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• NASA administrator supports Trump ‘space force’ proposal

  13-08-2018 23:57
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is expressing full support for President Donald Trump’s proposed military “space force,” but says it will have a role separate from NASA. Bridenstine said Monday in New Orleans that NASA’s role involves science, space exploration and technology development. He said the agency should remain independent from national […]
  
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• Carmen Best confirmed as Seattle police chief

  13-08-2018 23:49
  Best is a 26-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department and the first African American to serve as its permanent chief.
  
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• Where Did All This Smoke Come From and When Is It Leaving?

  13-08-2018 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersSeattle these days. arekmalang / Getty Images
  Not only is this Washington State summer abnormally dry, it's also bringing extended fire-smoke visits back to Seattle.
  Today's "smoke veil" comes from Canada, specifically the hundreds of wildfires that are currently burning in British Columbia. (If you think it's bad here, check out Vancouver, BC.) So when is the smoke leaving?According to the Washington Smoke Information blog, "westerly winds should return on Wednesday" and blow the
  
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• The 49 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Aug 13-19, 2018

  13-08-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffIt's the last week to see The Phantom of the Opera ("fog-machine technology’s greatest achievement," as Christopher Frizzelle writes) at the Paramount. Matthew MurphyOur music critics have already chosen the 37 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 massive cannabis convocation Seattle Hempfest to the excellently soundtracked Sound a
  
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• I Never Believed Those Letters I Read In Savage Love Until...

  13-08-2018 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  FAKE! FAKE! FAKE!by Dan SavageThis letter was originally published on Mar 6, 2012.This is a long one. I apologize for the length.My co-worker "George" and I like to knock off a few drinks after work, at least three times a week, sometimes five. George is a 35-year old divorced hunk who looks (and sounds) like George Clooney; I am two years older and resemble Jason Segel. George is a ladies' man, although not in an off-putting way. I am a fairly reserved gay man until you get a few Jagers into me
  
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• Wildfires are burning three times more of California this year than last

  13-08-2018 22:28
  California’s wildfires are now burning through land at a pace more than three times faster than last year’s blazes. About 4,200 fires have charred 726,000 acres in the state so far this year, according to figures from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. That compares to about 226,000 acres at this point last […]
  
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• Scientists attempt to feed live chinook to ailing orca J50, but did she eat?

  13-08-2018 21:48
  Feeding hatchery fish to a wild, starving orca is part of an unprecedented effort by federal scientists to save her life.
  
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• North Dakota recreational pot measure approved for ballot

  13-08-2018 21:21
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Supporters of legalizing recreational marijuana in North Dakota have succeeded in bringing the matter to a public vote later this year. Proponents submitted more than the required 13,452 valid petition signatures to get a measure on the November general election ballot, Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced Monday. Supporters submitted 17,695 […]
  
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• Alaska’s North Slope shaken by 2 largest recorded quakes

  13-08-2018 21:07
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The largest earthquake to ever rock Alaska’s North Slope was followed about six hours later by the second largest — an aftershock of the first. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the ground at 6:58 a.m. Sunday about 343 miles (551 kilometers) northeast of Fairbanks. The epicenter was north of the Brook […]
  
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• Sea-Tac Airport’s security challenge: 13,600 people have access to aircraft

  13-08-2018 20:41
  Horizon Air employee Richard Russell took off in an empty plane Friday night, flew around for more than an hour, then crashed on an island in South Puget Sound.
  
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• Sea-Tac Airport’s security challenge: 12,600 people have access to aircraft

  13-08-2018 20:41
  Horizon Air employee Richard Russell took off in an empty plane Friday night, flew around for more than an hour, then crashed on an island in South Puget Sound.
  
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• Sea-Tac adds security measures to cargo areas, terminals after theft of Horizon Air plane

  13-08-2018 20:41
  Horizon Air employee Richard Russell took off in an empty plane Friday night, flew around for more than an hour, then crashed on an island in South Puget Sound.
  
