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• Judge Vacates Convictions in Eastern Washington Medical Cannabis Case

  03-01-2018 23:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Charges dismissed against three members of the Kettle Falls Five.by Heidi GrooverAfter raiding their house in 2012, federal authorities prosecuted the Kettle Falls Five for growing marijuana, even though medical marijuana was legal in Washington. DANIEL FISHEL
  A federal judge has vacated the convictions of three Washingtonians found guilty in 2015 for growing medical cannabis near Kettle Falls, putting an end to a legal saga that tested the power of federal authorities to crack down on marijuana
  
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• Alaska Airlines, others cancel flights because of East Coast megastorm

  03-01-2018 23:50
  'Bomb cyclone' expected to bring heavy snow and hurricane-force winds to Northeast
  
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• Some of My Top Pacific Northwest Experiences of 2017

  03-01-2018 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Charles Mudede offers his poetic recollections of his favorite 2017 experiences in the Pacific Northwest.by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
  Here are a few of my top Northwest experiences of 2017, a year that, considering the apocalyptic direction 2018 has taken in its opening days, may actually be remembered fondly by those who are unfortunate to survive the seemingly inevitable nuclear winter.First (though it's not my number-one experience—this list is order-less): watching and hearing Indu
  
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• Injured conductor, passenger sue over fatal Amtrak derailment onto I-5 south of Tacoma

  03-01-2018 23:17
  Conductor Garrick Freeman was riding in the lead locomotive, to familiarize himself with the new, faster bypass track that opened Dec. 18, when the Amtrak train derailed and spilled on Interstate 5 in Pierce County.
  
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• Sanctuary on side of Mexican volcano could be universe model

  03-01-2018 23:07
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican archaeologists say they have excavated a stone sanctuary in a pond on the side of a volcano east of Mexico City that may have been built as a miniature model of the universe. The National Institute of Anthropology and History says the remnants of the stone “tetzacualco” were in the […]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Call Me Daddy

  03-01-2018 22:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I am a 67-year-old gay man and am seriously flummoxed by a situation that I never expected to experience. After the shattering breakup of a long-term relationship fifteen years ago, I entered a period of apathy about romance and sex that lasted until very recently. I was not celibate during that time, but I believed that the possibility of emotional and sexual intimacy with a partner was over for me.
  A couple of months ago, after being a full-time caregiver for my father for two ye
  
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• Connelly: Henderson, Heimlich in contest for state Republican chairman

  03-01-2018 22:38
  Two Republican activists square off to become Republican State Chairman, a challenging job in "blue state" Washington. Democrats have carried the state in eight consecutive presidential elections.
  
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• Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson dies at 90

  03-01-2018 22:34
  Thomas S. Monson, considered a prophet by nearly 16 million Mormons worldwide, has died at the age of 90 after a nearly a decade as church president.
  
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• Police: Man killed during Kent argument

  03-01-2018 22:25
  Kent police arrested a 22-year-old man Wednesday morning after a 48-year-old Auburn man was fatally shot in Kent.
  
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• The 2018 Coachella Lineup Is More Middling Than Ever

  03-01-2018 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Coachella is hell-bent on bringing you the most expensive, safe-bet lineup imaginable, but at least it will be 100 degrees every day.by Dave Segal
  The Weeknd, Beyoncé, and Eminem are headlining Coachella, a sprawling music and visual arts festival held annually in Indio, California (it occurs on April 13-15 and April 20-22 this year), it was announced yesterday. A scan of the lineup reveals Coachella's continued trend of playing it rather safe while trying to appeal to pop, rap, rock, and
  
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• Brother of cyclist killed in crash along First Hill streetcar tracks sues Seattle

  03-01-2018 21:15
  The brother of a Seattle cyclist killed after riding in between streetcar tracks on East Yesler Way has sued the city of Seattle.
  
