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• Storms dump record rain in Oklahoma and cause death in Texas

  22-09-2018 21:24
  DALLAS (AP) — A storm system has dumped record amounts of rain in parts of Oklahoma and caused flooding in Texas, including in the Dallas area, where floodwaters swept a man from a bridge to his death. Arlington Fire Department Lt. Mike Joiner says the body of the 24-year-old man who was swept into a […]
  
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• New phone-friendly version of FAFSA financial aid form is coming out

  22-09-2018 17:00
  The latest version of the form, formally called the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, will be available Oct. 1 on a new phone app and on a revamped website that works well on mobile devices.
  
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• Russian space chief vague on moon outpost plans

  22-09-2018 16:43
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s space agency chief has made an opaque statement about its involvement in the NASA-led plan to build an outpost near the moon, but officials clarified that Russia is staying in the project. Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying Saturday that Russia wouldn’t accept a “second-tier” […]
  
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• Russian space chief: No ‘2nd-tier status’ with NASA outpost

  22-09-2018 16:43
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s space agency chief said Saturday that it wouldn’t accept a second-tier role in a NASA-led plan to build an outpost near the moon, but Roscosmos spokesman quickly clarified that Russia is still staying in the project. Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that Russia wouldn’t […]
  
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• With $1.8 million monthly power bill, UW is asked to make Seattle buildings greener

  22-09-2018 15:00
  As the University of Washington plans major new buildings on the west side of campus, environmentalists are calling on it to step up its green building practices.
  
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• With $1.8 million monthly power bill, the UW is asked to make Seattle buildings greener

  22-09-2018 15:00
  As the University of Washington plans major new buildings on the west side of campus, environmentalists are calling on it to step up its green building practices.
  
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• New UW building is among greenest on campus, but falls short of cutting-edge efforts elsewhere

  22-09-2018 15:00
  As the University of Washington plans major new buildings on the west side of campus, environmentalists are calling on it to step up its green building practices.
  
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• Controversy heats up over removal of Lower Snake River dams as orcas suffer losses

  22-09-2018 15:00
  Orca champions have joined forces with dam busters, bringing new energy to an old fight to take down the Lower Snake River dams.
  
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• Florence sweeps away motel and family’s hard work, savings

  22-09-2018 14:23
  SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) — When the floodwaters from Florence receded, half the Starlite Motel was gone. A ragged lip of concrete edged parking spaces with no corresponding rooms, just a void of standing water and debris. The surge swept away personal belongings of the owner’s family — even his father’s wheelchair. And it wiped […]
  
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• Robert Terry, first black man to teach in Seattle public schools, dies at 91

  22-09-2018 14:00
  Robert Terry, the first African-American man to teach public school in Seattle, died from kidney disease in his Seattle home on Sept. 1 at the age of 91. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on Sept. 29, 1926, he spent his early life in a boxcar at a segregated logging camp before he began school in La Grande, Ore.
  
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• Trump hasn’t gotten his wall, but he’s building one around us nonetheless

  22-09-2018 04:39
  This year in our state we haven’t resettled a single Syrian refugee. And we’ve only welcomed a total of four from Iraq. The numbers don’t lie: Trump is winning at closing us off from the world.
  
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• Getting ready for fall at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory

  22-09-2018 03:51
  One pane at a time, workers remove the white washing from about 3,500 panes at the Seattle Volunteer Park Conservatory. The white wash offers protection from overheating, and it is put on in the spring and removed in the fall, usually in April and then September.
  
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• Teens arrested in connection with fatal drive-by shooting in Burien identified through school surveillance footage

  22-09-2018 03:44
  Two 17-year-old gang members appeared in juvenile court Friday, where a judge found probable cause that they were involved in the death of 51-year-old Gabriela Reyes Dominguez, an officer manager shot through a plate glass window of a Burien chiropractic clinic on Wednesday.
  
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• Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan creates new unit to investigate city-workplace misconduct

  22-09-2018 03:36
  The unit inside the Seattle Department of Human Resources will investigate city-employee complaints originating in every department under the mayor’s authority.
  