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• Visitor volume down slightly on Oregon Coast, spending up

  13-08-2018 20:19
  ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — The number of visitors staying in a hotel or rental home on the Oregon Coast dipped slightly last year but overall spending grew to nearly $2 billion. But many hotel operators have not felt the slight decline and say that 2017 was an exceptionally good year, in part because of higher […]
  
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• Multi-gene test may find risk for heart disease and more

  13-08-2018 20:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — You know your cholesterol, your blood pressure … your heart gene score? Researchers say a new way of analyzing genetic test data may one day help identify people at high risk of a youthful heart attack in time to help. Today, gene testing mostly focuses on rare mutations in one or a […]
  
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• Sound Transit light-rail riders stymied again by failed UW Station escalators

  13-08-2018 20:09
  One rider reported that at least 200 people were waiting to leave the 90-foot-deep boarding station in what is at least the fourth major outage this year at UW Station.
  
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• Sound Transit light-rail riders frustrated Monday morning by failed UW Station escalators

  13-08-2018 20:09
  One rider reported that at least 200 people were waiting to leave the 90-foot-deep boarding station in what is at least the fourth major outage this year at UW Station.
  
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• Glacier wildfire forces evacuations, Yosemite to reopen

  13-08-2018 20:04
  A wildfire destroyed structures and forced evacuations Monday from the busiest area of Montana’s Glacier National Park, as officials in California prepared to reopen Yosemite National Park following a two-week closure. The National Park Service said Glacier’s 25-site Sprague Creek campground was being evacuated a day after a fast-moving fire forced the evacuation of 82 […]
  
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• Glacier latest US park to be scorched by Western wildfires

  13-08-2018 20:04
  A wildfire destroyed structures and forced evacuations Monday from the busiest area of Montana’s Glacier National Park, as officials in California prepared to reopen Yosemite National Park following a two-week closure at the height of the summer season. Glacier’s Sprague Creek campground was closed and evacuated, a day after a fast-moving fire triggered the evacuation […]
  
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• Fire forces evacuations in busiest area of Glacier National Park

  13-08-2018 20:04
  WEST GLACIER, Mont. — A wildfire forced evacuations in the most heavily-trafficked area of Glacier National Park on Monday and destroyed an unknown number of structures around Lake McDonald during the height of tourist season. The National Park Service said the 25-site Sprague Creek campground was being evacuated, a day after the fast-moving fire forced […]
  
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• Immigration cases tossed in fallout from high court ruling

  13-08-2018 19:58
  A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has caused some deportation orders to be tossed and cases thrown out, bringing more chaos to a system that was already besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs.
  
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• Search on for California man who fell off Oregon waterfall

  13-08-2018 19:49
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Search teams are trying to locate a California man who fell while taking a picture above a waterfall in southern Oregon. Authorities say 23-year-old Brian Lewinstein, of Berkeley, California, had crossed a safety fence to snap the photo when he plummeted down an embankment Sunday afternoon. The accident happened at Toketee […]
  
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• A Black NPR Host Interviewed a Racist and Twitter Sharpened Its Pitchforks and Came for Her

  13-08-2018 19:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Almost immediately after the interview aired, the complaints came rolling in.by Katie HerzogNPR headquarters in D.C. Getty Images
  A year after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one counter-protester dead and a nation reeling, Noel King, a host of National Public Radio’s flagship news program Morning Edition, interviewed Jason Kessler, an organizer of the deadly rally, on the radio last week.It did not, if you believe the criticism, go well.King prefaced the inter
  
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• Aretha Franklin Is "Gravely Ill"

  13-08-2018 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersAretha Franklin in New York City, November 2017. Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images
  The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is reportedly "gravely ill." As her friends and family gather around her in Detroit, and as Twitter fills up with genuine thoughts and prayers, it's worth watching just one of the Aretha Franklin performances that gave everyone life.Here she is bringing tears to President Barack Obama's eyes at the Kennedy Center in 2015:[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the
  
