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• Five Places to Get Oysters and Booze in Seattle This Week

  20-02-2018 23:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffPike Brewing's adjoining restaurant Tankard & Tun will have a special Oyster Happy Hour on Saturday during the Washington Beer Open House. Tankard & Tun via Facebook
  Oysters and booze are made for each other: Whether gulped down with a cold brew or savored alongside high-end bubbly, the magnificent mollusk goes down swimmingly with just about any kind of libation you can think of. Below, we've rounded up five events during the week of February 20-25 (plus on
  
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• Lesbian Couple Rejected from Fostering Because They Don't "Mirror the Holy Family"

  20-02-2018 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogThe alleged Holy Family.Getty Images
  On Tuesday, Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The suit was filed on behalf of a same-sex couple who says they were denied the opportunity to serve as foster parents for refugee youth because, according to the lawsuit, they don't “mirror the Holy Family.”The "Holy Family" presumably refers to Joseph and Mary Christ, a couple
  
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• AR-15 weapon no longer auction item at GOP dinner with Rep. McMorris Rodgers

  20-02-2018 22:44
  An AR-15 assault rifle, the weapon used in last week's Florida high school massacre, was advertised as the "Grand Auction Item" at Stevens County Republicans' March 24 Lincoln Day dinner.
  
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• AR-15 weapon no longer auction item at GOP dinner

  20-02-2018 22:44
  An AR-15 assault weapon, the weapon used in last week's Florida high school massacre, was advertised as the "Grand Auction Item" at Stevens County Republicans' March 24 Lincoln Day dinner.
  
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• Today in history: 'Bandits' rob train, murder passengers

  20-02-2018 22:36
  Let's look back at a train robbery north of Seattle in 1914.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: DTMFA! DTMFA! DTMFA!

  20-02-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  This isn't a relationship. It's a hostage situation.by Dan Savage
  This letter was originally published on Mar 2, 2006.
  I am a 26-year-old female, and I've been with my boyfriend for almost five years. Our relationship is pretty good, for the most part, but I'm having a few reservations. I don't really know how to broach this subject, because I feel like I'm just being a bratty little princess. But here it goes:
  I feel like I'm at the bottom of my boyfriend's priority list. He'll stay up until 5:
  
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• Condo Owner Fights New Building Because It Will Block “Insane” Views

  20-02-2018 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The owner of several Seattle condos appears to be learning for the first time that she owns the condos but not the air outside them.by Heidi GrooverA condo owner says a new building will threaten her views. city of seattle
  The owner of several Seattle condos appears to be learning for the first time that she owns the condos but not the air outside them.
  Londi Lindell owns several units* in a five-unit, three-story condo building in Westlake with views of Lake Union. Now, a developer wants to bui
  
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• Condo Building Owner Fights New Building Because It Will Block “Insane” Views

  20-02-2018 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The owner of a Seattle condo building appears to be learning for the first time that she owns the building but not the air around it.by Heidi GrooverA condo owner says a new building will threaten her views. city of seattle
  The owner of a Seattle condo building appears to be learning for the first time that she owns the building but not the air around it.Londi Lindell owns a five-unit, three-story condo building in Westlake with views of Lake Union. Now, a developer wants to build a six-story bu
  
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• Washington House Democrats propose taxing capital gains, ignoring Supreme Court on K-12 school funding

  20-02-2018 22:11
  Washington House Democrats want to reduce new state property-tax hikes, partly with a capital-gains tax. But in their new budget proposal, they leave out the $1 billion suggested by the state Supreme Court to comply with the McCleary school-funding decision.
  
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• Washington House Democrats propose capital-gains tax and ignore Supreme Court on K-12 school funding

  20-02-2018 22:11
  Washington House Democrats want to reduce new state property-tax hikes, partly with a capital-gains tax. But in their new budget proposal, they leave out the $1 billion suggested by the state Supreme Court to comply with the McCleary school-funding decision.
  
