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• Washington Courts Now Have the Country's First Rule for Tackling Implicit Bias in Jury Selection

  10-04-2018 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's lack of jury diversity is an urgent problem. Could this new rule help fix it?by Sydney Brownstone#JuriesSoWhite Chris Ryan/Getty
  In 2009, a 24-year-old man named Kirk Saintcalle was convicted of first degree murder after he forced his way into an Auburn man's apartment with two associates, held three people at gunpoint, and shot and killed 35-year-old Anthony Johnson. The all-white jury sentenced Saintcalle to 48 years in prison. But after his conviction, Saintcalle appealed his case b
  
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• New rule bans vessels from releasing sewage into Puget Sound

  10-04-2018 23:38
  Starting May 10, most boats will not be allowed to pump sewage — whether treated or not — into waters across about 2,300 square miles of Puget Sound. The zone also includes Lake Washington and Lake Union.
  
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• Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet Came Out 28 Years Ago Today

  10-04-2018 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonAnd you thought the beat slowed down.
  Thanks to Consequence of Sound for reminding us that Public Enemy's third album, Fear of a Black Planet, came out on this day in 1990, and promptly changed everything forever.No one needs me to explain why the themes and sounds of this record remain relevant today, but having heard to it for the infinitieth time—and the first time in a couple of years—it's still stirring, still thrilling, still infuriating, still current, still cont
  
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• "Wow No Cow" Is a Great Slogan for a Milk Product; the Taste Isn't Bad, Either

  10-04-2018 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  There's a new vegan milk brand in town—Oatly—and its "wow no cow!" slogan is adorable as the liquid is tasty.by Dave Segal Oatly
  Head's up, Seattle: There's a new oat-based milk company in town, and it's called Oatly. You will notice it on shelves by the catchy slogan found on the cartons—"Wow No Cow!". Based in Sweden, Oatly has been around for about 25 years, but it's only recently made inroads in the US and at local coffee shops, including Espresso Vivace, Broadcast Coffee R
  
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• Nation’s Report Card shows flat results in students’ reading, math

  10-04-2018 22:53
  The results of the latest Nation’s Report Card are in and the news isn’t good. Overall, only roughly a third of American eighth-graders are proficient in reading and math, along with about 40 percent of fourth-graders.
  
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• Chinese Doc Dream Empire Makes Seattle Real Estate Bubble Look Like Child's Play

  10-04-2018 22:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Dream Empire
  This year's ByDesign Design and Architectural Festival opens with a stunning documentary, Dream Empire, about the real estate madness in China. The very scale of it will humble your wildest imagination. In comparison, it makes Seattle's construction and property boom look like something that would be missed if one just blinked. In China, whole Seattles are conjured out of nowhere. Capital there is hungry for the biggest bucks possible. It displaces the poor without
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Sexual Compatibility Is Important (So Establish It Before You Make A Baby!)

  10-04-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I'm a 35-year-old mostly straight guy with a love for kink. I've been with my girlfriend for nine years, we have an 16-month-old son together, and I love both of them very much.
  In my younger years, I was active in the swinging community, I hooked up with couples and singles, and I enjoyed exploring the kinkier side of sex. My girlfriend, however, is pretty vanilla. I've tried everything I can think of over the years to get her more attuned to her sexuality. I've had no real succes
  
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• A Couple Who Fell in Love Coming to the Silent-Reading Party Just Got Engaged

  10-04-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleThey got engaged at last week's reading party. Patrik Bangle
  It happened a couple minutes before the party at the Sorrento Hotel last Wednesday. The only thing reading-party regulars may have noticed is that the piano playing started earlier than usual.Every first Wednesday of the month, the piano starts right at 6 pm, and that is the signal to the crowd to quiet down and start reading. But last week, since it started early, the crowd kept on talking, some of them entirel
  
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• Climber dies in fall at Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park

  10-04-2018 20:58
  TERREBONNE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a climber has died in a fall at Smith Rock State Park in central Oregon. KTVZ reports the fall happened Tuesday morning, prompting the closure of the popular Misery Ridge trail. A park ranger confirmed the death to the station. Details about what happened have not been released, but […]
  
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• Vehicle fell into swollen California river in region where Hart family went missing

  10-04-2018 20:46
  A vehicle fell into a rain-swollen river and vanished last week in the same region of California's far north coast where a family that vanished during a road trip is last known to have been, authorities said.
  
