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• Port of Seattle ousts longtime chief lawyer over workplace complaint — and gives him $500,000 payout

  27-06-2018 23:59
  Craig Watson, the general counsel for the Port of Seattle for the past 13 years, was the subject of an investigation that led Port leadership to lose trust in him.
  
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• Hottest Fashion Accessory of the Season Spotted on Capitol Hill

  27-06-2018 23:48 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogThis guy and his cat in Seattle
  Thank you for this, Eclectophile. On a day like this,we need it.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Canadian Cannabis Forecast

  27-06-2018 23:41 via thestranger.com
  Looking at Canada’s numbers, and at Uruguay, the first country to legalize weed.by Josh JardineLast week, Canada officially approved legalization of cannabis throughout the country. While it’s the first G7 nation to fully legalize cannabis, it’s the second in the world overall. The first? Uruguay, a country some of us struggle to pronounce, spell, or find on a map. (Don’t “ooooooh” me, y’all know it’s true.)Uruguay is a nation of nearly 3.5 million
  
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• Is Dan Savage Ready to Join the DSA?

  27-06-2018 23:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Blabbermouth Podcast Episode 155by The StrangerEpisode 155 talks to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal about a historic SCOTUS decision, then explores the big Democratic primary upset in New York—and hears why this week, Dan Savage hearts the DSA. AdrianHancu / Getty Images
  Subscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!It’s been a week of historic Supreme Court decisions, continued hostility toward immigrants, and raging debates over what it means to be “civil.” To
  
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• Washington ranked middle of the pack for education, higher overall on child well-being

  27-06-2018 23:22
  An annual report of child well-being in the U.S. found Washington has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to educating its children from their early years and helping them to graduate high school on time. The latest Kids Count Data Book, released Wednesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ranked Washington 26th among […]
  
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• Fremont Brewing Is Giving Sour Beer Lovers the Best Gift This Summer

  27-06-2018 22:46 via thestranger.com
  
  The brewery opened a new taproom quietly, without a fuss, and its offerings range in flavor.by Lester BlackA taproom right in the action. LB
  Here’s a surprise summer gift for sour beer fans: Fremont Brewing just opened a new taproom dedicated exclusively to barrel-aged and sour ales. Dubbed the Black Heron Lounge, this new beer program and weekend-only taproom sits behind a roll-up garage door in the back corner of the brewery’s downtown Fremont location.
  Fremont Brewing’s expa
  
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• Leave No Trace Is an Extraordinary Northwest Story

  27-06-2018 21:56 via thestranger.com
  Longest camping trip ever!by Ned LannamannIf you lived in the Pacific Northwest in 2004, you remember it: The discovery that, for years, a father and daughter had been living in Portland's Forest Park in an undetected campsite. They were eventually found and housed by the authorities, but soon disappeared again.The story inspired a novel, My Abandonment, written by Reed College creative writing professor Peter Rock, and that book has been adapted into a compassionate, graceful movie by Winter&rs
  
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• Fall in Love With a Cat This Weekend at Seattle Humane’s Catapalooza

  27-06-2018 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Have some feline fun this weekend at Seattle Humane’s Catapalooza!by Sophia StephensWill you find your new feline friend at Seattle Humane’s Catapalooza this upcoming weekend? Photo Courtesy of Seattle Humane.
  This Saturday and Sunday, your new best friend might just be waiting for you in Bellevue at Seattle Humane’s Catapalooza, along with some fabulous feline-themed fun. Proceeds from the event will go towards services for the animals that Seattle Humane serves, including its
  
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• Navy releases plan for increased Growler aircraft training on Whidbey Island

  27-06-2018 21:32
  The training tempo would increase due to the arrival of an additional 36 Growlers on Whidbey Island, the only place in the country where the Navy electronic warfare aircraft are based.
  
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• , Featuring Portishead's Geoff Barrow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="viewarticle">Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: "Allé Sauvage" by Beak>, Featuring Portishead's Geoff Barrow

  , Featuring Portishead's Geoff Barrow" itemprop="url">27-06-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Portishead leader Geoff Barrow's krautrock-loving Beak> project returns with chilling, suspenseful track from their new album due out this fall.by Dave SegalBeak> flex some scary, Goblin-like muscles on "Allé Sauvage." Temporary Residence Ltd.
  Beak>, "Allé Sauvage [Live at Invada Studios]" (Invada/Temporary Residence). Beak> are the low-key, krautrock-loving side project of Portishead's Geoff Barrow. With Billy Fuller and Will Young in tow, the renowned British producer
  
