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• The First Actual Debate in Washington's 8th District Is Happening Thursday

  18-07-2018 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Ballots are being mailed out today.by Rich SmithDino Rossi couldn't make it. Courtesy of the Rittereiser, Schrier, and Hader Campaigns
  The Kittatas Democrats and The Stranger are holding a debate between the candidates hoping to fill Dave Reichert's seat in Washington's 8th District on Thursday. The debate will focus on issues most relevant to the east side of the mountain-straddling district, and it'll take place at the Hal Holmes Community Center in Ellensburg, WA. Can't make it to Ellensburg?
  
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• Her Husband Demanded a Monogamous Commitment but Describes Their Marriage As Open

  18-07-2018 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I have been with my husband for nine years. We started off monogamous (standard straight couple non-conversation) and had super hot sex for the first four years. We opened up to threesomes, swinging, and I was given permission to do whatever I liked with women. None of those things happened, but it was nice to know we could eventually when things cooled down.
  At six years together, when we were about to get married, my then-boyfriend/now-husband informe
  
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• The Top 40 Artists to Check Out at Capitol Hill Block Party 2018

  18-07-2018 23:39 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's music critics' picks for the best CHBP shows.by Stranger Things To Do StaffUnless you have access to a cloning machine, you won't be able to make it to each of the 100+ sets at this weekend's Capitol Hill Block Party. To keep you from wandering around in aimless indecision, our music critics have chosen their picks for the best artists to see, from joyous indie rockers Great Grandpa to melancholic hiphop/pop group Brockhampton to oak-barrel-voiced star Father John Misty. Follow th
  
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• Astronomers spy nearby star that could be chomping a planet

  18-07-2018 23:07
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronomers may have caught a relatively nearby star munching on a planet or mini-planets. A NASA space telescope noticed that the star suddenly started looking a bit strange last year. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory spotted a 30-fold increase in iron on the edge of the star, which is 10 million years old, […]
  
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• What’s the deal with bike sharing? Highlights from our Instagram Q&A

  18-07-2018 22:55
  As Seattle looks to double the size of its bike-share program to 20,000 bikes under proposed regulations announced last week, The Seattle Times took to our Instagram account (@seattletimes) to ask readers for their questions about dockless rental bikes.
  
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• Seattle: Home of the Half-Million Dollar Shack

  18-07-2018 22:54 via thestranger.com
  
  The commute from Tacoma isn't that bad, right?by Katie HerzogThank you, Redfin, for ruining whatever hopes us non-riches have of ever owning a square inch of property in Seattle. This literal shack for sale right now doesn't just have an asking price of a half-million dollars, it's a half-million dollarscash.Redfin
  It looks like that woodsy kiddie porn hovel they found in Snoqualmie Forest a while back, with worse traffic and a slightly better view. The hobbit currently occupying this place ("gr
  
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• SDOT Beats Down Pedestrians on Beacon Hill With Brand New Beg Buttons

  18-07-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede"Reach out and touch faith..." Charles Mudede
  The woman, Chrystal Walker, suspected driver of a hit-run that mortally injured a cyclist, Alex Hayden, on Saturday, July 14 (he was 51 when he died on Tuesday, July 17) , has no less than five DUIs on her record. She was also, according to a sheriff who spoke to KIRO, "supposed to have an ignition interlock device in her car but the truck did not have one" (the truck was owned by her uncle). The incident happened at around 4 pm. The
  
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• Murked by the Murk: My Bloody Valentine at the Paramount

  18-07-2018 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Even a subpar My Bloody Valentine show is pretty mind-blowing, as last night's set at Paramount proved.by Dave SegalNothing much to lose—except your hearing. Dave Segal
  I don't want to rain on My Bloody Valentine fans' parade, but last night's show at the Paramount was far from the best that I've seen them do in the six times I've experienced them since 1989. Only the 2013 set at Showbox Sodo was worse. That being said, even a subpar MBV performance is pretty damned mind-blowing.Perhaps th
  
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• A Rolls-Royce Symbolizes Capitalism and Other Self-Evident Truths of Elvis Documentary The King