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• You Could Buy WSDA-Certified Organic Pot Next Year

  13-08-2018 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington is getting ready to roll out the country's first organic-certified pot program.by Lester BlackThis pot is dank but is it organic? Lester Black
  Pot shoppers in Washington will be able to buy cannabis certified to organic-like standards by the state government as early as next year, according to a spokesperson for the Washington Department of Agriculture (WSDA).
  “The goal is to be able to begin offering the service next year, in 2019, and we’re on track right now to be able
  
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• The 37 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: Aug 13-19, 2018

  13-08-2018 18:35 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's music critics' picks for this week.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, our music critics have picked everything from electro-pop gay history icons Erasure to the all-ages north Capitol Hill music festival Mercer X Summit to bluegrass wizards and master whistlers the Punch Brothers and Andrew Bird. Follow the links below for ticket links and music clips for all of their picks, and find even more shows on our complete music calendar.Stay in the know! Get all this and more on th
  
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• If Seattle Were Actually Progressive, We Would Ban the NFL and Ditch the Seahawks

  13-08-2018 18:29 via thestranger.com
  
  You can support football or you can be progressive, but you can't be both.by Katie HerzogThe average NFL player makes less than the average basketball, baseball, or hockey player, but the brain damage comes free. Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images
  Seattleites like to think of this city as progressive. We have a bunch of gaywads in office, mandatory compost, high minimum wage, a ban on both plastic bags and plastic straws, and that one Socialist city council member who makes Bernie look like a capitalis
  
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• Typical kid behavior or a mental-health problem? It can be hard to decide.

  13-08-2018 18:10
  Many mental illnesses first manifest in adolescence. So for parents, it’s often hard to separate the warning signs of mental illness from typically erratic teenage behavior.
  
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• 30 Photos from Sub Pop's 30th Birthday Bash

  13-08-2018 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Shots of Beach House, Clipping, Father John Misty, Fastbacks, METZ, Mudhoney, Shabazz Palaces, Wolf Parade, and more from SPF30.by Josh BisStill losers!Josh Bis
  Sub Pop Records celebrated its 30th birthday in West Seattle last weekend with live sets from label stalwarts such as Beach House, clipping., Father John Misty, Fastbacks, METZ, Mudhoney, Shabazz Palaces, and Wolf Parade. KEXP streamed the whole fucking thing here. Some photos of the bands, crowds, and scenery from SPF30 below.
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• Slog AM: That Perplexing Hijacking at Sea-tac Airport, Orca Mother Learns to Let Go, Stephen Miller's Uncle Hates Him

  13-08-2018 17:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's city workers are mostly white and mostly male, Seattle women are waiting to have children, Donald Trump might eat sensitive documents to keep them secretby Nathalie GrahamThe plane hijacker's motives remain unclear.manop1984 / Getty Images
  The Sea-Tac airplane hijacking Also Known As the only thing anyone cares about this morning: Richard Russell was 29. He was married. He seemed normal. He worked for Horizon Air as a ground-crew member. His background check said he was normal. He stol
  
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• Women in King County wait longer to have kids than in most of the country

  13-08-2018 15:00
  The Seattle area is among a handful of places at the forefront of the shift toward older motherhood. In King County, it's now more common for a woman to have her first child in her 30s or 40s than in her teens or 20s.
  
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• Waiting to have kids: Majority of first-time moms in King County are 30 or older

  13-08-2018 15:00
  The Seattle area is among a handful of places at the forefront of the shift toward older motherhood. In King County, it's now more common for a woman to have her first child in her 30s or 40s than in her teens or 20s.
  
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• Seattle city workers tell of unfair treatment and mistrust, as government tracks diversity shortfalls

  13-08-2018 15:00
  A new report and survey are part of an effort by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to learn how city-government employees are being treated.
  