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• What Permit Patty Needed Was the #StayWokeCoffee That Columbia City's Black Youth Are Selling

  27-06-2018 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
  This weekend, the world was introduced to Permit Patty. She became instantly famous after she was filmed allegedly calling the police on an 8-year-old black girl who was selling bottled water without a permit. Permit Patty's real name is Alison Ettel. She is white. She was, until yesterday, the CEO of Treatwell Health, a company that sells cannabis to canines. And the person who filmed her was the mother of the 8-year-old girl, Jordan Rogers.When Permit Patty rea
  
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• Kennedy To Retire

  27-06-2018 20:08 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageHUGE NEWS: Justice Kennedy, the swig vote in the Supreme Court for years, has announced his retirement.
  — Michael D. Shear (@shearm) June 27, 2018Goodbye 5-4, hello 6-3. This is a calamity. Republicans blocked Obama from appointing a Supreme Court Justice because an election was coming up in a year later. Now watch as McConnell rushes to confirm Trump's next pick for SCOTUS before midterm elections that are just 16 weeks away.
  UPDATE: We're saved!
  Spectacular blood moon 'to br
  
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• Rita Bullwinkel’s Belly Up Is Like an Endless Jungle

  27-06-2018 20:07 via thestranger.com
  Rita Bullwinkel’s Belly Up is the latest, impressive book from A Strange Object.by Suzette SmithIt’s always such a pleasure to hold a new book from Austin, Texas, small press A Strange Object. They’re a women-run outfit with an eye for bold writing and creative but unassuming book design. Their catalog is, thus far, humble; although they were founded in 2012, they’ve only published seven books. But each one feels carefully considered.The newest addition to A Strange Objec
  
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• AD: #open is coming to Seattle this summer!

  27-06-2018 19:56 via hashtagopen.com
  #open, an inclusive, sex-positive community for adult exploration, is coming to Seattle this summer.by Stranger Things To Do Partner#open is coming to Seattle this summer! #open is an inclusive, sex-positive community for adult exploration built around a “dating” app. Whether color or with a partner, #open allows you to self-identify, express your preferences and boundaries, and find others who are into whatever you’re into.We couldn’t think of a better group of people to
  
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• A CBD-Based Treatment for Epilepsy Won FDA Approval

  27-06-2018 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine THECRIMSONRIBBON / GETTY IMAGES
  There was a great deal of celebrating in certain circles on Monday, when British pharmaceutical giant GW Pharmaceuticals announced that it had received FDA approval for Epidiolex, which is derived from cannabis and is used to treat two rare forms of pediatric epilepsy, Dravet Syndrome (DS) and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS). SeekingAlpha reports that children suffering from both kinds of epilepsy who treated with Epidiolex showed reduced seizures wh
  
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• A Previously Lost 1963 Session from John Coltrane’s Classic Quartet

  27-06-2018 19:46 via thestranger.com
  
  The lost John Coltrane album, Both Directions at Once, reveals a hard day’s work.by Ned LannamannOn March 6, 1963, the John Coltrane Quartet played a session at the famed Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. They recorded for approximately five hours—they had a show at Birdland in midtown Manhattan to get to later that evening. The tape was never released and was thought to be lost after Coltrane’s record label, Impulse!, was bought by ABC Records, and the archiv
  
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• Chasing the Perfect Pop Song with the Sidekicks

  27-06-2018 19:32 via thestranger.com
  The Ohio band gets closer with Happiness Hours.by Ben SalmonWriting the perfect pop song is a lofty goal, one that’s out of the reach of most songwriters. But Steve Ciolek is not most songwriters. The 29-year-old is the frontman of the Sidekicks, a Columbus, Ohio, quartet whose two most recent albums—2015’s Runners in the Nerved World and this year’s Happiness Hours—are packed with ultra-hooky pop-rock tunes that will bounce around your brain for a good long while.C
  
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• GLOW’s Second Season Proves It’s the Most Relevant Show on TV

  27-06-2018 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ciara Dolan
  Set in mid-1980s Los Angeles—specifically, in an unglamorous warehouse in the San Fernando Valley—two intertwined conflicts drove GLOW’s first season. Inspired by the real-life TV show Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which aired from 1986 to 1990, Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch’s Netflix series followed the underdog story of a group of struggling actors trying to pass for an all-female league of professional wrestlers.
  Those two major challenges: First, the wom
  
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• Get lost in Seattle’s map of ‘high weirdness,’ Supreme Court deals blow to labor unions | Wednesday Morning Brief, June 27

  27-06-2018 19:30
  Morning Brief is a newsletter from The Seattle Times delivered straight to your inbox every morning, Monday through Friday. Our editors choose the morning’s most important and entertaining items, and deliver them to you in short, easy-to-digest bites.
  
