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• I, Anonymous: Send Us Your Confessions, Accusations, Apologies, or Appreciative Admissions

  02-05-2018 23:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk
  Perhaps you had a particularly poignant experience with a stranger, witnessed or were the recipient of a kind-hearted gesture that restored your faith in humanity, found love blooming in an unexpected place, were surprised by someone's generosity. Or you served a rather obnoxious customer at the restaurant/bar/clothing shop/garage/[insert service industry job here] where you work, had an unfortunate encounter with a rude motorist while on your bike, or need an anonymous platform
  
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• What to Do with the Men of #MeToo?

  02-05-2018 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Charlie Rose is reportedly ready to return to TV with a new show on the men of #MeToo.by Katie HerzogNicholas Hunt/Getty Images
  Last week it emerged that disgraced television host Charlie Rose may be ready for his comeback. Rose, who was fired from both PBS and CBS after at least eight women accused him of unwanted sexual advances, has, according to Page Six, been floated as a potential host of a new TV show. While the 76-year-old broadcaster—who interviewed celebrities, politicians, and o
  
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• Trump proposes easing oil, gas leasing restrictions in West

  02-05-2018 23:02
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration wants to ease restrictions on oil and gas leasing and other activities across a huge swath of the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird. The move involves conservation plans for greater sage grouse approved in 2015 under former President Barack Obama. Trump […]
  
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• Another of James Brown's Funky Drummers, John "Jabo" Starks, Has Died

  02-05-2018 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A brief tribute to one of the funkiest drummers ever, John "Jabo" Starks, who passed away yesterday at age 79.by Dave SegalJohn "Jabo" Starks, elucidating the intricacies of "Super Bad." YouTube screengrab
  One of the catalysts for James Brown's funkiest sessions, drummer John "Jabo" Starks, passed away yesterday at his Mobile, Alabama home. He was 79. Along with the equally influential drummer Clyde Stubblefield, who died last year, Starks laid the foundation for dozens of tracks throughout the
  
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• Connelly: Puget Sound Energy cuts customers' power bills by $7 a month

  02-05-2018 22:57
  Puget Sound Energy passes on $96.5 million in corporate tax savings, by lowering customers' electrical bills by $7 a month.  The savings will be realized by 1.1 million electrical customers in Western Washington and Kittitas County.
  
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• The Stranger's Guide to Food and Drink 2018: Foods You Can't Find Anywhere Else in Seattle

  02-05-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Naomi TomkyLa Cabaña's Guatemalan 'Hilachas de Carne.'Jessica Stein
  This story is presented as part of The Stranger's Guide to Food and Drink 2018: the Well-Done & Rare Edition, which features our favorites of Seattle's most bountiful tastes, and where to find more elusive flavors, like the foods featured in this piece that you can't find anywhere else in town.
  In a city where tacos abound, bánh mì shops spring up infinitely, and it's hard to go a few blocks without s
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Older Man Can't Have LTR Because He's Only Attracted to Younger Guys

  02-05-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage
  I’m a 49-year-old gay man. It took a long time to come to terms with my sexuality, but the advent of the Internet and then apps finally encouraged me to act on my “gayness” about twelve years ago. I’ve always been attracted to younger guys and adhere 100% to the Campsite Rule. (Thanks for that one, Dan!) I’ve met some amazing guys and had a couple great relationships along the way. I’m still in casual and social media contact with nearly all of t
  
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• Man charged with selling food, drinks due to be destroyed

  02-05-2018 22:15
  Prosecutors say the man conspired with others to obtain truckloads of food and drinks under the promise that the product would be destroyed or recycled into agricultural feed. Instead, he then sold it to discount grocery stores in several states, they said.
  
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• Man charged in Seattle with selling food, drinks due to be destroyed

  02-05-2018 22:15
  Prosecutors say the man conspired with others to obtain truckloads of food and drinks under the promise that the product would be destroyed or recycled into agricultural feed. Instead, he then sold it to discount grocery stores in several states, they said.
  