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• Vehicle fell into swollen California river in region where family went missing

  10-04-2018 20:46
  A vehicle fell into a rain-swollen river and vanished last week in the same region of California's far north coast where a family that vanished during a road trip is last known to have been, authorities said.
  
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• Family missing on trip from Oregon to Southern California

  10-04-2018 20:46
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a family of four has been missing since last week while on a road trip from Portland to their home in Santa Clarita, California. San Jose police said Tuesday a relative called on April 8 to report the Thottapilly family missing. Police say the family was expected at a […]
  
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• Feds Shutter Backpage; Sex Workers Left in the Dark

  10-04-2018 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Last week the FBI shut down Backpage. We talked to a sex worker on what that means for her.by Katie Herzog Branimir76/Getty Images
  In 2006, L went on the strangest job interview of her life. She’d been out of massage school for a few years and was making about $20 an hour as a licensed massage therapist at a chain spa. It wasn’t enough to pay her bills, and she came home one day to find an eviction notice taped to her door. She need money, fast, and when she saw an ad online looking
  
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• Bellevue-based T-Mobile, Sprint reportedly restart merger talks

  10-04-2018 19:56
  The Wall Street Journal reported the renewal of talks, citing people familiar with the matter. Previous talks to merge the No. 4 and No. 3 U.S. wireless providers collapsed in November.
  
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• Connelly: Puget Sound is now off limits to vessel sewage

  10-04-2018 19:54
  Vessels on Puget Sound can no longer discharge raw or treated sewage into the inland waters of Washington, according to a rule enacted Monday by the state Department of Ecology.
  
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• Meet the Seattle tugboat that made history across three centuries: the Arthur Foss

  10-04-2018 19:50
  Sketched June 20, 2017 Last summer I had the opportunity to get an up-close look at the historic Arthur Foss tugboat while it was undergoing restoration in dry dock. How much do you know about this vessel? When I first saw it at the Historic Ships Wharf on Lake Union years ago, I thought it […]
  
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• If Trump Fires Mueller, Seattle Will Be Ready to Protest

  10-04-2018 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Constitutional crisis? Be prepared.by Steven HsiehConstitutional crisis? There's a plan for that. ANN HEISENFELT / GETTY IMAGES
  Seattle is ready to pounce if President Donald Trump fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller.He seems more willing now than ever. Following yesterday’s FBI raid of the office of his personal lawyer, Trump told reporters, “Why don’t I just fire Mueller. Well, I think it’s a disgrace what’s going on. We’ll see what happens.”
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• Queen Anne coffee shop searches for new home after 18 years

  10-04-2018 19:23
  Another Seattle cornerstone is being kicked out of their space this month. But they're not going down without a fight.
  
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• Watch Congress Grill Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg for Exploiting Our Data

  10-04-2018 18:58 via thestranger.com
  
  There's a bingo card if you want to play along.by Rich SmithOne of these Zuckerberg clones will face lawmakers today, but which will it be???Zach Gibson / GettyToday Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will sit for one of two congressional hearings scheduled this week. I'm being told that Zuckerberg plans to wear a suit instead of his signature t-shirt, but I'm also being told this sartorial choice is just one in a series of desperate visual ploys designed to convince lawmakers that Zuckerberg is not a
  
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• Columbia Sportswear CEO to donate $1.5M for new Portland homeless shelter

  10-04-2018 18:58
  CEO Tim Boyle's gift will go toward a 100-bed shelter being built on city property under the Broadway Bridge.
  
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• Anti-Trans Bathroom Initiative Fails in Anchorage

  10-04-2018 18:33 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThat was Anchorage then (April 2012)...
  Voters rejected by a wide margin on Tuesday an Anchorage, Alaska, ballot proposition that would have extended citywide anti-discrimination protections to sexual orientation and transgender identity. According to city returns with 97.5 percent of precincts reporting, Proposition 5 was failing by about a 58-42 margin....The group One Anchorage released a statement Wednesday saying that the group was “disappointed at the interim election re
  
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• Report: Solitary confinement persists in Oregon prison

  10-04-2018 18:27
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Disability-rights leaders say men incarcerated in the behavioral health unit at the Oregon State Penitentiary spent nearly 23 hours a day confined to small cells last year. In a report made public Tuesday, the advocacy group Disability Rights Oregon says state prison officials are failing to meet basic standards for inmates […]
  
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• Homeless man burned in fire at Central Oregon campsite

