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• Connelly: In Seattle, dreaming of a construction-free Christmas

  29-11-2017 23:57
  A modest proposal for a new mayor: Clear up the multiple messes on our streets so Seattle-bound holiday visitors can enjoy the lights, sights, eats and shopping in a big city.
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: What Do We Do About Al Franken?

  29-11-2017 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 127 considers the Franken dilemma, the terrible Republican tax plan, the controversial New York Times Nazi story, and more. Tasos Katopodis / Getty ImagesSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders are back from their Thanksgiving pod-break and ready to talk about the truly awful Republican tax plan, as well as a related question: Why isn’t there more outrage about it?After that, the New York Times’ controver
  
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• Police: Auburn detective shoots man after he crashes stolen car

  29-11-2017 23:43
  Few details were immediately available, but the department reported that no officers were injured and they aren't looking for a suspect.
  
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• Auburn police involved in shooting

  29-11-2017 23:43
  Few details were immediately available, but the department reported that no officers were injured and they aren't looking for a suspect.
  
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• Seattle, Meet Your Matriarchy

  29-11-2017 23:31 via thestranger.com
  
  About time.by Eli SandersAbout time.
  Take a step back from the close quarters political combat of Seattle's recent elections and you'll see something that has never happened before: a complete matriarchy running this town.
  From our US Senators to our mayor and city council, it's a full sweep of women in charge. Finally.Moving clockwise through the above image, starting in the upper left:Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, the first woman to lead this city since the 1920s—and the first out lesbian
  
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• Seattle’s new mayor, Jenny Durkan, names her City Hall team

  29-11-2017 23:23
  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s new team includes a former ferries boss, holdovers from Ed Murray’s administration and political operatives with connections to top lobbying firms and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
  
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• Several injured after Bellingham bus jumps curb, hits shelter

  29-11-2017 23:15
  Firefighters evaluated two passengers and two bystanders and took two people to a hospital.
  
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• DNA analysis solves the ‘Yeti’ mystery: They’re bears

  29-11-2017 23:03
  After analyzing nine purported Yeti specimens, scientists found that the preserved “Yetis” were in fact bears. But they discovered some cool stuff about the bears of the Himalayas.
  
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• "News From Lake Reverie": A Prescient Radio Commentary on Keillor and Franken

  29-11-2017 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonFranken, Keillor, and Shearer: Unlikely to appear together soon.
  On the November 19 episode of Harry Shearer’s long-running radio program Le Show, the writer/comedian/musician did a spot-on satire called “News From Lake Reverie,” in which an ersatz Garrison Keillor-type told a homespun tale about how the good old just folks of an ersatz Lake Wobegon ("where time stands still, and so does everything else") were coping with feelings of betrayal at the news of "The S
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Her Dad Likes Dick, But Does She Tell Mom?

  29-11-2017 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Before I get started, I should tell you I do not live with my parents and haven't for a long time. My parents no longer live together as my mum moved away a couple of years ago to care for her elderly parent. My parents see each other several times a year, mainly at holidays. They don't hold hands, they don't kiss, they hardly interact, they don't even act like friends, more like strangers. I have suggested they have couples therapy or separate, they weren't interested in either. A
  
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• Cohen: I have no idea why Bret Boone slid headfirst into my DMs

  29-11-2017 22:25
  Former Mariners second baseman Bret Boone sent me a direct message on Twitter to make light of sexual harassment allegations. I have no idea why.
  
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• Krina Turner Steps Up As Executive Director of Whim W'him

  29-11-2017 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithGet ready for some contemporary dance mothafuckas.Josh Skinner
  Today, Whim W'him announced that interim executive director Krina Turner is stepping up as the dance company's non-interim executive director. Turner, who managed a recent capital campaign for Seattle Opera and who held various arts administrative positions at ArtsFund and Spectrum Dance Theatre, took the interim ED job back in May of this year, replacing Catherine Bombico."It's a dream job," she told me over the phone.
  
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• Reader responses: How do you feel about water-taxi network in Puget Sound?

  29-11-2017 22:12
  Transit leaders want to diversify Puget Sound ferry service, whether via public agencies or private companies. Here is what some of our readers think about the idea.
  
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  29-11-2017 22:08
  The content in this story was accidentally published before it was properly verified and edited. For that reason we have have removed the content from this story.We are sorry for the error.
  
