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• These $100M projects will change Seattle

  13-03-2017 23:56
  
  Seattle's downtown building boom is going strong, with nearly all of the city's major, private construction projects occurring there.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Trump Killed His Wife's Libido

  13-03-2017 23:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  So let me start with saying I only started listening to your show in January of this year. Love the show and being on the road a lot for work, I have listened to about 75 of your podcasts.First is political, I had a rough time last year volunteering to get Clinton elected after changing my registration from Republican to Democrat. I just wished I would have listened to Episode 500 before today. Your explanation of Green/Libertarian/etc. only running for president would have been a
  
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• Amazon deforestation, once tamed, comes roaring back

  13-03-2017 23:35
  
  A decade after the “Save the Rainforest” movement forced changes that dramatically slowed deforestation across the Amazon basin, activity is roaring back in some of the biggest expanses of forests in the world. A growing appetite for soybeans might be the culprit.
  
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• Our Arts & Culture Critics Recommend These 61 Events This Week

  13-03-2017 23:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Drunk Herstory, The Gramma Book Launch, Director's Choice, And More Picks For March 13-19by Stranger Things To Do StaffHere are our arts and culture critics' picks in every genre—from the beginning of Moisture Festival and Triple Threat with Kimball Allen to Drunk Herstory and Chocolate For Choice to Ali Wong's stand-up show and a talk featuring the creators of Serial. MONDAYREADINGS & TALKS
  The Next Administration: What's in Store for WA's Lands & WatersThe executive director of W
  
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• The 61 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: March 13-19, 2017

  13-03-2017 23:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, don't miss the opening of the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Director's Choice, artistic director Peter Boal's spring breeze of ballets, specially selected to show off innovative new work and modern-era classics that could stand another look. Christopher Duggan
  Our music critics have already chosen the 28 best concerts this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—
  
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• Charges: Trio defrauded Seattle-area Airbnb, Turnkey property managers

  13-03-2017 23:06
  
  Three people were charged this month in a fraud and theft scheme in which they allegedly paid for short-term vacation rentals east of Seattle with a stolen credit card number and took property from the rental owners.
  
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• This Week in The Stranger, Plus Most Read on Slog

  13-03-2017 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk“Moxie Parade, Emoji of the Future” cover by Ellen Forney with Jacob Fennell. Art prints of the above image available at ellenforney.com. Profits to be donated to badass women’s nonprofits.
  It's your friendly weekly digest that breaks down the stories that ran in the paper this week (the issue of March 8-15), in case you missed anything, plus a look at the most-read stories on the Slog last week.Amber Cortes had an amusing (and rather adorable) text conversation
  
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• Oregon man arrested in attack at Middle Eastern restaurant

  13-03-2017 22:16
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police arrested an Oregon man accused of attacking a restaurant employee with a pipe while calling the worker a terrorist and telling him to go back to his country. Court documents say Jason Kendall told an arresting officer he entered the Middle Eastern restaurant in Salem last week after seeing a […]
  
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• Man arrested after attack at Middle Eastern restaurant

  13-03-2017 22:16
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police arrested an Oregon man accused of attacking a restaurant employee with a pipe while calling the worker a terrorist and telling him to go back to his country. Court documents say Jason Kendall told an arresting officer he entered the Middle Eastern restaurant in Salem last week after seeing a […]
  
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• What caused waste plant’s mess? King County Council launches its own look

  13-03-2017 22:15
  
  The county department that runs West Point wastewater-treatment plant already did a preliminary investigation of the Feb. 9 disaster, but the council launched an additional, independent look into exactly what happened.
  
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• What caused sewage plant’s huge mess? King County Council launches its own look

  13-03-2017 22:15
  
  The county department that runs West Point wastewater-treatment plant already did a preliminary investigation of the Feb. 9 disaster, but the council launched an additional, independent look into exactly what happened.
  
