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• Dude York Rips It Up and Starts Over with New LP, Sincerely

  21-02-2017 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Amber CortesDude York taking the long road to confidence. SAM GEHRKE
  Sometimes it takes a second try to get it right. Seattle power-pop trio Dude York's new album, Sincerely (out February 24 on Hardly Art), is loaded with strident riffs and yell-along anthems. But the record's bold, polished sound didn't come easy.
  Originally, Sincerely was a DIY effort home-recorded at a punk house called Magic Lanes. But after playing it for friends, they got a less-than-enthusiastic response from those who
  
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• Dude York Rips It Up and Starts Again with New LP, Sincerely

  21-02-2017 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Amber CortesDude York taking the long road to confidence. SAM GEHRKE
  Sometimes it takes a second try to get it right. Seattle power-pop trio Dude York's new album, Sincerely (out February 24 on Hardly Art), is loaded with strident riffs and yell-along anthems. But the record's bold, polished sound didn't come easy.
  Originally, Sincerely was a DIY effort home-recorded at a punk house called Magic Lanes. But after playing it for friends, they got a less-than-enthusiastic response from those who
  
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• Tony Armada, CEO of Swedish Health Services, Resigns Shortly After Seattle Times Report on the Money-Loving Swedish Neuroscience Institute

  21-02-2017 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede"I know the money is in here somewhere..." xmee/gettyimages.com
  Just under two weeks ago, two Seattle Times's reporters Mike Baker and Justin Mayo posted an investigative piece, "High Volume, Big Dollars, Rising Tension," that exposed Cherry Hill’s Swedish Neuroscience Institute as a massive money-making machine. In 2015, the institute generated $500 million dollars, which was nearly 40 percent more than it made in previous years. Also, the program "had the highest Medicar
  
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• Did you #deleteUber? Your account lives on

  21-02-2017 22:51
  
  An industry expert said Uber and other companies wouldn’t be notified if you trashed an app on your phone. You’d have to go one step further.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Overcoming Abuse & Finding Partners Who Aren’t Pieces of Shit

  21-02-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Do you have any advice on how to develop healthy sexual boundaries when you have a long history of people not letting you?
  I was sexually abused by a relative starting when I was a child and continuing until I was fourteen. My first relationship wasn't until after I finished college, and it wasn't a healthy one. I've dated a little since then, but not much, mostly because: (1) pretty much no one is interested in me and (2) frankly, I'm not sure I'm healthy enough to be dating these
  
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• Mayor wants steep tax on sugary beverages for ambitious education agenda

  21-02-2017 22:28
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is proposing a two-cents per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, a tax as high as any in America.
  
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• 4 men being tried in second Oregon standoff trial

  21-02-2017 22:25
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The federal prosecutors who failed to convict Ammon Bundy returned to court Tuesday to try four lesser-known men who followed Bundy’s call to take a hard stand against the government and occupy a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. Like the defendants in the first trial, the primary charge facing the men […]
  
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• The Long Shadow of Lynching in 2017

  21-02-2017 22:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Waning Explores the Metaphorical Resonances Between Lynching, Abortion, and Queer Love in 2017by Rich SmithSeattle playwright, actor, and dancer Kamaria Hallums-Harris didn't know what she was going to write for her senior thesis project at Cornish College of the Arts. But when George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, her mission clarified.As the Zimmerman case unfolded on the news, she began to wonder whether black women were being killed by police as often and for the same reasons that
  
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• Weather service ups chances of snow on Friday

  21-02-2017 22:13
  
  A Seattle winter that has brought oodles of rain and certainly more than average snowfall could have a bit more frozen water in the cards.
  
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• Snow in Seattle again? Maybe Thursday

  21-02-2017 22:13
  
  A Seattle winter that has brought oodles of rain and certainly more than average snowfall could have a bit more frozen water in the cards.
  
