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• Federal Judge Clears the Way For Uber and Lyft Drivers to Unionize

  25-08-2017 23:36
  
  Uber has already mounted a preemptive campaign to scare drivers away from unionizing.by Steven HsiehUber lost two big lawsuits this month. NYCSHOOTER/GETTY
  A federal judge on Thursday rejected a challenge to the city's first-in-the-nation Uber unionization ordinance, clearing the way for Seattle ride-share drivers to collective bargain.Seattle’s City Council passed an ordinance in 2015 granting ride-share drivers, who are contractors, not employees, the right to collectively negotiate with
  
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• Racial Politics Sets Lemon Apart From the Rest

  25-08-2017 23:24
  
  Isaac's bumbling often seems more tragic than not.by Kathy Fennessy"To all the black folks, I would like to say howdy." Magnolia Picture
  Janicza Bravo’s Lemon is one in a long line of indie comedy-dramas about middle-aged white men with little to offer the world except disdain.What sets it apart are the racial politics, which stem from the marriage between writer/director Bravo, a woman of color, and the film's star, Brett Gelman, who is white. Gelman plays Isaac, a theater teacher who wea
  
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• Connelly: McGinn, clobbered in primary, backs Moon, disses Durkan

  25-08-2017 23:20
  Former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, a distant sixth-place finisher in the Aug. 1 mayoral primary, throws his backing to Cary Moon and gets snarky toward Jenny Durkan.
  
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• Washington ranks high for women's equality

  25-08-2017 23:09
  Washington is more equitable than most states for women, but not the most equitable, according to a new analysis by WalletHub.
  
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• Despite advance directive, Oregon dementia patient denied last wish, says spouse

  25-08-2017 23:03
  Nora Harris, 64, a former librarian, signed an advance directive after her diagnosis to prevent her life from being prolonged when her disease got worse. Now, her husband said, she’s being kept alive with assisted eating and drinking against her stated wishes.
  
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• Goblin Market Is a Weird, Lyrical, Late-Summer Sex Dream

  25-08-2017 22:32
  
  Jane Austen English majors are going to go nuts for this show.by Rich SmithThe show closes this weekend! Go watch these talented women suck up the fruit of seductive goblins while you still can.KEN HOLMES
  British lit professors often pitch Christina Rossetti’s dark, erotic, and kinda twisted fantasy poem, "Goblin Market," as pure feminist subversion. A woman writing explicitly about sex would have scandalized the supposedly uptight Victorians, and so in the poem Rossetti smartly veils her
  
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• Labor Split Begins as Cary Moon Gets First Union Endorsement in Mayoral Race

  25-08-2017 22:22
  
  by Heidi GrooverCary Moon won the primary election with very few endorsements. nate gowdy
  Since former U.S. attorney Jenny Durkan and engineer Cary Moon made it through this month's primary election, Durkan has continued to pick up labor union endorsements. While also endorsed by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, those endorsements show that Durkan may be forming the same business-labor coalition that got Mayor Ed Murray elected in 2013.But, like 2013, the city's unions will not be i
  
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• Judge clears way for Seattle Lyft, Uber drivers to unionize

  25-08-2017 22:13
  U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik late Thursday rejected a challenge brought by 11 drivers, saying that their claims against the law were premature or too speculative.
  
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• Federal judge clears way for Seattle Lyft, Uber drivers to unionize

  25-08-2017 22:13
  The Teamsters can now try to begin unionizing the drivers unless the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says otherwise.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Luna, Briana Marela, Versing, and More

  25-08-2017 21:58
  
  by Dave SegalLuna have the Cure for your Three Imaginary Boys nostalgia. Double Feature Records
  Luna, "Fire in Cairo" (Double Feature). Dean Wareham's wan, glum voice turns out to be an effectively counterintuitive vehicle for communicating Robert Smith's suburban-goth romantic drama from the Cure classic Three Imaginary Boys. As is Luna's wont, they subdue everything to a jangly, "I'll Be Your Mirror" hush. (The video features Rose McGowan, fact fans.) "Fire in Cairo" appears on Luna's album of
  
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• Trump tells Mattis to indefinitely ban transgender recruits

  25-08-2017 21:50
  President Donald Trump on Friday directed the Pentagon to extend indefinitely a ban on transgender individuals joining the military, but he appeared to leave open the possibility of allowing some already in uniform to remain.
  
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• Lynnwood Link $500 million over initial estimates, delayed

  25-08-2017 21:19
  Sound Transit blames soaring construction costs and changes to the project for new estimates that are significantly higher than officials expected.
  