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• BLACK Imagination: The States of Matter Is Like Home-Baked Bread with Butter ... But Art

  03-01-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Emily PothastArtist, curator, and community organizer Natasha Marin. Erika Schultz
  BLACK Imagination: The States of Matter doesn’t officially open until tomorrow evening's First Thursday Art Walk, but the parts of the exhibition that are already online reveal an ambitious wealth of information to sift through and experience—a website, a blog, and a Soundcloud page full of audio responses to three prompts. The first two prompts are questions: “What is your origin story?&rdquo
  
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• City Agrees to Pay $85,000 to Settle Civil Rights Suit Over Black Lives Matter Activist's Arrest

  03-01-2018 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Did a Seattle police officer just stop short of using a racial slur in the arrest of Jorge Torres?by Sydney BrownstoneJorge Torres, left, was arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest in December of 2014.Alex Garland
  More than two years after a Seattle police officer was accused of using a racial slur during the arrest of Black Lives Matter activist Jorge Torres, the city has agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by the activist for a sum of $85,000.
  As former Stranger writer Ansel He
  
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• Washington state AG sues Motel 6 over giving ICE info on 9,000 guests

  03-01-2018 21:03
  Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Motel 6’s “actions are disturbing and they are unlawful,” saying the motel divulged to Immigration and Customs Enforcement information about more than 9,000 guests in Washington.
  
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• West Seattle man's home to become part of city park

  03-01-2018 20:49
  West Seattle's Schmitz Preserve Park is getting a small, but notable addition in 2018: A single lot, donated by a man who didn't want to see his home turned into a development.
  
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• West Seattle man sells home to city for park

  03-01-2018 20:49
  West Seattle's Schmitz Preserve Park is getting a small, but notable addition in 2018: A single lot, donated by a man who didn't want to see his home turned into a development.
  
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• Treason! Insanity! (And Other Remarkable Accusations from Today's Trump-Bannon Feud)

  03-01-2018 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersDonald Trump and Steve Bannon are having a big 'ol fight over a book. Getty Images
  Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury, has touched off a wild, statement-heavy feud between the President of the United States and his former aide, Steve Bannon.Let's recap the last few hours.
  The Guardian:
  Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as &ld
  
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• Washington sues Motel 6, says chain slipped ICE info on guests

  03-01-2018 20:36
  Motel 6 has illegally provided information on its guests to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Attorney General Bob Ferguson charges in new lawsuit. "It wasn't just folks that ICE was interested in. It was everyone staying at the hotel."
  
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• State GOP Chair Steps Down After History of Embarrassing Gaffes

  03-01-2018 20:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Susan Hutchison excused Trump's admission of sexual assault by saying he was just "channeling Bill Clinton."by Katie HerzogGOP Chair Susan Hutchison is out.HG
  On Tuesday, state GOP chair and former TV news anchor Susan Hutchison announced that she will be stepping down from her position as the head of Washington Republicans. Unlike other recently departed public figures, Hutchison isn't accused of touching anyone's butt, at least as far as we know. Rather, there is some speculation that she's le
  
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• Diogenes's Cache Dump Offers a Treasure Trove of Wonderfully Warped Hiphop Instrumentals

  03-01-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle producer Diogenes's Cache Dump is a psychedelic smörgåsbord of instrumental hiphop.by Dave Segal
  You may have missed it during the holiday madness, but last month Seattle hiphop producer Diogenes (aka Dax Edword, aka Dax Anderson) magnanimously uploaded four years' worth of beats to Bandcamp. The literally and humbly titled Cache Dump finds the Filthy Fingers United catalyst and former organizer of the HISSSSSSS cassette-DJ night cherry-picking cuts from various comp tapes, ex
  
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• Ancient DNA from Alaska gives glimpse of ancestors of Native Americans

  03-01-2018 19:04
  The new paper supports a theory that the migrants from Asia spent thousands of years in isolation before entering the Americas. During that time they developed unique genetic signatures that are now found in natives of the Americas.
  