  18-07-2018 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann“This venue is a dump.”
  "I don’t know what the hell you’re doing with this movie,” the head of the road crew says to director Eugene Jarecki midway through The King. The expensive stunt prop for Jarecki’s meandering, celebrity-studded documentary about Elvis Presley—a 1963 Rolls-Royce that once belonged to the King—has just broken down, and as a tow truck carries the immobilized Rolls, the crew member helps Jarecki work out an effec
  
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• A Rolls-Royce Symbolizes Capitalism and Other Self-Evident Truths in Elvis Documentary The King

  18-07-2018 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann“This venue is a dump.”
  "I don’t know what the hell you’re doing with this movie,” the head of the road crew says to director Eugene Jarecki midway through The King. The expensive stunt prop for Jarecki’s meandering, celebrity-studded documentary about Elvis Presley—a 1963 Rolls-Royce that once belonged to the King—has just broken down, and as a tow truck carries the immobilized Rolls, the crew member helps Jarecki work out an effec
  
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• Ore. court reinstates $10M award to man hit by garbage truck

  18-07-2018 21:52
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial judge shouldn’t have reduced a jury’s award to a man whose leg was severed by a garbage truck in downtown Portland. In reinstating the award, the Appeals Court said the judge’s application of a $500,000 state cap for pain and suffering […]
  
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• US eases Obama-era coal ash pollution rules for utilities

  18-07-2018 21:42
  The move represents the latest action by Trump’s EPA to boost the struggling coal industry by rolling back environmental and public-health protections enacted under his predecessor.
  
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• US coal ash pollution rules eased after industry balks

  18-07-2018 21:42
  DENVER (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday eased rules for handling toxic coal ash from more than 400 U.S. coal-fired power plants after utilities pushed back against regulations adopted under former President Barack Obama. Environmental Protection Agency acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the changes would save utilities roughly $30 million annually. The move represents […]
  
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• PSA: Don’t Buy Bullshit CBD

  18-07-2018 21:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Some companies are selling fake CBD, make sure you don't fall for their trap.by Lester BlackDon't fall for the fake CBD trap. Dmitry Tishchenko/Getty Images
  America is hungry for CBD. Consumers are already spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this pot compound—which has medical benefits but won’t get you high—and the market is expected to soon surpass a billion dollars.
  But not all CBD is created equal. That CBD-infused chocolate bar you just bought from your local healt
  
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• Don't Buy the Fake CBD

  18-07-2018 21:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Some companies are selling fake CBD, make sure you don't fall for their trap.by Lester BlackDon't fall for the fake CBD trap. Dmitry Tishchenko/Getty Images
  America is hungry for CBD. Consumers are already spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this pot compound—which has medical benefits but won’t get you high—and the market is expected to soon surpass a billion dollars.
  But not all CBD is created equal. That CBD-infused chocolate bar you just bought from your local healt
  
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• This President Is No Fan of Identity Politics

  18-07-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogCome baaaaack Alex Wong/Getty
  God love Barack Obama. At a 100th birthday celebration of Nelson Mandela (known as Madiba in his homeland) in South African this week, our once (and future???) president managed to, once again, remind us that his successor is a flaming pile of bright orange bullshit. While he had plenty of subtle and not-so-subtle shade to throw at Trump (“Too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth”), Obama didn't just d
  
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• Bad Moms and Brutal Honesty in I Will Be Complete

  18-07-2018 21:13 via thestranger.com
  Glen David Gold’s memoir I Will Be Complete recounts a singularly awful upbringing.by Ned LannamannThe first page of Glen David Gold’s new memoir consists of a simple and surprising caveat: “My mother assures me none of this happened.” The reader spends the rest of I Will Be Complete discovering just how illuminating this opening statement is.
  This riveting, sneakily emotional book—if it is to be accepted at page-value, and I believe that it is—is a brutally h
  
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• It's the End of My View as I Know It

  18-07-2018 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Does anyone have the phone number for a wambulance?by Christopher FrizzelleThe Capitol Hill light rail station with a beclouded Mount Rainier in the distance. CF
  For 13 glorious years, I've had a view of Mount Rainier from my apartment. I have no dishwasher, mind you, and the horsehair insulation in the walls is great for mice, but at least I also have the highest peak in the Cascade Range out my window. Do you see it there, above and slightly to the left of the volcano water fountain at Cal And
  
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• It's the End of Mount Rainier as I Know It

  18-07-2018 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Does anyone have the phone number for a wambulance?by Christopher FrizzelleThe Capitol Hill light rail station with a beclouded Mount Rainier in the distance. CF
  For 13 glorious years, I've had a view of Mount Rainier from my apartment. I have no dishwasher, mind you, and the horsehair insulation in the walls is great for mice, but at least I also have the highest peak in the Cascade Range out my window. Do you see it there, above and slightly to the left of the volcano water fountain at Cal And
  
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• The Equalizer 2 Should Just Get to the Equalizing Already!