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• Taste This, Seattle: Half Price Pub Nachos

  25-08-2017 21:04
  
  A bar as welcoming to salty old regulars as it is to college kids fresh off the farm.by Tobias Coughlin-BogueThe perfect plate. TCB
  The nachos at the College Inn Pub, the U-District's excellent subterranean dive, are nothing special. This, I think, is precisely why they're so special. The Inn has no aspirations of culinary greatness. Instead, they are simply one of the city's best, most comfortable bars. And they boast the city's best plate of straightforward, unfussy bar nachos. Better still, s
  
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• Jolly Mountain Fire closes Cle Elum-area roads, campsites

  25-08-2017 20:57
  Campgrounds in the upper Cle Elum valley area are closed to campers as the Jolly Mountain Fire spreads.
  
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• Former Mayor Mike McGinn Endorses Cary Moon

  25-08-2017 20:52
  
  by Heidi GrooverIn an attempted comeback, the former mayor lost this year's primary election with just 6.5 percent of the vote.LINDSEY WASSON
  No real surprise here considering the pair's shared history fighting the cars-only bottomless money-sucking sinkhole downtown tunnel: Former Mayor Mike McGinn has endorsed Cary Moon for mayor.Here's what McGinn had to say today:
  She is a person of great integrity, intelligence and vision. She’s not someone who has been climbing the political ladder -
  
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• Portland's Funniest Comedian Performs in Seattle Tonight

  25-08-2017 20:43
  by Dan Savage
  Amy Miller, who was featured on Last Comic Standing and Viceland's Flophouse and has twice been voted Portland's funniest comedian, is performing tonight at Laughs Comedy Club. She's a regular on the Doug Loves Movies podcast and hosts her own podcast, Who's Your God, on which she talks with other comedians about religion ("the podcast for anyone who might feel alienated by Christian OR Atheist podcasts"). She's hilarious and we had her in to record a segment for my podcast—i
  
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• What the Tweet of Trump Eclipsing Obama Means

  25-08-2017 20:41
  
  by Charles Mudede
  Yesterday, the controversial Jerry Travone got retweeted by Donald Trump for his tweet of a color image of a smiling Trump eclipsing a black-and-white image of a somber Barack Obama. He called it: The Best Eclipse Ever. The fact Trump loved the tweet shows how his presidency is really about hating the first black president of the United States. But there is something else that many normal Americans may not appreciate. For Trump and his supporters, there wasn't a day during Obam
  
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• Central WA fire dampens plans to hike, camp this weekend

  25-08-2017 20:21
  A wildfire near Cle Elum is burning west and officials have closed National Forest lands in anticipation of a possible evacuation.
  
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• Woman dies at UW Medical Center as Legionnaires’ cases occur in same building as last year

  25-08-2017 20:04
  Last year, an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at UWMC sickened five people, including two who died.
  
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• Woman dies at UW Medical Center after Legionnaires’ disease reported in 3 patients

  25-08-2017 20:04
  Last year, an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at UWMC sickened four people, including two who died.
  
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• Russell Wilson to Hoist Flag Above Space Needle For Pediatric Cancer Awareness

  25-08-2017 20:00
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufSeattle Seahawks Russell Wilson is spending the sportsball pre-season helping kids. OTTO GREULE JR/GETTY IMAGES
  Seahawks quarterback and Super Christian™ Russell Wilson will raise a flag on top of the Space Needle on Sunday in partnership with Strong Against Cancer and Seattle Children's hospital. The event serves as the kick-off to Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, which begins in September.
  "Seattle Children’s hopes that the flag will boost awareness of the unique
  
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• Why is there a sex toy on top of Seattle's Lenin statue?

  25-08-2017 19:54
  A group calling itself Operation Unicorn said it glued a sex toy to the head of Fremont's Lenin statue Thursday evening.
  
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• Alaska court upholds cut to checks from oil-wealth fund

  25-08-2017 19:53
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that Gov. Bill Walker acted within his authority in reducing the amount set aside for checks to state residents from Alaska’s oil-wealth fund last year. The decision released Friday sided with the state, as a lower court had, in the dispute over Alaska Permanent Fund […]
  
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• Connelly: Remembering Cecil Andrus, whose legacy includes 13 national parks

  25-08-2017 19:52
  As Idaho governor, and Interior Secretary, Cecil Andrus did more to protect land in the West than any other political figure in the latter half of the 20th Century.  He died Thursday, at the age of 85, in Boise.
  