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• Amazon Halts New Construction Pending City Council Vote on Head Tax

  02-05-2018 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehHardballs DAVID RYDER/GETTY IMAGES
  Amazon will halt construction of new office space in Seattle pending the City Council's vote on a head tax on big businesses, the Seattle Times reports.
  The tech giant is also considering to sub-lease, rather than lease, space in another building under construction downtown.Council Member Mike O'Brien learned about Amazon’s plans to halt construction during meetings with company representatives this morning, including Vice President of Real
  
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• Amazon Halts Downtown Construction Pending City Council Vote on Head Tax

  02-05-2018 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehHardballs DAVID RYDER/GETTY IMAGES
  Amazon will halt construction of a new office tower in Seattle pending the City Council's vote on a head tax on big businesses, the Seattle Times reports.
  The tech giant is also considering to sub-lease, rather than lease, space in another building under construction downtown.Council member Mike O'Brien learned about Amazon’s plans to halt construction during meetings with company representatives this morning, including Vice President of Re
  
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• Sometimes the May Day Anti-Hate Group Commentary Writes Itself

  02-05-2018 21:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean Nelson"And on that grave there grew a tree, in the Summerisle wood."
  With no disrespect to my esteemed writer/reporter colleagues in The Stranger's news department and their excellent work documenting the events of yesterday's May Day protests, counter protests, and counter-counter protests in Seattle, sometimes a cell phone video is more eloquent than any word-based tweet:Proud Boy gets beat by sign. May Day in Seattle. #jimmykimmel #jimmykimmellive #jimmyfallon #thetonightshow #colbert
  
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• Report: Amazon halts planning for new Seattle towers over head tax

  02-05-2018 21:40
  Multiple reports surfaced on Wednesday that Amazon had put a halt to planning for new downtown Seattle office towers until the city council finishes deliberating a controversial employee head tax.
  
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• First death reported in national E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce

  02-05-2018 21:25
  Health officials have tied the E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, which provides most of the romaine sold in the U.S. during the winter.
  
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• 1st death reported in romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak

  02-05-2018 21:25
  Health officials have tied the E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, which provides most of the romaine sold in the U.S. during the winter.
  
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• Blabbermouth Podcast: Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's Prescription for Winning the Midterms

  02-05-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 147 hears Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's prescription for winning the upcoming midterm elections. Also discussed: comebacks for #MeToo-felled men, the new Rachel Dolezal doc, and Michelle Wolf. John Boal
  Subscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is back on the show this week with her recipe for Democratic success in the upcoming midterm elections. She also answers Rich Smith’s burning questions about whether th
  
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• Amazon puts high-profile Seattle plans on ice over proposal to tax large employers

  02-05-2018 20:56
  The action is a bold political move of the kind Amazon has rarely made in Seattle and could lend weight to a big-business backlash against a proposed head tax on large employers.
  
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• Amazon pauses plans for Seattle office towers while City Council considers business tax

  02-05-2018 20:56
  The action is a bold political move of the kind Amazon has rarely made in Seattle and could lend weight to a big-business backlash against a proposed head tax on large employers.
  
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• Spokane Fire Department plans drone use in water rescues

  02-05-2018 20:52
  The department's drone has thermal imaging, which could help rescuers quickly locate a person in the water as it flies above the river.
  
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• Two Tourists Say Seattle Is More Dangerous Than Detroit, After Their Stuff Is Stolen from a Glass-Smashed Rental Car

  02-05-2018 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeSeattle is like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how we keep from going under. vm/gettyimages.com
  You will never believe the some of the things that can happen in the 206. Just the other day, for example, a young couple from Detroit parked their rental car in what appeared to them to be a very safe part of downtown Seattle. They were, according to KIRO 7, a "stone’s throw of high-end spots such as the Four Seasons Hotel, Benaroya Hall, and the Seattle Art Museum."The
  
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• Happy May 2. When Was the Last Time You Read 1984?

