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• ‘Mr. Rogers of pediatrics,’ Dr. Stanley Stamm, dies at 93

  13-04-2018 23:39
  Stamm was the first cardiologist at Seattle Children’s hospital and a beloved pediatrician, but what he became known most for was a free summer camp he founded for kids with chronic illnesses.
  
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• Jennifer Hart was drunk when she drove SUV with family off cliff, officials say

  13-04-2018 22:57
  Five people have been confirmed dead after the SUV carrying Jennifer Hart, her wife, Sarah, and and at least three children plunged from a 150-foot cliff in Northern California onto the oceanside rocks below last month.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. LEYA, Janelle Monae, Chris Carter, and More

  13-04-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's music critic gets very excited about new songs by LEYA, Janelle Monáe, Chris Carter, and others in this week's Inbox Jukebox.by Dave SegalLEYA have created one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs in years.Matthew Mann
  LEYA, “Sister” (NNA Tapes)I didn't know LEYA from Eve when their new song hit my inbox recently, but something compelled me not to ignore the e-mail and play "Sister," and my risky click was rewarded manifold. This is the most fragile, hauntingl
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Getting Back on the Bottom

  13-04-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  About two years ago I was raped by another man. I'm not going to retell all the gory details. Suffice to say it was a horrible experience. It was semi-casual and I never saw the guy again, nor did I ever approach the police. At the time I was too scared about HIV and after that, well... it took a long time to figure it wasn't my fuckup.
  My problem is that since then I've hardly had sex. I bottomed once and it was a bit of a disaster. He was a nice guy and very patient, but I'd u-tu
  
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• Savage Love: Call for Submissions

  13-04-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage Joe NewtonI'm a 36-year-old straight woman. I was sexually and physically abused as a kid, and raped in my early 20s. I have been seeing a great therapist for the last five years, and I am processing things and feeling better than I ever have. I was in a long-term relationship that ended about two years ago. I started dating this past year, but I'm not really clicking with anyone. I've had a lot of first dates, but nothing beyond that. My problem is that I'd really love to get laid
  
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• Police: Woman who drove SUV with family off cliff was drunk

  13-04-2018 22:20
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman was drunk when she drove her large family off a Northern California cliff last month and her wife and several children had large amounts of a drug in their systems that can cause drowsiness, authorities said Friday. Police had previously said they believed the Hart family died in a […]
  
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• Connelly: Can Trudeau force British Columbia to swallow oil pipeline?

  13-04-2018 22:17
  The confrontation over an oil pipeline bound for British Columbia, and oil tankers bound for our waters, comes to a head in Ottawa on Sunday.Canadian's Prime Minster Justin Trudeau will meet with British Columbia Premier John Horgan, who opposes the pipeline, and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. Notley is threatening to hold back oil from B.C. if the province doesn't yield and let Alberta oil get to tidewater.If the pipeline is built, the oil would be exported by tanker through sensitive marine wa
  
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• Could Engineering Animals to Enjoy Pain End Animal Suffering?

  13-04-2018 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  A new twist on an old idea.by Katie HerzogS&M PigGetty Images
  Last month, an undergraduate student at Oxford University won the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics for an essay entitled "Why We Should Genetically ‘Disenhance’ Animals Used in Factory Farms." "Disenhance," as Latimer defines it, is "a genetic modification that removes an animal’s capacity to feel pain."
  It's an interesting idea. Unless you purchase all your meat from small, bucolic farms where poultry and
  
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• So How's That Arming Teachers Thing Going?

  13-04-2018 21:12 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageAbout as well as could be expected...
  Many teachers and their unions fiercely rejected the president’s suggestion [to give guns to teachers], but one Stoneman Douglas educator, Sean Simpson, said he would consider it. “There are some of us that are willing to take the training if it was offered and probably be another line of defense,” Mr. Simpson, a chemistry teacher, told MSNBC a week after the shooting at the school, in Parkland, Fla. He cautioned, however, &ldq
  
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• Japanese Restaurant with AI Opens, Weekend Brunch Events, and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: April 12, 2018 Edition

  13-04-2018 21:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffJUNKICHI Robata Izakaya will open on Sunday—complete with a cute robot assistant called SOTA. Junkichi via Facebook
  This week, welcome our new robot overlords: Junkichi, a new Japanese robatayaki restaurant on Capitol Hill opening Sunday, features its own resident AI robot SOTA that can assist guests. Plus, learn about a new ramen joint with all house-made ingredients in Tacoma, along with weekend brunch options, from boozy to Filipino-inspired to a soul food
  
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• Search underway for woman missing in Snohomish County lake

  13-04-2018 21:02
  The missing woman has been identified as 22-year-old Jazmine Weitlauf of Monroe, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Will Dems' 2018 election 'wave' break beyond King County?