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• Murray Wants Orca Cards To Work On The Monorail

  25-08-2017 19:41 via thestranger.com
  
  No more cash needed to ride the Monorail?by Chetanya RobinsonYou could use your Orca card to ride this soon, maybe DearEdward/Wikimedia Commons
  Orca cards are great because they're versatile; they work on buses, light rail, and ferries (though you have to get a ferry pass loaded on the card). However, they don't work on the Monorail running between Seattle Center and Westlake Center. If you wanted to ride the monorail (as apparently two million people do every year), you have to break out your c
  
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• 120-year first: Seattle's hot summer is about to set record

  25-08-2017 19:32
  It has genuinely been a hot summer in Seattle — in at least one way, the hottest.
  
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• Do the Defamation Claims Against Kshama Sawant Have a Chance?

  25-08-2017 19:20
  
  by Heidi GrooverKshama Sawant is facing allegations that she defamed two police officers and a landlord. City of Seattle
  In the last month, two cases have surfaced accusing Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant of defamation. In July, notorious Seattle landlord Carl Haglund filed a claim with the city indicating that, unless he receives a settlement in the next two months, he intends to sue Sawant and the city because she called him a "slumlord" in 2015. (He wants $25 million.) On Friday, th
  
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• Ban on Plastic Straws and Utensils Begins on July 1, 2018

  25-08-2017 19:17
  
  The skewed economics of strawsby Charles Mudede WPA/Getty
  Beginning July 1, 2018, restaurants in Seattle will no longer provide plastic straws and utensils to consumers. The reason for the ban is plain and simple: the waste that results from disposable plastic creates a cost that enterprises in the private sector do not subtract from the surplus value/price realization process but instead transfer to what the early 20th century British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou called in Economics of Welfare
  
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• Woman kicked out of school for 1938 pregnancy gets diploma

  25-08-2017 19:16
  GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan woman has received her high-school diploma eight decades after being forced out of school for being pregnant. The Flint Journal reports that 97-year-old Iris Weatherwax was given an honorary diploma, cap and gown on Wednesday. She says receiving the diploma was wonderful. Davison Community Schools Superintendent Eric Lieske […]
  
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• UW crew program changing how it counts women under Title IX

  25-08-2017 18:39
  UW is changing its policy this fall after a Seattle Times investigation found dozens of women who appear to have not been on the team but whom the university counted as participants in reports to the U.S. Department of Education for Title IX.
  
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• Mom left 5 kids alone to help fugitive boyfriend, police say

  25-08-2017 18:08
  PITCAIRN, Pa. — Police say a Pittsburgh-area woman left her five children alone so she could drive her fugitive boyfriend across the state to avoid arrest. Thirty-four-year-old Tiffany Jackson, of Pitcairn, is wanted on charges including child endangerment and hindering apprehension. Pitcairn police say Jackson left her children behind when she drove her boyfriend to […]
  
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• Hurricane Harvey could dump as much rain as Seattle has had all year long

  25-08-2017 17:58
  Parts of Texas hit by Hurricane Harvey could get more rainfall in a week than Seattle has since Jan. 1.
  
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• The Morning News: A Category 3 Hurricane Heading Towards Texas, a Rabid Bat in Ballard

  25-08-2017 17:57
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneAn image from Hurricane Ike in 2008. MARK WILSON / GETTY
  Hurricane Harvey Could Be a Category 3: Say experts who upgraded the hurricane's intensity ranking to a Category 2 overnight. This means that the hurricane heading towards Corpus Christi could make landfall with 111 mile-per-hour winds and flood areas with 35 inches of rain. Seven counties on the Texas coast have ordered mandatory evacuations, and Houston is within the flood zone.The eye of hurricane Harvey clearing out
  
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• Why Seattle is poised to be a leader in ‘smart city’ technology

  25-08-2017 17:25
  New technology is helping local government create "smarter" cities in a variety of ways, from adaptive traffic lights to open data platforms to advanced utility meters. But with innovation comes complication. Privacy, security, and equality challenges are inevitable when the public sector tries to implement technology with the help of private companies.
  
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• Oregon eclipse event guards arrested, wrongly detain couple, police say

  25-08-2017 16:52
  BEND, Ore. — Authorities say three security guards were arrested for wrongfully detaining two people at an Oregon eclipse festival. The Bend Bulletin reports the three guards were arrested Tuesday morning at Big Summit Prairie and later released with their charges dropped, but the Crook County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case. Sheriff’s deputies […]
  
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• AD: Great Pumpkin Beer Festival!

