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• 74 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Aug 28-Sept 2, 2018

  28-08-2018 23:49 via thestranger.com
  Unusual, offbeat, quirky events you might not otherwise know about.by Stranger Things To Do StaffOur arts critics have already recommended 41 great things to do this week and our music critics have picked the 27 best concerts, but there are still hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the quirkier and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, we've compiled them here—from the 13th Annual Jerry Garcia Celebration to PAX West-related events like the Triwizard Drin
  
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• How To Explain the Failures of Socialism to a Teenager

  28-08-2018 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeLet's have a talk... Charles Mudede
  I found it among my things while sorting laundry: a t-shirt of Marx partying with Mao, Lenin, Stalin, and Che. I knew it was my daughter's. She is 17. It was time for me to have that talk with her. She needed to know truth about socialism, and how it relates to Marx, and why, as an economic project in the 20th century, it mostly failed in both the East and the West. I texted her. Asked her about the t-shirt. She texted back: "Yeah, I found it
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Space-Rock Epic "Tugs 2" by Blouseusa), the Band Led by Shitty Person's Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy

  28-08-2018 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's (blouseusa) get up to some epic kraut-rockin' on "Tugs 2." Catch them performing tonight at Vermillion Gallery.by Dave SegalIf you can't space out to Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy's latest release, you may have a problem.
  Blouseusa), "Tugs 2" (self-released)
  Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy is one of Seattle's most prolific musicians—and one of its most interesting. People into cerebral heavy metal and brutal, improvised psychedelia may know him as the drummer of Lesbian and Fungal Abyss, respe
  
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• The Men of #MeToo Are Emerging

  28-08-2018 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  They're baaaaack.by Katie HerzogBen Gabbe/Getty Images
  On Sunday night, Louis CK returned to the stage for the first time since allegations of his nonconsenual jerk off sessions came out last year, performing an unannounced 15-minute set at the Comedy Cellar in New York.Club owner Noam Drowman (who didn't know CK would be dropping in) told the New York Times that the crowd was receptive and gave CK a standing ovation before he even started this set. Dworman called the act, “typical Louis C
  
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• If You Follow the Money Spent to Defeat Seattle's "Amazon Tax," You End up at a Twitter Ad Mystery

  28-08-2018 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Where did the "No Tax on Jobs" campaign's Twitter ad money actually go?by Eli SandersThe "No Tax on Jobs" campaign reported buying Twitter ads. Twitter can't find any evidence those ads were actually purchased. Where did the money go? Leon Neal / Getty Images
  Flush with nearly half a million dollars in contributions from Amazon, Starbucks, and other local business heavies, the "No Tax on Jobs" campaign formed earlier this year to put a controversial question in front of Seattle voters: Should th
  
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• Hate the ‘Late 8’? Seattle’s DOT is trying to fix that

  28-08-2018 22:15
  Commuters will learn soon whether a three-block-long bus lane helps the often-late Route 8 bus reach Capitol Hill, or just gets clogged by merging cars.
  
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• Bus lane carved out of busy Denny Way eastbound in South Lake Union

  28-08-2018 22:15
  Commuters will learn soon whether a three-block-long bus lane helps the often-late Route 8 bus reach Capitol Hill, or just gets clogged by merging cars.
  
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• Seattle-area construction strike enters second week, with no movement at bargaining table

  28-08-2018 22:01
  Crane operators and other union members walked off the job on Aug. 21, and after a brief negotiating session Monday, no further talks are scheduled, according to the union.
  
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• The Riveter takes female-focused co-working space to the Eastside

  28-08-2018 21:50
  The Riveter will open its fifth location in Bellevue on Saturday — its first Puget Sound location outside Seattle.
  
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• Pedestrian in Ballard killed by driver who failed to stop at stop sign

  28-08-2018 21:40
  The driver, a 34-year-old woman, showed signs of impairment and was arrested and booked into King County Jail, according to police.
  
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• Is My Partner a Pedophile or Have I Turned Into My Born Again Christian Mother?

  28-08-2018 21:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageOriginally published on July 22, 2010.I was recently told that I am being puritanical and self-righteous because I can't get over the fact that my partner spends a good deal of time seeking out pictures of very young girls to masturbate to. Nothing illegal, he says, but still...
  He admits to having a 20-year-plus addiction to porn, and with that particular addiction, he says, comes the need to continue upping the taboo factor in order to get off. I can u
  
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• Bumbershoot 2018 Must-See: Adventurous Baltimore Rapper JPEGMAFIA

  28-08-2018 21:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  JPEGMAFIA (aka Jamaican-American MC Barrington Hendricks) has used his experiences of racism in Alabama and travels in the Air Force to shape his lyrical outlook and sonic approach—both of which are among the most exciting and adventurous in modern hiphop. His latest album, this year’s Veteran, is a wild ride through rhythmic and verbal extremism. As Pitchfork said of it in a review, “JPEG’s greatest trait is his ability to move from rap’s center towar
  
