Vice.com announced yesterday that it will join the growing number of websites (NPR.com, Reuters, Popular Science) that are disabling their comments sections altogether. I don't have much to add to what I said in August when NPR saw the light, which basically amounts to this:...the culture of unrestrained bigotry, hate speech, harassment, and sub-mental diarrhea graffiti that has characterized comment threads since the day
  
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• Just One Thing About Tom Douglas's Griping...

  21-12-2016 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover Robin Layton
  From the Morning News digest...
  The restauranteur has been making the rounds on local media complaining that he's considering opening a new restaurant outside the city because, as he told KIRO Radio, "I just feel like this particular mayor and this particular city council looks at business in a negative light rather than the traditional positive light." Both KIRO and the conservative Washington Policy Center (referencing an interview with Douglas in the Puget Sound
  
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• Hotel trade groups sue over Seattle initiative that gives new rights to workers

  21-12-2016 22:31
  
  Hospitality associations are suing Seattle over new rights for hotel workers that the city’s voters approved last month with Initiative 124. The groups object to a provision requiring hotels to keep lists of guests whom workers accuse of sexual assault or harassment.
  
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• Lion: Get Ready to Cry!

  21-12-2016 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eric D. Snider
  Lion is the incredible true story of why you should never have children in India. Based on Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film, an inspiring drama that earns tears without jerking them, begins with five-year-old Saroo (played by a bouncing ball of energy named Sunny Pawar) becoming separated from his mother and brother and ending up a thousand miles away in Calcutta. He doesn’t know his mother’s name, and he misremembers the name of his hometown.
  
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• ‘Egregious scam’: Ex-Seattle man charged with raping 3 women, accused of running fake talent agency

  21-12-2016 21:36
  
  A former Seattle freelance journalist, facing rape charges, has been sued by the state Attorney General’s Office, alleging he used his businesses to trick women into posing nude and having sex with him.
  
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• ‘Obamacare’ holding its own: 6.4M signed up so far

  21-12-2016 21:32
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — “Obamacare” seems to be holding its own. The administration said Wednesday that 6.4 million people have enrolled for subsidized private coverage through HealthCare.gov, ahead of last year’s pace. Despite rising premiums, dwindling insurers, and the Republican vow to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, about 400,000 more people signed up through […]
  
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• Trump Is Dropping "Drain the Swamp"

  21-12-2016 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeHere to stay, g. Paul Briden / Shutterstock.com
  That took no time at all. Even before he enters the White House, which Trump is stuffing with billionaires, he, by way of a close ally, Newt Gingrich, has informed his voters that he is done with all that talk about draining swamps (Wall Street elites). Why? "He now says it was cute, but he doesn't want to use it anymore." This is 1984 type shit. What's even more disturbing is that the mainstream is selling this broken promise, and
  
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• Tissue, organ research institute to benefit injured soldiers

  21-12-2016 21:10
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Department of Defense is providing $80 million to establish a bio-research and manufacturing institute in Manchester, New Hampshire, to develop transplant tissues and organs for injured American soldiers and other patients. The five-year award was announced Wednesday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Democratic Gov. […]
  
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• Where To Eat New Year's Eve 2016 Dinner

  21-12-2016 21:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffOysters are on many of this year's decadent New Year's Eve menus. Shutterstock
  If you're not in the mood for the crowds at these extravagant New Year's Eve parties and want a quieter celebration (or you're looking for somewhere to go out to dinner first), we've compiled a list of restaurants offering decadent New Year's Eve meals that our food critic Tobias Coughlin-Bogue recommends. Click through the options below to see the full menus and make reservations—w
  
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• Our Food Critic's Picks For New Year's Eve Dinner

  21-12-2016 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Six Restaurant Recommendations From Tobias Coughlin-Bogueby Stranger Things To Do StaffIf you're not in the mood for the crowds at all of Seattle's extravagant New Year's Eve parties and want a quieter celebration (or you're looking for somewhere to go out to dinner first), we've compiled a list of restaurants offering decadent New Year's Eve meals that our food critic Tobias Coughlin-Bogue recommends. Click through the options below to see the full menus and make reservations—which you're
  
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• Local woman wins sex discrimination case against UPS

  21-12-2016 20:46
  
  As a result of her eight years of working for UPS in Seattle, Mary Matson was left with a debilitating back injury, depleted employment prospects and emotional trauma.
  
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• Sorry, Trump Voters. Women Are Already Punished for Having Abortions

  21-12-2016 20:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Megan BurbankAbortion is a common, low-risk medical procedure. We live in a country committed to ignoring this basic fact. Joel Carillet / iStock
  Yesterday was a shitty day if you care about reproductive rights: In a poll of 2,000 people who voted for Cruel Joke-Elect Donald Trump, 39 percent said that they believe women should be punished for having abortions if abortion is made illegal. Meanwhile, Twitter got very mad at Lena Dunham for saying on her podcast that she wished she'd had an abo
  
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• Ballot drop boxes surge in popularity among voters

  21-12-2016 20:32
  
  More King County voters returned their ballots by drop box than mail in last month’s election. The county added 33 new drop-box sites this year.
  
