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• Facing rental crisis, Seattle creates a renters’ commission to explore new laws

  20-03-2017 23:48
  
  The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on Monday to create the 15-member board, which could begin meeting this summer to talk about pushing laws to help cope with soaring rents and displacement, among other concerns.
  
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• Amid Eviction Protests, a Larger Question Looms for the Central District: What's Happening to MidTown Center?

  20-03-2017 23:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufMidTown Center sits at the intersection of 23rd Avenue and Union Street. Kelly O
  Last week's protests over an eviction in the Central District continued on Saturday, with demonstrators marching to the Madrona home of a CD landowner and a minor scuffle breaking out at Uncle Ike's.While the particulars of last week's eviction are as complex as the characters involved, there's a simple question underlying much of the current acrimony:What's going to happen to MidTown Center, the l
  
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• Dow Constantine proposes 2 centers for King County youth accused of minor crimes

  20-03-2017 23:15
  
  Under continued pressure over plans to build a new youth jail, the King County Executive Monday proposed two new community centers where youth accused of lesser offenses can be taken instead of jail.
  
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• King Lysen: A reformer in the Legislature who took on the old boys

  20-03-2017 23:10
  
  Former State Sen. King Lysen, who died last week, stood up against supertankers on Puget Sound, and fought to halt an out-of-control nuclear construction program that threatened to melt down the Northwest's economy. 
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: How Many Flakes Does It Take to Make A Flake A Real Flake?

  20-03-2017 23:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm a gay man who's about to turn 49, but I look 5-10 years older. On dating and hook-up sites, when I listed my actual age, I was often accused of lying. I would reply by asking, "Why would I tell a lie that would make people think I look like shit for my age; wouldn't it make sense to say I was 70 and looked great?" So, I finally acted on this: I started listing my age as early 50s. I figured that, not only would I stop getting accused of lying, but my profile would show up in th
  
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• Just how close is Bezos to Gates’ fortune?

  20-03-2017 22:53
  
  Jeff Bezos still has a way to go if he hopes to eclipse Microsoft founder Bill gates. But he may have a fighting chance, as Bill and Melinda Gates appear to be giving their money away as fast as they can.
  
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• Take the Same Self-Defense Class That the Golden Gardens Jogger Did—For Free!

  20-03-2017 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Golden Gardens jogger's company offers a free self-defense class to the public.by Amber CortesHerron (in the red shirt) takes her self-defense class. Courtesy RealSelf
  A few weeks ago, jogger Kelly Herron was attacked in a bathroom at Golden Gardens Park while training for a marathon. She managed to fight off her attacker while uttering the (now internet-famous) battle-cry phrase “Not today, motherfucker!”
  Herron was able to resist her attacker because she had just completed a self-d
  
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• Bellevue investment adviser pleads guilty to wire fraud, making false statements

  20-03-2017 22:29
  
  Chris Yoo, 44, ran Summit Asset Strategies, an investment company based in Bellevue. He used some clients’ cash to cover his personal and business expenses.
  
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• Why Is the Girl With the Blue Green Hair Walking Around Our Block 100 Times Today?

  20-03-2017 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I noticed this on a light pole outside our office right after a girl with blue/green hair walked by. So I kept walking around the block in the other direction until until I ran into the girl with the blue/green hair. I wanted to ask her why she's walking around the block 100 times. She tells me why... after the jump.
  The girl with the blue/green hair—the girl walking up 11th to Pike and then down Pike to 10th and then down 10th to Pine and then up Pine to 11th again and again
  
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• Food News: Hotel Monaco Presents Its New Outlier Restaurant, Belltown Brewing Now Open, and Yet Another Poke Venture

  20-03-2017 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueOutlier's beet-cured salmon. Aubrie Pick
  The Hotel Monaco's New Restaurant Opens Thursday
  One of the perks of being a glorified poke news ticker is that people occasionally wine and dine you in an attempt to get positive media attention for their culinary ventures. This is referred to in the PR biz as "earned media." Every once in awhile, people actually earn it.Hats off to Chef Shawn Applin, whose media preview menu for Outlier proved to be a genuine pleasure, from perfe
  
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• David Rockefeller dies at 101: philanthropist and guardian of family fortune

  20-03-2017 21:18
  
  David Rockefeller, 101, the last of his generation in a famous American family that taught its children that wealth brings great responsibility, died in his sleep at his home in Pocantico Hills, N.Y.
  