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• New unit will investigate harassment, discrimination allegations against Seattle city workers

  22-09-2018 03:36
  The unit inside the Seattle Department of Human Resources will investigate city-employee complaints originating in every department under the mayor’s authority.
  
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• Slog PM: A Racist Seattle Cop, Another Police Lip Sync Video, Man Arrested for Running Over Emus

  22-09-2018 03:08 via thestranger.com
  
  The political ad with the biggest twist, 520 woes, take us to a new planet, NASAby Nathalie GrahamHey, saying the N-word is wrong.NATE GOWDY/ Getty Images
  Slog PM today is brought to you by Vancouver Island Brewing Twisted Stalk Blackberry Helles: I’ll be honest, this tasted like a Coors Light mixed with a blackberry Izze, you know, that fizzy sort of soda drink they used to have at Starbucks?
  Alternatively, it tasted like a watered-down Capri-Sun with dry hops. I’m on Vancouver Isla
  
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• Lime Bike Raises Prices After Competitors Leaves Town

  22-09-2018 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Riding Lime Bikes just got a little bit more expensive.by Lester BlackThese Lime Bikes just got a little more expensive.Lester Black
  Dockless bikeshares are great for getting around Seattle but they also seem to be effective tools for illustrating economic theory.
  When we replaced our failing publicly-supported docked bike shares with the yellow, orange, and green bicycles of private companies, services became cheaper and used more widely.Riders took more trips in their first three months of pri
  
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• Lime Bike Raises Prices After Competitors Leave Town

  22-09-2018 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Riding Lime Bikes just got a little bit more expensive.by Lester BlackThese Lime Bikes just got a little more expensive.Lester Black
  Dockless bikeshares are great for getting around Seattle but they also seem to be effective tools for illustrating economic theory.
  When we replaced our failing publicly-supported docked bike shares with the yellow, orange, and green bicycles of private companies, services became cheaper and used more widely.Riders took more trips in their first three months of pri
  
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• Lime Bike Raises Prices After Competitor Leaves Town

  22-09-2018 02:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Riding Lime Bikes just got a little bit more expensive.by Lester BlackThese Lime Bikes just got a little more expensive.Lester Black
  Dockless bikeshares are great for getting around Seattle but they also seem to be effective tools for illustrating economic theory.
  When we replaced our failing publicly-supported docked bike shares with the yellow, orange, and green bicycles of private companies, services became cheaper and used more widely.Riders took more trips in their first three months of pri
  
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• Mayor Durkan on Climate Change Leadership, Why She's Slowing Down on the Center City Connector, and More

  22-09-2018 02:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Greg ScruggsMayor Durkan NATE GOWDY
  If you care about the future of the planet, odds are you paid attention to what took place in San Francisco last week at the Global Climate Action Summit, where California Governor Jerry Brown issued an APB to everyone not named Donald Trump and not working for the U.S. federal government to talk green in the city by the bay.
  Plenty of Washington bigwigs heeded Jerry’s call. The Stranger spotted Governor Inslee making the rounds as chairperson of vari
  
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• Mayor Durkan on Climate Change Leadership and Why She's Slowing Down So Many Seattle Transit Projects

  22-09-2018 02:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Greg ScruggsMayor Durkan NATE GOWDY
  If you care about the future of the planet, odds are you paid attention to what took place in San Francisco last week at the Global Climate Action Summit, where California Governor Jerry Brown issued an APB to everyone not named Donald Trump and not working for the U.S. federal government to talk green in the city by the bay.
  Plenty of Washington bigwigs heeded Jerry’s call. The Stranger spotted Governor Inslee making the rounds as chairperson of vari
  
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• Highway 520 bridge to reopen after closure in both directions due to police activity

  22-09-2018 02:05
  Drivers on State Route 520 near Montlake will experience delays.
  
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• Highway 520 bridge closed in both directions due to police activity

  22-09-2018 02:05
  Drivers on State Route 520 near Montlake will experience delays.
  
