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• PSA: Metro Is Giving Out $25 Pre-Loaded Orca Cards

  30-04-2018 23:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogAll abroad!Mudede
  Fill out this survey and Metro will either send you a new Orca card loaded with $25 or add $25 to your existing account. There is, however, one catch: Clicking that link means you agree to: 1.) Say "hello" and "thank you" to the driver; 2.) Neither talk on your cell phone nor play your saxy jazz sans headphones for the duration of your ride; 3.) Take your goddamn bag off the seat; and 4.) Promise to never, ever masturbate on the city bus, INCLUDING on the E line.
  
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• Connelly: National parks -- 'crown jewels' and huge economic assets

  30-04-2018 23:29
  By visiting America's national parks, and experience the "crown jewels" of our country, we do something for the psyche and the soul , but also provide substantial benefits to our country's economy.
  
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• Seattle, Why Are So Many of You Going to See Jordan B. Peterson?

  30-04-2018 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  He's pulling in $60K per month to be sexist on the internet.by Rich SmithBoth of his shows at the Moore this summer are sold out. Kelly O
  Jordan B. Peterson is the latest person to discover the goldmine of appealing to lonely men on the internet who feel alienated by the progress of women and minorities.The University of Toronto psychology professor has made a name for himself by posting lectures and self-help videos to YouTube with titles like "Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white pri
  
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• Missing Oregon Trucker Starved for Four Days Because He Didn't Want to "Steal" Potato Chips in Cargo

  30-04-2018 23:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede evgenyvasenev/gettyimages.com
  KIRO 7 reports that an Oregon trucker, Jacob Cartwright, 22, transporting a cargo of potato chips from Portland to Nyssa, which is on the border with a state that, according to the comedian Michelle Wolf, makes Trump look rich, Idaho (aka, the potato state), when his GPS went berserk and gave him bad information. He took the wrong turn and ended up stuck and lost in a snowy Oregon forest. The trucker claims there was no cellphone connection, and th
  
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• Man charged in Roseburg homicide; victim stabbed near hotel

  30-04-2018 22:45
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — A 21-year-old man has been arrested after a fatal stabbing in southwestern Oregon. Roseburg police say Billy Dale Conner-Ferguson was arrested Monday, the same day officers found an unconscious man in the parking lot of a Rodeway Inn hotel. The victim was taken by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center, where he […]
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: My Son Stole My Crucifix-Shaped Dildo

  30-04-2018 22:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  This letter was originally published on Apr 9, 2009.
  I recently discovered, accidentally, while moving things out of my 16-year-old son's room prior to a renovation, a cache of my sex toys that had mysteriously disappeared over the past year. While I've wondered how it was possible to misplace a glow-in-the-dark crucifix-shaped dildo (complete with Jesus in relief), it never dawned on me that it might be an inside job.
  This raises several issues. There's the you-stole-my-stuff prob
  
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• Puyallup hospital warns 2,600 ER patients to test for Hepatitis C

  30-04-2018 22:26
  MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital says the patients may have been exposed to the virus though a nurse who has admitted to stealing narcotics.
  
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• Trial: Did man intend to 'execute' his grandma, ex's friend?

  30-04-2018 22:25
  When Zachary Craven allegedly killed his grandmother, Angelika Hayden, and his ex-girlfriend's best friend, Meagan Smith, he took nothing with him and left behind only one item at each scene: A single .22 caliber spent shell casing.
  
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• The Family Featured in the NYT Article About Queer Families Looks Awfully Straight

  30-04-2018 21:57 via thestranger.com
  
  While everyone and their abba has decided that queerness is more about haircuts and pronouns than who you bone, actual queer people are still second class citizens under the law.by Katie HerzogThe New York Times' idea of a queer coupleGetty Images
  As Kurt Cobain put it 25 years ago, "everyone is gay," and no where is that more apparent than an article in last week's New York Times, "Some L.G.B.T. Parents Reject the Names ‘Mommy’ and ‘Daddy'" by Stephanie Fairyington.The piece c
  
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• King County detectives arrest 5 in crackdown on gang shootings

  30-04-2018 21:46
  The suspects, all males and ranging in age from 17 to 19, have each been charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, she said. They were arrested last week.
  