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• The worst of 2016 in Seattle and Washington: Bad decisions, bloopers, tieups

  21-12-2016 20:23
  
  Here is a list of local "worsts" for 2016, from massive city-creates messes on Seattle streets to an oil train going off the rails and catching fire in the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.
  
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• AG sues accused Seattle rapist for porn scam

  21-12-2016 19:50
  
  After being charged with rape in October, a former Seattle tech journalist now faces a lawsuit from the state attorney general for allegedly using a fictional pornography business to lure his victims.
  
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• Solo show ‘The Slipknot’ tells too-familiar story of low-wage work

  21-12-2016 19:34
  
  Ever worked a minimum-wage job? Then you probably don’t need to see “The Slipknot” solo show at 18th and Union — you already know the story.
  
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• Speeding driver charged in Bonney Lake crash that killed 18-year-old

  21-12-2016 19:08
  
  Investigators say the vehicle was traveling at more than three times the posted speed limit when the driver lost control, struck a sign and a tree, killing a passenger.
  
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• Boeing 727 cargo plane crashes in Colombia, kills 5

  21-12-2016 18:49
  
  Five flight-crew members were killed when a Boeing 727 cargo airplane operated by Aerosucre crashed minutes after takeoff.
  
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• Bill O'Reilly: Abolishing the Electoral College Is The Left Taking Power From Whites

  21-12-2016 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeBill O'Reilly: "The left wants power taken away from the white establishment. They want a profound change in the way America is run. Taking voting power away from the white precincts is the quickest way to do that." B. Franklin/shutterstock.com
  According to Bill O'Reilly, the Electoral College (EC) protects white male voters from the "nation's largest... cities, New York, L.A., Chicago, Houston." Remove it, and officials elected by minorities and women will dominate American pol
  
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• Renton police find shell casings, blood at hookah lounge after reported gunfire — but no victims

  21-12-2016 18:15
  
  Renton police find blood and shell casings at Nomad’s Hookah Lounge, but no suspects or victims.
  
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• Cops find shell casings, blood at hookah lounge after reported gunfire — but no victims

  21-12-2016 18:15
  
  Renton police find blood and shell casings at Nomad’s Hookah Lounge, but no suspects or victims.
  
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• The Morning News: Washington to Get Millions in Homelessness Funding, State AG Sues Matt Hickey

  21-12-2016 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverAbout 3,000 people sleep unsheltered in Seattle and homelessness is up 7 percent across Washington. City of SeattleWashington to Get Millions in Federal Dollars for Homelessness: The Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide more than $58 million in grants to health centers, nonprofits, and cities across the state, the Seattle Times reports. Organizations in King County, including the Downtown Emergency Service Center, will get about $34.4 million.
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• 520 bridge lanes to close overnight Wednesday, Thursday

  21-12-2016 16:33
  
  Traffic lanes will be closed parts of this week and next week as crews perform maintenance on the new floating bridge.
  
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• Homeless boy at Seattle Children’s spreads cheer at charity event

  21-12-2016 15:30
  
  In front of a crowd of dozens in the hospital’s inpatient playroom, the 6-year-old patient at the hospital passed out gifts, led holiday songs and danced, as part of a charity event Tuesday.
  
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• ‘He knows how to work a room’: Homeless boy at Seattle Children’s spreads cheer at charity event

  21-12-2016 15:30
  
  In front of dozens in Seattle Children’s inpatient playroom, the 6-year-old patient passed out gifts, led holiday songs and danced, as part of a charity event.
  
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• Volcano erupts in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, sending ash to 34,000 feet

  21-12-2016 15:16
  
  Satellite data showed a short-lived explosion that drifted to the south.
  
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• Students of color changing the face of Washington schools — and the state, too

  21-12-2016 15:01
  
  More than 60 school districts in Washington now educate mostly students of color, and many of those kids are refugees, speaking dozens of languages. Chris Reykdal, the state’s incoming education chief, says that means big changes are necessary.
  
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• Teaching parents how to teach their toddlers: Seattle-area program yields lasting benefits

  21-12-2016 15:00
  
  Hundreds of children from low-income families in the Seattle area have graduated from a program that aims to level the playing field well before students enter kindergarten.
  
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• Data breach exposes info for 400,000 Community Health Plan members

  21-12-2016 15:00
  
  Community Health Plan of Washington will start notifying almost 400,000 current and former members that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, were accessed in a recent data breach.
  