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• 65-year-old woman killed by driver in Ballard while walking dogs, police say

  28-08-2018 21:01
  A 65-year-old woman was killed while walking her dogs in Ballard Monday night, after she was hit by a black BMW that drove through a stop sign, according to the Seattle Police Department. The driver of the BMW, a 34-year-old woman, was arrested and booked into King County Jail after police found “signs of impairment,” […]
  
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• Bill Gates directs US education funding to local schools

  28-08-2018 20:56
  SEATTLE (AP) — Marking another phase in his education agenda, Bill Gates is now taking a more targeted approach to help struggling U.S. schools. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is now funding groups working directly with clusters of public schools in some of the most impoverished regions of the country. Many of those third-party […]
  
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• Bill Gates directs education funding to poor US schools

  28-08-2018 20:56
  SEATTLE (AP) — Marking another phase in his education agenda, Bill Gates is now taking a more targeted approach to help struggling U.S. schools. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is now funding groups working directly with clusters of public schools in some of the most impoverished regions of the country. Many of those third-party […]
  
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• Some Oregon sheriffs endorse measure to repeal sanctuary status

  28-08-2018 20:40
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Forty-four percent of sheriffs in Oregon said they support a ballot initiative that would repeal the state’s sanctuary status. Fifteen sheriffs added their names to a letter by Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin that urged voters to vote yes on Measure 105 in November. Oregon, which has 36 counties, became America’s […]
  
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• Some Oregon sheriffs endorse measure to repeal sanctuary

  28-08-2018 20:40
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Forty-four percent of sheriffs in Oregon said they support a ballot initiative that would repeal the state’s sanctuary status. Fifteen sheriffs added their names to a letter by Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin that urged voters to vote yes on Measure 105 in November. Oregon, which has 36 counties, became America’s […]
  
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• US agency gives initial OK to Montana mine tied up in court

  28-08-2018 20:18
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials on Tuesday announced approval of the first phase of a silver and copper mine beneath a northwestern Montana wilderness area, yet it’s uncertain when work could begin because of a legal dispute over pollution at other sites. Kootenai National Forest officials announced their approval of plans by Hecla Mining […]
  
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• U.S. agency approves Montana mine entangled in legal dispute over wilderness

  28-08-2018 20:18
  BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal officials have approved the first phase of a silver and copper mine beneath a northwestern Montana wilderness area, but the proposal’s fate remains uncertain due to a legal dispute with state regulators. Kootenai National Forest officials on Tuesday announced their approval of plans by Hecla Mining Co. to begin exploration work […]
  
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• Seattle University to Rehang Chuck Close, an Artist Accused of Sexual Harassment

  28-08-2018 20:18 via thestranger.com
  
  In these cases, discussion rather than censorship should be prioritized.by Leah St. LawrenceControversial Chuck Close will return to this space in Seattle University... Leah St. Lawrence
  Seattle University is rehanging Chuck Close’s “Self-Portrait 2000,” which was removed from the Lemieux Library in December, shortly after last year’s sexual harassment allegations. Father Thomas Lucas, Curator and Professor of Art History at Seattle University, confirmed via email yesterd
  
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• Second Amendment Messiah Valiantly Finds Loophole to Give the World 3-D Printed Guns

  28-08-2018 19:48 via thestranger.com
  
  A legal loophole for the savior of the Second Amendment.by Nathalie GrahamThey're going for an incredible price of "whatever you want"Getty Images
  A Seattle judge passed a court order yesterday banning the distribution of 3-D printing gun blueprints on the web. That won't stop the founder of the company who manufactures the blueprints, Cody Wilson.From the Seattle Times:Cody Wilson says he began selling the plans Tuesday morning and that he’ll sell them for any price. Wilson says he believ
  
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• Police Use of Force Initiative Back on the November Ballot

  28-08-2018 19:06 via thestranger.com
  
  The Washington Supreme Court ruled that Initiative 940, which would lower the legal threshold for holding cops criminally accountable for killing people, will be placed on November's ballot.by Lester Black The Stranger
  The state's highest court just ruled that Washingtonians will get a chance to vote on Initiative 940, which would lower the legal threshold for holding cops criminally accountable for killing people in the line of duty.
  The initiative has had a bumpy road since its backers collect
  
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• Chairman of Hood to Coast replaced over awards dispute

  28-08-2018 18:56
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The founder of the Hood to Coast race has been replaced as chairman days after he was criticized for not mentioning this year’s top women’s team during the awards ceremony. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Tuesday that Bob Foote’s daughter, Felicia Hubber, has been promoted to chairwoman and is now the organization’s highest-ranking […]
  
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• Chairman of Hood to Coast race replaced over awards dispute