  02-05-2018 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  That scene in 1984 that takes place on May 2.by Christopher FrizzelleA protestor in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2013, using Orwell to comment on the American surveillance program Prism.* Getty Images/ollo
  It's been a while since I read 1984, but like everyone else these days, I keep meaning to reread it. Then this morning, I was flipping through A Reader's Book of Days by Seattle author Tom Nissley when I landed upon this entry for May 2:
  No one would think of George Orwell as a poet of the pastoral
  
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• Dozens of quakes rattle Hawaii volcano, eruption possible

  02-05-2018 20:29
  HONOLULU (AP) — Dozens of earthquakes are rattling Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano as magma flows into a new area east of the Puu Oo vent. Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say the increased activity Wednesday is associated with the collapse of the crater floor at Puu Oo. The floor began to collapse […]
  
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• Trump presents teaching award to educator of teen refugees

  02-05-2018 20:17
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has presented the National Teacher of the Year award to a Washington state educator who leads a classroom for teenage refugees. Trump on Wednesday honored Mandy Manning, who teaches at the Newcomer Center at Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane. The school specializes in English language development for […]
  
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• Is Washington, DC, Finally Coming Around on Weed?

  02-05-2018 20:08 via thestranger.com
  Here’s what’s been going down in our nation’s capital regarding cannabis legislation.by Josh JardineI’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about whether all of the national political activity around cannabis means the prohibitionist dam is finally about to burst, with the deschedulization of “marijuana” just around the corner.There are certainly a number of factors that could lead someone to that conclusion. While you’ve been getting high (on r
  
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• SB I-5 shut down after lumber spill in downtown Seattle

  02-05-2018 20:07
  Southbound Interstate 5 is shut down at Yesler Way in downtown Seattle Wednesday morning after a semi truck spilled its load of lumber onto the roadway, according to the state Department of Transportation.
  
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• Connelly: Battle for Congress -- Republicans reserve $4.7 million Seattle airtime

  02-05-2018 19:49
  Republicans are ready to spend big bucks to hold the 8th Congressional District seat of retiring U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert.  The National Republican Congressional Committee has reserved $4.7 million worth of Seattle airtime.The Congressional Leadership Fund, a "SuperPAC" of retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan, had already reserved $2.1 million.  Republican House hopeful Dino Rossi is over the $2 million mark in his own fund raising.
  
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• Connelly: Battle for Congress -- Republicans plan to spend $56 million

  02-05-2018 19:49
  Republicans are ready to spend big bucks to hold onto control of the U.S. House of Representatives, with the National Republican Congressional Committee doing a $56 million nationwide media buy and listed spending in 13 media markets.Some of the money is likely headed to the Northwest.  The 8th Congressional District, or retiring Republican Rep. Dave Reichert, is a prime Democratic target, along with Eastern Washington's 5th Congressional District, held by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a mem
  
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• Ed Piskor’s X-Men: Grand Design Is a Comics Cliffs Notes for X-Men

  02-05-2018 19:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Ed Piskor, 8,000 pages of X-Men comics, and Professor X’s tighty whities.by Suzette SmithIf Ed Piskor’s name wasn’t recognizable before, it will be now. After gaining recognition for the illustration work he did on American Splendor with writer Harvey Pekar, and Piskor’s own four-volume comic book history of Hip Hop Family Tree, the comics artist convinced Marvel to let him apply the same packed, gossipy, modern-eye view that we saw in Hip Hop Family Tree to the X-Men&rsq
  
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• Catch Up on Spring TV with Killing Eve, Atlanta, and The Terror