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• Live Review: Ten Years Later, The National's Depressive Realism Is Just Too Real

  29-11-2017 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  A look back at Tuesday night's sold-out show at The Paramount.by Zach FrimmelMatt Berninger doing his tortured baritone thing at the Paramount Tuesday night. They'll also play tonight. Matthew Lamb
  “We’re half awake in a fake empire” is the sobering refrain on the opening track of The National’s 2007 studio LP, Boxer. It’s been 10 years since Matt Berninger penned that Didion-esque line. What did it mean? And does it still hold true today?
  In any case, the melodic c
  
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• Photos: Updates from SR99 Construction

  29-11-2017 21:59
  Work on the SR99 is still underway; it won't be open to traffic until 2019. But the Washington State Department of Transportation has been keeping the updates coming as workers toil away to help improve traffic.
  
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• Charge: Teen killed man for cash during Kent pot deal

  29-11-2017 21:59
  Prosecutors charged an 18-year-old man Wednesday with first-degree murder after a 20-year-old was slain during a marijuana deal in a Kent neighborhood Sunday morning.
  
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• A New Study Reports That Nearly 40 Million Workers in the U.S. Will Be Displaced By Technology

  29-11-2017 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog In the future, everyone will be employed for 15 minutes. Getty Images/Dan Kitwood
  The future of employment on this planet is bleak, according to the analysis by McKinsey Global Institute, which predicts that hundreds of millions of workers across the globe will find themselves out of work due to automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technological innovations by 2030.In a massive report, McKinsey says that upwards of 375 million workers—38.6 million of tho
  
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• If "It Goes Without Saying," Then Why Are You Saying It?

  29-11-2017 21:25 via thestranger.com
  
  We need to talk about the maddening habit of writing "it goes without saying," and then saying something.by Dave SegalThe grammar Nazis you love to hate.
  Do you write or say "it goes without saying," "needless to say," and "not to mention," and then say or mention something immediately afterward? Yes? Then we need to talk about the concept of words and their meanings.People use this unholy triumvirate of phrases—which make my eyes simultaneously roll and glaze over—with maddening fre
  
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• Uber offers discounted rides from Eastside park-and-ride lots to Seahawk games

  29-11-2017 21:23
  Uber will offer discounted, flat-rate rides between two Eastside park-and-ride lots and CenturyLink Field on Seahawk game days for the rest of the year. The deal comes after the Seahawks canceled shuttle service from the Eastside.
  
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• Connelly: Jayapal goes national in bid to make Conyers quit

  29-11-2017 20:56
  Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., gets out front. As others held back, she declared that  colleague Rep. John Conyers, in Congress for 53 years, must quit Congress. Conyers has been credibly accused of sexual harassment by former aides.
  
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• The city of Seattle wants to track your driving, sort of

  29-11-2017 20:23
  Seattle wants to make a competition out of safe driving, sort of. And it comes complete with cash prizes and an app.
  
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• Who's Next? Garrison Keillor, That's Who.

  29-11-2017 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Keillor was fired from Minnesota Public Radio after allegations of misconduct.by Katie HerzogThe public airways will soon be absent this voice for the first time since the Civil War. FacebookGarrison Keillor—the public radio host whose Saturday night show A Prairie Home Companion has haunted listeners for the past 400 years—has been fired. In a statement issued on Tuesday by Minnesota Public Radio, the organization announced that it made the decision "after recently learning of alleg
  
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• Council Asks Governor Inslee to Reject the Vancouver Oil Terminal

  29-11-2017 20:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Some rare good news.by Katie HerzogThe Council wants to keep these eyesores out of Vancouver, Washington. Getty
  Here's a rare bit of good news in a cycle otherwise dominated by men behaving badly, North Korean nukes, and Trump tweets: The Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council in Olympia voted to reject a proposed $210 million oil terminal in Vancouver, Washington on Tuesday.The terminal—which was supported by the oil and rail industries, and opposed by tribes, environmen
  
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• Expanding DNA’s alphabet lets cells produce novel proteins

  29-11-2017 19:48
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are expanding the genetic code of life, using man-made DNA to create a semi-synthetic strain of bacteria — and new research shows those altered microbes actually worked to produce proteins unlike those found in nature. It’s a step toward designer drug development. One of the first lessons in high school biology: […]
  
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• ACLU to State Lawmakers: Quit Blocking Your Constituents on Social Media

