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• Washington AG’s office sues King County Democrats over alleged campaign violations

  12-05-2017 23:55
  
  The King County Democratic Central Committee was late in reporting both campaign spending and contributions during the 2016 election, according to a new lawsuit by the Washington Attorney General’s Office.
  
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• ‘Success is creating two Seattles,’ says Jenny Durkan, announcing bid for mayor

  12-05-2017 23:54
  
  The former U.S. attorney talked of Seattle’s economic boom leaving too many people behind, as she kicked off her campaign for mayor surrounded by top-tier politicians.
  
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• Announcing bid for mayor, Jenny Durkan decries ‘two Seattles’ divided between haves and have-nots

  12-05-2017 23:54
  
  The former U.S. attorney talked of Seattle’s economic boom leaving too many people behind, as she kicked off her campaign for mayor surrounded by top-tier politicians.
  
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• Upstream Summit Looks at the Murky Future of the Music Industry

  12-05-2017 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  What does it look like when a tech billionaire designs and finances a conference meant to help DIY artists ‘monetize their brand’? Exactly the way you’d think it does.by Amber CortesQuincy Jones with Ahamefule Oluo at Upstream Music Festival + SummitDavid Conger/Courtesy of Upstream Music Fest + SummitIn addition to the 300-plus bands playing at Paul Allen’s ambitious Upstream Music Festival, there’s also the Upstream Summit—a two-day conference aimed at &ldqu
  
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• Photos: NW logging towns 127 years on

  12-05-2017 23:32
  
  Logging is in the DNA of the Northwest, and two towns crucial to that DNA were incorporated 127 years ago this week.
  
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• Aziz Ansari Outdoes Himself in Season Two of Master of None

  12-05-2017 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jenni Moore
  From his stand-up comedy to his book Modern Romance to his hilarious Netflix series Master of None, Aziz Ansari always delivers a multicultural depiction of the millennial American experience. In season one, we watch as Dev (Ansari), a 30-year-old New York actor and first-generation American, refuses to speak in an Indian accent while auditioning for stereotypical Indian roles, contrasts his life to his dad’s upbringing, and tries to make it work with his girlfriend Rachel (
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: She Wants to Flash You Without Being Creepy About It

  12-05-2017 22:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I am a relatively attractive woman in my early thirties and I have a question about my budding exhibitionism. My question is two parts: first, is it okay to walk around naked in my bedroom/apartment with the blinds open and the reasonable expectation that someone might see me? My windows do not face a street but rather a small cluster of other windows from buildings near mine. I mean it is my house and all, but I worry sometimes about getting an angry letter from a mother whose chi
  
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• Woman wields pocket knife to scare off pantless man in Greenwood; police dog catches suspect

  12-05-2017 22:08
  
  A Seattle police K-9 named Ziva found the suspect hiding in bushes about 20 minutes after the incident. The suspect was still half-naked, according to police.
  
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• Woman wields pocket knife to scare off pantless man in Greenwood

  12-05-2017 22:08
  
  A Seattle police K-9 named Ziva found the suspect hiding in bushes about 20 minutes after the incident. The suspect was still half-naked, according to police.
  
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• Jenny Durkan Launches Cookie-Cutter Mayoral Campaign

  12-05-2017 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverFormer U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan. HG
  Surrounded by a cast of local political insiders, former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan today launched one of the most formidable mayoral campaigns of the year without saying much of anything at all.
  Seattle, Durkan said, is a city of "quirky, fun, irreverent, engaged people," the city that "gave you coffee on every street corner." But the sorts of riches produced by street corner java hasn't reached everyone, Durkan said, essentially echoing eve
  
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• Police dog nabs pantsless perp in Greenwood

  12-05-2017 21:41
  
  Seattle police arrested a pantsless man sneaking around in bushes in Greenwood early Friday with the help of a search dog.
  
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• SIFF Review: Chameleon Explores the Darkest Places of the Human Mind

  12-05-2017 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tracie LouckStill from Chilean film Chameleon
  Warning: Chameleon is a disturbing film. If you are triggered by the portrayal of violent sexual assaults, take a hard pass on this one. If you enjoy feeling sick to your stomach about the lengths humans will go to exert power over other people… well, you’re fucked up, but so am I. A young man talks his way into a lesbian couple’s house the day after their party, where he was a guest of a friend of theirs. He spends most of the
  
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• NASA nixes crew for test flight of new megarocket in 2019

  12-05-2017 21:15
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA says the test flight of its new megarocket will fly without a crew. In February at the request of the White House, NASA began studying the feasibility of putting astronauts on the first flight. After evaluating the cost and risk, the space agency decided against it. NASA Acting Administrator Robert […]
  
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• HUMP! 2016 Returns This Weekend, AND Gets a Feature Story in Playboy