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• Cystic fibrosis patients live 10 years longer in Canada than U.S., study says

  13-03-2017 22:04
  
  Canadians with cystic fibrosis survive about 10 years longer than Americans with the same genetic disease, according to startling new research that raises questions about how to improve care. The study suggests access to lung transplants and health insurance may play a role in the survival gap.
  
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• Jayapal to Rep. King: I am 'somebody else's baby' and a proud American

  13-03-2017 22:00
  
  "I am 'somebody else's baby' and a proud American," Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., tells Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa after King's latest racist remark.
  
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• CBO: 24,000,000 Americans Will Lose Health Insurance Under Trumpcare

  13-03-2017 21:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  NYT:
  The House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cause 24 million people to lose health insurance within a decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Monday. Republicans had been bracing for what was almost certain to be a bleak accounting of the legislation’s projected effects. The American Health Care Act, as Republicans call their bill, was already facing widespread criticism from providers of health care, some conservativ
  
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• A Stimulating Interview with Ayelet Waldman, Author of Microdosing Book A Really Good Day

  13-03-2017 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogA Really Good Day's Ayelet Waldman Claire LewisAyelet Waldman is an acclaimed novelist, nonfiction writer, former public defender, mother of four, and the author of A Really Good Day, a recently published book about microdosing, or taking tiny, sub-perceptual amounts of LSD or psychedelic mushrooms. It’s a new trend, but one gaining in popularity, and enthusiasts say it improves their moods, decreases their depression, and generally makes them feel better about life. Waldman
  
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• Child falls from SeaTac motel window

  13-03-2017 21:14
  
  A 3-year-old boy is expected to survive after falling from a second story window at a SeaTac hotel Monday morning.
  
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• Awning breaks toddler’s fall from 2nd-floor window at SeaTac motel

  13-03-2017 21:14
  
  The boy suffered minor injuries in the Monday morning fall and was taken to Harborview Medical Center as a precaution.
  
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• Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of ‘You May Want to Marry My Husband,’ dies at 51

  13-03-2017 21:10
  
  Knowing that her time was limited, Rosenthal used the “Modern Love” column in the New York Times to memorialize her marriage and offer her husband, Jason, an opportunity to find a new love.
  
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• Winter storm forces basketball teams to alter travel plans

  13-03-2017 21:04
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Teams chasing a college basketball title are contending with an unexpected wrinkle that’s making last-minute travel plans difficult — a fierce storm bearing down on the Northeast that’s expected to dump up to two feet of snow in some places and create blizzard-like conditions. Villanova, the top overall seed in the […]
  
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• Ocean summer salmon fishing season options set with guarded optimism

  13-03-2017 20:45
  
  State fisheries and Pacific Fishery Management Council have developed three ocean salmon fishing options at meetings that ended Monday in Vancouver. While not all is rosy, and this is just the first step in a long negotiation process, it appears unlike last year – when a zero fishing option was on the table – that anglers […]
  
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• Food News: New Bar House To Open in Fremont, Din Tai Fung Dumplings in the Mall, and Pi Day

  13-03-2017 20:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueDrinking: It's always better with fire. Yes, even simulated fire. Bar House
  Fremont Has a Fun New Bar
  Bar House is a new drinking establishment from local amplifier purveyor and meat smoker Ben Verellen, located above his eponymous amplifier shop in Fremont. Their grand opening is this Wednesday, and their press release teases such decor innovations as a "forest room," which features "one cozy booth engulfed in trees and bushes, starry night sky above, forest sounds surro
  
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• Our Music Critics Recommend These 28 Concerts This Week

  13-03-2017 20:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The Coathangers, Jane Monheit, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, And More Picks For March 13-19by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, our music critics recommend everything from the college radio indie rock heartthrobs of the mid-00s to a dark arts techno power-player sure to put you in a trance to a conspicuously charming tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. MONDAYEmily Wells with GuestsMy intro to New York–based songstress Emily Wells came via Dan the Automator, her collaborator on the hiphop- and groo
  
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• Amazon gobbles up yet another office building in South Lake Union

  13-03-2017 20:01
  
  After taking nearly 70 percent of the new downtown Seattle office space that opened last year, Amazon is heading down a similar growth track in 2017.
  
