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• The Stranger's Ugly Pet Contest Continues in Earnest!

  05-03-2018 23:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase Burns Joe Rocco
  Is your dog the gnarliest beast this side of Bellevue? Does your cat have a face that only a mother could love? If so, the incredibly attractive folks at The Stranger want to give your poor pupper (or kitty, hedgehog, snake, peacock, etc.) the chance to show off its unsightly assets in the inaugural Ugly Pet Contest, sponsored by Urban Animal Clinic, Purrfect Cat Boarding, and Emerald City Pet Rescue. Fame and eternal bragging rights are up for grabs, along with the chan
  
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• Senate panel kills bill allowing use of marijuana derivative

  05-03-2018 23:56
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A proposal to legalize oil extracted from cannabis plants is likely dead for the year after a group of lawmakers on Monday broke out in turmoil during a last-minute attempt to advance the bill. Republican Sen. Tony Potts asked the Senate Health and Welfare Committee to give HB 577 a hearing […]
  
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• Idaho state Senate panel kills bill allowing use of marijuana derivative

  05-03-2018 23:56
  BOISE, Idaho — A proposal to legalize oil extracted from cannabis plants is likely dead for the year after a group of lawmakers broke out in turmoil during a last-minute attempt to advance the bill. Republican Sen. Tony Potts on Monday asked the Senate Health and Welfare Committee to give HB 577 a hearing. However, […]
  
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• Washington would be 'thrown into the middle' of Trump trade war

  05-03-2018 23:55
  If President Trump launches a trade war, Washington's export dependent economy would be caught in the middle.
  
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• The 28 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: March 5-11, 2018

  05-03-2018 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffFinally, New Zealand pop princess Lorde will play a show we can all actually attend.
  Congratulations, y'all—you've finally made it to spring (almost). Enjoy the changing energy outside by shaking it all out at one of these great concerts happening around town. This week, we've got everything from the only thing we know about New Zealand besides Lord of the Rings (Lorde), to absurdist pop-rockers taking on the surreal nature of our current dystopia (They Might
  
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• Founder of transformative Tower Records chain dies at 92

  05-03-2018 23:27
  Russell Solomon, who founded the Tower Records chain that changed the way people bought music, has died in Sacramento, Calif. He was 92.
  
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• Plan to open drilling off Pacific Northwest draws opponents in hazmat suits

  05-03-2018 23:24
  SEATTLE (AP) — The Trump administration’s proposal to expand offshore drilling off the Pacific Northwest coast is drawing vocal opposition in a region where multimillion-dollar fossil fuel projects have been blocked in recent years. The governors of Washington and Oregon, many in the state’s congressional delegation and other top state officials have criticized Interior Secretary […]
  
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• Woman found dead near hillside bunker on Camano Island

  05-03-2018 23:12
  Authorities said they're still working to confirm the victim's identity as well as the cause of death.
  
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• Idaho House spikes victims’ rights amendment

  05-03-2018 22:52
  BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers have once again spiked a proposal seeking to expand the rights of crime victims, after opponents argued the change could lead to costly unintended consequences. House members failed to give the proposal a two-thirds majority support on Monday. The proposal would have changed Idaho’s 1994 Victim Rights Amendment by requiring […]
  
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• Why the Bad Guy in Black Panther Reminds Me of the Villains in Another Black Film, Set It Off

  05-03-2018 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe baddies played by Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther) and Queen Latifah (Set It Off) are motivated by love.
  As more and more black directors enter the Hollywood system, we are seeing revisions to the industry's traditional portrayal of the villain.
  Under white directors, villains have tended to be evil in the metaphysical sense, and if a person became a villain because of a life-changing experience, that event was almost never complicated. Something very bad happened (the unfo
  
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• Man sentenced for beating, sexually assaulting homeless woman in White Center

  05-03-2018 22:38
  The victim tried to fight off the attack by Robert German but was beaten and stomped unconscious, her face left unrecognizable. She suffered numerous injuries, including fractures to her orbital, nasal and jaw bones.
  
