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• Nokie Edwards, influential lead guitarist of the Ventures, dies at 82

  13-03-2018 23:58
  Nokie Edwards, a founding member of the Ventures who helped create rollicking, infectious and influential hits in the 1960s for the guitar-driven band, including the surf-rock standard “Walk, Don’t Run,” died March 12 at a hospital in Yuma, Arizona. He was 82. Guitarist Deke Dickerson confirmed the death and said that Edwards had recently been […]
  
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• New law sets standards, rules for using e-bikes

  13-03-2018 23:41
  Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law a bill that clarifies the legal status of electric-assisted bicycles.
  
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• Former SDOT Director Scott Kubly takes a job with bike-share company LimeBike

  13-03-2018 23:09
  As Seattle’s transportation director, Scott Kubly oversaw the failure of a city-owned bike-share outfit and then the resurgence of a new breed of privately owned bike-share companies.
  
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• Today's Very Special Election in Pennsylvania Has Everyone Talking About Conor Lamb

  13-03-2018 23:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersDemocrat Conor Lamb and his grandmother, Barbara Lamb, after she voted today at Our Lady of Victory Church in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Drew Angerer / Getty Images
  Somehow, today's special election for one of Pennsylvania's seats in the US House has come to mean a whole lot about the November midterm elections, Trump, and the entire Future of America. "A bellwether," says The Washington Post.
  Last week the bellweather was Texas, next week it may be Illinois. But this week it's Pennsy
  
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• Surprise! Ex-Seattle transportation chief gets bike-share job

  13-03-2018 22:55
  Former Seattle Department of Transportation head Scott Kubly, who in 2016 was fined for not disclosing his financial interests while negotiating a city contract with a bike-share company, took a new job negotiating city contracts with a bike-share company.
  
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• Surprise! Ex-SDOT chief gets bike-share job

  13-03-2018 22:55
  Former Seattle Department of Transportation head Scott Kubly, who in 2016 was fined for not disclosing his financial interests while negotiating a city contract with a bike-share company, took a new job negotiating city contracts with a bike-share company.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: My Straight Male Friend and His Agender Agenderfriend Identify As Gay (And That Pisses My Gay Ass Off)

  13-03-2018 22:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm an openly gay, stealth trans woman and like to think of myself as super supportive of my queer friends and active in cheerleading their loves. That said, one of my longtime straight male friends is now in a relationship with a person who identifies as agender and uses they/them pronouns, but presents as a classically feminine cisgendered woman. The two of them have been on a posting spree on social media, tagging every photo of themselves as a couple as #GayLove and #GayPride a
  
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• Body of missing snowshoer recovered from Mount Rainier

  13-03-2018 22:29
  The man had been missing since Monday after separating from his partner while descending from the Muir Snowfield.
  
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• French Bulldog Puppy Dies on United Flight After Being Stowed in Overhead Bin

  13-03-2018 22:25 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogUnited Airlines found itself in hot water this week after a 10-month-old French bulldog named Papacito reportedly died on a flight from Houston Intercontinental to New York’s LaGuardia Airport. According to a passenger on board, United flight attendants instructed the dog's owner to stow the puppy in the overhead bin for the duration of the flight. The dog, which was heard barking during the beginning of the flight, took its last breath somewhere over the U.S.The passenger p
  
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• Guest Editorial: Why I'm Walking Out With Students Tomorrow

  13-03-2018 22:24 via thestranger.com
  
  We’re out of excuses for inaction.by Dr. Kim SchrierDr. Kim Schrier Campaign Photo
  My parents taught me that we all have a responsibility to step up when there is injustice in the world. I’m running for office in part because I know that one day my son will ask me what I did when Trump was elected president. So I stepped up and left my pediatrics practice of 16 years to run for Congress.
  Now, just over a year later, we’re at another crossroads when each of us can choose to act
  
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• Mail Bombs Terrorize Austin