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• Spun Out: 5 Essential Cuts Selected by Local DJ Chilly

  30-04-2018 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Host of KEXP's Latin-music show El Sonido, DJ Chilly reveals 5 cuts sizzling on the airwaves and in clubs right now.by Dave SegalDJ Chilly, Seattle's go-to selector for "funky, rebellious, or sexy" Latin music.Tori Dickson
  DJ CHILLY (aka WILL MYERS; KEXP; ¡Manos Arriba!)
  Current top 5 tracks:
  ÌFÉ,“Bangah (Pico y Palo)” (Discos Ifá)
  "This Puerto Rican collective dropped my favorite innovation of the last year, the LP IIII + IIII, and this track is a hands-do
  
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• 'My gang are killas': Murder conspiracy uncovered in Facebook chats

  30-04-2018 21:34
  Five teenagers were rounded up in the past week in connection with retaliatory shootings that occurred a year ago among gang members "locked in a deadly and dangerous feud," King County Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht announced Monday.
  
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• 'My gang are killas': 5 teens swept up in murder conspiracy arrests

  30-04-2018 21:34
  Five teenagers were rounded up in the past week in connection with retaliatory shootings that occurred a year ago among gang members "locked in a deadly and dangerous feud," King County Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht announced Monday.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Restaurant Manager Gets Smoked

  30-04-2018 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  This one's great.by Callan BerryCallan Berry [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Poll: American Millennials Are Becoming More Supportive of Republicans as Midterms Approach

  30-04-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  If this poll is to be believed, the trend toward voting Republican is particularly pronounced among young white men.by Eli SandersLikely Republican voters? iStock / Getty Images
  Huh. A Reuters/Ipsos poll of 16,000 American voters between the ages of 18 and 34 just found that among millennials, "enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning" and millennials "increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy."
  How'd that happen?The poll doesn't say, exactly, but it suggests
  
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• America’s air isn’t getting cleaner as fast as it used to

  30-04-2018 21:07
  DENVER (AP) — For decades America’s air was getting cleaner as levels of a key smog ingredient steadily dropped. That changed about seven years ago when pollution reductions leveled off, a new study found. This means when tighter federal air quality standards go into effect later this year, many more cities may find themselves on […]
  
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• Construction worker falls from Seattle building, lands in safety net

  30-04-2018 21:04
  The man suffered several broken bones in the fall and was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
  
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• En Route to Seattle, Alan Cumming Defends Crocs, Defies Culture Snobs, and Demonstrates Dog Discipline

  30-04-2018 20:56 via thestranger.com
  
  An interview with Alan Cumming and his dog.by Sean NelsonAlan Cumming, so versatile he can dance with himself, will perform Legal Immigrant one night only, Thursday May 3 at Benaroya Hall. Phillip Toledano
  Alan Cumming’s dog is barking. The tone of the bark suggests it may be an act of protest against his master doing a telephone interview instead of paying attention to him.“Jerry,” Cumming snaps on the other end of the phone, “stop it!”Jerry complies.
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• Connelly: Million-dollar Durkan campaign still wants money

  30-04-2018 20:42
  Jenny Durkan raised more than $1 million to win the Seattle Mayor's office, and benefited from $835,000 spending by an "independent" supporting group.Yet, five month after the election, "Team Jenny" is still out with one last appeal for money.
  
