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• The Week in Weed: Coachella Bans Legal Pot, the Cole Memo Is Dead, and Moms Use Weed (Shocker!)

  12-01-2018 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Plus: Parents sue for medical marijuana in schools, and Vermont will finally legalize!by Amber CortesSorry Coachella bros, all the weed in the world could not make you look cool.MATT COWAN VIA GETTY IMAGESCoachella sounds like it’s going to be expensive, disappointing, and most terrible of all—weed free, despite marijuana’s recent change to legal status in the state of California. If you haven’t heard of all the reasons why not to go to Coachella this year, read on below
  
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• WSJ: Trump Campaign Paid Hush Money to a Porn Star

  12-01-2018 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageAnother day, another scandal that would sink any other president if that president was a Democrat. HufPo summarizes the Wall Street Journal's paywalled scoop:
  A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a payment of $130,000 to a former adult film actress in October 2016, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal citing sources familiar with the matter.Michael Cohen, a longtime representative of the Trump Organization, reportedly negotiated a nondisclosure agreement wi
  
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• US review shows pesticides harm threatened salmon, whales

  12-01-2018 23:31
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal scientists have determined that a family of widely used pesticides poses a threat to dozens of endangered and threatened species, including Pacific salmon, Atlantic sturgeon and Puget Sound orcas. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued its new biological opinion on three organophosphate pesticides — chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion — after a […]
  
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• Amazon expanding again in Seattle with 2 more leases, as growth continues unabated

  12-01-2018 23:17
  The added space would amount to a huge expansion for just about any other company, but it’s just another day in the life of Amazon, which has been expanding rapidly in Seattle even after announcing its HQ2 plans.
  
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• Washington State Congressional Republicans (and Dino Rossi!) Silent on Trump's "Shithole" Remarks

  12-01-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Weird.by Rich SmithThese Republican representatives from Washington just don't know what to say on the issue. Weird. CHIP SOMODEVILLA, ELAINE THOMPSON-POOL / GETTY
  Surprise! The House Republicans from Washington State—Dan Newhouse (WA-4), Jaime Herrera Buetler (WA-3), Dave Reichert (WA-8), and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5)— haven't said a word about the President calling El Salvador, Haiti, and African countries "shithole countries." Dino Rossi, the only Republican running to replace
  
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• Human remains found in container in Tukwila, man arrested

  12-01-2018 22:39
  The Tukwila Police Department said Friday that a resident called police Thursday afternoon after discovering the remains in a container outside.
  
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• Connelly: Supreme Court will decide case of tribes, salmon and culverts

  12-01-2018 22:38
  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take a seminal Washington fishing rights case.  Twenty-one Indian tribes are suing the state over culverts in highways and roads, which have blocked salmon passage and miles of spawning habitat.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Hairy Shitholes

  12-01-2018 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's talk about hairy shitholes.by Dan Savage
  I have a hairy hole. I'm a bottom that loves to be rimmed, but my butthole is so hairy. I love having a smooth pubic area and love having a smooth anus too, but the only way I've ever gotten rid of the hair around my anus is to shave it which is tedious. A couple of questions:
  1. What is the best way to get rid of the hair down there?Are depilatories such as Nair safe to use down there?; and
  2. Does the hair around the anus provide a purpose?Though
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Hairy Shithole

  12-01-2018 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Let's talk about hairy shitholes.by Dan Savage
  I have a hairy hole. I'm a bottom that loves to be rimmed, but my butthole is so hairy. I love having a smooth pubic area and love having a smooth anus too, but the only way I've ever gotten rid of the hair around my anus is to shave it which is tedious. A couple of questions:
  1. What is the best way to get rid of the hair down there?Are depilatories such as Nair safe to use down there?; and
  2. Does the hair around the anus provide a purpose?Though
  
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• Talking with the Houston Developer Who Tried to Woo Amazon With a Sky Message

  12-01-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Ryan McCord is taking MLK day off.by Steven HsiehLooks like Houston is currently flying a plane over Seattle making its pitch for @Amazon #HQ2: pic.twitter.com/YyJ4yHpaVH
  — Lindsay Cohen (@lindsaycohen) January 12, 2018Former KOMO reporter Lindsey Cohen spotted this plane flying over Seattle today. The photo is a little blurry, but squint and see the message: "JEFF. HOUSTON IS CALLING—AMAZONHQ2TEXAS.COM."
  Of all the stunts aimed at wooing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to develop a second hea
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Andrew W.K., Destroyer, Chris Carter, and More

  12-01-2018 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Our critic's inbox yields noteworthy new songs by Andrew W.K., Destroyer, ex-Throbbing Gristle member Chris Carter and more.by Dave SegalAndrew W.K.'s new single is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cortney Armitage
  Andrew W.K., "Music Is Worth Living For" (Red Music/Sony). Some might say Andrew W.K. is more important as a life coach and philosopher than as a musician, and I wouldn't disagree with them. His overwhelming effusions about the salubrious effects of partying and maintaining a positive atti
  