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• Detained Seattle Dreamer: "I Was Supposed to Be One of the Lucky Ones"

  13-03-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverDaniel Ramirez Medina has been at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma since February 10. PROVIDED BY COUNSEL TO DANIEL RAMIREZ MEDINA
  Daniel Ramirez Medina says the day he was approved for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was "one of the happiest days of my life."DACA allows people who were brought to the United States illegally as children to stay in the country. In a Washington Post op-ed today, Ramirez Medina, who was detained by federal immigrati
  
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• The 28 Best Concerts in Seattle This Week: March 13-19, 2017

  13-03-2017 19:54 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's music critics' picks for March 13-19, 2017.by Stranger Things To Do StaffIn addition to compiling all of the St. Patrick's Day shows happening at Irish pubs around town, we've also put together this list of all of the shows our music critics recommend in Seattle this week. We've got everything from the college radio indie rock heartthrobs of the mid-00s to a dark arts techno power-player sure to put you in a trance to a conspicuously charming tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. For even m
  
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• Swastika graffiti discovered in Portland neighborhood

  13-03-2017 19:46
  
  The graffiti was tagged onto at least six cars as well as trees, sidewalks, fences and garages in the Richmond neighborhood of southeast Portland.
  
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• First Hill Streetcar: No Firm Plans to Return to Service

  13-03-2017 19:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkWhen, oh when, will the First Hill Streetcar start again? SDOT
  Fact: there is a First Hill Streetcar stop less than a block from my apartment. If it weren't for House of Hong, I'd be able to see it from my third-floor window, could near spit on it. I'd hear it as it pulled through to pick up and drop off passengers, knew its arrival by the vibrating wheels-on-rail whirr and double-clanging bell toll that rang throughout the day, considered those hours between 1 and 5 a.m. when it
  
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• Trump travel ban harms colleges, business, health care, Washington tells court

  13-03-2017 19:36
  
  Washington, joined by five other states, asks a federal judge to extend his injunction that blocked President Trump's first Executive Order to cover the POTUS' revised "Muslim travel ban."
  
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• Everett students headed home after snowslide left them stranded

  13-03-2017 19:30
  
  A large snowslide fell across Highway 20, blocking the only road home from the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.
  
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• Everett students’ field trip to North Cascades extended when snow slide blocks Highway 20

  13-03-2017 19:30
  
  A large snow slide fell across Highway 20, blocking the only road home from the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.
  
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• An Incomplete List of White Men Who Attacked Brown People in Trump's America

  13-03-2017 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeKent, Washington GMC3101/GETTYIMAGES.COM
  The police in St. Lucie County, Florida suspect that a 64-year-old Florida white man attempted to burn a convenience store down to the ground because he thought its owners were Muslim. This incident happened on March 10. The suspect is said to have wanted to “run the Arabs out of our country.” The store owners, however, were not Arabs but Indians. On March 7, 52-year-old white man in Salem, Oregon allegedly attacked a man in a
  
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• Soggy conditions prevail at ski resorts; look for next snow Thursday at higher elevations

  13-03-2017 19:20
  
  Skiers and snowboarders heading to the slopes in the next few days will have to contend with extremely soggy conditions that will put to test even the best rain-wicking outerwear. Another series of wet and mild weather disturbances will cross the Pacific Northwest, and the next dry period won’t happen until Sunday. A brief break […]
  
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• Plan to upzone South Lake Union, downtown Seattle gets a hearing today

  13-03-2017 19:17
  
  The Seattle City Council will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Monday at City Hall.
  
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• Washington, other states seek hearing soon on latest Trump travel ban

  13-03-2017 18:58
  
  In a new complaint filed Monday, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says the new travel ban is unconstitutional and harms state residents, universities and businesses, especially tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon that rely on foreign workers.
  