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• Michele Morgan, first Cannes best actress winner, dies at 96

  21-12-2016 14:30
  
  PARIS (AP) — Michele Morgan, a French actress who starred with Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra and was the first winner of Cannes’ best actress award, has died at 96. President Francois Hollande said in a statement announcing the death that Morgan, whose sea blue eyes captivated French audiences, was “a legend who marked numerous […]
  
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• The 79 Moments in Art That Helped Us Survive 2016

  21-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesRead more of the 196 moments in music, art, books, theater, film, and TV that helped us survive 2016.• When my baby son learned to howl at the moon in order to accompany the howlingly gorgeous drawings of wolves made by living Native Salish artists in the (best ever) 2014 board book, Goodnight World.• Marina Abramovic making all of Town Hall scream.• Comics artist E.T. Russian sitting high up in the stands at KeyArena, sketching hundreds of dental patients laid out do
  
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• The 51 Moments in Music That Helped Us Survive 2016

  21-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonRead more of the 196 moments in music, art, books, theater, film, and TV that helped us survive 2016.• The sharp intake of breath between realizing David Bowie had made a great album again, finally, with Blackstar, and realizing it would be his last. The genius of that gesture was almost enough to overpower the grief.• Joanna Newsom at the Paramount (March 29), a master class in harmonic complexity, instrumental virtuosity, and verbal ingenuity.• Kevin Cole's "Nothin
  
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• The 34 Moments in Film & TV That Helped Us Survive 2016

  21-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeRead more of the 196 moments in music, art, books, theater, film, and TV that helped us survive 2016.• The moment when, in Black Mirror's "San Junipero," "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" plays and Yorkie rounds the bend in her little red convertible and Kelly comes out to greet her and you realize that in this horrible Trumpian universe, good things can happen and love can live. And then you weep tears of relief and joy.• At Northwest Film Forum, the producer Jennifer Roth
  
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• The 20 Moments in Books That Helped Us Survive 2016

  21-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithRead more of the 196 moments in music, art, books, theater, film, and TV that helped us survive 2016.• This line from Ed Skoog's Run the Red Lights: "A lot of 20th-century business coming due / at once," in a year where a lot of 20th-century business seems to be coming due all at once.• At Elliott Bay Book Company during Indies First, the day after Black Friday that celebrates buying books from independent bookstores, Eloise stood straight-backed in her fuchsia power-tutu,
  
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• The 12 Moments in Seattle Theater That Helped Us Survive 2016

  21-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithRead more of the 196 moments in music, art, books, theater, film, and TV that helped us survive 2016.• The fever-dream-lime-green polo Richard Prioleau wore when he played Walter Lee in Seattle Rep's early autumn production of A Raisin in the Sun.• The Odyssean shock of seeing a handful of women eating potato chips and drinking LaCroix in Annex Theatre's vestibule during its production of Girl.• Back in March, Roger Guenveur Smith as Rodney King trying to balance on a
  
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• Stuck on Passengers' Busted Spaceship

  21-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stuck on Passengers' Busted Spaceshipby Erik HenriksenBeautiful and mediocre, Passengers starts, at least, with a fantastic concept: Onboard the Avalon—a spaceship traveling at half the speed of light and carrying thousands of people away from an overpopulated Earth and toward a pristine new planet—one of the sleeping pods slides open. Jim (Chris Pratt) wakes up, shakes off his hypersleep haze, and realizes the sprawling, elegant ship—from its multi-tiered concourse, to its stu
  
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• Elle and Paul Verhoeven’s Twisted Return

  21-12-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Elle and Paul Verhoeven’s Twisted Returnby Andrew WrightPaul Verhoeven's American phase was too nasty to last, really, with movies like RoboCop and Starship Troopers giving the audience what they initially thought they wanted, and then cranking up the vulgarity to hysterically uncomfortable levels. (Even Hollow Man, the Dutch director’s weakest project, had a main character who pervs out immediately upon receiving superpowers.) Verhoeven’s films outside of the states, however,
  
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• Utah man donates money to cover kids’ school lunches

  21-12-2016 12:02
  
  LAYTON, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who grew up eating free- and reduced-lunch at school has donated enough money to pay for more than 5,000 meals for kids with outstanding lunch balances due at schools in the district where he received his education. Damon Burton now owns website development and marketing companies and was […]
  
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• Aid groups warn of crisis as Mongolia hit by harsh winter

  21-12-2016 10:33
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Another unusually harsh winter in Mongolia that’s decimating livestock and sending temperatures to minus 56 degrees Celsius (minus 70 Fahrenheit) may create a humanitarian crisis, with worse conditions still to come, aid groups warn. Save the Children and the International Federation of the Red Cross said Wednesday that this winter will likely […]
  
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• Aid group warns of crisis as Mongolia hit by harsh winter

  21-12-2016 10:33
  
  BEIJING (AP) — An international aid agency is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis as Mongolia grapples with another unusually harsh winter that’s decimating livestock and sending temperatures to minus 56 degrees Celsius (minus 70 Fahrenheit), with worse still to come. Save the Children said Tuesday that this winter will likely see the extreme Mongolian […]
  
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