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• A Trump dating site used a sex offender as its model, and it has a few other issues, too

  20-02-2018 21:40
  Trump.dating is an odd site, and not just because it featured a convicted sex offender’s smiling face on its homepage. More on that shortly. It’s strange in nearly every way a dating site could be strange. Its all-caps slogan – “MAKE DATING GREAT AGAIN! FIND YOUR PRO-TRUMP MATCH TODAY” – may actually be the least […]
  
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• Anti-Sharia law bill headed to Idaho Senate

  20-02-2018 21:23
  BOISE, Idaho — Idaho would become the twelfth state to prevent state courts from making decisions based on foreign legal codes under a proposal advancing through the Statehouse. The Idaho House voted 44-24 Tuesday to send the anti-Sharia law proposal to the Senate. This is the third year in a row the proposal has been […]
  
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• Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan emphasizes need for shared prosperity in first State of the City address

  20-02-2018 20:59
  Mayor Jenny Durkan said she plans to provide free transit to all of Seattle’s public high-school students, work with the City Council to pass new rights for domestic workers and propose legislation to encourage construction of greener buildings.
  
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• Fourth Annual Drone Cinema Film Festival Set for April 21 at Chapel Performance Space

  20-02-2018 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Kim Cascone's fourth annual Drone Cinema Film Festival at Chapel Performance Space promises audio-visual transcendence.by Dave Segal
  The fourth annual Drone Cinema Film Festival will take place Saturday, April 21 at Chapel Performance Space. Curated by renowned electronic musician Kim Cascone (aka Heavenly Music Corporation and assistant music editor for David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart), Drone Cinema Fest combines minimalist drone-based compositions with complementary filmic imagery.G
  
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• Video: flying over a Ballard-to-West Seattle light-rail route

  20-02-2018 20:43
  People can envision the transit of the 2030s from a bird’s-eye view in a new video published by Sound Transit, which is designing $6 billion worth of trackway for Seattle’s western side and downtown. The footage, based on Google Earth images, accompanies public forums this month, one of three phases this year in which agency staff will go […]
  
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• Cooke Aquaculture Threatens to Seek Damages from Washington State

  20-02-2018 20:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images
  Cooke Aquaculture, the Canadian fish farming operation responsible for the escape of thousands of Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound, is threatening to seek millions of dollars in damages from the state of Washington, as KUOW reports.
  In August, a massive failure of Cooke's Atlantic salmon net pens near Cypress Island in the San Juans resulted in the release of over 250,000 non-native fish into the Salish Sea, according to state officials (Cooke says i
  
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• Oregon governor cites Florida shooting in local gun control

  20-02-2018 20:36
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s governor, backing gun-control legislation on Tuesday before a panel of state senators, said anguished voices in the wake of the school shooting in Florida must be heard. Gov. Kate Brown appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to support a bill that would expand a ban on the purchase or possession […]
  
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• CDC warns of salmonella infections traced to kratom

  20-02-2018 20:28
  The CDC, which urges consumers to not use kratom in any form because of the possibility of salmonella contamination, said the infections started in October and have affected 20 states. Eleven people have been hospitalized.
  
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• Watch Live: Mayor Jenny Durkan's First State of the City Address

  20-02-2018 20:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Watch live and follow along.by Steven HsiehMayor Jenny Durkan will be giving her first State of the City address at Rainier Beach High School at 11 a.m. She is expected to announce a plan to give free ORCA cards to high school students and Seattle Promise scholars. Watch live above and follow along below. I'll be updating this post with any news from Durkan's address.
  11:08 AM: City council president Bruce Harrell is speaking right now now, shouting out a number of officials in the audience, inc
  
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• Legislators Abandon Lifting Statute of Limitations for Adult Rape

  20-02-2018 20:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Adult rape survivors in Washington State must file a police report within a year if they want to be able to press charges within the next decade.by Sydney BrownstoneSurvivors of child sex abuse shared their stories with legislators on Monday. TVW.ORG
  A bill lifting the statute of limitations for a number of sex crimes committed against adults and children has twice passed the state House of Representatives, but as of Monday, its engrossed substitute in the state Senate had deleted all mention of
  
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• Battle over bike lanes in North Seattle neighborhood

  20-02-2018 19:38
  A battle over bike lanes has pitted residents against each other in the Bryant neighborhood in North Seattle.
  