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• Washington, other states seek fast hearing on Trump travel ban 2.0

  13-03-2017 18:58
  
  In a new complaint filed Monday, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says the new travel ban is unconstitutional and harms state residents, universities and businesses, especially tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon that rely on foreign workers.
  
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• Fact Check: Congressman Dave Reichert’s Misleading Statements About the Threats Posed by His Constituents

  13-03-2017 18:35 via thestranger.com
  by Heidi GrooverDave Reichert has been refusing to hold an in-person town hall meeting. Alex Wong/Getty Images
  In a Facebook Live interview last month, Washington Congressman Dave Reichert defended his decision not to host a large public town hall meeting for his constituents. Not only are town hall meetings not productive, he argued, but they could endanger his staff—a staff that has already faced threats, Reichert said.
  Reichert painted a picture of staff in his district office in Issaqu
  
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• Reader E-Mailbag: Sugary Drink Tax is a Smart Investment in Kids, How to Fight the AIDS Epidemic

  13-03-2017 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk Justin Sullivan / Getty
  It's a new round of e-mailed letters to the editor. This edition features a thanks to the Mayor for his proposed sugary drink tax, and offers a solution to combat the AIDS epidemic; or really, draws attention to a solution that already exists...Sugary Drink Tax is a Smart Investment in Kids
  I’d like to thank Mayor Murray for investing in young children by including funding for early childhood education in his proposed city sugary drink tax. We have t
  
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• The Morning News: Trump Voters in Rural PNW Will Be Hit Hard by Trumpcare, Motorcyclist Falls to His Death from Viaduct

  13-03-2017 17:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede sturti/getty.com
  Trumpcare to Hurt Trump Voters a Lot: The Oregon Gov. Kate Brown explained to Portland Business Journal that Trumpcare “would reduce Oregonians’ access to care and increase costs for women and seniors," and that she was "especially concerned about how this bill would negatively jeopardize our state’s budget and economy, especially in rural Oregon.” Meaning, the areas that voted for Trump. The same is probably true of the "750,000 more pe
  
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• Alaska’s Bogoslof Volcano erupts again, spewing ash cloud

  13-03-2017 16:55
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska volcano that has erupted more than 35 times since mid-December has sent up another ash cloud. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says Bogoslof (BOH-gohs-lawf) Volcano erupted just after 3:30 a.m. Monday. The eruption at the Aleutian Islands volcano lasted 12 minutes and satellite data indicated an ash cloud formed. The […]
  
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• 1 dead, 1 wounded in Everett shooting; 2 others arrested

  13-03-2017 16:17
  
  An Everett police sergeant said the shooting appeared to be the result of a drug deal that “went very badly.”
  
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• Photography helps Seattle’s homeless ‘carve out a creative space’

  13-03-2017 14:30
  
  Sometimes nobody shows up. Sometimes five do. All are homeless, but on this day they’re also photo students hitting the streets in a program to bring “healing through creativity.” It’s a weekly session with the Union Gospel Mission in Pioneer Square. Colin Scott, Anthony Pierce and Jimi Hendrix (yes, his real name) each are given […]
  
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• Second part of ancient Egyptian statue lifted from site

  13-03-2017 14:09
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The three-ton torso of a massive statue that may be of one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs has been lifted from mud and groundwater where it was recently discovered in a Cairo suburb. The torso was pulled by a crane as dozens of workers supported it while being moved to dry land […]
  
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• Cairo mud yields second part of huge Egyptian statue

  13-03-2017 14:09
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The three-ton torso of a massive statue that may be of one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs was lifted Monday from mud and groundwater where it was recently discovered in a Cairo suburb. The torso was pulled by a crane as dozens of workers supported it while being moved to dry land […]
  
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• Best of the comments: Are ‘nudge’ letters a good way to improve school attendance?

  13-03-2017 14:02
  
  We opened up feedback forms and polls about what practices you think are appropriate for improving attendance. Here's what you had to say.
  
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