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• Study: Savings possible by shutting down NW nuclear-power plant

  21-02-2017 22:10
  
  PORTLAND (AP) — A new study says Pacific Northwest ratepayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars if the Bonneville Power Administration and Energy Northwest close the region’s only commercial nuclear power plant and replace its output with renewable energy. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (http://bit.ly/2lJ7Z7q) that the Portland-based McCullough Research consulting firm estimated savings from $261.2 […]
  
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• Study: Savings possible by shutting down nuclear power plant

  21-02-2017 22:10
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new study says Pacific Northwest utility ratepayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars if the Bonneville Power Administration and Energy Northwest close the region’s only commercial nuclear power plant in Richland, Washington and replace its output with renewable energy. The Portland-based McCullough Research consulting firm estimated savings from $261.2 […]
  
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• Rip It Up and Start Over

  21-02-2017 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Second Time's a Charm for Dude York's Sincerelyby Amber CortesSometimes it takes a second try to get it right. Seattle power-pop trio Dude York's new album, Sincerely (out February 24 on Hardly Art), is loaded with strident riffs and yell-along anthems. But the record's bold, polished sound didn't come easy.Originally, Sincerely was a DIY effort home-recorded at a punk house called Magic Lanes. But after playing it for friends, they got a less-than-enthusiastic response from those who heard the
  
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• Gold Leaf Farm: The Closest Thing You Can Find to Organic Weed in Seattle

  21-02-2017 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  The Closest Thing You Can Find to Organic Weed in Seattleby Lester BlackIt only takes a moment for Nate Gibbs to find what he's looking for. He brushes aside a rotting orange rind and uses his fingers to pull back a half-inch of soil, revealing a collection of squirming earthworms a couple inches away from the stalk of a cannabis plant. Sure, the pot smells amazing, has all the right hairs and crystals, and returns all the right test results, but these prized little worms are how Gibbs brags abo
  
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• Bands I Pretended to Like for Boys. Part Nine: Dave Matthews

  21-02-2017 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  I Don't Listen to Dave Matthews Anymore, but I'm Glad I Didby Kathleen TarrantThis one's a little different, but I think it's important.I was 9, in that blissful last stretch before puberty, skidding down California streets on my two-wheeler, Walkman clipped to my jean shorts. I may have started having crushes on boys, but they were undirected. I liked a boy named Noah, but if Noah had tried to hold my hand, I would have run screaming and climbed a eucalyptus tree like a goddamn koala.Also, Noah
  
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• Will Gov. Jay Inslee Make a Bid for the Presidency in 2020? He Says No, The Seattle Times Says Yes

  21-02-2017 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE
  Things are going so poorly in the White House that potential candidates to run against Trump in the 2020 election (assuming No. 45 hasn't gotten booted out of office) are already being discussed in earnest. In Washington state, with the recent win of a lawsuit to block Trump’s executive order stopping travel from seven mostly Muslim nations, both Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Governor Jay Inslee are names that seem to be coming up most ofte
  
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• Will Gov. Jay Inslee Make a Bid for the Presidency in 2020? He Says No, Sources Say Yes

  21-02-2017 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk OFFICE OF GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE
  Things are going so poorly in the White House that potential candidates to run against Trump in the 2020 election (assuming No. 45 hasn't gotten booted out of office) are already being discussed in earnest. In Washington state, with the recent win of a lawsuit to block Trump’s executive order stopping travel from seven mostly Muslim nations, both Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Governor Jay Inslee are names that seem to be coming up most ofte
  
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• Seattle ranks high for expensive rent

  21-02-2017 21:49
  
  According to a new study by Nested, Seattle is expensive. According to most people living here, that's not news.
  
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• Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns from Breitbart, Making His Bad Week Much Worse

  21-02-2017 21:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tricia Romano Barcroft Media"Alt-right" poster-boy Milo Yiannopoulos is having a very bad, no good week. After his turn on Bill Maher, he found himself in hot water when clips shared ahead of his speaking engagement at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found him making odious comments about pedophilia, where he flippantly said things like: "I'm grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn't give nearly such good head if it wasn't for him."
  He's done it more than once:CPAC
  
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• Seattle council to vote today on big U District upzone

  21-02-2017 21:15
  
  The Seattle City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a proposed upzone of the University District.
  
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• Seattle council approves big U District upzone

  21-02-2017 21:15
  
  The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to upzone the University District.
  
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• It’s not just you, Seattle – this has been a rainy winter

  21-02-2017 20:59
  
  Seattle weather watchers may have noticed (gleefully?) that California has had a bit of a wet winter.
  