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• The Hidden Hunger for Communism in Action Thriller The Commuter

  12-01-2018 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede The Commuter
  The first great film of 2018 is (for me at least), The Commuter. It stars the Irishman Liam Neeson, and is directed by the Spaniard Jaume Collet-Serra. This is their fourth and second-best collaboration. Their best film is, of course, Non-Stop, which is very much like The Commuter, except it takes place on an airplane. The Commuter happens on a train that links Manhattan to the suburbs. Neeson is an insurance salesman and former cop (Michael) who has "taken" this t
  
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• Man arrested after human remains found in Tukwila

  12-01-2018 21:40
  The remains were turned over to the King County Medical Examiner's Office and an autopsy will be performed to determine the person's cause of death.
  
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• At least 400 sickened in norovirus outbreak at Tacoma-area restaurants

  12-01-2018 21:40
  At least 400 people are sick after a confirmed norovirus outbreak at a Mexican restaurant in Tacoma and another 10 to 15 people are possibly sick after eating at another site, health officials said. The number of sick patrons of the two El Toro restaurants nearly doubled since Wednesday. The outbreak of the virus, which […]
  
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• Smoking penalties, ER fees, premiums on the poor: How states want to shrink Medicaid

  12-01-2018 21:33
  The states’ proposals vary widely, from small tweaks to changes that would dramatically reduce their program’s size and scope. And many plans go far beyond the new work requirements, pitching provisions that include requirements for drug testing and treatment.
  
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• Connelly: Congress tells Trump climate change puts national security in peril

  12-01-2018 21:15
  Climate change is a "direct threat" to America's national security as well as "the security of the world," say 106 members of Congress from both parties, in an attempt to raise President Trump's lack of awareness and ignorant statements on the issue.
  
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• Man arrested after human remains found in Tukwila waste bin

  12-01-2018 21:13
  One man was arrested early Friday morning after a Tukwila resident found human remains in a waste container.
  
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• Aida's Secrets Is a Documentary About the Only Secrets That Matter—a Family's Secrets

  12-01-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Fennessy Aida's Secrets
  Every family has a secret or two. During the course of their twisty documentary, Aida's Secrets, Israeli filmmakers Alon and Shaul Schwarz uncover several, all revolving around a Polish woman named Aida. First, there's their uncle, Izak Szewelwicz, who grew up in Israel with what he thought was his biological family until a neighbor told him the truth: he was adopted. In the wake of World War II, his mother, Aida, had deposited him at the Bergen-Belsen displaced
  
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• Swarm of nearly 100 small earthquakes shake south Reno

  12-01-2018 20:46
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A swarm of nearly 100 small earthquakes has been shaking the ground in northern Nevada but experts say they’ve been so tiny most people didn’t even notice. The University of Nevada, Reno’s Seismological Laboratory say more than 90 events were confirmed on the south edge of town between 10:30 p.m. Thursday […]
  
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• Puerto Rican astronaut reaches out to island’s schoolkids

  12-01-2018 20:43
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first astronaut of Puerto Rican heritage reached out Friday to schoolchildren on the hurricane-bashed island. Flying aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Joe Acaba fielded questions from students at the Puerto Rico Institute of Robotics in Manati. One student asked how Puerto Rico looked from space after Hurricane […]
  
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• The Cost of Climate Change in 2017: $306 billion

  12-01-2018 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Bobby Ware/gettyimage.com
  According to the New York Times, 2017 was the most costly year for natural disasters on record. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that damage from the hurricanes, fires, hailstones, and more totaled $306 billion. Much of that stunning bill can be attributed to climate change, which is real and is only going to get worse because there are no political mechanisms operating outside of the powerful influence of an economic
  
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• Puget Sound-area buses to pause briefly on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  12-01-2018 20:25
  The pause, which is scheduled for 4:04 p.m. and is to last up to 50 seconds, will serve as a moment of reflection and remembrance to honor the birthday of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
  
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• Even As the Economy Booms, Food Bank Demand Is Up

  12-01-2018 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Food bank use is up in wealthy cities like Seattle.by Heidi GrooverThe Ballard Food Bank is serving more people than during the recession.Steve Debenport/getty
  Totally good and normal country:While the economy is thriving in cities across the country, many middle class people in areas with a high cost of living are struggling to put food on the table.
  Food banks in cities that have seen strong job growth and soaring home prices are seeing increased demand from locals struggling to make ends meet
  
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• WA Legislators Re-Introduce Bill to Protect DREAMers from Losing Financial Aid