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• Heidi Groover Is Cited in the New York Times Today

  03-01-2018 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  This sure puts the Seattle Times editorial board's take on zoning into perspective.by Sydney BrownstoneHow did NIMBYism evolve beyond the backyard? Akabei/Getty
  New York Times urbanism writer Emily Badger, formerly of the Washington Post and the Atlantic, published a piece today all about Heidi Groover's favorite topic: zoning. Even better, it cited Heidi's reporting from December on Magnolia residents opposing affordable housing for formerly homeless seniors in the first sentence.The piece is g
  
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• Montana town without leader after no-show from mayor-elect

  03-01-2018 18:24
  LAUREL, Mont.  — Laurel is missing a leader after its mayor-elect skipped out on his swearing-in ceremony. The Billings Gazette reports Mayor-elect Dave Waggoner did not show up to the city council’s Tuesday meeting where he was supposed to be sworn into office. He did not return calls seeking comment. After winning the election, Waggoner […]
  
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• Flu deaths rise as peak flu season hits

  03-01-2018 18:22
  January has not historically seen spikes in the flu season, but for the second year in a row Washington State Department of Health officials are warning people to get a flu shot thanks to a rise in reports of flu.
  
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• It's Taking the City Longer to Investigate Labor Law Violations

  03-01-2018 18:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Workers are waiting months to get backpay.by Heidi GrooverA minimum wage march in 2015. City of Seattle
  Seattle workers whose bosses violate labor laws are waiting nearly a year on average for the city to resolve their cases, more than double how long it took when city officials started investigating workers' complaints in 2015.
  The Seattle Office of Labor Standards (OLS) investigates complaints about employers accused of underpaying workers, not offering paid sick leave, or violating other loca
  
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• The Morning News: Trump Flexes Button Size, Seattle Man Accused of Domestic Abuse Hoarded Guns

  03-01-2018 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Mormons, guns and Amazonby Nathalie GrahamRemember when Bill Clinton lost the nuclear codes? Getty
  Local alleged domestic abuser apparently not a great guy: and, shockingly, also has a thing for guns. The Seattle Times reports that after allegedly abusing his girlfriend, the suspect threatened to shoot himself and “blow up the whole neighborhood.” Seattle Police recovered “multiple” guns. There’s at least 15 pictured in SPD’s pictures of the recovered contraba
  
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• Drone video shows massive cracks in hillside above I-82 near Yakima

  03-01-2018 16:37
  The cracks formed above Columbia Asphalt and Gravel’s quarry while the hillside moves at an average of 1.4 feet per week. Residents living below have not heeded evacuation warnings.
  
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• Swarm of small earthquakes reported near Mount St. Helens

  03-01-2018 15:57
  A series of small earthquakes occurred near Mount St. Helens overnight, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The swarm of tremors began with a 3.9 magnitude quake that struck around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday east of Spirit Lake and was followed by 14 smaller tremors that shook the area. The magnitude of the smaller quakes, […]
  
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• Dozens of small earthquakes reported near Mount St. Helens are not related to magma, experts say

  03-01-2018 15:57
  Though dozens of small earthquakes shook the ground near Mount St. Helens early Wednesday morning, they were not caused by shifting magma within the active stratovolcano, according to experts. The swarm of tremors began about 12:30 a.m. with a 3.9 magnitude quake striking near Spirit Lake, about 7 miles from the mountain that famously erupted […]
  
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• Series of small quakes rattle area near Mount St. Helens

  03-01-2018 15:49
  A series of small earthquakes rattled an area near the town of Morton overnight in Lewis County.
  
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• What’s with all the cawing? UW team eavesdrops on crows

  03-01-2018 15:34
  Researchers want to understand the cacophony that erupts when 16,000 of the birds congregate at night before roosting in a Bothell wetland.
  
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• My solution to the coming downtown Seattle tunnel mess: Pay drivers to use it

  03-01-2018 15:00
  Imagine getting a 25-cent credit on your Good to Go pass for using the new Highway 99 tunnel at peak times. Sounds small, but it would help fulfill the whole point of Bertha’s Boondoggle — which was to lure the cars underground.
  