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• UPDATED: In State of the City Address, Mayor Promises New Tax for Homelessness, Threatens to Sue Trump

  21-02-2017 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThis year, Mayor Ed Murray will deliver his State of the City address at Idris Mosque in North Seattle instead of at City Hall. City of Seattle
  UPDATE:
  In the final State of the City address of his first term, Mayor Ed Murray today painted himself and the City of Seattle as a foil to President Donald Trump."The posture and politics of the new president should not cause us to despair that progress is not possible," Murray said at Idris Mosque in North Seattle, where he delivered t
  
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• Sticky situation: Glue spill closes Redmond street

  21-02-2017 20:55
  
  Westbound Redmond Way at Northeast 76th Street is expected to remain closed until 3 p.m. Tuesday.
  
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• Mill Creek woman found stabbed to death; husband arrested

  21-02-2017 20:23
  
  The man was found in the apartment building’s parking lot with a cut on his hand, police said.
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray proposes property tax to help homeless, soda tax for education

  21-02-2017 20:07
  
  Mayor Ed Murray gave his State of the City address Tuesday morning.
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray proposes $55 million a year property-tax levy to fight homelessness

  21-02-2017 20:07
  
  Mayor Ed Murray gave his State of the City address Tuesday morning.
  
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• When Lusting for a Young Woman Doesn't Work, Write an Opera

  21-02-2017 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  When Lusting for a Young Woman Doesn't Work, Write an Operaby Trisha ReadyKatya Kabanova is a lush, compelling three-act opera with an alluring backstory. The story is only creepy and misogynistic if you take it out of its early-20th-century context.Composer Leos Janacek was a late bloomer who arrived at fame in his 60s, around the same time he fell in love with Kamila Stosslova, an unattainable woman, 38 years younger than Janacek. He wrote her 700 love letters over a span of 11 years and compo
  
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• The Closest Thing You Can Find to Organic Weed in Seattle

  21-02-2017 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  The Closest Thing You Can Find to Organic Weed in Seattleby Lester BlackIt only takes a moment for Nate Gibbs to find what he's looking for. He brushes aside a rotting orange rind and uses his fingers to pull back a half-inch of soil, revealing a collection of squirming earthworms a couple inches away from the stalk of a cannabis plant. Sure, the pot smells amazing, has all the right hairs and crystals, and returns all the right test results, but these prized little worms are how Gibbs brags abo
  
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• Another Reason to #DeleteUber: A Corporate Culture of Rampant Sexism

  21-02-2017 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  A former employee alleges discrimination and harassment in the companyby Amber CortesIs this how many female tech workers will soon be left at Uber, Travis? VCGFile under: “In No Surprise to Anyone at All," Uber, the union-busting, wage-cutting, strike-breaking, Trump-advising rideshare company is now the subject of a scathing dispatch from a former tech worker that details the blatant sexism and misogyny within the company.Susan Fowler started her job as a site reliability engineer (SRE)
  
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• Swedish CEO resigns in wake of Seattle Times investigation

  21-02-2017 19:33
  
  Swedish Health Services CEO Tony Armada has resigned, days after a Seattle Times investigation examined turmoil and troubles inside Swedish’s premier neurosurgery institute.
  
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• Seattle Asian American Film Festival includes tribute to activist Donnie Chin

  21-02-2017 19:26
  
  The 2017 Seattle Asian American Film Festival encompasses more than 50 features and short films over four days in Capitol Hill, including a documentary about Chinese-American restaurants, an ode to Bruce Lee and “Who Killed Donnie Chin?”
  
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• Police: Idaho man hit mother with truck during argument

  21-02-2017 19:18
  
  The 24-year-old man was charged with aggravated battery with use of a deadly weapon.
  
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• I Anonymous: Bosnian Gratitude

  21-02-2017 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anonymous STEVEN WEISSMAN
  To the man by the Stadium Station who asked me, "What was the most rewarding experience of your day?": When I asked you the same, you told me a friend of yours is going through a hard time, and you found talking to that friend helpful.
  
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• Seattle could sue feds over Trump executive orders

  21-02-2017 18:43
  
  Mayor Ed Murray intends for Seattle to sue the federal government if the Trump administration doesn’t honor the city’s requests for information about the president’s controversial executive orders.
  