  12-01-2018 20:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump rejected a bipartisan deal to fix DACA earlier this week (the same meeting where he talked about those "shithole" countries). So what can the state do to protect undocumented students?by Sydney BrownstoneGraciela Nuñez and Monserrat Padilla, Washington DACA recipients and activists.DANIEL BERMAN
  Two years before the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, Washington legislators passed a law that allowed undocumented students in the United States to apply for financial aid. But n
  
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• Trust Fund Baby Decides to Strip Health Care from Millions of Americans

  12-01-2018 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogStupid or evil? Maybe both.
  The Trump administration announced Thursday that they've come up with a new way to make life even more difficult for poor people: allowing states to impose work requirements on "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients.This is a very bad idea. Medicaid covers over 70 million otherwise uninsured people, or about one in five Americans, and the majority of them are children, the elderly, and sick or disabled people. Millions of other recipients—who unlike Tr
  
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• They're Rationing Shitholes Over at NPR

  12-01-2018 19:56 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageIn memo to staff, @NPR standards editor says it is now necessary to say “shithole” on the radio so that listeners know the day’s news, but preceded by a warning to listeners, and “no more than one use of the word each hour in the main shows is enough.”
  — Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) January 12, 2018What's next? Shithole mandates? Shithole exchanges? Shithole death panels?"If you like your shithole, you can keep your shithole"?[ Comment on this stor
  
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• What’s open, closed on Monday

  12-01-2018 19:42
  Here’s what’s opened and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday.
  
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• U.S. approves first drug aimed at women with inherited breast cancer

  12-01-2018 19:36
  U.S. regulators have approved the first drug aimed at women with advanced breast cancer caused by an inherited flawed gene. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved AstraZeneca PLC’s Lynparza for patients with inherited BRCA gene mutations who have already undergone chemotherapy. The drug has been on the market since 2014 for ovarian cancer, and […]
  
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• Trump's Shithole Remarks Will Strengthen His Control of the GOP

  12-01-2018 18:57 via thestranger.com
  
  The Grand Old Party has become Trump's Own Party.by Charles MudedeToday's Cover of El Salvador's El Mundo.www.elmundo.es
  As expected, the day after the Washington Post reported that Trump called El Salvador, Haiti, and African countriesshitholes during a meeting on immigration, and this report caused a shitstorm on the internet and cable news, he tweeted that he did use tough language but not that kind of tough language. So far, the only Democrat in the meeting, Sen Dick Durbin, has publicly sta
  
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• A Little More Don Lemon

  12-01-2018 18:51 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageDon Lemon calls Trump racist here & then amazingly through silence, tells people who still support him to go f*ck themselves. This is an inspiring watch. Kudos to Don for stepping up.#RacistTrump @donlemon https://t.co/OVAV8v449F
  — Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 12, 2018Nathalie — who's doing a great job* with Morning News — included a short clip from Don Lemon's show on CNN last night. Here's a bit more. You gotta love that moment when Lemon, addressing Trump
  
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• Seattle police interrupt man’s stabbing in Capitol Hill apartment

  12-01-2018 18:48
  The 30-year-old suspect was booked into King County Jail for investigation of felony assault.
  
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• School Bus Company Takes Out Full Page Ad Criticizing Drivers Threatening to Strike

  12-01-2018 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  "It’s pretty obvious that First Student is trying to turn the community against these bus drivers."by Heidi GrooverSee the full ad below.
  The full-page ad above appeared in Thursday's Seattle Times. First Student is the company that Seattle Public Schools contracts with to bus kids to school. Drivers for First Student are in the midst of contract negotiations with the company, which they say is refusing to offer them retirement benefits or health insurance that will cover their family memb
  
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• Wild swings occur in numbers of California mudslide missing

  12-01-2018 18:12
  SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The number of missing after a California mudslide has fluctuated wildly, due to shifting definitions, the inherent uncertainty that follows a natural disaster, and just plain human error. As of early Friday, the number was down to five, but Santa Barbara County spokeswoman Amber Anderson said it could continue to fluctuate. […]
  
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• Legislative Deal Could Free Up $4.3 Billion For Construction Projects

  12-01-2018 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Finally?by John StangMoney, money, money YINYANG/GETTY
  A major Olympia deadlock—which has stalled several Seattle construction projects—appears to be broken.
  Republicans and Democrats on the Washington Senate Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Committee — including two key Senate Republicans—unanimously recommended approval of a compromise bill on the so-called Hirst issue Thursday afternoon. About $4.3 billion in state-funded construction projects are being held
  
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• Man convicted in 1964 ‘Mississippi Burning’ slayings of 3 civil-rights workers dies in prison

  12-01-2018 17:51
  The conviction of Edgar Ray Killen in 2005, when he was 80, came 41 years to the day after James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, all in their 20s, were ambushed and killed by Klansmen.
  