  29-11-2017 19:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Social media is the new town square.by Heidi GrooverThe ACLU says lawmakers' social media accounts are "virtual town squares." Washington state legislature
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington says some state lawmakers are "unconstitutionally censoring and/or blocking constituents" from their social media pages.
  In a letter to state legislators and the governor, ACLU of Washington Legislative Director Elisabeth Smith writes that courts have recognized social media accounts as a place
  
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• Developers of the Tower Amazon Is Set to Lease Destroyed a Row of Beautiful Downtown Trees

  29-11-2017 19:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeI called about this notice in September and got no response. Charles Mudede
  In the year 2020, it will be our city's second-tallest skyscraper (58 floors). It's being built on the Rainier Square block and will do its tall thing right next to Minoru Yamasaki's Rainier Tower. (Yamasaki also designed two of the most symbolically important buildings of the 20th century: the Pruitt–Igoe projects, and the World Trade Center.) When completed, Amazon, the e-commerce giant that has
  
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• Man dead after officer-involved shooting in Spokane, police say

  29-11-2017 19:28
  Police say the man began firing at two officers while they were sitting in their patrol cars as they responded to a domestic violence situation.
  
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• Blaze destroys Lynnwood-area home with armed man inside

  29-11-2017 19:18
  When firefighters arrived, they found evidence the man was inside a vehicle in the garage, armed with a gun. Firefighting efforts were suspended to avoid any danger to the crew.
  
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• Renters Are Shelling Out a Bigger Share of Income For Housing Than Homeowners

  29-11-2017 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Rent is eating up a bigger share of income than in the past.by Heidi GrooverRent is eating up a larger share of tenants' income compared to before 2000. fotoVoyager/getty
  Renters today are spending a larger share of their income on rent than in the years before 2000. Homeowners, meanwhile, are spending less of their income on mortgage payments.
  And, surprise, the rent burden particularly bad in Seattle.
  According to a new report from Zillow, renters nationwide are spending about 29 percent of th
  
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• South African Judge Refuses to Allow a Gay Couple to Adopt

  29-11-2017 19:06 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThe judge is a liberal and was a gay rights champion before taking a seat on the bench. The reason the judge refuse to approve the adoption? The couple is closeted:
  While they have been partners for a decade, one of the prospective fathers is not out of the closet. The two men, who live separately to hide their relationship, were only identified in court as CJD and HN. Judge Ronel Tolmay declined the agreement saying the closeted relationship could harm the child’s psychologic
  
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• Belmiro de Azevedo, top Portuguese entrepreneur, dies at 79

  29-11-2017 19:05
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Belmiro de Azevedo, one of Portugal’s most successful businessmen who built his company Sonae into an international conglomerate, has died. He was 79. In a statement Wednesday, his company said Azevedo died Wednesday, but gave no further details. Azevedo, who had been ill for several years, became boss of the Sonae […]
  
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• Seattle man sentenced to 55 years for killing mother, stepfather in South Park

  29-11-2017 18:58
  Richard Parenteau Jr. was convicted earlier this month of two counts of first-degree murder for beating and suffocating Linda Parenteau, 70, and attacking David Wells, 69, with an ax after the couple told him he had to move out of their house.
  
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• Seattle man sentenced to 55 years for killing mother, stepfather in 2014

  29-11-2017 18:58
  Richard Parenteau Jr. was convicted earlier this month of two counts of first-degree murder for beating and suffocating Linda Parenteau, 70, and attacking David Wells, 69, with an ax after the couple told him he had to move out of their house.
  
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• UW team wins $500K award from Amazon

  29-11-2017 18:48
  If you've ever felt the online chatbots and artificial intelligence vessels are lacking in conversational skills, then the University of Washington is ready to help – and they're now bolstered by $500,000, thanks to Amazon.
  
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• Amazon awards UW team $500k to build a better chatbot

  29-11-2017 18:48
  If you've ever felt the online chatbots and artificial intelligence vessels are lacking in conversational skills, then the University of Washington is ready to help – and they're now bolstered by $500,000, thanks to Amazon.
  
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• Arizona State University joins consortium building telescope

  29-11-2017 18:26
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University is joining an international consortium building a large new optical telescope in Chile. Director Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State’s School of Earth and Space Exploration says participation in the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization is a leap forward institutionally for the university. The university says in a news release […]
  
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• Six Days at the Pacific Northwest’s Regional Abortion Fund

  29-11-2017 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  “I always tell them, ‘You don’t have to justify what you’re doing, to me.'"by Megan Burbank ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
  On Monday morning, the Northwest Abortion Access Fund’s weekly budget is replenished, and a new hotline shift begins.
  This week, Jeanie Schauerman is one of two volunteers staffing the hotline, responding to callers throughout the Pacific Northwest who need help paying for their abortion procedures. Schauerman’s been doing this work for 12 years,
  
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• “Can Anybody Help Out This Week?”