  25-08-2017 16:52
  Get Tickets Now For The 13th Annual GBPF: Sept 29-30 at Seattle Centerby Stranger Things To Do Partner2017 marks the 13th year for Elysian’s Great Pumpkin Beer Festival – and we invite you to join us at a brand new location – the Seattle Center, where 80+ pumpkin beers (plus a couple surprises) from near and far will be poured, including twenty or so from Elysian’s pumpkin-crazed brewers and their collaborators.In addition to loads of pumpkin brews, local food trucks, Cha
  
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• US, Canada to investigate deaths of endangered whales

  25-08-2017 16:39
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Marine authorities in the U.S. and Canada said Friday they will marshal resources to try to find out what’s behind a string of deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales. The animals are among the rarest marine mammals in the world, with only about 500 still living. The countries will collaborate […]
  
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• US, Canada to collaborate to investigate right whales deaths

  25-08-2017 16:39
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Marine authorities in the U.S. and Canada said Friday they will marshal resources to try to find out what’s behind a string of deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales. The animals are among the rarest marine mammals in the world, with only about 500 still living. The countries will collaborate […]
  
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• Investigators sharpen focus on deaths of endangered whales

  25-08-2017 16:39
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal officials plan to provide more details on their investigation into the recent deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales. The whales are among the rarest marine mammals in the world. Only about 500 right whales exist. At least 13 right whales were found dead this year off New England and […]
  
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• Looking to catch escaped Atlantic salmon? Here are some fishing tips

  25-08-2017 16:08
  Washington state is asking the public for help catching hundreds of thousands of salmon that escaped from Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island last weekend.
  
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• Seattle on pace to have more 70 degree or warmer summer days than ever before

  25-08-2017 15:59
  In more than 120 years of recorded temperature data, this is the first time Seattle’s daily highs in July and August will be 70 degrees or warmer, if projections are correct.
  
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• Seattle parent who started campaign to wipe out school-meal debt takes effort statewide

  25-08-2017 15:00
  A Seattle parent whose campaigns have netted nearly $100,000 to eliminate students’ school lunch debt is taking his effort statewide.
  
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• Podcast: Should Seattle and King County voters decide whether to block safe drug-injection sites?

  25-08-2017 15:00
  A lawsuit was filed to block an initiative that would ban safe drug-injection sites in King County, arguing public-health decisions should be left to the experts. Here's what opponents and proponents have to say.
  
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• Mount Zion pastor quits: ‘I am deeply hurt’

  25-08-2017 15:00
  Members of Seattle’s Mount Zion Baptist Church unsuccessfully tried to oust its pastor. But he resigned anyway Sunday, leaving one of the most prominent churches in the city looking to regain its footing — again.
  
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• Have you noticed? Seattle police are writing fewer traffic tickets

  25-08-2017 15:00
  Are Seattle’s motorists just driving better? Maybe, but there are other plausible theories to account for a dramatic drop in traffic citations issued by the Seattle Police Department.
  
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• Idaho’s Cecil Andrus dies; as Interior secretary, he helped conserve Alaska land

  25-08-2017 09:17
  Former Interior Secretary Cecil V. Andrus, who engineered the conservation of millions of acres of Alaska land during the Carter administration, has died at 85. He also served four terms as Idaho governor.
  
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• Ex-Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus dies; he helped conserve Alaska land dies

  25-08-2017 09:17
  BOISE, Idaho — Former Interior Secretary Cecil V. Andrus, who engineered the conservation of millions of acres of Alaska land during the Carter administration, has died. He was 85. Andrus died late Wednesday of complications from lung cancer, daughter Tracy Andrus said. A onetime lumberjack, Andrus resigned midway through his second term as Idaho governor […]
  
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• Ex-Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus dies; he helped conserve Alaska land

  25-08-2017 09:17
  BOISE, Idaho — Former Interior Secretary Cecil V. Andrus, who engineered the conservation of millions of acres of Alaska land during the Carter administration, has died. He was 85. Andrus died late Wednesday of complications from lung cancer, daughter Tracy Andrus said. A onetime lumberjack, Andrus resigned midway through his second term as Idaho governor […]
  
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• With time running out, thousands flee Hurricane Harvey

  25-08-2017 08:28
  HOUSTON (AP) — With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled from the path of Hurricane Harvey Friday as it picked up strength and took aim at a wide swath of the Texas Gulf Coast that includes oil refineries, chemical plants and dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. Aside from savage winds […]
  
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