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• Charges: S. Seattle bleach attacker still wanted, 2 years later

  08-05-2018 23:55
  A 19-year-old accused of attacking two women with bleach and trying to rob them nearly two years ago in South Seattle is now charged with assault as an adult after failing to appear in court since her arraignment.
  
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• This Spring, Please, Try Not to Jerk Off in Public

  08-05-2018 23:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Nothing says "spring in Seattle" like dudes masturbating in public.by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  Ahh, May. Finally, we've reached the time of year when we can put away our rubber shoes and let our gills dry out for a few weeks—at least until Junary rears its ugly head and we are reminded, once again, that life sucks. You may, in this season, be tempted to dive into Lake Washington on especially sunny days, which will be a rapid reminder that the water doesn't actually heat up until August 1
  
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• The Stranger's Guide to Food and Drink 2018: Our Favorite Bars and Breweries in Seattle to Drink Craft Beer

  08-05-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester BlackThe namesake glass of Teku Tavern, supposedly the best shape to deliver a beer's aromas and flavor.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, including craft beer, and where to find more elusive flavors.
  Seattle is one of the greatest places on earth to be a beer drinker. We have an insane number of breweries producing high-quality b
  
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• Connelly: Former Obama pastor, Rev. Wright, eulogizes Seattle's Dr. McKinney

  08-05-2018 23:29
  African-American ministers from across America, including former Obama pastor Dr. Jeremiah Wright, gathered in Seattle on Tuesday to eulogize Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, the city's premier civil rights leader."He was a statesman, pastor, gadfly, thorn in the side of those who didn't care about the poor . . . a man who literally walked with King," said Wright.
  
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• The Brilliance of Melania Trump's Slogan, "Be Best"

  08-05-2018 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA Getty Images search for "Be Best" provided this image. It means nothing. Filograph/gettyimages.com
  To reach the essence of Melania Trump's new command to the children of America, "Be Best," we must begin with a plane crash that happened on October 31, 1994, at 3:59 pm. The plane, operated by American Eagle, was flying from Indianapolis International Airport to O'Hara International Airport in Chicago—a distance of only 164 miles. Its flight number was 4184. Its crew and p
  
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• Non-Monogamous Couples Are Not (Necessarily) "Unfaithful"

  08-05-2018 22:58 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageThis is a weird way into this post, I realize, but I have a severe case of jet lag right now so... we're going in the weird way: reading Dear Prudence today made me think of this section from one Sister Mary's monologues in Christopher Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You:
  I want to be very clear about the Immaculate Conception. It does not mean that the Blessed Mother gave birth to Christ without the prior unpleasantness of physical intimacy. That is true, but is n
  
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• What You Need to Know About Tonight's Trump-State Primaries

  08-05-2018 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersIt's another Tuesday filled with important primaries, including Senate race primaries in West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. Lady-Photo / Getty Images
  The march through the primary calendar continues today, with the political world focused on three US Senate primaries in states that Trump won by significant margins in 2016. What makes the primaries in these states extra interesting is that all the Republican candidates are aiming for Senate seats currently held by Democrats.You might
  
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• May Is Here, Which Means It's Time for Bob's Brown Ale! New on Tap: Bob's IPA, Coffee Bob's, and Sour Bob's, Too.

  08-05-2018 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Georgetown Brewering marks its 13th year serving the limited edition ale created in tribute to a dearly departed friend.by Jake Uitti Ingrid Bartels
  Manny Chao—co-owner and co-founder of the popular Georgetown Brewery, as well as namesake of its most famous brew, Manny’s Pale Ale—met Bob at Camp Goodtimes on Vashon Island nearly 20 years ago. The place, a program for kids with cancer and their families, is where their friendship blossomed. At the time, Bob, who'd first learned
  
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• Trump Exits Iran Deal Despite Protests from Basically Everyone

  08-05-2018 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
  In a move that should surprise approximately no one, Donald Trump announced Tuesday afternoon that he will pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal.From CNN: "I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal," Trump said from the White House.
  "It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," he said. "The Iran deal is defective at
  
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• OHSU selects Dr. Danny Jacobs to be its next president

  08-05-2018 21:16
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University has selected Dr. Danny Jacobs to be the school’s next president. A surgeon by training, Jacobs comes to Portland from the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he has been executive vice president, provost and dean of the school of medicine. […]
  
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• “Mountain of a man;” mourners recall civil-rights leader Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney

  08-05-2018 21:10
  Thousands of people crowded into Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall on Tuesday morning to say goodbye to the Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, a trusted leader, beloved comforter and a giant in the area's civil-rights movement.
  