  13-03-2018 22:06 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogThree mail bombs have exploded in Austin in the past two weeks, killing two and injuring two others.In the aftermath of the bombings, law enforcement has reported 150 calls from residents scared that their mail might be explosive, and police are asking anyone who receives a suspicious package to call authorities immediately."What caused this in these instances was a suspicious package that no one was suspecting or expecting," Austin Mayor Steve Adler told CNN Tuesday. "I want ever
  
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• Prepare for Burning Man 2019 Early with This Flame Throwing Class

  13-03-2018 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogAfter the burn Getty Images
  Burning Man just wouldn't be Burning Man without flame throwers. The massive art car rally, which attracts noted bohemians like Mark Zuckerberg, Grover Norquist, and my neighbor, Sparkle Whiz, takes place late each summer in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, and, while I've never had the pleasure of going, apparently fire art is an integral part of the BM experience. But how does one master the fire arts without singeing off one's arm hair—or worse? In
  
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• Federal judge approves plan for next phase of Seattle police reforms

  13-03-2018 21:27
  As part of a consent decree, the Seattle Police Department must demonstrate over the next two years that it is maintaining reforms to address allegations of excessive force and biased policing.
  
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• Longtime favorite restaurant 13 Coins reopens in Pioneer Square

  13-03-2018 20:41
  13 Coins, a longtime favorite restaurant of Seattle, reopens in new location in Pioneer Square.
  
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• Snow joke: Weatherman named Meteorologist runs for office

  13-03-2018 19:56
  LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A former television weatherman who legally changed his name to Meteorologist Drew Anderson says there’s a 100 percent chance of politics: He’s pursuing a run for Congress in Pennsylvania under the new moniker. LNP reports Anderson is collecting signatures to get on the Republican primary ballot for a run against U.S. […]
  
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• EFF recognizes Ed Murray as one of the worst in transparency

  13-03-2018 19:36
  Before resigning from the mayor's office in 2017, following five accusations of sexual assault against him, Ed Murray was just another politician who make public information requests difficult to navigate. And the Electronic Frontier Foundation took notice.
  
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• Do antidepressants work? Settling the question is harder than you might think

  13-03-2018 19:32
  The take-home message from several scientific efforts to answer that question: The effectiveness of antidepressants has been overstated, and the benefit might be limited to far fewer patients than were actually using the drugs. But that may not be the final answer.
  
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• Pilot killed in crash was fixture in Oregon aviation

  13-03-2018 19:28
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon pilot who died in a plane crash in Washington was a passionate advocate for pilots and airports and played a significant role in Oregon aviation, according to the Oregon Department of Aviation. Mary Rosenblum, of Canby, was flying a Piper Super Cub plane Sunday when she hit trees around […]
  
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• Pilot killed in Clark County crash was fixture in Oregon aviation

  13-03-2018 19:28
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Aviation says an Oregon pilot who died in a plane crash in Washington was a passionate advocate for pilots and airports and played a significant role in Oregon aviation. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the Clark County Sheriff’s Office says Mary Rosenblum, of Canby, was flying a Piper Super […]
  
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• What Get Smart Can Show Us About the White House's High Staff Turnover Rate

  13-03-2018 19:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Get Smart
  Because my thinking and writing always begins or is inspired by an image, I want to provide one for the exceptionally high staff turnover rate in Trump's White House (this week it's Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of the giant carbon liberation corporation ExxonMobil, and now the former Secretary of State). The image is drawn from a Cold War-era TV comedy, Get Smart, about a daft and bumbling secret agent named Maxwell Smart (Don Adams). He often uses his shoe to make p
  
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• Feds’ failure to study gun violence is challenged after Florida shootings

  13-03-2018 19:03
  The government largely abandoned the study of gun violence as a public-health issue in the mid-1990s. Now, lawmakers and gun-control experts have demanded that the agency take up the issue again
  
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• Podcast: Andrè Taylor explains the campaign to change Washington’s police deadly-force law

  13-03-2018 19:01
  Andrè Taylor, whose brother was fatally shot by Seattle police in 2016, explains how he worked with others to push changes in Washington's law that all-but-barred prosecutions of police for shootings.
  
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• Seattle police investigating woman’s death in Wallingford as a homicide

  13-03-2018 18:55
  The 38-year-old woman was found dead inside her house in the 1300 block of North 43rd Street on Monday morning, police said.
  