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• ‘He was a relationship guy:’ Mason Sizemore, beloved former president of Seattle Times, dies at 76

  03-01-2018 15:00
  Mr. Sizemore took the newspaper from hot lead to the digital age and is being remembered for his integrity and commitment to family, colleagues and community.
  
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• Price tag on gene therapy for rare form of blindness: $850K

  03-01-2018 14:32
  Even though the price is lower than expected, Luxturna -- the nation's first gene therapy for an inherited disease -- is still significantly more expensive than nearly every other drug on the global market, including two other gene therapies approved earlier last year in the U.S.
  
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• 300 more Seattle-area families to join program that helps them teach their toddlers

  03-01-2018 14:00
  The United Way of King County recently awarded $1.5 million to expand a program that helps low-income parents teach their toddlers using educational books and toys.
  
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• We Regret These Errors: Mistakes The Stranger Made in 2017

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  All the mistakes the staff of The Stranger made in 2017.by Stranger StaffIn the December 6, 2017, issue of The Stranger, we called the owner of Daybreak Records JR, when he is actually named RJ. We regret the error.In The Stranger's guide to the Seattle International Film Festival published in May 2017, the schedule grid was missing an entire theater for the last half of the festival. We regret the error.In the May 31 issue of The Stranger, in an article about the performance venue On the Boards
  
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• The X-Files’ Surreal Eleventh Season Reckons with Fake News

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The truth is... somewhere, probably.by Ciara DolanEach episode of The X-Files begins with a promise: “The truth is out there.” It’s been almost 25 years since FBI Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) started investigating global conspiracies, extraterrestrial life, and unknown beasts lurking in the shadows. But many truths remain undiscovered, twinkling in the distance like dying stars thousands of light-years away.Maybe that’s why it seem
  
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• The Future of Coffee Is in Seattle's Coffee Machines

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Two places in Seattle to try espresso made with state-of-the-art engineering.by Lester BlackThe Mavam UCEM espresso machine looks unlike any espresso machine you have ever seen. When it wasreleased, coffee executives fromJapan and Europe flocked to a garage in Seattle to see its unveiling.At Conduit Coffee Company on Westlake Avenue, you can see one in the wild. Two blue columns and some metal wands rise above the counter. Conduit owner Jesse Nelson told me over the whirling burr of a coffee gri
  
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• Lust and Death at Seattle Art Museum's Ingmar Bergman Series

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The two sides of Sweden you'll see in the Bergman series Winter Light.by Charles MudedeIn the year 1955, the famous French philosopher Michel Foucault decided to leave Paris and move to Sweden. He was gay and he'd had enough of French homophobia and was under the impression that Sweden was a sexually liberated country. He thought he could meet and enjoy men in the open and in peace. He got an easy job at the French Institute at Uppsala. He bought a fast car. He was ready to rock and roll. But to
  
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• In One Gray Hair, Alison Marks Explores the Tensions Between Tradition and Innovation

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The contemporary Tlingit artist reaches all the way to space in her first solo exhibit.by Emily PothastI'm standing at the Frye Art Museum, face-to-face with a black vinyl alien head that's affixed to the wall like a giant sticker, its interior filled in with words as unfamiliar to me as distant galaxies. "Áa yaa sh nalxán," reads the text. Overhead, an audio recording gives voice to the words, interspersed with cosmic synth twinkles. "Ax tuyadaa Áx xat tukwgadáa shak
  
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• I Regret Not Smoking More Weed

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  What The Stranger's weed columnist's regrets about 2017.by Lester BlackI REGRET MISSTATING STATE LAW. In a feature story this year called "Why Are Farming Counties in Eastern Washington Shutting Down Pot Farms?" I reported that state law makes "no mention of pot being or not being an agricultural product." In fact, state law clearly states that marijuana is not an agricultural product. I regret the error. And state law.I REGRET TRUSTING CHELAN COUNTY COMMISSIONER DOUG ENGLAND. When I was out eas
  