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• Mayor Durkan Announces Free ORCA Cards for All Seattle Public High School Students

  20-02-2018 19:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Free ORCA cards for all public school students!!!by Sydney BrownstoneJenny thinks the kids are alright.Nate Gowdy
  Today, during her State of the City Address, Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to announce that all Seattle public high school students, as well as college students who are part of the Seattle Promise scholarship, will now receive free ORCA card passes.
  Two years ago, Rainier Beach High School students launched a campaign to receive free ORCA cards, and the City of Seattle set up a pilot prog
  
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• Why the Black Power Ideology of Black Panther's Villain Will Ultimately Destroy Wakanda

  20-02-2018 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Marvel Studios
  The main villain in Black Panther is not Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), an arms dealer with a white African accent, but Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), a super-buff former soldier raised in an Oakland project. Killmonger's father is N’Jobu (Sterling K. Brown), a member of Wakanda's royal family, while his mother is an unknown black American. The film's opening scene involves Killmonger's father, who has become a revolutionary in the very city that the Bl
  
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• Storm system brings flooding, freezing rain, snow to Midwest

  20-02-2018 18:11
  CHICAGO (AP) — A storm system stretching from Texas to the Great Lakes states with risks of flooding, freezing rain and snow was causing fatal accidents Tuesday and forcing schools to close. The National Weather Service issued winter weather advisories for parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Flood warnings were in effect […]
  
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• Judge approves shutdown of large California homeless camp

  20-02-2018 18:02
  The encampment grew over the last several years on the trail near the baseball stadium for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, amid soaring housing costs. Many said they were pushed there after being cited by police for sleeping in parks or on sidewalks.
  
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• Watch live: Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan delivers 2018 State of the City address

  20-02-2018 18:01
  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is giving her first State of the City address at 11 a.m. Tuesday. One of the things she'll talk about is a plan to provide all of Seattle's public high-school students with free, year-round transit passes.
  
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• Mount Vernon School District settles public-records lawsuit

  20-02-2018 17:30
  MOUNT VERNON, Slagit County — The Mount Vernon School District has settled a lawsuit that claims it violated Washington state public-records laws. The Skagit Valley Herald reports the district agreed to pay Eric Hood of Langley $12,500. District Superintendent Carl Bruner says the settlement was less expensive than paying attorney’s fees. Hood’s lawsuit was filed […]
  
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• Slog AM: Cliff Mass and the Secret of the Trees, Trump Dating Site Features Ad With Sex Offender

  20-02-2018 17:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Protected lands in Patagonia, football is murder, and only trees can save us from Trump.by Nathalie GrahamWill Cliff crack the case? Claudia Prommegger / GETTY
  Mysterious wind fells old growth trees: Near the end of January, more than 100 giant old-growth trees fell near Lake Quinault. There was no wind event that night. Only small breezes were registered. Climatologist Cliff Mass was on the case like a regular Dana Scully. Even Mass wasn’t sure of the answer. He wagers a wind event occurr
  
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• Seattle-area’s cold snap to last with spring still a month away, weather service says

  20-02-2018 16:20
  A "more significant storm" is heading into the region on Friday. And if the cold temps persist, we could see more lowland snow, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Seattle colder than Alaska's Arctic coast Tuesday morning

  20-02-2018 16:19
  Seattle didn't break its single day record Tuesday morning, but it was still chilly.
  
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• Cold snap brings freeze, frost warnings to California

  20-02-2018 15:34
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is in the grip of a cold air mass that has sent temperatures plunging. Hard freeze warnings are in effect early Tuesday up and down the Central Valley and on the Central Coast, with a mix of freeze and frost warnings elsewhere. Numerous locations are in the 20s and 30s, […]
  
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• Washington state Democrats quietly push curbs to open-records laws

  20-02-2018 15:00
  With their new state Senate majority, Democratic lawmakers are moving forward with bills that would exempt birth dates of state employees and registered voters from the Public Disclosure Act.
  
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• Longtime University District barber Johnny Luera says it’s time for his final cut

  20-02-2018 15:00
  Fifty-three years and thousands of haircuts as a University District mainstay. At 83, Johnny Luera is calling it quits and planning for a future without that barber chair.
  
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• Head to Gig Harbor garage when a classic car needs a little work — or a lot

  20-02-2018 15:00
  Who would spend $900 on a vine-covered, 77-year-old car that doesn’t run, with a rusted-out floor and so many dead rats in the upholstery they’d have to be shoveled out? Jim Sullivan would — and did. He bought this 1941 Cadillac Series 63 in need of a year of restoration. Only 1,750 were made, and […]
  
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• Day of Remembrance marks order sending Japanese Americans to internment camps

  20-02-2018 15:00
  “Our History, Our Responsibility: Day of Remembrance 2018,” held Monday in Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion, marked the 76th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps.
  