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• The Morning News: Washington DMV Caught Snitching to ICE, The President is (Still) Racist

  12-01-2018 17:31 via thestranger.com
  
  The real "shitholes" are the Tacoma restaurant lighting your shithole on fire and whoever still believes in conversion therapy.by Nathalie GrahamThe shittiest of all holes. Gage Skidmore, CC 2.0
  Who can be trusted in Washington State these days: First, our loyal, trustworthy, and close-knit Motel 6 staff got busted for snitching on undocumented guests staying in their rooms to immigration officials (specifically Immigrations and Custom Enforcement). Now it’s come to learn that our beloved,
  
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• Virgin Galactic conducts 7th glide test of spacecraft

  12-01-2018 16:57
  MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Virgin Galactic says the latest glide test of its space tourism rocket plane was a success, nearly reaching the speed of sound high over California. The spaceship, named Unity, was carried aloft by its mother ship on Thursday and released over the Mojave Desert. The craft was immediately put into a […]
  
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• Pierce County deputy shoots at driver who tried to run him over, police say

  12-01-2018 16:24
  A Pierce County sheriff’s deputy who tried to stop a stolen car early Friday fired two shots after the driver reportedly tried to run the deputy over, according to the Sheriff’s Office. No one was seriously injured, the Sheriff’s Office said in a series of tweets Friday morning. The Sheriff’s Office said the deputy saw […]
  
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• California has a new wind-speed record: 199 mph

  12-01-2018 16:24
  SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists say a 199-mph gust that blasted a mountaintop at the Alpine Meadows ski resort last February was the strongest wind ever recorded in California. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday it was also the strongest non-tornado wind in the United States last year. Tom Padham, a meteorologist with the […]
  
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• Suspect arrested after overnight stabbing on Capitol Hill

  12-01-2018 16:01
  One man is in the hospital and another is behind bars after a Thursday night stabbing at an apartment in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
  
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• Pedestrian dies in Highway 99 crash in Lynnwood

  12-01-2018 15:45
  A pedestrian died after two vehicles struck him in Lynnwood late Thursday night.
  
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• Marysville police investigating fatal highway crash

  12-01-2018 15:40
  One driver died early Friday morning after traveling off of northbound I-5 in Marysville and hitting another driver nearby.
  
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• Seattle-area rents drop significantly for first time this decade as new apartments sit empty

  12-01-2018 15:00
  With rent hikes already slowing down and even more apartments set to open in 2018 and 2019, renters will gain more power to negotiate with landlords.
  
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• Podcast: As Seattle faces an even worse traffic nightmare, do officials have a plan or are they just managing through the mess?

  12-01-2018 15:00
  What is the ‘period of maximum constraint’ for Seattle-area traffic? Transportation reporter Mike Lindblom joins The Overcast politics podcast this week to explain.
  
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• One-wheel wonders on Seattle sidewalks: Meet one of the ‘e-riders’

  12-01-2018 15:00
  It’s been hard tracking one of these e-riders down -- they go so fast! But I recently caught up with one at a traffic light and he was happy to meet me later with his $1,000 SoloWheel Classic in front of his office building.
  
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• ‘Insulting’: Judge blisters defense for race allegations, upholds $15M verdict against Lakewood in killing of unarmed black man

  12-01-2018 15:00
  U.S. District Judge Barbara Rorthstein said there was ample evidence for the jury to conclude officers acted outrageously, unreasonably and with malice and callous indifference to the life of Leonard Thomas.
  
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• Racial equity in Seattle schools has a long, frustrating history — and it’s getting worse

  12-01-2018 14:00
  For at least seven decades, Seattle Public Schools has pledged to eliminate the gaps in achievement between students of color and their white peers. But even as district leaders swear their latest efforts are more than just another round of rhetoric, the gaps continue to grow.
  
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• Thailand seizes large elephant tusks worth over $450,000

  12-01-2018 09:16
  BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities have seized 148 kilograms (326 pounds) of African elephant ivory, including three large tusks, worth around 15 million baht ($469,800) from a Bangkok airport. The haul from Nigeria consisted of the tusks and 31 tusk fragments that were seized Jan. 5 after the cargo was flagged by officials. The tusks […]
  
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• India launches rocket carrying dozens of satellites

  12-01-2018 07:24
  NEW DELHI (AP) — India launched a rocket carrying dozens of satellites from India and six other countries Friday from its island space center. A. S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, said the satellites successfully reached orbit after the polar satellite launch vehicle took off from Sriharikota, an island off Andhra […]
  
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• Inslee seeks meeting with interior secretary to try to shield Washington waters from oil drilling

  12-01-2018 03:28
  U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke last week released a plan to open nearly all waters off the nation’s coastlines to oil and gas drilling, including a new lease sale off Oregon and Washington.
  
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