  13-04-2018 20:25
  Democrats have the lead, plus a big enthusiasm advantage, in a new statewide Elway Poll previewing the November mid-term elections. The contest between the parties gets a lot closer, however, when you get outside of Seattle.
  
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• Connelly: Will Dems' 2018 election 'wave' break beyond King County?

  13-04-2018 20:25
  Democrats have the lead, plus a big enthusiasm advantage, in a new statewide Elway Poll previewing the November mid-term elections. The contest between the parties gets a lot closer, however, when you get outside of Seattle.
  
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• Homeless Samaritan says he’s still struggling with addiction

  13-04-2018 20:21
  A homeless man whose selfless act of using his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist got him worldwide attention and an unexpected windfall says he's still struggling with addiction.
  
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• New Totally 80s Rewind Exhibit at Living Computers Museum Recreates the Feel of Your Friend's Basement

  13-04-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chason GordonIt's like being in the living room of that friend you had in 1987. CG
  With the exception of divorce, the new Totally 80s Rewind exhibit at the Living Computers Museum + Labs has managed to recreate the feel of everything you’d find in that generation's childhood via a three-room installation, from the arcades to the classrooms to a friend’s basement. It's the perfect opportunity to travel back in time without disturbing the space-time continuum.
  Even if you didn&rsquo
  
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• New Totally 80s Rewind Exhibit at Living Computers Museum Re-creates the Feel of Your Friend's Basement

  13-04-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chason GordonIt's like being in the living room of that friend you had in 1987. CG
  With the exception of divorce, the new Totally 80s Rewind exhibit at the Living Computers Museum + Labs has managed to re-create the feel of everything you’d find in that generation's childhood via a three-room installation, from the arcades to the classrooms to a friend’s basement. It's the perfect opportunity to travel back in time without disturbing the space-time continuum.
  Even if you didn&rsqu
  
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• Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder with This Gem, a Funny-Looking Cat with a Big Heart

  13-04-2018 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sophia Stephens SS
  As my fingers disappeared into a swath of her warm, peach-grey fur, I made up my mind. I was going to be her home. Ten minutes was all it took to find her in PAWS Cat City. Ten minutes was all it took to know that I would love her for the rest of her lifetime.
  My little Gem. My five-pound, foot-long cat her face is permanently imprinted with a snaggle-toothed smile of satisfaction. Her eyes vary from affectionate slits to oversized circles that would rival a Muppet’s
  
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• A Shitty Dog Comic

  13-04-2018 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Callan Berry's response to creating a comic for the Stranger's inaugural Pet Issue.by Callan BerryCallan Berry[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Les Schwab CEO Dick Borgman to retire June 30

  13-04-2018 17:41
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — For the first in more than a decade, there will be a change at the top of Les Schwab Tire Centers. CEO Dick Borgman announced his retirement Thursday, effective at the end of June. Chief financial officer Jack Cuniff takes over July 1. The Bulletin reports the private, Bend-based company expanded […]
  
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• The Pee Tape Is Real*

  13-04-2018 17:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageThere's a lot going on, as Rachel Maddow says at the top of her show every night.
  Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel after Trump fired FBI directer James Comey and now Comey's new book is out and Trump isn't going to speak to Mueller because the FBI raided his lawyer's office and by not speaking to Mueller POTUS may have sped up the release of a report from Mueller but to prevent that from happening Trump might fire Mueller, Rosenstein, Sessions, and the all janitors at th
  
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• Slog AM: New Executive Order Scrutinizes Amazon, Rainier Quakes Detected By Early Warning System

  13-04-2018 17:05 via thestranger.com
  
  ALSO: The pee tape is haunting Trump, Trinidad and Tobago get with the times, Russian sanctions hurt Boeingby Nathalie GrahamNo eruption! Baby quakes just saying "what up?"SPACES IMAGES/GETTY
  Mini Mount Rainier quakes test earthquake warning system: Don’t worry, an eruption isn’t imminent. The good news is that ShakeAlert, the earthquake warning system for the West Coast, went off when the largest of a cluster of earthquakes — clocking in at 3.0 magnitutde — hit around Mo
  
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• Guest Editorial: Fix the Tax Code