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• Oregon jail changes immigration policy after suit settlement

  08-05-2018 19:33
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jail is no longer honoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers for people entering the jail on local charges. The Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility in The Dalles, known as NORCOR, officially changed its policy last month after settling a lawsuit with a man who claimed officials at the […]
  
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• Oregon jail changes immigration policy

  08-05-2018 19:33
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jail is no longer honoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers for people entering the jail on local charges. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility in The Dalles, known as NORCOR, officially changed its policy last month after settling a lawsuit with a man who […]
  
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• Seattle Councilmember Mike O'Brien gets 'thrown out of event' for policy stance

  08-05-2018 19:23
  "I want to be clear," O'Brien continued in The Seattle Times. "I was physically thrown out of this event because of the policies I advocate for."
  
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• You Can Now Consume Coffee and Pot in Literally the Same Sip

  08-05-2018 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Lester Black SPENCER AFONSO
  Drugs are fun, but combining drugs is even more fun. And the single best combination of drugs on the planet is that of caffeine and cannabis.
  There's something downright divine about this mix, and I am certainly not the first person to notice. There's even a group that built it right into their religion. The Love Israel Family—Washington State's largest hippie commune during the 1970s, that at one point included more than 350 people living communally in a doz
  
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• Puyallup nurse linked to hepatitis C scare denies having the virus

  08-05-2018 18:49
  The attorney for suspended nurse Cora Weberg said she had admitted to stealing drugs to use in a failed suicide attempt.
  
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• Court rules husband can’t sue Navy for wife’s death in Bremerton hospital

  08-05-2018 18:22
  Naval Hospital Bremerton conducted an autopsy and determined the Navy lieutenant who had just given birth bled to death from an amniotic fluid embolism rather than from medical negligence, according to court documents.
  
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• Seattle ferry dock access getting tougher during summer construction

  08-05-2018 18:17
  Commuters heading for Seattle's Colman Dock this summer will find another round of changes to how they access it, including limited space for walk-on passengers and new vehicle routes.
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Chef Wins Two James Beard Awards, Tensions Boil Over Head Tax, Ballard Shipyard Manager Hates Bike Trails

  08-05-2018 17:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Be Best today, prepaid postage on our ballots, are you concerned about living near a volcano?by Nathalie Graham"It was like eating something my mom made but it was good," says my roommate Dom, the only person I know who has eaten at Eduardo Jordan's now award-winning JuneBaby. "Arguably the best meal I've ever had." JONATHAN VANDERWEIT
  Seattle chef wins two James Beard awards: Eduardo Jordan won Best Chef in the Northwest for his restaurant Salare. His new restaurant, JuneBaby, a restaurant root
  
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• Mount Rainier: the third most dangerous volcano in the country?

  08-05-2018 16:41
  Don't be fooled by Mount Rainier's silent beauty. When it erupts it could cause serious damage.
  
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• Medford, Oregon, residents find KKK recruiting flier outside homes

  08-05-2018 16:07
  MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Residents in an Oregon city discovered recruiting materials from the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Mail Tribune reports the fliers, found Sunday morning on sidewalks or on driveways of several Medford homes, were each nestled inside a clear Ziploc baggie with a piece of hard […]
  
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• Yes, Cascades volcanoes could blow — but not like Hawaii’s

  08-05-2018 15:00
  Our volcanoes are snow-topped cones that erupt explosively, with lots of ash and deadly mud flows; they also have trash-talking Twitter accounts.
  
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• How Seattle's Amazon avoids paying taxes

  08-05-2018 15:00
  Seattle-based Amazon has gotten a lot of love from cities vying to win its HQ2. Many of those cities have offered up millions in tax incentives to the retail giant, but does it really need them?
  