  18-07-2018 20:51 via thestranger.com
  We’re here for equalizing, not exposition.by Andrew WrightArt it most assuredly wasn’t, but 2014’sThe Equalizer had its pulpy virtues, most notably a vigilante with obsessive-compulsive tendencies who enacted ridiculously excessive amounts of righteous vengeance on his foes. (A revenge movie that can actually make you feel briefly sorry for Eurotrash human traffickers is doing something right.)The Equalizer 2 tries hard to re-create that primal red-meat formula, but it takes fa
  
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• Why Wouldn't President Trump Be Lying Again? (Plus a Much-Needed Antidote to Prime Day.)

  18-07-2018 20:44 via thestranger.com
  Blabbermouth Podcast Episode 158by The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Amazingly, President Trump reached a new level of awful, bonkers behavior this week. Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders are here to talk about all that went down before—and after—the #TreasonSummit.Then, “Who Is America?” Katie Herzog talks about Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show and whether it’s good for a country that’s already drenched in high-power
  
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• Gus Van Sant Takes on John Callahan in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

  18-07-2018 20:36 via thestranger.com
  And the results are good—if tamer than expected.by Robert HamGus Van Sant is at his best when he points his camera at those on the outskirts of society, be they Good Will Hunting’s sharp-tongued janitor who happens to be a math genius, Drugstore Cowboy’s quartet of pharmacy-robbing addicts, or Milk’s gay politician fighting for LGBT rights from San Francisco City Hall.That’s precisely why the filmmaker is a perfect fit to tell the story of John Callahan, the quadrip
  
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• Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches spacecraft higher than ever

  18-07-2018 20:32
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company has shot a capsule higher into space than it’s ever done before. The company’s New Shepard rocket blasted off Wednesday on a test flight from West Texas. Once the booster separated, the capsule’s escape motor fired, lifting the spacecraft to an altitude of 389,846 […]
  
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• Tiny Trump Army Invades Seattle

  18-07-2018 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogA small army of Trump heads were seen scattered near The Stranger World Headquarters this morning in Capitol Hill. At least, we think they are Trump heads, although they could also be neon orange gorillas and/or a Putin/Trump mash-up.Is this art or is it a threat? Post your theories in the comments and don't forget to vote.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The King Explores Elvis and America Through Obvious Metaphors

  18-07-2018 20:24 via thestranger.com
  A Rolls-Royce symbolizes capitalism! (And other self-evident truths.)by Ned Lannamann"I don’t know what the hell you’re doing with this movie,” the head of the road crew says to director Eugene Jarecki midway through The King. The expensive stunt prop for Jarecki’s meandering, celebrity-studded documentary about Elvis Presley—a 1963 Rolls-Royce that once belonged to the King—has just broken down, and as a tow truck carries the immobilized Rolls, the crew membe
  
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• US judge throws out suit over health subsidy cuts

  18-07-2018 20:20
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge in San Francisco has thrown out a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s decision to cut Affordable Care Act subsidies. The ruling by Judge Vince Chhabria on Wednesday came after California and other states that sued said a workaround was largely succeeding in protecting consumers from higher costs. The […]
  
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• Why Wine Drinkers Could Switch to Weed

  18-07-2018 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine RGBSPACE / GETTY IMAGES
  When I lived in Northern California, I spent many weekends doing the most Northern California thing possible (aside from practicing nude goat yoga and crafting small-batch, organic, free-range chia kombucha): visiting wineries. Some of my most favorite memories involve downing bottles of delicious, jammy Napa reds. Some of my least favorite memories were the epic hangovers that followed, a factor that led me to switch from the grape to the ganja.
  Wine is s
  