  13-04-2018 16:01 via thestranger.com
  
  The time to act is now.by Teresa MosquedaCouncil member Teresa Mosqueda City of Seattle
  Like many of you, I've spent the last few weeks working on my federal taxes, figuring out how much we owe and hoping instead that we will get a little money back. I know our taxes invest in public health to create healthy communities, fund critical infrastructure like roads and bridges, and make sure all kiddos have access to public schools. But I also know that our inequitable tax code means we don’t h
  
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• California winds die down after toppling trees, power lines

  13-04-2018 15:57
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Strong winds have begun to die down after lashing parts of greater Los Angeles, the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada. Numerous trees fell and scattered power outages occurred through early Friday before the system began weakening. The blustery system blew in Thursday, bringing light snow to mountains along Interstate […]
  
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• Study: Sea turtle genes show navigation by magnetic fields

  13-04-2018 15:55
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Research at the University of North Carolina shows genetic evidence supporting how loggerhead sea turtles use the Earth’s magnetic fields to navigate back to the beaches where they were hatched. A study published Thursday in the journal Cell Biology shows that magnetic fields are the strongest predictor of genetic similarity […]
  
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• Slain attorney Thomas C. Wales’ family shuts down foundation

  13-04-2018 15:00
  After federal prosecutor Thomas C. Wales was killed in 2001, his family set up a foundation to honor his ideals and work. After changes in the family, his daughter Amy and the foundation’s board decided to shut it down and donate to the Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project.
  
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• Seattle taxes ranked most unfair in Washington — a state among the harshest on the poor nationwide

  13-04-2018 15:00
  A household earning $25,000 in Seattle pays about $4,200, or 17 percent of its income, in state and local taxes, according to a report from the liberal-leaning Equal Opportunities Institute. But a $250,000-income household pays $11,000, which pencils out to just 4.4 percent of income. Here's why.
  
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• Podcast: reporter David Gutman on streetcar overruns and a plan to toll downtown streets

  13-04-2018 15:00
  Seattle Times Traffic Lab reporter David Gutman breaks down whether Seattle's suspended streetcar project will move ahead - and if Mayor Jenny Durkan is serious about tolling downtown city streets.
  
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• Podcast: Reporter David Gutman on Seattle streetcar overruns and a plan to toll downtown streets

  13-04-2018 15:00
  Seattle Times Traffic Lab reporter David Gutman breaks down whether Seattle's suspended streetcar project will move ahead - and if Mayor Jenny Durkan is serious about tolling downtown city streets.
  
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• Family of man killed by police while holding cellphone files federal suit against Lakewood

  13-04-2018 15:00
  The suit claims Daniel Covarrubias fell victim to the same aggressive police tactics that resulted in a $15.3 million civil-rights verdict against Lakewood police, its chief and two officers for the 2013 shooting death of an unarmed African-American man during a standoff.
  
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• Portland man who stabbed, strangled wife dies in prison

  13-04-2018 10:27
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland man sentenced in 2014 to more than 19 years in prison for stabbing and strangling his wife has died in a northeastern Oregon prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports 51-year-old Le Huang died Thursday at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla. Oregon Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jennifer Black declined to […]
  
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• Battle to save Africa’s elephants is gaining some ground

  13-04-2018 08:14
  MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania (AP) — The elephant staggered and keeled over in the tall grass in southern Tanzania, where some of the world’s worst poaching has happened. It wasn’t a killer who targeted her but a conservation official, immobilizing her with a dart containing drugs. Soon she was snoring loudly, and they propped open […]
  
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• Layoffs, resignations hit SeattlePI.com. Here’s why the newsroom is shrinking

  13-04-2018 05:20
  Just five writers and one photographer remain at the online-only news outlet, which formed in the collapse of the print Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper in 2009.
  
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• Radioactive sludge barrel ruptures at Idaho nuclear site

  13-04-2018 05:16
  Federal officials said it’s the first known rupture of a barrel containing radioactive sludge at the Idaho site but might not be the last.
  
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• Divided Supreme Court upholds death sentence for man who killed Kirkland family in 2006

  13-04-2018 05:14
  In a 5-4 vote, the state Supreme Court affirmed Conner Schierman’s convictions on four counts of aggravated first-degree murder. The justices were split 6-3 in upholding Schierman’s death sentence, citing errors made during his 2010 trial.
  
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• Oregon rancher approved to kill 2 wolves; advocates alarmed

  13-04-2018 05:13
  The wolves in the new pack, dubbed the Pine Creek Pack, killed three calves and injured four more over a two-day period, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday.
  