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• I, Anonymous: Amazon, Keep Your World Domination Away from My Vegetables

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  No, thank you.by AnonymousReally, Amazon? An Echo marketing display in the produce aisle at Whole Foods?! It's bad enough that your obnoxious employees run around Seattle acting like they're the fucking "chosen ones." Then you had to buy out my grocery store and shove your corporate branding down my throat at every turn. What's next? The water supply? Weren't you leaving Seattle for some faraway city offering deep tax breaks? It can't be far enough away. Keep your world domination away from my v
  
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• Here's a Chance to Meet David Sedaris, and Hear Rough Drafts of His Latest Writing

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  These are not typical book readings.by Katie HerzogSeattle has many things—wealth, rain, ramen—but at the top of the list of the city's blessings is the love ofDavid Sedaris. For the second year in a row, the famed essayist and former Christmas elf has chosen to do a residency in Seattle as he workshops his next book. He could have gone anywhere, but, blessed be, he chose here. Perhaps his home in England gets too much sun.With eight performances at Broadway Performance Hall over the
  
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• Crossword Solution: "G.G. Allin"

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The solutions to the crossword puzzle in the January 3, 2018 issue of The Stranger.by Brendan Emmett Quigley[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Conjugal Visit: Sharing a Bed with a StrangerSummary: I never saw his face.

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I never saw his face.by AnonymousVisiting a good friend out of town, I was informed I would be sharing the living room hide-a-bed with another friend of his who was to arrive much later, probably after I was asleep. I awoke when the un-introduced guy slid under the blankets. I slowly became aroused knowing there was a warm body next to mine. Soon we were intertwined in a glorious melding, a nightcap of lust, and we both fell sleep immediately afterward. I had also been told that he would be leav
  
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• Conjugal Visit: Sharing a Bed with a Stranger

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I never saw his face.by AnonymousVisiting a good friend out of town, I was informed I would be sharing the living room hide-a-bed with another friend of his who was to arrive much later, probably after I was asleep. I awoke when the un-introduced guy slid under the blankets. I slowly became aroused knowing there was a warm body next to mine. Soon we were intertwined in a glorious melding, a nightcap of lust, and we both fell sleep immediately afterward. I had also been told that he would be leav
  
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• Come for the Long-Lost Stravinsky, Stay for the Weird-Ass Ligeti

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Hearing the lost music of Stravinsky will be like seeing a new play by Shakespeare.by Rich SmithThe classical music world went nuts when a Russian musicologist discovered Igor Stravinsky's long-lost Funeral Song, Op. 5, at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory during a move in 2015.Nobody had heard the music in more than one hundred years, and the piece, which is a 12-minute homage to his music teacher, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was performed only once before the score was misplaced in the library.Fa
  
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• August Wilson's Play Two Trains Running Is All About Money

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  The saddest of happy endings in black American art.by Charles MudedeMoney drives us crazy. That is the message of Two Trains Running, the seventh play in August Wilson's series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The characters can't stop thinking about it.The main character, Memphis, the owner of the restaurant in which the play is set, is very clear about how much he paid for the building he owns and what, according to the market, he should get if he sold the property. The young ex-con who shows up at the r
  
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• Apologies in Advance

  03-01-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Here's a one-size-fits-every-harasser boilerplate apology statement.And this time you didn't get away with it. Now comes the arduous task of writing a public apology that, while pretending to accept partial responsibility, doesn't actually make an apology at all—but gives the impression you (maybe kinda) did! To help, here's a one-size-fits-every-harasser boilerplate apology statement from our experts at Mandate Image Rehab... where all you have to do is fill in the blanks! You're welcome,
  
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• Severe storm batters western Europe; 1 dead, 23 injured

  03-01-2018 10:52
  LONDON (AP) — A violent storm packing winds up to 100 mph (160 kph) battered parts of western Europe on Wednesday, derailing trains, toppling trees and halting flights. Authorities said one person was killed and at least 23 others were injured in France and Switzerland. The high winds played havoc on transport, derailing trains in […]
  
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