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• Study: National parks get fewer visits when pollution rises

  18-07-2018 20:06
  DENVER (AP) — Visitors appear to be steering clear of some U.S. national parks or cutting visits short because of pollution levels that are comparable to what’s found in major cities, according to a study released Wednesday. Researchers at Iowa State and Cornell universities looked at more than two decades of data on ozone pollution […]
  
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• Study links air pollution to drop in national park visitors

  18-07-2018 20:06
  DENVER (AP) — Visitors appear to be steering clear of some U.S. national parks or cutting visits short because of pollution levels that are comparable to what’s found in major cities, according to a study released Wednesday. Researchers at Iowa State and Cornell universities looked at more than two decades of data on ozone pollution […]
  
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• Fiery start to Eastern Oregon wheat harvest

  18-07-2018 19:31
  Recent incidents underscore just how hot and dry it has been leading up to this year's dryland wheat harvest, exacerbating the risk of field and rangeland fires.
  
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• 6 states and NYC sue US over immigration-related policy

  18-07-2018 19:26
  NEW YORK (AP) — Six states and New York City sued the federal government Wednesday, joining other cities and states who say the government is trying to unlawfully force “sanctuary” communities to engage in federal immigration enforcement if they want anti-crime funds. Lawsuits were filed in Manhattan federal court on behalf of New York state […]
  
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• Femme Fatale Combines the Can Can's Trademark Sex Appeal with Prom Queen's Doom-Wop Tendencies

  18-07-2018 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sophia StephensThe show is about the enigmatic and legendary exotic dancer Mata Hari.Nate Watters
  As I surveyed the crowd at the Can Can Culinary Cabaret, tucked beneath the bustling streets of Pike Place Market, after ordering dinner but before the evening's entertainment began, I noticed that there were far more women than men in the audience.
  Perhaps it's only right, I thought: Femme Fatale, Can Can's collaboration with local band Prom Queen, is a show dedicated to the enigmatic—and
  
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• Crews battling 3 lightning-caused wildfires in south-central Idaho

  18-07-2018 19:10
  CASTLEFORD, Idaho — Crews including aircraft are fighting three lightning-caused wildfires in south-central Idaho burning in grass and brush. The largest of the fires ballooned to 47 square miles (122 square kilometers) Wednesday and is about 26 miles (42 kilometers) southwest of Castleford. U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Kelsey Brizendine says hot, dry and […]
  
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• Tacoma Mayor Says There's Little She Can Do About Immigrant Detention Center

  18-07-2018 18:50 via thestranger.com
  
  "We feel like our hands are tied," the mayor told the Tacoma News Tribune.by Heidi GrooverThe City of Tacoma installed fencing near the Northwest Detention Center to prevent protesters from accessing railroad tracks owned by BNSF. NWDC RESISTANCE
  Ahead of a Tacoma City Council meeting last week, immigrant rights advocates called on that city's leaders to take a hard line against the Northwest Detention Center. Citing public health concerns at the private prison, they wanted the city to revoke th
  
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• State board OKs sprawling Kittitas County solar farm; final decision up to Inslee

  18-07-2018 18:32
  The Columbia Solar project would be spread over more than 200 acres of the county’s 180,000 acres of farmland, sparking controversy in Kittitas County, where some say such lands should be excluded from such development
  
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• State board OKs Kittitas County solar farm; final decision up to Inslee

  18-07-2018 18:32
  The Columbia Solar project would be spread over more than 200 acres of the county’s 180,000 acres of farmland, sparking controversy in Kittitas County, where some say such lands should be excluded from such development
  
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• The Stranger's Endorsements for the August 7, 2018, Primary Election

  18-07-2018 18:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger JAMES YAMASAKI
  We usually open our endorsements with a pep talk! About the importance of voting! The power of voting! The glories of democracy!
  But! Fuck! That!
  Voting is still important and it's still glorious, of course, and the Stranger Election Control Board (SECB) remains its usual peppy, foul-mouthed, pot-addled self. It's just that we don't have to talk you into voting. Not this year. Not these midterms.
  Maybe it's the weight of living in a country where kids sit in cages,
  
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• Michael Avenatti at the Anti-Trump Rally Last Night Outside the White House