  02-05-2018 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannThe Terror
  If you’re wondering why your watchlist has been flooded with very important, must-see television programs, it’s just that time of year. The end of March and beginning of April brought a perfect storm of prestige TV premieres: The timing of the Emmy eligibility window (which closes in June) and the absence of former spring powerhouse Game of Thrones left room for a tsunami of shows, both new and returning, to make their mark on viewers. In other words, you h
  
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• Free Will Astrology: May 2–May 8

  02-05-2018 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rob Brezsny
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): I hate rampant consumerism almost as much as I hate hatred, so I don't give you the following advice lightly: Buy an experience that will help liberate you from the suffering you've had trouble outgrowing. Or buy a toy that can thaw the frozen joy trapped within your out-of-date sadness. Or buy a connection that will help you express a desire you need help in expressing. Or buy an influence that will motivate you to shed a belief or theory that has
  
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• We Can’t Have Nice Things: Our Expectations for Public Transit Have Been on a Decades-Long Downward Spiral

  02-05-2018 19:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by David ColeA real subway train pulls into a real subway station in Washington D.C. Benoît Prieur / Wikimedia Commons
  “You really shouldn’t have done that,” the youth pastor scolded me after several minutes of awkward silence. Coming from a mild-mannered Presbyterian minister, it may as well have been a temper tantrum worthy of an American Chopper meme.
  I was a high school junior in Florida at the time, and my church youth group was visiting Atlanta for the weekend. We s
  
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• Australian scientist, 104, heads to Switzerland to end life

  02-05-2018 18:43
  GENEVA (AP) — A right-to-die activist says a 104-year-old Australian scientist is on his way to Switzerland to end his life through assisted dying. Supporters of renowned academic David Goodall had expressed fears that Australian officials would prevent him from traveling to Europe. Goodall is not terminally ill, but is seeking what he calls “voluntary […]
  
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• Hawking’s last physics paper argues for a ‘simpler’ cosmos

  02-05-2018 18:32
  NEW YORK (AP) — Weeks after his death, physicist Stephen Hawking has delivered his last thoughts about the nature of the cosmos, and he says it may be simpler than often believed. Well, simpler if you understand theoretical physics, anyway. It remains incomprehensible for the rest of us. A paper that outlines his view, written […]
  
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• Art Paul dies; designer created Playboy bunny logo

  02-05-2018 18:26
  Art Paul was a freelance illustrator when he started working with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner as the magazine’s first employee in the 1950s. He has said he crafted the bunny logo in about an hour.
  
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• Transient orcas welcome a newborn calf in Hood Canal waters

  02-05-2018 18:15
  A family of transient orcas visiting Hood Canal has a healthy newborn calf cavorting about with them, says local whale-watching group Puget Sound Express.
  
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• Is There Ever a Good Time to Use the Word “Arguably”? Probably Not.

  02-05-2018 18:05 via thestranger.com
  
  A brief explanation about why "arguably" is the parsley of discourse.by Dave SegalI needed an image for this post, and this one seemed like it would grab your attention. Twelve Books
  If you've been on the internet for, oh, a few hours, you will inevitably encounter somebody using the word "arguably." And as someone who spends a fair amount of time online (an assumption I'm willing to make re: Slog readers), you've seen the word so often, you probably don't scrutinize its worthiness. But maybe it
  
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• Today's the Day to Submit Your Events for the Summer 2018 Seattle Art and Performance

  02-05-2018 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffA new edition of Seattle Art and Performance will come out in June—but in the meantime, you can catch up on our spring edition (pictured).
  Believe it or not, summer will be here someday, and it will bring with it a new issue of Seattle Art and Performance. The next one will be out on the streets on June 6, featuring, as always, comprehensive calendars of Seattle arts events for the season.If you have an event you'd like to see included, we need to know about i
  
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• Guest Editorial: Luxury Homes for Rich People or Housing for Everyone?