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• ‘Cry me a river that Amazon has to start contributing to restoring the city’: Here’s what some readers say about Seattle’s proposed head tax

  08-05-2018 15:00
  Numerous people responded to stories by The Seattle Times last week, outlining the measure to create a new revenue stream for homelessness services. Here is what some of them said.
  
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• Buses could be evicted from the downtown bus tunnel next spring, but Seattle streets might not be ready

  08-05-2018 15:00
  Seattle’s interim transportation director warns that bus-lane restripings and signals for Fifth and Sixth avenues, and more ORCA fare-card readers on Third Avenue, might take beyond March 2019 to complete.
  
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• ‘Amazon’s growth was a gift to the city’: Here’s what some readers say about Seattle’s proposed head tax

  08-05-2018 15:00
  Numerous people responded to stories by The Seattle Times last week, outlining the measure to create a new revenue stream for homelessness services. Here is what some of them said.
  
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• Ex-student alleging sex abuse by principal files $5M suit against Oregon school district

  08-05-2018 14:52
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A former student who police say was sexually abused by a former principal has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the Springfield School District, former district Superintendent Nancy Golden and former district human resources director Roger Jordan. The Register-Guard reports the suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Eugene […]
  
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• False Tsunami warning sent to Washington coast

  08-05-2018 14:13
  The state's agency that runs the tests believes a software problem caused the test malfunctions.
  
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• False tsunami warning sent to parts of Washington coast

  08-05-2018 14:13
  The state's agency that runs the tests believes a software problem caused the test malfunctions.
  
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• Walmart to add policy aimed at curbing opioid abuse

  08-05-2018 13:45
  BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Walmart is taking steps aimed at curbing opioid abuse and misuse. The retail giant announced on Monday that Walmart and Sam’s Club will restrict initial acute opioid prescriptions to no more than a seven-day supply within the next 60 days. It also will follow laws in states that require acute opioid […]
  
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• Report: Legal marijuana boosts government revenue – a little

  08-05-2018 11:12
  A new report finds that legalizing and taxing marijuana boosts revenue for state and local governments, but not by much. In Washington state, gross revenue from legalization equaled 1.2 percent of general-fund revenue in the 2015-17 state budget.
  
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• Legal marijuana boosts government revenue — a little — report says

  08-05-2018 11:12
  A new report finds that legalizing and taxing marijuana boosts revenue for state and local governments, but not by much. In Washington state, gross revenue from legalization equaled 1.2 percent of general-fund revenue in the 2015-17 state budget.
  
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• Washington State University increases undergraduate tuition

  08-05-2018 08:16
  RICHLAND, Wash. — Washington State University officials have increased undergraduate in-state tuition for the 2018-19 school year. The Tri-City Herald reports that the university Board of Regents increased the rate by 2 percent, from $9,530 to $9,720, at its meeting on Friday. It’s the second year in a row that Washington State University has increased […]
  
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• Stay or go? Volcano forces choice for all in Hawaii eruption zone

  08-05-2018 08:05
  Because there’s no indication when the eruption might stop, or how far the lava might spread, the volcano has forced people living in and around the Leilana Estates subdivision to make tough decisions.
  
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• Living on Hawaii volcano offers affordable paradise, risks

  08-05-2018 08:05
  The slopes of Kilauea offer a lush rural setting and affordable land that contrasts sharply with Hawaii's more expensive real estate, but living on one of the world's most active volcanoes comes with risks: A dozen lava vents have opened in streets of the Puna district and 35 structures have burned down.
  