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• B-I-G time: Wild cards send spelling bee field above 500

  30-04-2018 20:36
  WASHINGTON (AP) — “Gargantuan” might be an appropriate word to kick off this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee. The competition will be super-sized because of a new wild-card program that provided a path to the bee for kids who didn’t qualify by conventional means and were willing to pay their own way. Scripps was willing […]
  
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• Seattle Mayor Durkan replaces Neighborhoods director who oversaw public-engagement shake-up

  30-04-2018 20:34
  Kathy Nyland will be replaced May 16 by Andrés Mantilla, who has been serving as director of external relations and outreach in Durkan's office. Nyland will move to a senior adviser position at Seattle Parks and Recreation.
  
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• Broken Bone Bathtub Is a One-Woman Show Performed in a Stranger's Bathroom

  30-04-2018 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThough she’ll do the show throughout Seattle, seating is extremely limited.ZACK DEZON
  Theater artist Siobhan O'Loughlin broke her hand and fingers in a bad bike accident in 2014. The doctor told the New York–based artist to wrap up her giant cast in a plastic bag when showering, but O'Loughlin was anxious about doing that "because I'm an anxious person," she said recently.
  So she thought to take baths instead. A major problem presented itself: She didn't have a bathtub.
  
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• Cyborg-lit: Book about transhumanism wins Wellcome prize

  30-04-2018 20:16
  LONDON (AP) — A book that explores the quest to defeat death with technology has won Britain’s medically themed Wellcome Book Prize. Mark O’Connell’s “To Be a Machine” beat five other finalists Monday for the 30,000-pound ($41,000) prize, which aims to bridge the gap between literature and science. The Irish writer visited cryogenic labs, Silicon […]
  
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• Anyone Complaining about Michelle Wolf's (Very Funny) WHCA Monologue...

  30-04-2018 19:56 via thestranger.com
  
  ...really needs to watch about 30 seconds of this motherfucker.by Sean NelsonMichelle Wolf—Friday obscure, Monday, offensive!Anyone complaining about Michelle Wolf's (very funny) monologue at this weekend’s White House Correspondents Association dinner this weekend really needs to watch about 30 seconds of this motherfucker, from the 2007 edition of this event:...then take a deep-knee bend.
  Michelle Wolf was brilliant. Her jokes were really sharp and true. And she was every bit as sa
  
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• The 30 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: April 30-May 6, 2018

  30-04-2018 19:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThere are still tickets available for Pulitzer-winning Kendrick Lamar's show this weekend. Acclaimed singer SZA, who is also on the newly announced Bumbershoot lineup, will open. Christian San Jose for Top Dawg Entertainment
  This week, our music critics have picked everything from pop country's own riot grrrl (Shania Twain), to an industrial music festival (Mechanismus), to an unsung turntablism hero (Kid Koala’s Vinyl Vaudeville Show). Follow the links below
  
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• Michael Anderson, director of ‘Logan’s Run,’ other movie hits, dies at 98

  30-04-2018 19:30
  The prolific film director of the Oscar-winning “Around the World in 80 Days,” the cult classic “Logan’s Run” and “The Dam Busters,” one of Britain’s best-loved war films, has died at his home on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
  
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• James H. Cone, a founder of black liberation theology, dies at 79

  30-04-2018 19:11
  The Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, a central figure in the development of black liberation theology in the 1960s and ’70s who argued for racial justice and an interpretation of the Christian Gospel that elevated the voices of the oppressed, died Saturday. He was 79.
  
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• Just Announced: Bumbershoot's 2018 Lineup

  30-04-2018 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe Chainsmokers will headline the 48th annual music, comedy, and arts festival.
  The lineup for Bumbershoot, the music and arts festival that will take place from August 31 through September 2 at Seattle Center, was just announced this morning.Music headliners include J. Cole, the Chainsmokers, Fleet Foxes, Lil Wayne, Portugal. The Man, Ludacris, and Blondie.
  The "comedy & conversation" portion of the festival will be headlined by Eugene Mirman and the Last Podc
  
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• Guest Editorial: Convention Center Project Brings Much-Needed Affordable Housing and Community Benefits