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• Monarch butterfly numbers off for 2nd year in Mexico

  05-03-2018 22:34
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexican forests declined for a second consecutive year, a government official said Monday. Alejandro Del Mazo, Mexico’s commissioner for protected areas, said the monarchs clumped in trees covering about 6.12 acres (2.48 hectares) this winter. That was down about 14.7 percent from the 7.19 […]
  
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• Where to Watch the Oscar Winners

  05-03-2018 21:54 via thestranger.com
  The Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, and Other Films Still Playing On the Big Screenby Stranger Things To Do StaffIf you haven't yet seen the movies that won this year's Academy Awards, it's not too late. Whether you've given into discovering what all the buzz is about with The Shape of Water (which won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) or you want to feast your eyes on the stunning costumes in Phantom Thread, there's still time to catch up. Below, we've compiled all the places
  
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• Court of Appeals upholds $1.25M verdict against BNSF for terminating whistleblower

  05-03-2018 21:54
  9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the 2015 jury verdict awarding $1.25 million to a railroad whistleblower who claimed he was fired after reporting safety concerns.
  
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• Charges: Man committed 6 robberies in 9 days

  05-03-2018 21:50
  Prosecutors charged a 26-year-old man last week who allegedly robbed or tried to rob six businesses in Seattle and Shoreline in February.
  
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• Where to Watch the 2018 Oscar Winners in Seattle

  05-03-2018 21:48 via thestranger.com
  The Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, and other films still playing on the big screen.by Stranger Things To Do StaffIf you haven't yet seen the movies that won this year's Academy Awards, it's not too late. Whether you've given into discovering what all the buzz is about with The Shape of Water (which won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) or you want to feast your eyes on the stunning costumes in Phantom Thread, there's still time to catch up. Below, we've compiled all the place
  
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• Sheriff: Skier killed in Methow Valley avalanche

  05-03-2018 21:42
  Six people have been killed by avalanches in Washington state since Feb. 25.
  
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• One Last Thing about the Oscars and How We're All Overcompensating for a Grim Reality by Rewarding Not-Great Art

  05-03-2018 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonThe film we need right now? Apparently so.
  Aside from the (curiously) emotional experience of seeing artists whose work you enjoy getting recognized by their peers—not your peers, their peers—on TV, the 2018 Oscars had an undeniable whiff of anticlimax.That’s not because the political posturing wasn’t sincere or welcome. It absolutely was both of those things. (All three, is probably more accurate.) The notion that Hollywood is actually making strides toward
  
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• Let's Check In on the State Legislature's Car Tab Clusterfuck

  05-03-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  State House: Nevermind about that taking education money for Sound Transit thingby Heidi GrooverDisagreement in Olympia over whether to backfill funding cuts to Sound Transit. Don Wilson/sound transit
  Three days after state senators voted to backfill a transit funding hole of their own making with education money, a state House committee has rejected that idea.
  Lawmakers in both chambers have been working for two legislative sessions to appease car owners complaining about higher car tab taxes.
  
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• Oregon high school students back gun control in rally

  05-03-2018 21:06
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of high school students, carrying signs and clamoring for gun control, traveled to Oregon’s state capitol as they joined a welling tide of activism in the wake of the deadly Florida school shootings. Gov. Kate Brown met with the students Monday and urged the 18-year-old among them to register to […]
  
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• Oregon governor signs first gun law since Florida massacre

  05-03-2018 21:06
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms became America’s first new gun control law since the Feb. 14 Florida high school massacre. “Well done Oregon,” Democratic Gov. Kate Brown exclaimed Monday after signing the law on the steps of the state Capitol as some 200 […]
  
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• Hundreds of Oregon high-school students rally at state capitol for gun control

  05-03-2018 21:06
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of high school students, carrying signs and clamoring for gun control, traveled to Oregon’s state capitol as they joined a welling tide of activism in the wake of the deadly Florida school shootings. Gov. Kate Brown met with the students Monday and urged the 18-year-olds among them to vote. Later […]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: A Fetish Too Far

  05-03-2018 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Running away is okay.by Dan Savage
  I have a wonderful, loving, sexual, caring girlfriend, who I just discovered has an interesting fixation: she fantasizes about, basically, eviscerating me—cutting me open, feeling and tasting what's under the skin, "crawling inside" of me. It doesn't seem to be a sex thing, more loving/endearing, and she has no stated desire to actually DO this stuff, just fantasize about it. I have no problem with this (find it fascinating actually), but unfortunately wh
  
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• Statute of Limitations Bill Dies in the Senate

  05-03-2018 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Currently, a rape survivor in Washington State has just one year to report to the crime to police if he or she wants to be able to press charges within the next 10 years.by Sydney BrownstoneSurvivors of child sex abuse shared their stories with state senators in support of the legislation last month. TVW.ORG
  A bill that originally intended to lift the limit on the period of time survivors of rape and sexual assault have to press charges against their abusers has died in the state Senate.HB 1155
  
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• West Coast, East Coast, Gulf lawmakers agree: No drilling

  05-03-2018 20:56
  A blunt message to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke:Planned offshore oil and gas drilling by the Trump administration "will ultimately hurt coastal economies and that of their entire states, more than it will benefit them," 227 state legislators from 17 coastal states said in a letter.
  