  12-05-2017 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey HUMP! 2015's "Best in Show" winner, Level Up
  First and foremost, HUMP! 2016 returns for an encore screening tonight and Saturday (May 12 & 13) at SIFF Cinema Uptown, so GET YOUR TICKETS HERE because this edition of HUMP! was super-duper hot and hilarious and you certainly don't want to miss it again!Secondly, HUMP! is the subject of a terrific full-length feature story in Playboy! Sure, it does a great job explaining how HUMP! went from a small Pacific Northwest
  
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• Challenge to statewide minimum wage law abandoned

  12-05-2017 20:57
  
  The effort by state business groups to challenge I-1433, the state’s recently passed minimum wage and paid sick leave law. has come to an end.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. SassyBlack, Thomas Andrew Doyle, faUSt, and More

  12-05-2017 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalSassyBlack: Neo-R&B heroine of eros.
  SassyBlack, “Games” (self-released via Bandcamp). The new track by Seattle's eminent SassyBlack (the lead-off from New Black Swing, out June 23), "Games" features the former THEESatisfaction vocalist/MC luxuriating in celestial-soul ballad mode, her silky delivery laden with a mixture of eros and gentle heartbreak. The beats are splenetic and oblongly funky, contrasting with the sumptuous synth atmosphere. Neo-R&B gets its win
  
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• Connelly: Jenny Durkan declares for mayor with 'shock and awe' show of support

  12-05-2017 20:48
  
  Jenny Durkan kicks off campaign for mayor with big show of support, bringing "shock and awe" to city politics.
  
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• Body farm for researchers and detectives opens near Tampa

  12-05-2017 20:42
  
  LAND O’LAKES, Fla. (AP) — A “body farm” where researchers can study how corpses decompose will open next week in the Tampa Bay area with the burial of four donated bodies. Officials broke ground Friday on the Adam Kennedy Forensics Field, a five-acre patch of land north of Tampa. It’s the seventh such facility in […]
  
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• Police: 1 wounded, 1 in custody after gunfire erupts during pot rip-off in Lynnwood

  12-05-2017 20:36
  
  Two males, including a teenager, tried to steal marijuana from a third man in a Lynnwood home, resulting in a gunbattle, police said.
  
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• North Cascades Highway to open, weeks ahead of schedule

  12-05-2017 20:34
  
  The North Cascades Highway will open 11 a.m. Tuesday. In March, the state had warned that Highway 20 might be closed into June.
  
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• Day One of Upstream Was Fine. It May Have Even Be Good. All I'm Saying Is, I Had A Great Time.

  12-05-2017 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThe directors at Upstream are serious about television safety.Ulysses CurryThere's been some discussion about Upstream Music Fest + Summit, Paul Allen's attempt to do SXSW but in the PNW, and with his name on the back of the chair.
  One question is: If Paul Allen really wants to do something for the local music community with his first wave tech money, why not invest in affordable housing projects so musicians can afford to live here? But the big question seems to be: does it suck? I
  
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• Day One of Upstream: So Far So Good.

  12-05-2017 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThe directors at Upstream are serious about television safety.Ulysses CurryThere's been some discussion about Upstream Music Fest + Summit, Paul Allen's attempt to do SXSW but in the PNW, and with his name on the back of the chair.
  One question is: If Paul Allen really wants to do something for the local music community with his first wave tech money, why not invest in affordable housing projects so musicians can afford to live here? But the big question seems to be: does it suck? I
  
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• Tumwater teen who told police he killed his dad charged with 1st-degree murder

  12-05-2017 19:50
  
  When police responded to the family’s home Wednesday they found Leonard Williamson on the floor with what appeared to be stab wounds. “I killed my dad,” his son had allegedly told police earlier. “ ... I stabbed him.”
  
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• Washington, neighbors all drought-free after wet winter

  12-05-2017 19:45
  
  After a historically wet few months, there are currently no drought warnings for the Evergreen state. That holds true for neighbors Oregon and Idaho as well, according to the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor report, which marks the first time since 2011 that all three have found themselves omitted from the report at the same time.
  
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• Affordable and Last-Minute Events (And Gift Ideas) For Mother's Day

  12-05-2017 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  BadWill Market, The Ninth Annual Flower Festival, An Improv Show, And More Things To Do Under $10by Stranger Things To Do StaffSo you didn't spend the last month making brunch reservations, buying tickets, creating elaborate gifts, and otherwise preparing for Mother's Day? It's ok—we're in the same boat, which is why we've compiled a list of last-minute events to attend with mommy dearest. Everything below is $10 or under, and some even offer the chance to pick up affordable gifts along th
  
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• Massive rotting sea creature mystifies grossed out village