  30-04-2018 18:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Marty KooistraThe author Courtesy photo
  The Seattle City Council has an opportunity to bring substantial improvements into our community this spring by approving the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) Addition project.
  The Addition received a major boost late last year with the announcement of an agreement between the Convention Center and the Community Package Coalition (CPC) – a collaboration between 12 community and non-profit organizations advocating for neighborhood-supporte
  
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• Dani Tirrell's Black Bois Is a Multidisciplinary Ode to the Irreducibility of Blackness

  30-04-2018 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  A many-gendered, multi-genre experience.by Rich SmithBlack Bois. Naomi Ishisaka
  In Black Bois, which sold out its world premiere run at On the Boards pretty quickly, choreographer/dancer Dani Tirrell assembles a many-gendered supergroup of Seattle performers, each of whom could easily carry their own full-length show. Together they create a show about the irreducibility of black experience. Tirrell and the cast fight back against a world that tends to flatten and fragment blackness into digestib
  
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• Dani Tirrell's Black Bois Is A Multi-Disciplinary Ode To the Irreducibility of Blackness

  30-04-2018 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  A many-gendered, multi-genre experience.by Rich SmithBlack Bois. Naomi Ishisaka
  In Black Bois, which sold out its world premiere run at On the Boards pretty quickly, choreographer/dancer Dani Tirrell assembles a many-gendered supergroup of Seattle performers, each of whom could easily carry their own full-length show. Together they create a show about the irreducibility of black experience. Tirrell and the cast fight back against a world that tends to flatten and fragment blackness into digestib
  
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• Earthquake strikes off Oregon Coast; no injuries

  30-04-2018 17:25
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 4.0-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon. The temblor struck Sunday night about 121 miles west of Bandon, on Oregon’s south coast. It occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles. There have been no reports of injuries or damage. [Related: […]
  
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• Slog AM: Amazon Avoiding Seattle Mistakes With HQ2, Alleged Hate Crime Victim's GoFundMe Held Hostage By Family Member

  30-04-2018 17:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Bezos launches a rocket in cowboy boots, journalists outraged about White House Correspondents' Dinner, 9 journalists die in Afghanistanby Nathalie GrahamGreetings [FILL IN CITY NAME], we come in peace. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
  Amazon looks to avoid Seattle mistakes with HQ2: Amazon HQ2 scouts are asking the 20 prospective cities questions that revolve around issues many think the company has contributed to in Seattle. How will the HQ2 city handle increased traffic? How will it fund affordable
  
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• What you should know about stem cells, from promising research to dubious uses

  30-04-2018 17:10
  Stem-cell research is one of science’s most promising fields. Scientists believe stem cells may someday be used to repair or replace tissues and organs lost to age or disease, though they say effective therapies are still years away. Hundreds of clinics, however, have already popped up across the country offering expensive treatments that are unproven […]
  
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• Father of Army vet shot at Oregon VA clinic feels betrayed

  30-04-2018 16:03
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The father of a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder who was shot at a government clinic in Oregon blames Veterans Affairs for letting down his son. Gilbert “Matt” Negrete, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in jail in the former timber town of Medford, charged with attempted assault and other […]
  
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• Suit alleges kindergarten teacher did not stop sexual abuse

  30-04-2018 15:41
  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A lawsuit alleges a Washington kindergarten teacher, elementary school principal and the school district failed to prevent sexual abuse among students. The News Tribune reports the lawsuit says a 5-year-old kindergartner was sexually abused by a classmate at Grant Elementary School in 2014. Tacoma Public Schools spokesman Dan Voelpel says the […]
  
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• 2 dead in Skyway motorcycle club melee

  30-04-2018 15:38
  Two people are dead, three injured and and two suffered panic attacks after a fight erupted at a Skyway motorcycle club early Sunday morning.
  
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• Super commuters: Seattle has thousands who travel 90-plus minutes to work each day

  30-04-2018 15:00
  Drive far to work every day? For most people, not this far, but for a healthy percentage of Seattle commuters, 90 minutes or more is all-too-common.
  