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• King County Sheriff: SeaTac Student Brought Gun to School This Morning

  05-03-2018 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The school was briefly placed on lockdown.by Sydney BrownstoneThe school was briefly placed on lockdown. FatCamera/Getty
  The King County Sheriff's Office is reporting that a Tyee High School student in SeaTac was arrested after he brought a handgun to school this morning.According to the Sheriff's Office, the student posted pictures of the weapon on social media over the weekend and was searched by school security this morning. School security found a handgun and the school was briefly put on lo
  
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• Flu, crowded shelters create perfect storm for nation’s homeless

  05-03-2018 20:38
  For the healthy, the flu represents a serious health concern. But for the homeless — who deal with higher rates of chronic illness, fewer resources and crowded conditions in shelters — catching the flu can be a matter of life or death.
  
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• Student, 14, arrested after bringing gun to Tyee High School in SeaTac

  05-03-2018 20:29
  The school was placed under temporary lockdown after a gun was recovered from the student, the King County Sheriff's Office said.
  
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• Photo Review: Check Out Our Favorite Cosplay from Emerald City Comic Con 2018

  05-03-2018 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by MEAGAN HALLIt's Thanos (@jerryalmond)! (You might remember him from The Avengers, or, more likely, Guardians of the Galaxy). Meagan Hall
  Thousands turned out for the 16th annual edition of the Emerald City Comic Con. Click the link below to check out some more pics featuring our favorites of the denizens who attended on Sunday in their cosplay best.
  
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• 5 types of apples, once thought extinct, are rediscovered

  05-03-2018 20:14
  LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Five types of apples, once thought to be extinct, have been rediscovered in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. The Lewiston Tribune newspaper reported Monday that “apple detective” David Benscoter located the trees growing near Steptoe Butte on the rolling hills of the Palouse. Benscoter worked with apple experts at the Temperate […]
  
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• Sheriff: SeaTac high school student brought gun to school

  05-03-2018 20:05
  A Tyee High School student was arrested Monday morning after allegedly bringing a handgun with him to school.
  
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• The Oscars Sucked Because Trump Is Winning

  05-03-2018 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThe Oscar's anti-Trump jokes be like... Dunkirk
  The importance of American diversity was again a top theme at the Oscars. The Dreamers were mentioned. The success of Coco, which is about a Mexican boy, won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The #MeToo movement and the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, who many claim is a sexual predator, was referenced several times. The night's biggest moment was Frances McDormand's acceptance speech for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She had all
  
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• Spun Out: 5 Essential Cuts Selected by Local DJ Simic

  05-03-2018 19:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle DJ Simic (Ben Block) reveals his favorite hypnotic techno cuts—and a bizarre cover of David Bowie's "'Heroes'"—in this week's Spun Out.by Dave SegalSimic plays techno and house music that's "hypnotic, playful, cerebral, jacking, dark, dubby, adventurous." Katherine Humphreys
  SIMIC (aka BEN BLOCK; secondnature)
  Current top 5 tracks:Scott Edward, "Shopping in Zero Gravity" (Out of Orbit, 1994)
  "A favorite mood piece for an opening set. Scott Edward’s production chops are
  
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• Oregon Legislature approves bonds to expand OSU campus in Bend

  05-03-2018 19:30
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Legislature approved $39 million in bonds for construction of a second academic building at the Oregon State University campus in Bend. The House and Senate both overwhelmingly approved the measure and Gov. Kate Brown has said she will sign it into law. Republican Sen. Tim Knopp of Bend thanked […]
  
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• When a Vehicle is a Home, City Must Reconsider Tow Fees, Judge Rules

  05-03-2018 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Lawyers say the decision calls into question the city's approach to people living in vehicles.by Heidi GrooverThe area where Steven Long was living in his truck before it was towed. About 20 percent of King County's homeless population lives in vehicles. Google Maps
  A court ruling Friday should cause city officials to rethink their approach to people living in vehicles, say lawyers from Columbia Legal Services.CLS represented Steven Long, a man who lived in his truck until it was ticketed, towed
  
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• Man survives as plane breaks up in Enumclaw crash

  05-03-2018 18:45
  ENUMCLAW, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a man survived when his single-engine plane broke into several pieces upon crashing in a wooded gully near Enumclaw. Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority Capt. Kyle Ohashi says the first reports came in at about 4 p.m. Sunday of a plane having trouble or crashing. Firefighters and sheriff’s deputies […]
  