  12-05-2017 18:35
  
  It came from the water. It's roughly 50 feet long and weighs as much as 35 tons ... and it's slimy and rotting on the shoreline of a mystified village on an Indonesian island.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Man Learns About Trespassing Laws

  12-05-2017 18:33 via thestranger.com
  
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• Forget Mother's Day, Celebrate National Mama's Bail Out Day

  12-05-2017 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Black women are incarcerated at a higher rate, and many of them are mothers who are in jail because they can't afford bail.by Katie HerzogA real Mother's Day gift would be bail money Getty Images
  In this, The Greatest Nation on Earth™, a full 62 percent of incarcerated humans aren’t imprisoned because they’ve actually been convicted of a crime: They’re locked up because they can’t afford to pay bail. And—huge surprise—a large percentage of those people f
  
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• Miss. hospital to remove up to 7,000 buried bodies at Asylum Hill

  12-05-2017 18:16
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — In Jackson, Mississippi, a hospital stands on Asylum Hill, where the state’s first mental institution operated in the mid-1800s. Thousands of patients lived and died there, and this presents a challenge to expansion plans at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Radar has discovered as many as 7,000 unidentified bodies buried underground. […]
  
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• The Morning News: Trump Threatens to Cancel White House Briefings, Man Who Threatened Pedestrians with a (BB) Gun Charged

  12-05-2017 18:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk"You better keep your dirty trap shut." Pool/Getty
  Trump Isn't Letting Up on James Comey, But He's Also Digging Himself into a Deeper Hole: Today, President Trump warned the news media he might cancel all future White House briefings, then threatened the former FBI director against leaking "anything negative" about him. At 5:07 a.m.:
  ...Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???
  — Dona
  
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• State Representative Jessyn Farrell Is Running for Mayor

  12-05-2017 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverState representative and mayoral hopeful Jessyn Farrell Kelly O
  A transit advocate and rising star in the state legislature, Democrat Jessyn Farrell, has joined the race for mayor of Seattle.
  Farrell announced her candidacy in an email this morning and will hold a press availability at a coffeeshop in Wallingford at 9 am. In an increasingly crowded field, Farrell could emerge as an urbanist favorite.The former executive director of Transportation Choices Coalition is in her third
  
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• Portland, Oregon, voters weigh tax hike for school lead fix

  12-05-2017 17:18
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Voters in Oregon’s largest city are poised to vote on the biggest school bond in state history after a scandal over high levels of lead in the water at almost every Portland school. The $790 million spending package that would raise taxes to address the crisis has generated intense interest in […]
  
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• What happens after a swarm of earthquakes strikes the Seattle region? Here’s what the experts say

  12-05-2017 16:12
  
  Local seismologists aren’t sure whether the swarm of minor earthquakes near Bremerton, and other temblors, may signal the coming of a much larger event.
  
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• Readers brainstorm Bertha’s future: as sculpture, display, souvenirs …

  12-05-2017 15:30
  
  Via social media, phone calls and emails, people brainstormed plans ranging from preserving the massive machine’s cutterface with art installations to revving it up for another tunnel-boring project.
  
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• Bellevue starts work on $17.5 million renovation of Meydenbauer Bay waterfront

  12-05-2017 15:30
  
  Bellevue is starting construction on Meydenbauer Bay Park on Lake Washington, a key part of what the city envisions as a grand pedestrian boulevard connecting the lake to downtown and the Eastside Rail Corridor.
  
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• Washington state Rep. Jessyn Farrell joins crowded race for Seattle mayor

  12-05-2017 15:28
  
  State Rep. Jessyn Farrell, D-Seattle, announces her bid for Seattle mayor, joining a growing field of candidates seeking to replace incumbent Ed Murray.
  
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• Seattle has reversed a decades-long trend of rising car ownership — and millennials are the reason

  12-05-2017 15:00
  
  For the first time since at least 1970, the percentage of Seattle households that own a car is declining. Census data show it’s all because of young people, who increasingly are choosing to live carless in the city.
  
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• Podcast: With Ed Murray out, who emerges atop Seattle mayoral race?

  12-05-2017 15:00
  
  We break down who's in the Seattle mayor's race, who's out of it, and what issues will shape the suddenly wide-open contest.
  
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• How far would you go to be a mother? This young woman had to make a sudden decision.

  12-05-2017 15:00
  
  Faced with a painful medical condition that threatened her fertility, Gloria Chueca Puerto-Mendoza didn’t have the luxury of time. Would you spend four years, and all your savings, without a partner to help?
  
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• Equipment water leak stalls spacewalk by 2 US astronauts

  12-05-2017 13:26
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An equipment water leak has stalled a spacewalk by two U.S. astronauts at the International Space Station. The problem cropped up during preparations for Friday’s planned spacewalk. A small amount of water leaked from the connection point between an umbilical hose and Jack Fischer’s suit. The hose provides water, power, […]
  
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