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• Seattle could sue feds over Trump executive order

  21-02-2017 18:43
  
  Mayor Ed Murray intends for Seattle to sue the federal government if the Trump administration doesn’t honor the city’s requests for information about a controversial executive order.
  
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• Seattle May Sue the Trump Administration

  21-02-2017 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverSeattle v. Trump? Hg
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is stepping up his rhetoric against President Donald Trump today, vowing to sue the Trump administration if it does not provide clarity on its plans for "sanctuary cities" and immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.In his State of the City address delivered at Idris Mosque this morning, Murray said his office will file "a series of Freedom of Information Requests [with] multiple federal age
  
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• KOMO’s Morgan Chesky named among nation’s ‘hottest’ anchors

  21-02-2017 18:35
  
  The KOMO anchor also enjoys Americanos.
  
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• Seattle mayor: I'm ready to sue Donald Trump

  21-02-2017 18:09
  
  Seattle will demand information from the White House on 'sanctuary cities' and young undocumented immigrants and sue President Trump if the city doesn't get it, Mayor Murray will say in his State of the City speech.
  
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• The Morning News: Mayor Murray to Give Address at Local Mosque, Seattle's History of Racism, and a Modest Proposal

  21-02-2017 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufMurray's address will begin at 9:30 a.m. HG
  The State of the City: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and City Council President Bruce Harrell will hold the address at Idriss Mosque in North Seattle at 9:30 a.m. "We're doing this to send a message of resolve and inclusion," Murray said in a video statement. "As the Trump administration targets the Muslim community through an unlawful travel ban, we are taking a different path as a welcoming city. We've experience shameful, state-sanctione
  
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• ‘Homemade electrical panel’ blamed for fire at Bellevue home with large pot operation

  21-02-2017 17:46
  
  Bellevue Police say they found an industrial-size marijuana grow operation in the basement of a home.
  
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• ‘Homemade electrical panel’ blamed for fire at Bellevue home with large pot grow

  21-02-2017 17:46
  
  Bellevue Police say they found an industrial-size marijuana grow operation in the basement of a home.
  
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• Watch: Mayor Ed Murray’s State of the City address from the Idris Mosque (and read the speech transcript)

  21-02-2017 17:22
  
  The mayor will give his annual address from the Idris Mosque in North Seattle.
  
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• How to watch Mayor Ed Murray’s State of the City address from the Idris Mosque

  21-02-2017 17:22
  
  The mayor will give his annual address from the Idris Mosque in North Seattle.
  
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• Watch Mayor Ed Murray's State of the City Speech Live at 9:30 am

  21-02-2017 17:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThis year, Mayor Ed Murray will deliver his State of the City address at Idris Mosque in North Seattle instead of at City Hall. City of Seattle
  This morning, Mayor Ed Murray will deliver his fourth State of the City address. Instead of the usual address before the Seattle City Council inside council chambers, Murray will give the speech at Idris Mosque in North Seattle. (Live stream embedded after the jump.)
  As KUOW reports, the mosque was targeted after 9/11 by a man armed with
  
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• More rain (and possibly snow) on the way, but rainfall record may be out of reach

  21-02-2017 16:22
  
  Heavy rainfall this month pushed totals toward record highs.
  
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• Dutch lawmakers extend tolerance to cultivating cannabis

  21-02-2017 16:18
  
  The lower house of the Dutch Parliament on Tuesday voted in favor of tolerating the cultivation of cannabis, a move that could bring to an end a key paradox of the relaxed Dutch policy on marijuana and hashish.However, the bill's chances of passage in upper house are not clear.
  
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• Expeditors’ 4Q results top forecasts

  21-02-2017 15:32
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Expeditors International of Washington Inc. on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $110.6 million. The Seattle-based company said it had profit of 61 cents per share. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 59 cents per share. The logistics […]
  
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• Jay Inslee for president? Governor’s profile is on the rise

  21-02-2017 15:30
  
  Along with Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Gov. Jay Inslee has enjoyed multiple victory laps after the state’s legal wins in a lawsuit to block Trump’s executive order halting travel from seven mostly Muslim nations that have been identified as terrorist potential threats.
  
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• With more than 200 dead, state’s flu season may have peaked

  21-02-2017 15:00
  
  It appears to be subsiding now, but this flu season will go down as the worst in Washington state this decade.
  
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