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• Rare Case of HIV Contraction on PrEP Reported in King County

  13-03-2018 18:51 via thestranger.com
  
  There have been just four cases of PrEP failure noted in the medical literature out of the hundreds of thousands of people taking the drugby Katie Herzog Getty Images
  King County Public Health reports that a local man taking Truvada, the pre-exposure prophylaxis (also known as PrEP) that prevents the contraction of HIV, has tested positive for the disease.Contracting HIV while correctly taking PrEP is extremely rare, according to Public Health, which says that there have been just four cases of
  
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• Washington Legislature fails to pass bill to let State Patrol destroy guns

  13-03-2018 18:46
  The bill sought to give the agency the option to destroy confiscated guns rather than sell or trade them. The agency has feared that one of its sold guns would be used in a new crime — and an Associated Press investigation found that has indeed happened.
  
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• Rep. Heck hits Trump-Putin bond: 'financial entanglements,' 'kindred spirits'

  13-03-2018 18:46
  President Trump has never once denounced Russia's President Vladimir Putin for any act of aggression, corruption or assassination.  Why not?  What do the Russians have on Trump? "It may be that the financial entanglements are a lot deeper than people thing," said Rep. Denny Heck, D-Wash., a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
  
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• Body found in Wallingford home sparks homicide investigation

  13-03-2018 18:30
  The discovery of a 38-year-old woman's body in her Wallingford home Monday morning sparked a homicide investigation by Seattle police.
  
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• Today Is Your Last Chance to Submit Entries Into The Stranger's Ugly Pet Contest!

  13-03-2018 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase BurnsYour ugly pet goat, maybe? Getty
  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, goat, 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 fo
  
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• Seattle Archdiocese, Pierce County school district settle suit over pedophile teacher for $2.45M

  13-03-2018 17:44
  The alleged victim contends that officials for Seattle’s Catholic Archdiocese knew that Edward Courtney had sexually abused dozens of schoolchildren when they helped Courtney land a teaching job at Parkland Elementary School near Tacoma in late 1980.
  
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• Seattle Archdiocese, Pierce County school district settle suit over pedophile priest for $2.45M

  13-03-2018 17:44
  The alleged victim contends that officials for Seattle’s Catholic Archdiocese knew that Edward Courtney had sexually abused dozens of schoolchildren when they helped Courtney land a teaching job at Parkland Elementary School near Tacoma in late 1980.
  
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• ‘I’m ecstatic’: Brain surgery gives teen a chance to live a normal life

  13-03-2018 17:18
  After his early teen years were dominated by the effects of epilepsy, Casey Schorr is thrilled with the results of a brain operation and has undertaken things that previously seemed out of his reach.
  
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• Slog AM: Tillerson Fired, New CIA Chief Ran Torture Prison, ST3 Opponent on ST3 Board

  13-03-2018 16:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Also: Blossoms, Seahawks, walkoutby Steven HsiehGoodbye. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
  Intern Sick: Slog AM maestro Nathalie Graham fell ill this morning. Bad seafood is the culprit. Wish her well!
  Tillerson Out: President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He replaced Tillerson with CIA director Mike Pompeo. According to the New York Times, Tillerson learned of his ouster shortly after stepping off a plane from Africa. Trump didn't grant the former ExxonMobil executive the courtesy of a
  
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• Suspect accused of killing, burning man in Orting treehouse

  13-03-2018 15:03
  ORTING, Pierce County — Authorities say a suspect is in custody following a possible dispute along a river over stolen property that led to a woman being shot in the foot, a burned treehouse and a dead, burned man. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department says a man was taken into custody and jailed Monday for […]
  
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• Norwegian musher maintains Iditarod sled dog race lead

  13-03-2018 14:57
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Norwegian musher continues to lead the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday. Joar Ulsom was nearing the checkpoint in White Mountain, where mushers and dogs must take a mandatory eight-hour rest before making the final 77-mile (123-kilometer) push to the finish line in Nome. Ulsom left the checkpoint in […]
  
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