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• All of Seattle’s public high school students to get unlimited ORCA passes under new Durkan plan

  20-02-2018 15:00
  Students at Seattle Colleges on city-funded scholarships would also get the unlimited, year-round passes. They’d be able to use the passes to travel to and from school, jobs and other activities.
  
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• National Democrats boost Spokane’s Lisa Brown in bid to unseat Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  20-02-2018 12:00
  Former state Sen. Lisa Brown is getting a shot of confidence from national Democrats in her bid to upset seven-term incumbent Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers in Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has named Brown to its so-called “Red to Blue” program of top-tier challengers as the party seeks to topple […]
  
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• Parts of New Zealand flood as remnants of Cyclone Gita hit

  20-02-2018 11:15
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Parts of New Zealand declared an emergency Tuesday as a powerful storm hit, causing flooding and forcing some people to evacuate their homes. The storm system is the remnants of Cyclone Gita, which last week ripped through the Pacific nation of Tonga, destroying homes, churches and the historic Parliament House. […]
  
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• ‘The Lockdown Generation’ may just be the ones who can change gun policy

  20-02-2018 09:00
  They grew up knowing school shootings to be a common occurrence. Lockdown drills were just part of normal life. Now, columnist Nicole Brodeur thinks, this upcoming group of young people may be the ones who can drive shifts in politics around guns.
  
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• Volcanic blast reshaped summit of Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung

  20-02-2018 07:55
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung that shot ash 5 kilometers (3 miles) high also blew away much of the mountain’s summit. Before and after images from Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation show an enormous chunk missing from the peak, which it called “completely annihilated.” Volcanologist Devy Kamil […]
  
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• Mysterious wind may have felled more than 100 old-growth trees near Lake Quinault

  20-02-2018 05:08
  Officials from Olympic National Park knew some sort of wind event was the culprit, but nearby weather stations reported only light breezes that night. Radar didn’t show any storms.
  
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• Drinking alcohol key to living past 90, study says

  20-02-2018 02:49
  Researchers discovered that subjects who drank about two glasses of beer or wine a day were 18 percent less likely to experience a premature death.
  
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• Facebook Shared Political Ad Data With the Special Counsel. Why Not With the City of Seattle?

  20-02-2018 01:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Transparency in online political ads matters.by Eli SandersThe Mueller indictments make a strong case for bringing daylight to the shadowy world of online political ads. Getty Images
  There's no shortage of important takeaways from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's recent indictments, but here's one that's both obvious and highly relevant to the City of Seattle's current standoff with Facebook: transparency in online political advertising matters.
  As the Mueller indictments make clear, Facebook ad
  
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• #MeToo Advocate Accused of Pushing Staffers to Play Spin the Bottle

  20-02-2018 00:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogEarlier this month, one of the most prominent voices behind the #MeToo movement was embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal of her own. California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who was featured on Time Magazine's #MeToo Person of the Year cover, was accused by two men of inappropriate sexual conduct. Daniel Fierro, a former staffer for fellow California lawmaker Ian Calderon, alleges that Garcia—whom he said appeared to be drunk—groped him following a softball game.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: My Parents Might Disown Me for Being Gay

  20-02-2018 00:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Dear Mr. Dan Savage,
  I think my parents might disown me for being gay, and I don't know what to do. Please hear me out. I understand that you are very busy with your work, and you probably don't have the time to get through each and every email. But I feel that none of my friends or family can help me. And after having listened to some of your talks, and read some of your work, I think you're the best hope I have. Please hear me out.
  My parents are Chinese. To a large extent, this
  
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• Connelly: A 'good news' budget – tax relief, teacher pay

  20-02-2018 00:16
  A "good news" budget, for a state flush with $1.3 billion in unanticipated revenue.  State Senate Democrats propose tax cut relief, and full funding for teacher and staff salaries at Washington's public schools.
  
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• Gay Conservative Goes Rogue By Backing Conservative Symbols, Tropes, Bullshit, Trump, Etc.

  20-02-2018 00:15 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageA post shared by Brokeback Patriot (@brokebackpatriot) on Feb 19, 2018 at 11:13am PSTHe doesn't identify with the LGBT community because he's not a helpless victim. He's a fighter, you see, and the LGBT community has never once fought for anything blah blah blah.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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