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• In King County, more women are waiting to have kids. So what’s driving the trend?

  13-08-2018 15:00
  The Seattle area is among a handful of places at the forefront of the shift toward older motherhood. In King County, it's now more common for a woman to have her first child in her 30s or 40s than in her teens or 20s.
  
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• In Hoquiam, drag shows reveal the big heart of a small town

  13-08-2018 15:00
  Despite some opposition, drag shows have helped draw support for the region's LGBTQIA community.
  
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• Drag show thrives in Washington’s timber country, but it’s not all sequins and rainbows

  13-08-2018 15:00
  Despite some opposition, drag shows have helped draw support for the region's LGBTQIA community.
  
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• White House called toxins contamination ‘PR nightmare’

  13-08-2018 07:35
  At sessions around the country this summer, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals used in products like nonstick cookware, carpets, firefighting foam and fast-food wrappers
  
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• Calls for action on toxics White House called “PR nightmare”

  13-08-2018 07:35
  At sessions around the country this summer, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals used in products like nonstick cookware, carpets, firefighting foam and fast-food wrappers
  
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• Anchorage looks for options to reduce run-ins with bears

  13-08-2018 07:21
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage officials are examining ways to tighten regulations on trash, aiming to reduce the number of bear encounters in Alaska’s largest city. Assembly members discussed options to tackle the issue at a Friday work session, including adopting new fines and shifting the times when residents can put out their trash for […]
  
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• Anchorage looks for options to reduce bear encounters

  13-08-2018 07:21
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage officials are examining measures to tighten regulations on trash, aiming to reduce the number of bear encounters in the city. The Anchorage Daily News reports Anchorage Assembly members discussed options to tackle the issue at a Friday work session, including adopting new fines and shifting the times when residents can […]
  
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• Governors: Trump directive could hurt effort to save bird

  13-08-2018 07:03
  DENVER (AP) — Some governors in the U.S. West say a new Trump administration directive threatens to undermine a hard-won compromise aimed at saving a beleaguered bird scattered across their region. The directive, issued in late July, severely limits a type of land swap involving federal property. Critics say that eliminates an important technique for […]
  
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• Governors say ban on land deals could hurt beleaguered bird

  13-08-2018 07:03
  DENVER (AP) — Some Western governors say a new Trump administration directive threatens to undermine a hard-won compromise aimed at saving a beleaguered bird scattered across their region. The directive, issued in late July, severely limits a type of land swap involving federal property. Critics say that eliminates an important tool for saving habitat for […]
  
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• Safeco Field lease agreement too favorable for Mariners and must be redone, ex-PFD member says

  13-08-2018 04:14
  In a letter to the King County Council, former Superior Court judge Terrence Carroll, a member of the PFD from 1997-2014, wrote that any subsidies for the Mariners should require a more thorough vetting of their books.
  
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• Sunday at the Rainier Valley Heritage and Othello International Festival

  13-08-2018 03:04
  Dancing, drummingand a dromedary at the Rainier Valley Heritage and Othello International Festival
  
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• Sea-Tac officials, airlines to meet Monday to discuss security protocols after turboprop heist

  13-08-2018 03:01
  In the wake of Friday's security incident, airport and airline officials will meet to discuss whether any policies need to change. One expert says it's possible there won't be many changes to make.
  
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• Weekend lightning, wind spread wildfires across Washington state

  13-08-2018 01:54
  Almost 9,000 firefighters and support personnel are trying to put out fires burning across more than 250,000 acres of land in Washington and Oregon.
  
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• Ohio man missing after planned hike near Mount St. Helens

  13-08-2018 01:25
  COUGAR, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are searching for an Ohio man who failed to return from a planned hike near Mount St. Helens. The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office says friends last saw Matthew B. Matheny at 7 a.m. Thursday, when he borrowed a car and headed to the Blue Lake Trail. The 40-year-old is from […]
  
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