  02-05-2018 17:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Laura Loe BernsteinThe Talaris site, where there are plans to build about 60 single-family homes. Laura Loe Bernstein
  A couple of months ago, on the heels of fantastic organizing for housing at Fort Lawton near Discovery Park, we formed Affordable Talaris. We want to ensure that Seattle uses all of its land for the most equitable purposes and the most just outcomes. We believe Seattleites can work together to address racial and economic desegregation. We passionately support development witho
  
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• Slog AM: Sound Transit Commits To Affordable Housing, Seattle's Racial Tree Disparity, Murder Over Eviction

  02-05-2018 17:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump fudged his physical, the Midwest is battered by tornadoes, Florida is a big sinkholeby Nathalie GrahamCheck your tree privilegecaptivecookie / Getty Images
  Sound Transit has the affordable housing hook-up: All the surplus property Sound Transit owns around Link Light Rail stations will go to affordable housing developers. The measure mandates that “developers utilizing surplus property around light rail stations set aside 80 percent of their residential units for tenants earning 80 p
  
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• This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom

  02-05-2018 16:56
  Mantis shrimps throw the fastest punches in the ocean. Using their forelimbs like clubs, the small crustaceans deliver blows so quickly and forcefully that pockets of seawater vaporize in implosions of light and heat. The shrimps leave ruin in their wake, cracking into snail shells, panes of aquarium glass and human thumbs. Of the more […]
  
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• Baby orca seen in Hood Canal with whale family

  02-05-2018 16:18
  The whale-watching company Puget Sound Express also captured audio of the whales feeding.
  
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• Zero youth detention is a dangerous fantasy, as teen arrests show

  02-05-2018 15:00
  The crusade to stop King County’s new youth jail — and abolish youth detention overall — got a harsh dose of reality when five teens were charged in a brutal Burien killing.
  
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• U.S. takes down mansion’s flag, raises Russian dander

  02-05-2018 15:00
  A Russian flag no longer flies over a historic Seattle mansion that served as that nation’s consul-general residence. The Russians say they own the building and want the flag raised again. The State Department says no.
  
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• Silence is...the way Amazon meetings start?

  02-05-2018 15:00
  Meetings as Amazon start off more akin to a grade school reading class than a high-powered tech brainstorming session.
  
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• Documents: Uber driver accused of stabbing may still be working

  02-05-2018 15:00
  Police and prosecutors believe that a 52-year-old Uber driver accused of stabbing a customer in October may still be driving, according to charging documents filed last week.
  
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• Documents: Uber driver accused of stabbing customer

  02-05-2018 15:00
  Police and prosecutors believe that a 52-year-old Uber driver accused of stabbing a customer in October may still be driving, according to charging documents filed last week.
  
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• Over 10,000 endangered tortoises are rescued in Madagascar

  02-05-2018 13:31
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — International conservationists in Madagascar have been treating more than 10,000 critically endangered radiated tortoises that were seized from traffickers who had crammed them into a home with no access to food or water. The Turtle Survival Alliance and other groups are caring for the tortoises at a wildlife facility in the Ifaty […]
  
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• As China cleans up its act, India’s cities named the world’s most polluted

  02-05-2018 13:22
  India’s capital city of New Delhi, choked by rising automobile emissions and construction dust, was named on Wednesday the world’s most polluted megacity by the World Health Organization, which analyzed the levels of the pollutant PM10 in the air in cities with populations above 14 million between 2010 and 2016. Greater Cairo was the second […]
  
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• Infections from ticks, fleas and mosquitoes have more than tripled, says CDC

  02-05-2018 04:28
  During the time covered in the study, nine new germs spread by the bites from infected mosquitoes and ticks were discovered or introduced in the United States, the report said.
  
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• May Day marked by peaceful marches in Seattle, 1 arrest near Amazon Spheres

  02-05-2018 03:17
  From a police and public safety standpoint, the May Day marches and protests followed a de-escalation of violence and vandalism that has marked the event over the past few years. By the time the march wound down, police had arrested one protester.
  
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