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• ‘Mad dash to the finish’ as Seattle’s new Nordic Museum prepares for its grand debut

  30-04-2018 15:00
  The Ballard museum opens May 5 with a grand ambition: telling the tales of 12,000 years of Nordic and Nordic-American life. Those stories are relevant to everyone in Seattle, the museum’s chief says.
  
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• Inside Sports Business: Study shows where fans might come from for pro games at KeyArena

  30-04-2018 15:00
  Environmental Science Associates built a database to estimate where fans would travel to KeyArena from on the day of a weekday NBA game. They did so to get a better sense of how parking and transportation strategies might improve traffic congestion.
  
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• After May Day march, will protesters indulge in mayhem or ‘peace joints’?

  30-04-2018 15:00
  As in years past, a march for immigrant and workers rights will highlight the May Day events in Seattle. What has happened afterward in past years has Seattle police preparing for possible violence. “It’s just hard to know which way it’s going to go.”
  
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• After May Day march in Seattle, will protesters indulge in mayhem or ‘peace joints’?

  30-04-2018 15:00
  As in years past, a march for immigrant and workers rights will highlight the May Day events in Seattle. What has happened afterward in past years has Seattle police preparing for possible violence. “It’s just hard to know which way it’s going to go.”
  
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• Man won’t face felony charges for digging, living in cave in Washington state park

  30-04-2018 14:59
  YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A homeless man who lived for a year in a self-dug cave at a state park in eastern Washington state won’t face charges. The Yakima Herald reports that officials won’t prosecute the 57-year-old man, who was arrested recently on possible malicious mischief charges. He was taken into custody when the cave […]
  
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• Body of missing swimmer recovered in Eastern Washington

  30-04-2018 14:42
  The victim was previously identified as 23-year-old Isaac Engell of Colville.
  
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• Unprecedented U.S.-British project launches to study the world’s most dangerous glacier

  30-04-2018 13:42
  The largest U.S.-British Antarctic mission in seven decades officially launched at an event in Cambridge on Monday, as the two countries pooled dollars and scientific resources for missions to West Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier — a Florida-size ice body that, scientists fear, could flood the world’s coastlines in our lifetimes. “For global sea-level change in the […]
  
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• Climate experts in Bonn seek to make Paris climate deal work

  30-04-2018 10:58
  BERLIN (AP) — Diplomats and environmentalists are gathering in Bonn, Germany, to keep working on the rules governing the Paris climate accord. The talks starting Monday are part of preparations for December’s global climate summit in Katowice, Poland, when the so-called Paris rulebook must be formally approved. Among the unresolved issues are how to ensure […]
  
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• New Mexico firm hopes to offer Wi-Fi for space travelers

  30-04-2018 07:52
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A small New Mexico-based firm is hoping to join NASA in offering Wi-Fi in space. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Solstar Space Co. of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is working to create reliable internet connections in space for everyone, starting in the orbital realm. Solstar CEO M. Brian Barnett […]
  
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• T-Mobile, Sprint bet on winning over regulators with merger deal

  30-04-2018 04:48
  The two wireless carriers announced plans Sunday to merge into a new telecom giant. But for consumer advocates and regulators, the big questions are: Will there be enough competition with one fewer national wireless carriers? And will prices go up?
  
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• Connelly: Democrats lampoon 'Republican Men's Retreat' with Dino Rossi

  30-04-2018 03:43
  Male bonding may have a political price.The Pierce County Republican Party has scheduled a "Republican Men's Retreat" for June 30, featuring 8th District GOP U.S. House hopeful Dino Rossi.  Democrats are poking fun at the event, asking whether Rossi will reveal his position on prproductive health.
  
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• Washington school districts, teachers prep for summer of salary talks

  30-04-2018 03:31
  New money and the McCleary ruling have completely changed how teachers are paid, promising long bargaining sessions this summer.
  
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