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• Oregon Legislature votes to raise bottle refund to 10 cents

  20-03-2017 20:47
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Starting on April 1, Oregonians will be able to double the money they get back for recycling their old plastic water bottles, soda cans and beer bottles at redemption sites throughout the state. A proposal to raise the per-bottle refund rate from 5 cents to 10 cents was overwhelmingly approved by […]
  
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• Bottle refund going to 10 cents in Oregon

  20-03-2017 20:47
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Starting on April 1, Oregonians will be able to double the money they get back for recycling their old plastic water bottles, soda cans and beer bottles at redemption sites throughout the state. A measure which requires payment of the 10-cent refund for covered beverage containers beginning the first of the […]
  
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• Deep South freeze means fewer blueberries and peaches

  20-03-2017 20:35
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Last week’s deep freeze in the Southeast appears to have nearly wiped out Georgia’s blueberries and South Carolina’s peaches. The South Carolina Department of Agriculture said 85 percent of the state’s peaches were damaged by two days of temperatures dipping into the 20s Wednesday and Thursday. South Carolina is the second […]
  
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• Seattle judge won’t rule on local challenge to revised Trump travel ban

  20-03-2017 20:29
  
  U.S. District Judge James Robart said in a ruling Friday that a nationwide stay on the travel ban by a federal judge in Hawaii makes a restraining order here unnecessary.
  
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• Reader E-mailbag: Keep Holding Republican Congressman Dave Reichert Accountable, Please

  20-03-2017 20:22 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkCongressman Dave Reichert: Is he making anyone happy? Alex Wong/Getty
  So far, we've gotten lots of positive feedback on our coverage of Washington Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Auburn). Several readers have asked us to continue reporting on him and to hold him accountable for actions that seem to be in direct opposition to what his constituents want.
  Check out this week's letters to the editor below.As a constituent of the 8th Congressional district, I just wanted to write and than
  
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• Seattle Transit News: The Streetcar Is Back, Light Rail Stations Celebrate 1st Birthday

  20-03-2017 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede SDOT
  First Hill Streetcar Resumes Services Today, March 20: It has been out of services since March 1, when one of its streetcars lost power on Broadway and slid backwards for two-and-a-half blocks. Leilani Polk, this paper's managing editor, is one of the few true fans of First Hill Streetcar. She uses it all of the time because one of its stops is near her place. But for many, the train is too slow and often gets stuck in traffic. The thing needs its own lane. That said, SDOT
  
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• Homeless man found dead in tent in Portland

  20-03-2017 20:00
  
  The man’s death caps an especially harsh winter for Portland’s homeless population. Four people died of exposure and a stillborn infant was found with his homeless mother at a bus stop.
  
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• Rep. Jim Himes: Trump Will Attack Anyone and Everyone—Except One Particular Someone

  20-03-2017 19:56 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageAnother great clip from this morning's hearings...
  Rep. Jim Himes: Trump "will attack anyone and everyone...but there's one person and one country which is immune." https://t.co/OvKyiXJznd pic.twitter.com/F5gQpojOcP— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 20, 2017
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• Today in Hard-Hitting Investigative Journalism: Is that Beer Really a Pint?

  20-03-2017 19:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase Burns
  You might have noticed something peculiar if you went to the Comet Tavern this weekend. While waiting to order, maybe you heard someone whispering, "Is that really a pint? I don't think it's a pint." And someone else responding, "No, dude. That's two ounces short." And if you went to the men's bathroom, you might have seen someone pouring water into a pint glass to ensure it was, in fact, a 16-ounce pint. And if the latter is true, then you were the guy who peed next to me. I'm so
  
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• Our Music Critics' 32 Picks For This Week

  20-03-2017 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Deafheaven, Teenage Fanclub, STRFKR, And More Picks For March 20-26by Stranger Things To Do StaffDaylight Savings has brought us sunlight, the vernal equinox has come and gone, and we have officially arrived at springtime—if only in linear time, not in weather. Shake off your winter hibernation and head outside for these recommended live music shows around town this week. We've got everything from decades-strong SoCal hardcore legends still kicking, to "experimental indie-clasts" serving u
  
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• The 30 Best Concerts in Seattle This Week: March 20-26, 2017

  20-03-2017 19:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffNeither rain nor snow nor hit pieces in the A.V. Club will stop the continuing dominance of Bay Area black-metal crew Deafheaven, who managed to blow up black metal in the US. See them at Neumos on Sunday. Neumos
  Daylight Savings has brought us sunlight, the vernal equinox has come and gone, and we have officially arrived at springtime — if only in linear time, not in weather. Shake off your winter hibernation and head outside for these recommended live music
  
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• Oregon man who fired gun in bar during Super Bowl unfit to stand trial

  20-03-2017 19:28
  
  Police said the 63-year-old was having a one-sided argument with a man at the bar of a Eugene restaurant when he pulled out a gun and fired. The bullet struck the bar.
  
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• The 32 Best Concerts in Seattle This Week: March 20-26, 2017

  20-03-2017 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's music critics' picks for March 20-26, 2017.by Stranger Things To Do StaffDaylight Savings has brought us sunlight, the vernal equinox has come and gone, and we have officially arrived at springtime—if only in linear time, not in weather. Shake off your winter hibernation and head outside for these recommended live music shows around town this week. We've got everything from decades-strong SoCal hardcore legends still kicking, to "experimental indie-clasts" serving up ambient
  
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• A cloud over Washington coast: What will Trump do to the Coast Guard?