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• Anchorage voters are first in U.S. to defeat ‘bathroom bill’

  13-04-2018 05:05
  Anchorage voters turned down a proposition that would have repealed part of a city ordinance that allowed people to use public bathroom and locker rooms according to their gender identity and would have required them to use those facilities according to their gender at birth.
  
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• Study: dog-bite insurance-claim costs reached $13.7M last year

  13-04-2018 04:47
  Washington ranks 20th in the nation for number of claims.
  
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• Sailboat built by Oregon students continues journey to Japan

  13-04-2018 04:43
  Students in Scappoose, Oregon, had launched the boat in December as part of an educational project sponsored by the Columbia River Museum.
  
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• A revered run — the Skagit steelhead — will open to catch-and-release angling

  13-04-2018 04:33
  Skagit River steelhead are listed under the federal Endangered Species Act, but state and federal officials say that the stocks have rebuilt enough to allow a targeted fishery.
  
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• Scientist behind Dolly the cloned sheep, a key to Parkinson’s research, has disease himself

  13-04-2018 02:41
  In 1996, Ian Wilmut and a team of scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, cloned an adult sheep, resulting in the birth of Dolly.
  
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• Story of Hart’s foster child is one of heartbreak, though not the way some might expect

  13-04-2018 02:00
  Jen and Sarah Hart’s former foster child recalls her life with the couple, offering the most intimate look yet at the women whose SUV drove off a California cliff last month with them and at least three of their adopted children onboard.
  
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• Buy Tickets To These New Events ASAP

  13-04-2018 01:49 via thestranger.com
  Early Warningsby Stranger Things To Do StaffAPRIL 13 EDITION—PREVIOUS EDITIONS BELOW
  We all know that many of the biggest Seattle events often sell out well in advance. But it's not a lost cause—if you plan ahead, you can still score tickets for the most popular concerts, comedy sets, and lectures. To help you with that, we've rounded up all of the major events that are going on sale this week, like Mary Lambert, Kid Rock, and Ron Funches. Follow the links below for more details and
  
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• Buy Your Tickets to These 13 Newly Announced Seattle Events Before They Sell Out

  13-04-2018 01:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffQueer pop artist Mary Lambert, who performed with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis on "Same Love," will come to the Columbia City Theater on May 9. Shervin Lainez
  We all know that many of the biggest Seattle events often sell out well in advance. But it's not a lost cause—if you plan ahead, you can still score tickets for the most popular concerts, comedy sets, and lectures. To help you with that, we've rounded up all of the major events that are going on sale this w
  
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• Laser Beyoncé? Laser Beatles? PSC Laser Dome is 'for everybody'

  13-04-2018 01:33
  These days there's only one venue in town where you can get a Kendrick Lamar and Pink Floyd performance in the same day. The Pacific Science Center's Laser Dome.
  
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• 30 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: April 12–15, 2018

  13-04-2018 01:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffLean on Pete is one of the most surprising stories about the agony of youth since The 400 Blows.
  It's good weekend for indie releases, like the dramatic Borg Vs. McEnroe sports movie and the lovely Americana piece Lean on Pete. But there are plenty of other films big and small, old and new, that are worth your time, whether you love martial arts movies, classic madcap comedies, big dumb action flicks, or intense documentaries. Find all of our film critics' picks for
  
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• These are the jobs most likely to be killed by AI

  13-04-2018 01:18
  Robots have already taken over some physical labor jobs. Now they're coming for jobs humans once thought couldn't be done without a person.
  
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• When to say when: Study says limit alcohol to 1 drink a day

  13-04-2018 00:46
  NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s some sobering news: A large international study says adults should average no more than one alcoholic drink per day, and that means drinking guidelines in many countries may be far too loose. The study found that people who down more than seven drinks a week can expect to die sooner […]
  
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• Pet-adoption rate up more than 20 percent in King County — thanks in part to cat cafes

  13-04-2018 00:05
  The county has partnered with cat cafes and pet stores, getting adoptable pets out in front of more people.
  
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• The South End's About to Get a Lot Funnier, with New Night Joketellers Union Bringing Top Comics to Clock-Out Lounge

  13-04-2018 00:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Two of Seattle's best comics, Brett Hamil and Emmett Montgomery, are launching the Joketellers Union weekly at Clock-Out Lounge on April 18.by Dave SegalBrett Hamil: "We want to juxtapose the many different styles and vibes of comedy in a way that keeps the audience continually surprised." Alex Garland
  The newly opened Clock-Out Lounge is not only giving Beacon Hill a boost in its live-music ecosystem (which has been almost non-existent, except for house shows), but it's about to enhance the Sou
  
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