  28-08-2018 18:56
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The founder of the Hood to Coast race has been replaced as chairman days after he was criticized for not mentioning this year’s top women’s team during the awards ceremony. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Tuesday that Bob Foote’s daughter, Felicia Hubber, has been promoted to chairwoman and is now the organization’s highest-ranking […]
  
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• Oregon’s only heart transplant hospital suspends procedures

  28-08-2018 18:46
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The only hospital in Oregon that does heart transplants is suspending its program for 14 days because of a shortage of doctors qualified to do the specialized surgery. The move leaves more than two dozen patients to decide whether to wait out the temporary shut-down or seek care at another medical […]
  
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• New Savage Lovecast: Just Like Bunnies!

  28-08-2018 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Thea & Nadine from the "Rabbit Droppings" advice column come on the Lovecast to thoroughly explore the connections between human sexuality, and that of our cuddly, lagomorph cousins.by Dan SavageWe start this week's adventure with a couple who have a secret unicorn at their beck and call. The wife in the couple doesn't want anyone to know. But the unicorn lass has already told some friends and wants to be more open about the relationship. Who will win this one?
  A 27-year-old woman has a dist
  
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• Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to announce choice for new City Light boss

  28-08-2018 18:37
  Seattle City Light has been dogged in recent years by issues ranging from leader missteps to discrimination claims by employees and billing problems for customers as it installs new "advanced meters," which send automatic readings to a computer.
  
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• Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan names Oregonian Debra Smith as choice for new City Light boss

  28-08-2018 18:37
  Smith has been with Central Lincoln Public Utility District in Newport since 2013. She would be Seattle City Light's second-ever female leader, taking over at a time when the utility has been dogged by issues ranging from leader missteps to discrimination claims to customer-service troubles.
  
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• Washington Supreme Court sends police use-of-force initiative to the November election ballot

  28-08-2018 18:28
  The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled that an initiative that would make it easier to prosecute law-enforcement officers who have allegedly misused deadly force must go on the November election ballot.
  
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• Astronaut quits halfway through training, 1st in 50 years

  28-08-2018 18:12
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in 50 years, an astronaut-in-training is quitting NASA. Astronaut candidate Robb Kulin has resigned halfway through his two years of training at Johnson Space Center in Houston. A NASA spokeswoman says his departure is effective Friday and that he is leaving for personal reasons that the […]
  
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• Seattle Teachers May Authorize a Strike Today, and the State Legislature Is to Blame

  28-08-2018 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  School is supposed to start next week.by Summer StinsonFrom the 2015 Seattle teachers strike. Kelly O
  Teachers in Seattle and across Washington may soon follow in the footsteps of educators in Arizona, Oklahoma, and West Virginia in striking for better pay. But why would teachers have to strike for better pay in a state run by Democrats, and after our legislature supposedly fully funded our public schools?
  Parents have asked these questions since we heard strikes were imminent, as many districts
  
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• Worldwide gun deaths reach 250,000 yearly; US ranks high

  28-08-2018 17:08
  Lead author of the study, which looked at 195 countries, is Dr. Christopher Murray, a professor of health metrics at the University of Washington.
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Teachers Could Strike, We Could Have A Warmer Winter, Beto O'Rourke Could Beat Ted Cruz

  28-08-2018 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't throw rocks at gun owners, Trump wants to revise Nafta, and can Louis C.K just fuck off already?by Nathalie GrahamThis picture is from 2015. We might be getting a new one soon depending on how today goes.Kelly O
  Seattle teachers (may) strike back: Their union and the district didn’t meet an agreement about pay. Today, Seattle Public Schools teachers will vote on whether or not to strike, according to the Seattle Times. Classes are supposed to resume Sept. 5. A strike would mess that
  
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• Man, 18, pleads guilty to 2 killings in Snohomish County

  28-08-2018 16:21
  Court documents show the defendant told detectives he believed both victims "snitched" on him when he violated a no-contact order with his girlfriend.
  
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• Seattle dethroned as nation’s hottest housing market after nearly two years

  28-08-2018 15:56
  Las Vegas is now the nation's hottest housing market, overtaking Seattle, which had held the top spot every month since August 2016.
  
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• In $180 million ask for public money, Mariners cite retractable roof used 400 times per year

  28-08-2018 15:00
  When the Mariners sought public money to build Safeco Field, they said they needed an expensive retractable roof to guard against Seattle’s rainy weather. Now they’re citing the roof as an example of aging infrastructure that must be kept up.
  
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• Gov. Inslee hits the road to support Democratic gubernatorial candidates nationally

  28-08-2018 15:00
  The Washington governor’s role as chair of the Democratic Governors Association this year has sent him on frequent political trips across the country to raise money and promote Democratic candidates.
  