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• Brush fire damages 2 homes in Central Oregon

  27-06-2018 19:12
  BEND, Ore. — A fast-moving brush fire damaged two homes and destroyed a fifth-wheel trailer on the eastern edge of Prineville. Crook County Fire Chief Matt Smith told KTVZ-TV on Wednesday that the homes had moderate damage, but were livable. He says one family spent the night away from home. Smith said the fire was […]
  
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• Woman accused of stealing from Tacoma dementia patients

  27-06-2018 19:08
  The 34-year-old woman has been charged with three counts of first-degree theft from a vulnerable adult, four counts of second-degree theft and two counts of first-degree trafficking in stolen property.
  
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• Comet or asteroid? Scientists ID interstellar visitor

  27-06-2018 19:05
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Last year’s visitor from another star system — a cigar-shaped object briefly tumbling through our cosmic neck of the woods — has now been identified as a comet. A European-led team makes the case in Wednesday’s edition of the journal Nature. Telescopes first spotted the mysterious red-tinged object last October […]
  
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• Yakama tribal police officer indicted on child porn, meth charges

  27-06-2018 19:02
  A probable cause affidavit filed by police says the officer placed a video camera in a teddy bear in the bedroom of his friend's young teenage daughter.
  
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• Yakama police officer indicted on child porn, meth charges

  27-06-2018 19:02
  A probable cause affidavit filed by police says the officer placed a video camera in a teddy bear in the bedroom of his friend's young teenage daughter.
  
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• More delay, cost for NASA’s next-generation space telescope

  27-06-2018 19:02
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has delayed the launch of its next-generation space telescope — again. NASA announced Wednesday that the James Webb Space Telescope will now fly no earlier than 2021. The delay means the observatory’s overall cost is now expected to reach nearly $10 billion. Officials blame worker error for at least […]
  
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• Africa’s air pollution killing thousands of infants, study says

  27-06-2018 19:01
  There is a "robust relationship" between breathable particulate matter and infant mortality in some of the world's poorest countries, according to a study by U.S. universities that was published Wednesday.
  
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• Changes coming to standard Washington licenses, IDs

  27-06-2018 18:49
  Starting Sunday, all new and renewed standard licenses — which aren't in line with the federal requirements — will be marked to indicate they are not REAL ID compliant and thus not acceptable for certain purposes by federal authorities once enforcement begins October 2020.
  
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• Joe Jackson, patriarch of musical Jackson family, dies at 89

  27-06-2018 18:48
  The stage dad of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and their talented siblings took his family from poverty in Gary, Indiana, and launched a musical dynasty.
  
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• AP Source: Jackson family patriarch dies at 89

  27-06-2018 18:48
  The stage dad of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and their talented siblings took his family from poverty in Gary, Indiana, and launched a musical dynasty.
  
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• Seattle ICE lawyer facing prison time for stealing identities of would-be immigrants

  27-06-2018 18:36
  A former ICE chief lawyer in Seattle faces a federal judge Thursday for sentencing on charges that he victimized “particularly vulnerable” illegal or undocumented immigrants by stealing their identities, according to prosecutors.
  
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• The Stranger's 2018 Visitor's Guide to Seattle Is Out Now

  27-06-2018 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk Cover art by Bratislav Milenkovic
  While The Stranger's Visitors Guide to Seattle (aka the Know-It-All Guide to Seattle) may be primarily directed at vacationers and people new to our city, it could very well turn all you longtimers or folks native to the region onto something new, too. The 2018 guide is our most ambitious yet while remaining a hip, glossy, many-paged reminder about the stuff you maybe haven't crossed off your bucket list yet, or haven't tried in your time kicking
  
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• Washington state Democrats, labor groups slam U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on union fees

  27-06-2018 17:58
  The decision threatens Washington state's public-sector unions, which are powerful players in both funding Democratic political campaigns and shaping public policy in Olympia.
  
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• Battle lines sharpen in Washington state as top court says government can’t force workers to pay union fees

  27-06-2018 17:58
  The decision threatens Washington state's public-sector unions, which are powerful players in both funding Democratic political campaigns and shaping public policy in Olympia.
  