  10-04-2018 18:12
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — Deschutes County authorities say a homeless man suffered serious injuries in a fire at his campsite. The sheriff’s office says a deputy spotted the man walking in the middle of Highway 97 late Monday north of Bend. The 34-year-old man was taken to a hospital for treatment of potentially life-threatening injuries. […]
  
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• Witness provides description of Eastern Oregon drone crash

  10-04-2018 17:44
  PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A witness to a recent drone crash at the Pendleton airport says the object fell to the ground from a height of 200 to 400 feet. Harold Nelson tells the East Oregonian the drone’s flight looked “wobbly,” and it lost power and control. The drone crashed in a wheat field on […]
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Women Paid Less For Overtime Hours, Sheriff Ignored 911 Call About Hart Family Abuse

  10-04-2018 16:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Facebook is floundering, Trump is seething, Oregon's snowpack is slackingby Nathalie GrahamThank you for the bountiful overtime wages, City Light.Ryan McVay/ Getty
  Seattle gender wage gap still very much a thing: In the past, Seattle’s progressivism was lauded because women working for the city earned nearly 90 cents to the dollar. Overtime pay wasn’t taken into account. In three of the city’s largest departments — Transportation, City Light, and Public Utilities —
  
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• 2 killed, 6 injured in wrong-way crash in Kent, police say

  10-04-2018 15:52
  Two people died and six were injured in a series of collisions that started when the driver of one of the cars drove the wrong way on Highway 516 about 11:35 p.m. Monday in Kent, according to the Washington State Patrol. Trooper Rick Johnson said the fatal crashes occurred when the driver of one car […]
  
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• Port Orchard sex offender accused of extorting men on gay dating sites

  10-04-2018 15:40
  Christopher Malik Longmire was charged last week with three counts of second-degree extortion with sexual motivation and three counts of possession of child pornography. He has pleaded not guilty.
  
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• Redmond woman charged with murder in wife's strangulation death

  10-04-2018 15:34
  In court documents, prosecutors said that Aterraka Scotland told police she killed her wife in their Redmond apartment March 29 after learning that she was having an affair. Tiffany Scotland, 26, died of asphyxia due to strangulation, according to the King County Medical Examiner.
  
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• Prosecutors: Redmond woman killed wife after learning of affair

  10-04-2018 15:34
  In court documents, prosecutors said that Aterraka Scotland told police she killed her wife in their Redmond apartment March 29 after learning that she was having an affair. Tiffany Scotland, 26, died of asphyxia due to strangulation, according to the King County Medical Examiner.
  
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• Two injured in shooting at Angle Lake Park in SeaTac

  10-04-2018 15:13
  Two people were injured and a 22-year-old man is in custody after at shooting at Angle Lake Park Monday night, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Wrong-way driver, passenger killed in Kent crash; 6 injured

  10-04-2018 15:08
  A driver and his brother driving the wrong way on state Route 516 in Kent late Monday night killed two people and sent several others to the hospital with injuries.
  
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• Wrong-way crash kills two in Kent

  10-04-2018 15:08
  A driver and his brother driving the wrong way on state Route 516 in Kent late Monday night killed two people and sent several others to the hospital with injuries.
  
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• Seattle’s own Lindy West takes to a new stage: Benaroya Hall

  10-04-2018 15:00
  The Seattle-based writer has become “one of the brightest stars in the feminist constellation,” with a best-selling book, a spot as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and now, a talk at Benaroya Hall on April 15.
  
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• Seattle still doesn’t know what to do with thousands of people living in vehicles

  10-04-2018 15:00
  Seattle’s plan to open a series of sanctioned parking lots failed, leaving just one site in Sodo with a handful of RVs. Now, people are dying in the lot faster than they are finding housing.
  
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• Pierce County deputy suffers broken neck in crash; driver charged

  10-04-2018 15:00
  The driver accused of causing the collision with Deputy Sydney Davis in Parkland was charged Monday with vehicular assault.
  
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• Man called 911 concerned about child abuse in Hart family, but Clark County Sheriff’s Office decided against welfare check

  10-04-2018 15:00
  A Pierce County man called 911 after one of the Harts’ children showed up at his daughter’s door in Woodland “begging” for help.
  
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• Jeanette Woldseth, Washington’s first female firefighter, was a self-effacing pioneer

  10-04-2018 15:00
  In 1977, the Bellevue Fire Department hired the then-23-year-old Jeanette Woldseth, who became the first paid female firefighter in Washington state.
  