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• Canadian man wanted for rape and murder in Windsor, Ontario, arrested in Kent

  28-08-2018 15:00
  Jitesh Bhogal is accused of the slaying of a 31-year-old woman who was found in her third-floor apartment bedroom late that day by her ex-boyfriend after their 9-year-old son said she had been in bed all day and he could not wake her. 
  
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• Agencies map tectonic fault that touches southeast Alaska

  28-08-2018 07:29
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Federal agencies have completed the first high-resolution mapping of a fast-moving underwater tectonic fault that extends from Vancouver Island, Canada, to southeast Alaska. The Ketchikan Daily News reports researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey finished the comprehensive mapping of the 746-mile (1,200-kilometer) Queen Charlotte-Fairweather […]
  
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• Fire marshal: 7 fires near Bremerton preserve suspicious

  28-08-2018 07:23
  The Kitsap County Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the blazes that have taken place around Illahee Preserve over the past two weeks.
  
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• Seattle teachers to vote Tuesday on whether to authorize a strike after contract talks fail to produce a deal

  28-08-2018 03:23
  In a statement on Monday evening, the district said it remains optimistic that schools will start on time on Sept. 5. "The district and SEA continue to discuss important topics, including compensation ... " the statement said.
  
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• Jacksonville shooting suspect appeared to be targeting specific gamers, police say

  28-08-2018 02:09
  After a gunman killed two people and wounded 11 others in a shooting at a video game tournament in Jacksonville on Sunday, the world of competitive video gaming has been thrown into into the spotlight.
  
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• Jacksonville shooting suspect appeared be targeting specific gamers, police say

  28-08-2018 02:09
  After a gunman killed two people and wounded 11 others in a shooting at a video game tournament in Jacksonville on Sunday, the world of competitive video gaming has been thrown into into the spotlight.
  
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• Weird Al: Please Don't Take a Pickaxe To My Star...

  28-08-2018 02:00 via thestranger.com
  by Dan Savage...unless...
  Weird Al has one request: "Please don't pickaxe my star. I know it's all the rage these days, but that's not cool. Unless at some point in the future, I do something unfathomably monstrous and evil in which case, sure, fine, okay, go ahead" pic.twitter.com/anFQn6lFla— Variety (@Variety) August 27, 2018Didn't think it was possible to love Weird Al more than I already did.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Hundreds of fish die in lagoon in tony Malibu, California

  28-08-2018 01:23
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California officials are trying to solve a stinky mystery: A die-off has left hundreds of fish floating in a recently restored lagoon on the tony Malibu coast. California State Parks Angeles District Superintendent Craig Sap said Monday that scientists believe the Malibu Lagoon die-off, which began last Wednesday, is likely caused […]
  
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• Durkan Kills Yet Another Significant Public Transportation Project

  28-08-2018 01:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeNot coming to Seattle, thanks to Durkan. Charles Mudede
  According the The Urbanist, Mayor Jenny Durkan has killed a project that would have installed futuristic transit shelters in Downtown Seattle and South Lake Union. The project, which had its roots in a proposal to improve Seattle's obviously second-rate (if not third-rate) street furniture. Though the city's public transportation population is growing impressively, its infrastructure is stuck in a past that brazenly neglect
  
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• She Wants Her Current to Fuck Her Like Her Ex Did—And Her Ex Is Willing To Show Her Current How It's Done

  28-08-2018 01:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  First published onJuly 2, 2009.
  I'm a 25-year-old straight female. I've been dating my boyfriend for a few months, but we fell in love fast and I want to make this last. However, he doesn't turn me on. It has nothing to do with looks—he's GORGEOUS—but rather with the fact that I am submissive and like things rough (rape fantasies, being tied up, etc.). He is GGG and tries, but he is just too timid. The last guy I dated used to toss me around
  
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• Why Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez’s “I’m a Yes” Text Message Is So Troubling

  28-08-2018 00:59 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle City Council coordinated their kneejerk repeal of the city's head tax in secret - here's why that's such a big problem.by Lester BlackCouncilmembers Rob Johson and Lorena González, pictured in council chambers last year. Lester Black
  By the second Monday in June, the city’s new head tax was clearly in trouble. Public outrage was boiling over into threats of lawsuits and referendums, and Mayor Jenny Durkan was just hours away from sending out a press release calling for t
  
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• Why Councilmember Lorena González's “I’m a Yes” Text Message Is So Troubling

  28-08-2018 00:59 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle City Council coordinated their kneejerk repeal of the city's head tax in secret - here's why that's such a big problem.by Lester BlackCouncilmembers Rob Johson and Lorena González, pictured in council chambers last year. Lester Black
  By the second Monday in June, the city’s new head tax was clearly in trouble. Public outrage was boiling over into threats of lawsuits and referendums, and Mayor Jenny Durkan was just hours away from sending out a press release calling for t
  
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