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• Fred Wildlife Refuge to Hold Benefit Concert for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project June 28

  27-06-2018 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Following the Supreme court's decision to uphold Trump's Muslim travel ban, some artists are throwing a benefit concert for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project at Fred Wildlife on June 28.by Dave Segal Josiah Werning
  A multimedia concert to benefit Northwest Immigrant Rights Project will take place at Fred Wildlife Refuge on Thursday, June 28. Dubbed "No Human Is Illegal: A Fundraiser to Help Keep Families Together," the event was quickly organized in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to uph
  
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• Slog AM: 10 Arrested Outside Northwest Detention Center, Seattle's New Crowdsourced Map Of The Paranormal

  27-06-2018 17:17 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle Fire Department steps up personal safety measures, the Supreme Court sucks, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clinches a comfortable win in New York primaryby Nathalie GrahamThe Fremont Troll is classified as "likely just a rumor" on Liminal Seattle's new mapMatt Reames @spookymatt
  Ten arrested outside Northwest Detention Center: The protest going on outside the Tacoma facility has drawn about 160 people. Last night, around 40 were blocking the road to the detention center. Police were called
  
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• Seattle fire crews get bulletproof vests for homeless calls

  27-06-2018 16:07
  Assistant Fire Chief Bryan Hastings said there's been more firefighters assaulted on calls than ever before, and they've also subjected to swarming by unruly crowds, and had gear from their engines and aid cars stolen.
  
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• Endangered species listing considered for rare Nevada toad

  27-06-2018 15:45
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to consider Endangered Species Act protection for a rare toad in northern Nevada’s high desert where one of the biggest producers of geothermal energy in the nation wants to build another power plant. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday that conservationists presented “substantial scientific” […]
  
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• Seattle architectural firm Olson Kundig wins international competition to design The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa

  27-06-2018 15:00
  The new building in Tulsa will exhibit items from Dylan’s extensive archive, making them public for the first time.
  
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• Seattle architects who are renovating Space Needle win new project: designing a world-class Bob Dylan Center

  27-06-2018 15:00
  The new building in Tulsa will exhibit items from Dylan’s extensive archive, making them public for the first time.
  
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• No Trump allowed: How liberals risk becoming the thing they’re protesting

  27-06-2018 15:00
  Maybe it's not fair that regular citizens are being called on to have more class and community spirit than the leader of the free world. But when you don't, he wins.
  
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• Fate of Seattle streetcar remains a mystery, as deadline passes for $416,000 consultant’s report

  27-06-2018 15:00
  Mayor Jenny Durkan said an outside review of the city's downtown streetcar-expansion project would be completed by last week. But that deadline has come and gone.
  
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• Explore Seattle’s map of ‘high weirdness’: Ghost canoe, rumored troll, Hell Mouth — and more

  27-06-2018 15:00
  Jeremy Puma and Garrett Kelly, friends and observers of the paranormal, have launched a crowdsourced map of the Seattle places where people have experienced peculiar, preternatural or spooky phenomena. Got an addition for their map? They want it.
  
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• Tropical forests see high loss of tree cover for 2nd year

  27-06-2018 09:00
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Colombia saw a dramatic increase in forest degradation last year and levels in Brazil remain historically high, according to new satellite data released Wednesday. The data from the University of Maryland show tropical forests around the globe lost 15.8 million hectares (39 million acres) of tree cover in 2017 — an […]
  
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• California pot shops slash prices ahead of new testing rules

  27-06-2018 08:29
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed. Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after Saturday meet strict quality standards, so retailers unloading untested inventory are offering […]
  
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• California pot shops offer discounts as new standards near

  27-06-2018 08:29
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bargain basement bud is on the menu in California, but you need to act fast to cash in on the cheap weed. Regulations being phased in six months after the state broadly legalized marijuana require that pot sold after Saturday meet strict quality standards, so retailers unloading untested inventory are offering […]
  
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• 10 arrested outside Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma

  27-06-2018 07:27
  About 160 people had gathered in front of the detention center to protest immigration-enforcement policies.
  
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• Crews battling fire on a barge in Georgetown

  27-06-2018 06:03
  A large black cloud and sparks can be seen from a distance as well as the sound of pops.
  
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• Crews battle fire on a barge in Georgetown

  27-06-2018 06:03
  A large black cloud and sparks can be seen and the sound of pops heard from a distance.
  
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• Deputies: Tongue was not intentionally cut from horse

  27-06-2018 06:02
  The 28-year-old horse named Annie was euthanized June 20.
  
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• Japanese space probe arrives at asteroid to collect samples

  27-06-2018 04:07
  TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese space probe arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after a 3 1/2-year journey to undertake a first-ever experiment: blow a crater in the rocky surface to collect samples and bring them back to Earth. The unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached its base of operations about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the asteroid […]
  
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