  29-11-2017 18:05 via thestranger.com
  Six Days at the Pacific Northwest’s Regional Abortion Fundby Megan BurbankMONDAY“You don’t have to justify what you’re doing.”On Monday morning, the Northwest Abortion Access Fund’s weekly budget is replenished, and a new hotline shift begins.This week, Jeanie Schauerman is one of two volunteers staffing the hotline, responding to callers throughout the Pacific Northwest who need help paying for their abortion procedures. Schauerman’s been doing this wor
  
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• US adopts recovery plan for Mexican wolves, lawsuit planned

  29-11-2017 18:01
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After decades of legal challenges and political battles that have pitted states against the federal government, U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday finally adopted a plan to guide the recovery of a wolf that once roamed parts of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. The plan sets a goal of having an […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: US adopts recovery plan for Mexican wolves

  29-11-2017 18:01
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After decades of legal challenges and political battles that have pitted states against the federal government, U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday finally adopted a plan to guide the recovery of a wolf that once roamed parts of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. The plan sets a goal of having an […]
  
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• Elephant-inspired fashion brings beautiful awareness

  29-11-2017 17:52
  "Elephantasia Campaign" headlines Cocktails for Conservation in Pioneer Square.
  
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• Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico: We Will Make Sure Puerto Ricans Who Have Fled to Florida Vote Democratic In 2018

  29-11-2017 17:41 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said this on The Rachel Maddow Show last night: "I don't think President Trump realizes it. Many of the Puerto Ricans that are moving to the states, about a hundred thousand in the past few weeks, are going to Florida. So they're going to change the landscape of the election for 2018. And we're going to make sure that they vote. And we're going to make sure they remember who didn't help when the time came."
  I got a lot of grief on Twitter—not complaini
  
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• The Morning News: School Bus Drivers Are on Strike, Jenny Durkan Is Mayor, Matt Lauer Is Fired

  29-11-2017 17:32 via thestranger.com
  
  School bus drivers want more affordable healthcare.by Heidi GrooverSeattle school bus drivers are on a one-day strike. Spaces Images/getty
  Seattle School Bus Drivers Are on Strike: After they were unable to reach a deal with First Student (the bus contractor for Seattle Public Schools), members of Teamsters Local 174 who drive yellow school buses will strike for one day today. Drivers say they're seeking more affordable healthcare and better retirement benefits, the Seattle Times reports. The st
  
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• Idaho National Laboratory upgrades power grid testing area

  29-11-2017 17:24
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho National Laboratory’s electric grid testing area underwent recent upgrades to its infrastructure, allowing researchers to conduct full-scale experiments with new technology aimed at modernizing power systems. The Post Register reports the U.S. Department of Energy site in the desert west of Idaho Falls incorporated a wireless smart grid infrastructure […]
  
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• Drama flares at Seattle school-bus lot as striking driver jumps on hood

  29-11-2017 17:18
  At least one person jumped on the hood of a school bus that was leaving the Seattle lot as drivers picketed during a one-day strike. No one appeared to be injured.
  
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• Trump environmental picks headed to Senate confirmation vote

  29-11-2017 16:50
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators used their majority to advance two of President Donald Trump’s picks for key environmental posts over the objections of Democrats who say the nominees are unfit for office. The Environment and Public Works Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to send the nominations of Kathleen Hartnett White and Andrew Wheeler […]
  
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• Did your kids get a ride to school — or a day off? Let us know how you’re coping during Seattle’s school-bus strike

  29-11-2017 16:11
  Did your kids carpool or take a Lyft? Did you find a different, creative solution — or just throw up your hands and let them stay home for the day? We want to hear from you.
  
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• Police clear out anti-fracking activists blocking railroad tracks

  29-11-2017 15:03
  Police urged people to stay away from 7th Avenue Southeast and Jefferson Street Southeast near downtown Olympia after officers and protesters clashed Wednesday morning.
  
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• Trump is still trying to ban Muslim refugees — but in Washington state, he also got one elected

  29-11-2017 15:00
  Our state’s first Somali-refugee elected official, Zak Idan of Tukwila, says he was emboldened to run for office by the president’s travel ban.
  
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