  18-07-2018 18:01 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage“It is time for him to go.” @MichaelAvenatti speaking at the anti-Trump protest at the White House tonight. Damn, Avenatti is good. pic.twitter.com/7aTsndwZcJ
  — John Aravosis (@aravosis) July 18, 2018Stormy Daniels' cameraphile lawyer has made noises about running for president. While I don't think he should run, after watching this video—shot by John Aravosis last night outside the White House—I definitely think Avenatti should be helping the Democrats
  
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• Never Forget: Rodney Tom Is a Traitor

  18-07-2018 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  He's a fake Democrat.by Heidi GrooverYeah, no. Governor Jay Inslee (right) endorsed this guy's opponent. Citizens for Progress Enterprise Washington/Vimeo
  Here is a TV ad you might see this election season if you live in Bellevue, Redmond, Medina, or some other part of Washington's 48th legislative district:Affordable college tuition, "transparency in government," shaking hands with Governor Jay Inslee. Looks like a standard Washington state Democrat, right?
  Wrong.Rodney Tom may be running as a
  
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• Poison parsnip causes severe burns, blisters on woman’s legs

  18-07-2018 17:19
  ESSEX, Vt. (AP) — A woman was left with severe burns and blisters on her legs after encountering an invasive species of plant in Vermont. Charlotte Murphy says she developed painful blisters overnight after brushing against poison parsnip. Murphy says the blisters got so bad she had to go to the hospital to see a […]
  
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• Slog AM: Diversity in King County, Seattle Loves Cranes, Spare Us the SPD Lip-Sync Video

  18-07-2018 17:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Google gets fined, ICE is the worst, it's cooling down for three days onlyby Nathalie GrahamSoon there will be more cranes than people. Sergei Dubrovskii / Getty Images
  Population and diversity growth in King County! In the last year, King County’s population has made leaps and bounds; it has climbed to nearly 2.9 million people. Of the 32,700 newbies to the city, only 5 percent of them were white people. Most of these newcomers — nearly 59 percent — are of Asian descent. The L
  
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• The scent of a storm: Here’s why lightning emits a smell

  18-07-2018 16:56
  You've seen it, you've heard it, but have you ever smelled it? As bizarre as it sounds, lightning has a distinct odor. But unlike its blinding flash or deafening roar, the scent of a lightning bolt is much more subtle.
  
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• Wildfire evacuations in Spokane, and Trump reverses what he said (again) | Wednesday Morning Brief, July 18

  18-07-2018 16:27
  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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• ‘Enjoy it while you can’: Cooler weather offers 3-day reprieve from heat for Seattle area

  18-07-2018 16:08
  Temperatures in the Seattle area are expected to drop to the mid-70s through Friday.
  
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• Idaho man gets 30 years for a sixth DUI conviction

  18-07-2018 15:45
  CALDWELL, Idaho — A southwestern Idaho man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison following his sixth DUI conviction. Thirty-eight-year-old Roy D. Rico of Caldwell received the sentence Tuesday in 3rd District Court in Canyon County. He must serve six years before becoming eligible for parole. Prosecutors sought a life sentence, contending that was […]
  
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• Seattle tops the nation in tower cranes for third straight year as construction reaches new peak

  18-07-2018 15:00
  Seattle first led the nation in cranes in 2016. Now the city has more cranes than at any point since Rider Levett Bucknall began counting them in 2014.
  
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• ‘Sixteen Candles’ and ‘Law & Order: SVU’: What the stories on our screens teach us about sex and consent

  18-07-2018 15:00
  In the midst of the #MeToo movement, experts and Seattle Times readers explore how mass-media depictions form our views of consent, and what responsibility creators have in representing healthy consensual encounters.
  
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• Is the GOP a party, or a cult?

  18-07-2018 15:00
  When the leader of your own political party goes off the rails, what’s a local Republican to do? Nothing, apparently.
  
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• Free-speech case brought by cop killer and Native American activist Leonard Peltier can go forward, judge rules

  18-07-2018 15:00
  A federal judge says a free-speech lawsuit filed by convicted cop killer and American Indian activist Leonard Peltier over the removal of his paintings from a state exhibit in 2015 can go forward.
  
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