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• Despite risks, volcano offers affordable piece of paradise

  08-05-2018 08:05
  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The slopes of Kilauea offer a lush rural setting and affordable land that contrasts sharply with Hawaii’s more expensive real estate, but living on one of the world’s most active volcanoes comes with risks: A dozen lava vents have opened in streets of the Puna district and 35 structures have burned […]
  
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• Court to weigh fallout of Massachusetts drug lab misconduct

  08-05-2018 06:05
  BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ highest court is set to consider whether to toss more convictions linked to a former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years. The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in the case brought by the American Civil […]
  
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• Court asked to levy fines for misconduct in lab scandal

  08-05-2018 06:05
  BOSTON (AP) — Defense attorneys and civil libertarians in Massachusetts urged the state’s highest court on Tuesday to impose fines against the state attorney general’s office for the misconduct of two former prosecutors who tried to minimize the scope of a state drug lab scandal. A judge found that two former assistant attorneys general withheld […]
  
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• Lawyer: Patient complained of forced injections, but Puyallup hospital let nurse keep seeing patients

  08-05-2018 04:17
  The nurse has been accused of intentionally infecting two patients at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup with hepatitis C. The nurse’s attorney says his client has been scapegoated by the hospital after patients became infected by some other means.
  
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• Lawyer: Patient complained nurse forced injectable medications on her last August, but hospital did nothing

  08-05-2018 04:17
  The nurse has been accused of intentionally infecting two patients at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup with hepatitis C. The nurse’s attorney says his client has been scapegoated by the hospital after patients became infected by some other means.
  
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• Trans Mountain Pipeline protesters arrested in downtown Seattle

  08-05-2018 04:01
  Demonstrators shut down traffic downtown and a local JPMorgan Chase bank branch to protest harm to climate and indigenous communities from tar-sands pipelines.
  
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• Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien shoved out of Nordic Museum after-party

  08-05-2018 02:38
  The outdoor event at Pacific Fishermen Shipyard followed an official grand-opening gala Friday night at the museum attended by ambassadors, the president of Iceland and the Crown Princess of Denmark.
  
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• Metropolitan King County Council passes measure to fund prepaid postage for mail-in ballots

  08-05-2018 02:09
  Despite concerns by the state about equal access to polls, King County has funded a measure that will pay for ballot postage.
  
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• Connelly: King County Council votes for prepaid election ballot mailings

  08-05-2018 01:54
  The state's most populous county will have prepaid ballots.  The King County Council voted Monday to have the county pick up the tab for mail-in ballots.Secretary of State Kim Wyman has asked Gov. Jay Inslee for emergency spending authority to reimburse all of the state's 39 counties, so neither King County nor any other county has the advantage of free postage.
  
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• The 54 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: May 7-13, 2018

  08-05-2018 01:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffAida is shaping up to be the production of the year from Seattle's largest opera house, and it's not to be missed. Cory Weaver
  Our music critics have already chosen the 35 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from the closing of Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas to the Very Best of HUMP! 2008-2017, and fro
  
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• You’ll No Longer Need a Stamp for Your King County Ballot

  08-05-2018 01:12 via thestranger.com
  
  The proposal faces skepticism from Washington's Republican Secretary of State, Kim Wyman.by Heidi GrooverTime to get rid of that "postage required" box. Christopher Frizzelle
  UPDATE: The King County Council today approved a measure to offer prepaid postage on ballots for this year’s primary and general elections. “It may sound silly to some of us, but a lot of us aren’t paying bills through the mail or sending correspondence through the mail, so we may not have access to a stam
  
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• Is a Complete Overthrow of Capitalism the Only Way to Secure Rights for Trans People? You Decide at Fallen Star.

  08-05-2018 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  New play Fallen Star asks audience to engage with the question of slow vs radical change.by Joule ZelmanTobi Hill-Meyer as Celestial, a Native American supervillain (or is she a hero?) possessing the supernatural powers of distraction. Garfield Hillson
  If superheroes embody what pop culture most admires—physically and morally—supervillains can reveal more subtle contradictions or discrepancies between what we say we value and how we actually behave. (Think of how Erik Killmonger chal
  
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• Amazon Among Top Washington Companies for Employee Dependence on Medicaid

  08-05-2018 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverOh no, not The Jobs. CHARLES MUDEDE
  When Amazon announced last week it would pause construction in downtown Seattle until the council votes on the tax, local electeds worried about the effect on jobs. The Seattle Times Editorial Board echoed that concern in opposing the tax Friday, picking up a Chamber of Commerce phrase in labeling it a “tax on jobs.”But not everyone is so enamored with all those jobs.While Amazon tech workers in Seattle make an average of $110,000 a
  
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