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• Spring storm drops snow on parts of Michigan, misses others

  10-04-2018 13:23
  WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A spring storm that moved through Michigan dropped snow on parts of the state, creating slippery driving conditions in places while missing others entirely. The National Weather Service reports nearly 5 inches (12.7 centimeters) of snow fell in White Lake Township in suburban Detroit on Monday. Pontiac and Flint […]
  
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• Redmond woman charged with strangulation death of her wife

  10-04-2018 13:07
  Prosecutors said in court papers that the defendant killed her wife in their Redmond apartment March 29 after learning that she was having an affair.
  
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• Oregon snowpack runs below average

  10-04-2018 05:22
  The Capital Press reported Monday that all Oregon basins are behind on snowpack and most are measuring 40 to 70 percent of normal levels.
  
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• Students protest possible closure of UW Medical laundry; 100 jobs at risk

  10-04-2018 04:53
  Protesters at the UW occupied the office of the medical center CEO, saying they want the university to abandon a proposal to close the laundry with about 115 employees.
  
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• Shucking decision: Ecology says no to Willapa Bay oyster growers

  10-04-2018 02:18
  The state Dept. of Ecology rejects Willapa Bay oyster growers request to apply a pesticide to control burrowing mud shrimp that invade oyster and clam beds.  Willapa Bay produces more oysters than any other place in the United States.
  
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• Americans owe three times as much for student loans as they did a decade ago

  10-04-2018 02:00
  A new study shows who owes the most money on their student loans, and where they live across the nation. Washington residents fare well compared to the national average.
  
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• There Are Too Many Cars in Seattle, But There's No Way I'm Getting Rid of Mine

  10-04-2018 01:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkIf I didn't have a car, I wouldn't be able to visit Mt. Rainier National Park. No, I haven't visited it yet, but that's not the point... YinYang/Getty
  Today, the Seattle Times reported that the number of personal vehicles in the city reached a new high in 2016—nearly 444,000—and that 265,000 Seattle households have at least one car, also a record-setting number for the area.This is not surprising. If you spend any time on Slog, you'll find we exhaustively cover our cit
  
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• Susan Anspach, actress who starred in ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ dead at 75

  10-04-2018 01:29
  A New York City native, Susan Anspach had an extensive stage career before breaking into movies in the early 1970s.
  
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• UW Students Occupy Building to Protest Closure of Unionized Laundry

  10-04-2018 00:58 via thestranger.com
  
  The laundry cleans linens and scrubs for UW hospitals.by Heidi GrooverStudents with the UW chapter of Students Against Sweatshops are urging UW Medicine not to close its laundry. HG
  About 20 students are currently occupying UW Medicine administrative offices urging the university not to shutter its laundry service. The laundry currently employees about 100 people who clean linens and scrubs for University of Washington Medicine hospitals and clinics.After UW Medicine saw a $75 million operating
  
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• Four Equal Pay Day Events in Seattle Tomorrow

  10-04-2018 00:52 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffOnline organization MomsRising.org will host events at Broadview Tap House and Hill City Tap House. MomsRising.org
  Tomorrow, April 10, is Equal Pay Day, an event created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to symbolize the date in 2018 when American women have worked enough extra days, on average, to make the same amount of pay that American men made in 2017. (The date depends on your math and/or your demographic.) There are several Seattle events happening in h
  
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• Equal Pay Day Events

  10-04-2018 00:52 via thestranger.com
  Four Events on April 10by Stranger Things To Do StaffTomorrow, April 10, is Equal Pay Day, an event created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to symbolize the date in 2018 when American women have worked enough extra days, on average, to make the same amount of pay that American men made in 2017. (The date depends on your math and/or your demographic.) There are several Seattle events happening in honor of the occasion, and we've rounded them up below.
  Broadview Tap House
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• Four Equal Pay Day 2018 Events in Seattle

  10-04-2018 00:49 via thestranger.com
  April 10, 2018by Stranger Things To Do StaffTomorrow, April 10, is Equal Pay Day, an event created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to symbolize the date in 2018 when American women have worked enough extra days, on average, to make the same amount of pay that American men made in 2017. (The date depends on your math and/or your demographic.) There are several Seattle events happening in honor of the occasion, and we've rounded them up below.
  Broadview Tap House
  Raise a glass to Washingto
  
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• Washington state says no to spraying neurotoxic pesticide on oyster beds

  10-04-2018 00:31
  The Department of Ecology has denied approval for a controversial plan to treat oyster beds with the pesticide imidacloprid, calling it "too risky for Washington’s environment."
  
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