  20-03-2017 19:09
  
  A dark cloud hangs over the Washington coast. "This is a region where jobs are tied to the water," said U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash.  The Trump administration is proposing to slash and drown programs vital to the coast, and talking about deep cuts to the Coast Guard. 
  
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• Watch Live: Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch's First Senate Hearing

  20-03-2017 18:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersPresident Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. Alex Wong / Getty Images
  While the US House is busy grilling FBI director James Comey, lawmakers over in the US Senate have begun their grilling of Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's nominee for Supreme Court.So many big political hearings at once! Who could have designed such a situation, in which listening to one live hearing means you can't take in the other live hearing?Oh well. You're still guaranteed to be able to watch
  
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• The Walking Dead Recap: This Show Needs More Three-Ways

  20-03-2017 18:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey"Knife throwing is the least effective method of killing someone, and makes you lose your knife. But let's learn how to do it anyway."COURTESY AMC
  Hey everybody! Did you watch last night's [ANNOYING] episode of The Walking Dead? Awesome. Then by all means, get annoyed all over again with my SPOILER-FILLED recap after the jump! Let's get re-annoyed together!Here's what I'm thinking about last night's episode, "The Other Side."
  1) Welcome back to the Hilltop, where we f
  
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• Trump approval falls to 37 percent, lowest rating yet

  20-03-2017 17:47
  
  Just 37 percent of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing, his lowest-ever rating, according to new Gallup Poll.  Fifty-eight percent disapprove.
  
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• Make Sure Your MAGA-Hat Wearing Relatives Watch This

  20-03-2017 17:19 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  ThinkProgress:
  On Monday, FBI director James Comey testified in front of the House Intelligence committee as part of Congress’ ongoing investigation in the matter. Before his testimony, the committee’s ranking Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (CA) laid out of all of the circumstantial evidence that has built up so far connecting the Trump campaign to Russian state actors seeking the intervene in the election. Schiff emphasizes in his opening that he is drawing only on public r
  
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• Watch Live: House Intelligence Committee Grills James Comey on Russia

  20-03-2017 17:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithDuring a hearing with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Monday morning, FBI director James Comey undermined Trump's claim that Obama used wire tapps [sic] to monitor his activity during the campaign, saying "I have no information that supports those tweets."I guess now Trump and Comey—and not Trump and Merkel—have something in common.Comey's statement reflects earlier comments made by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who denied t
  
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• The Morning News: Dave Reichert Might Be Worse Than the Green River Killer, First Hill Streetcar Is Back

  20-03-2017 17:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThis saves lives... cigdemhizal/gettyimages.com
  If Trumpcare Becomes a Reality: Then Dave Reichert, who is all for it, will have more dead bodies on his hands than Gary Leon Ridgway, the serial killer he pursued for two decades. In 2001, Ridgeway, who worked in a truck factory, was arrested and interviewed extensively by Reichert, then a sheriff and a leading member of the Green River Task Force. In 2004, Reichert published the book: Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Ca
  
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• 2 dead in Vancouver, Wash., shooting

  20-03-2017 16:57
  
  Detectives believe the victims knew the person who killed them, and a person of interest has been identified.
  
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• Shaq latest in the NBA community to join flat-Earth belief

  20-03-2017 16:25
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Count Shaquille O’Neal among the roster of NBA personalities who believe the Earth is flat. The Hall of Famer and TNT analyst says he drives from Florida to California on a regular basis and that “it’s flat to me.” O’Neal joins Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving in his belief that the world is […]
  
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• Bill Gates meeting with Trump to talk foreign aid

  20-03-2017 16:25
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech billionaire Bill Gates is meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss progress in programs for global health and development as well as domestic education. Gates, who as the co-founder of Microsoft is the world’s wealthiest man, will highlight the “indispensable role that the United States has played in achieving these gains,” […]
  
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• Signature-gathering starts for Seattle levy to help with homelessness

  20-03-2017 15:51
  
  The Yes on I-126 campaign will use volunteers and paid staff to gather the 30,000 signatures needed to qualify the homeless-funding measure for the Aug. 1 Seattle ballot. Two opposition efforts also have formed.
  
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• Signature-gathering starts for $275M Seattle levy to help with homelessness

  20-03-2017 15:51
  
  The Yes on I-126 campaign will use volunteers and paid staff to gather the 30,000 signatures needed to qualify the homeless-funding measure for the Aug. 1 Seattle ballot. Two opposition efforts also have formed.
  
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• Already in peril, rural hospitals unsure on health-care bill

  20-03-2017 15:29
  
  CLAXTON, Ga. (AP) — Talmadge Yarbrough had just sat down at his desk and opened a box of pecans when he let out a gasp that could have been his last breath. He’d gone into cardiac arrest in his office, a co-worker called 911, and an ambulance drove him two miles to the small hospital […]
  
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• Electric bill seem too high? Here’s how to find out — and what to do

  20-03-2017 14:37
  
  High electric bill? A cold winter may be to blame. Or a bad meter reading. Or a recent rate increase. You can check your meter or contact City Light.
  
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