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• California had its own climate summit. Now what?

  22-09-2018 02:00
  A key premise of the conference was that if a handful of leading-edge states, cities and businesses can demonstrate that it’s feasible — and even lucrative — to go green in their own backyards, they might inspire others to follow suit.
  
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• Did Sawant Illegally Support the Showbox? Two Lawyers Weigh in

  22-09-2018 01:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Did Councilmember Kshama Sawant violate a state statute when she organized around preserving the Showbox? We ask two lawyers.by Lester BlackDid Sawant break the law in rallying for the Showbox? Lester Black
  The fight to save the Showbox theater was dealt a major blow earlier this month when the property's owner sued the city for $40 million, arguing the temporary protections were illegal. One of the primary arguments in the lawsuit is that council members like Kshama Sawant violated a state "fai
  
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• Your Seattle Weekend Cheat Sheet: Sept 21–23, 2018

  22-09-2018 01:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCelebrate the beginning of fall at events like Saturday's Luminata—a luminous parade filled with lanterns, glowing umbrellas, and incandescent costumes—or check out our complete fall events calendar. Kelly Wardle
  Congratulations, you've made it to the weekend! All week long, we at Stranger Things To Do have been posting lists of Seattle events to prepare you for this moment, but if you haven't been keeping up, don't worry—here are the basics to get
  
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• Parrots think they’re pretty smart

  22-09-2018 01:36
  Parrots prove to grasp economics.
  
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• A green beer that looks like algae? It’s all for clean water

  22-09-2018 01:36
  A brewery is making the green, murky beer to draw attention to the algae blooms that taint Lake Erie's water.
  
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• UW Offers Employees Half Off Transit Passes After Workers' Demonstration

  22-09-2018 01:25 via thestranger.com
  
  The pressure worked.by Rich SmithMembers from SEIU 925, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, WSNA, WFSE, AFT, UW Faculty Forward, and UAW 4121 marched in solidarity.SEIU 925
  On Wednesday approximately 200 people representing a number of different unions shut down traffic for 15 minutes near the intersection of Montlake and Pacific. The unions want the University of Washington to provide free transit passes to UW employees in an effort to combat climate change and to reduce projected gridlock in the U-Distric
  
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• Officials call off cougar hunt after hiker’s death

  22-09-2018 00:45
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon are ending a cougar hunt that was prompted by the fatal mauling of a hiker by one of the large cats earlier this month. Hunters killed a roughly 3-year-old female cougar on Sept. 14 after its image was captured on a remote camera set up at the spot […]
  
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• Cougar that killed Oregon hiker is identified and shot; hunt called off

  22-09-2018 00:45
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Authorities in Oregon are ending a cougar hunt that was prompted by the fatal mauling of a hiker by one of the large cats earlier this month. Hunters killed a roughly 3-year-old female cougar on Sept. 14 after its image was captured on a remote camera set up at the spot where […]
  
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• Huffington Post Declares Diets Are Over! They Never Worked Anyway!

  22-09-2018 00:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Suzette SmithDiets are over! We're not doing them anymore! SochAnam/Getty Images
  On Wednesday, Huffington Post's Highline dropped a beautifully researched long form piece by Seattle journalist Michael Hobbes explaining the grand misconceptions we—but more importantly our m-f-ing doctors—have about the health risks associated with obesity. From the article:
  About 40 years ago, Americans started getting much larger. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly
  
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• The Multinational Corporation That Runs Seattle School Buses Regularly Leaves Students Waiting for Hours

  22-09-2018 00:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzogasiseeit/Getty Images
  Update: Over the 2017-2018 school year, Seattle Public Shools contract with First Students Transporation was for a whopping $29,637,160. This contract is good through 2020 with an option to extend.
  Last Thursday, parents at TOPS, a kindergarten through 8th grade school in Eastlake, received a message. In an email, they were informed by the school that three buses—the 573, 576, and 578 routes—were going to be an hour late in both the morning and th
  
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