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• Powerful nor’easter uncovers shipwreck off Maine coast

  05-03-2018 18:44
  YORK, Maine (AP) — The nor’easter that battered the New England coast has once again revealed a shipwreck’s remains on Short Sands Beach in York, Maine. The York Police Department posted photos Monday that show the skeleton of a ship that’s believed to be a sloop more than 160 years old. The Maine Historic Preservation […]
  
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• Dead Steller sea lion washes ashore in Cannon Beach

  05-03-2018 18:38
  CANNON BEACH (AP) — People gathered this weekend to watch researchers perform a necropsy on a Steller sea lion that was found dead near Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach. The Daily Astorian reports the sea lion that washed ashore Feb. 26 was moved to south to a more remote section of beach. Stranded animals are […]
  
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• Police Will Soon Be Required to Respond to Undocumented Crime Victims' Visa Requests

  05-03-2018 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  The state Senate last week unanimously passed a bill that would set up training for law enforcement to work with undocumented victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.by Sydney BrownstoneThe Northwest Detention Center, a privately-run immigration detention facility in Tacoma. ASK
  In the fall of last year, immigration attorney Vicente Omar Barrazza gained a client who had been the victim of a hate crime, a felony assault, in Mount Vernon. Barrazza helps crime victims obtain a special type
  
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• 2018 Academy Awards Dare to Ask #OscarsSoWhat

  05-03-2018 18:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonRockwell, McDormand, Janney, Oldman Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
  The Oscars happened last night. They were fine. Some talented people won awards. Some more-deserving people didn't. There were jokes. Some were kind of funny. There were earnest moments. They were kind of touching.On the whole, people searching for an overarching political narrative to emerge from the ceremony were surely disappointed, as were people hoping for any real surprises. It was showbiz 2018-style, with
  
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• Oregon county scales back curbside recycling because China won’t take our stuff

  05-03-2018 17:51
  SALEM (AP) — Marion County has joined other Oregon communities in scaling back its curbside recycling program. Starting Monday, residents should throw shredded paper, egg cartons and most plastic containers in the trash instead of the blue bins. The move is in response to China’s refusal to take most recyclable materials from the West. Brian […]
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Cuts Out Coal And Conversion Therapy, Working From Home Is Lonely

  05-03-2018 17:26 via thestranger.com
  
  ALSO: Some Oscars news, what to name our hockey team, and Elvis is going to be a congressman.by Nathalie GrahamRenewable energy is a breeze. VR_Studio / GETTY
  Gay conversion therapy banned in Washington: A therapist can no longer try to change a minor’s sexual orientation according to a bill passed by the legislature. Surprisingly, that wasn’t already a law. Happy 2018, conversion therapy is finally illegal.
  Washington looks for coal alternatives: We don’t need to tell you this
  
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• Suspect killed, 2 officers wounded in shootout in Idaho resort town

  05-03-2018 16:56
  Both officers are expected to survive. The suspect has not been identified.
  
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• Study: Arizona has highest rate of pedestrian deaths in U.S.

  05-03-2018 15:51
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A new study says Arizona has the highest rate of pedestrian deaths per residents in the U.S. KVOA-TV in Tucson, Arizona, reports a Governors Highway Safety Association study found that Arizona had 1.61 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 people for the first half of 2017. That’s the highest rate in the country […]
  
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• Winds of change: What will power the Northwest’s future?

  05-03-2018 15:00
  As our region turns away from coal, entrepreneurs are exploring wind, water and a pine-fringed Montana butte.
  
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• The Case of the City Attorney's Google Ads

  05-03-2018 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A disclosure from Google leads to a local politics mystery.by Eli SandersExactly how much did Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes (left) spend on Google ads during his 2017 campaign against challenger Scott Lindsay (right)? Ulysses Curry
  It would seem a straightforward question: How much did Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes spend on Google ads during his successful 2017 re-election campaign?According to Washington State and Seattle laws, there should be a readily available answer.
  Yet there I was
  
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• ‘Free-for-all’? What is the etiquette when driving on two-lane express toll lanes?

  05-03-2018 15:00
  High-occupancy lanes, high-occupancy toll lanes and express toll lanes can be confusing. Here's a rundown on some of the rules of the road.
  
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• ‘A blessing and a curse’: What to know about telecommuting from those who’ve tried it

  05-03-2018 15:00
  Dozens of readers responded when Traffic Lab invited readers to tell us their experiences telecommuting. Here's what some had to say.
  
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