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• Seattle’s Community Police Commission urges City Council to reject proposed police contract

  17-10-2018 23:37
   At a sometimes emotional meeting, commission members said they had wanted to support the agreement but that it contained too many rollbacks on hard-fought reforms.
  
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• Grand Illusion to Present Sonic Youth: 30 Years of Daydream Nation on Oct. 22

  17-10-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  For one night only at Grand Illusion, celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation with three films about that rock band's most renowned album.by Dave Segal"Tune out the past and just say yes"? YouTube screengrab
  Sonic Youth's most celebrated and critically respected album, 1988's Daydream Nation, will receive a 30th-anniversary cinematic commemoration at Grand Illusion on Monday, October 22, as director Lance Bangs will present three films related to that sprawling, psychedel
  
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• Our Complete Halloween 2018 Calendar

  17-10-2018 22:56 via thestranger.com
  Every Event You Need To Know About, from the Can Can's This is Halloween to FreakNightby Stranger Things To Do Staff
  
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• Carolyn Long for United States Representative Congressional District No. 3

  17-10-2018 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board
  Carolyn Long is running to bring "civility" back to politics—and, yeah, that noise you heard was us choking on our own bile. But Long passed the SECB's bullshit test (over the phone, no less), and she makes sense in a district gerrymandered to favor Republican candidates/shitlords.
  In the primary, Long locked up most of the Democratic vote and came within 7 points of tying incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler—but, all together, Democratic candidates beat
  
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• The World's Richest Capitalist, Jeff Bezos, Says the World Is Not Enough

  17-10-2018 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede The Expanse, Syfy
  At his peak, Cecil Rhodes—the defining figure of the second part of capitalism's British moment (it followed the Dutch's founding moment in the 1600s)—stated: “To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.” He understood that the economic system that made him filthy rich
  
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• Carolyn Long Holds Town Hall on Herrera Beutler's Turf and the Shade Is Thick

  17-10-2018 21:57 via thestranger.com
  
  I expected a little more blood in Battle Ground. What I found was a bunch of excitement and polite concern!by Rich SmithThose green chairs were extremely comfortable.RS
  Ballots go out today. They'll hit most mailboxes Friday. In honor of our Democracy I've decided to hit the campaign trail and attend three public events in three different Congressional races across the state. Today I'm headed out to the debate between Dino Rossi and Kim Schrier in Ellensburg, which will be the first time we'll g
  
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• After Fundraising Surge, Carolyn Long Holds Town Hall on Herrera Beutler's Turf

  17-10-2018 21:57 via thestranger.com
  
  The shade was real.by Rich SmithThose green chairs were extremely comfortable.RS
  Ballots go out today. They'll hit most mailboxes Friday. In honor of our Democracy I've decided to hit the campaign trail and attend three public events in three different Congressional races across the state. Today I'm headed out to the debate between Dino Rossi and Kim Schrier in Ellensburg, which will be the first time we'll get to see the candidates face off on the same stage. Tomorrow I'll cover the Rep. Adam S
  
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• Fight Bigotry With Buck Angel!

  17-10-2018 21:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I'm a cis-gendered straight man living in Massachusetts. Coming up in November, there's a ballot question here that attempts to nullify Massachusetts' legal protections for transgender people. Back when the law was passed in the State House in 2016, the usual scare tactics were used, and now that it's on the ballot, the fear mongering industrial complex is at full swing again. Their case is the usual one—allowing transgendered women in the ladies'
  
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• Former Attorney General Backs Anti-Carbon Fee, Forgets to Mention He Represents Chevron

  17-10-2018 21:33 via thestranger.com
  
  “They’ve got the money but we have the momentum.”by Nathalie GrahamWhere do your loyalties lie??? No on 1631There’s a steady stream of political attack ads clogging the airways right now. You may have seen some of the garbage the anti-carbon fee faction is peddling. One of their ads includes former Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna.McKenna is described as a “consumer advocate” and Washington State Attorney General from 2005-2013. What it fails to mention
  
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• Spokane City Council considering limits on Border Patrol

  17-10-2018 21:23
  A proposed ordinance would bar searches at non-public parts of the city's bus depot unless agents have a warrant.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren's Costly Twitter War With President Trump

  17-10-2018 21:11 via thestranger.com
  Episode 170 of the Blabbermouth Podcastby The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Dan Savage, Eli Sanders, and Jasmyne Keimig talk about Elizabeth Warren’s high-stakes attempt to both prove her Native American ancestry and skewer Trump at the same time. It hasn't gone smoothly for Warren, and it raises the question: Has Trump achieved a bullying check-mate on this one?After that, millennial-adjacent Chase Burns tries to explain to Dan why he’s not a total
  
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• Extensive search underway for rape suspect in Snohomish County

  17-10-2018 20:59
  A woman was attacked about 300 yards from the trailhead at Meadowdale County Park, north of Lynnwood.
  
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• Mexico’s vaquita porpoise gets new chance; 6 sighted

  17-10-2018 20:54
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts want to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where the critically endangered vaquita porpoise remains after they sighted about a half dozen of the elusive creatures in September. One was a mother with her second new calf in two years. Vaquitas usually only reproduce once every two […]
  
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• Experts urge gulf refuge for endangered vaquita porpoise

  17-10-2018 20:54
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts called on Mexico’s government Wednesday to use floating barriers to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where a half dozen critically endangered vaquita porpoises were spotted in September. The sightings were an unexpected mix of good and bad news for the world’s smallest porpoise, which has been […]
  
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• Get Your George Romero Zombie Love on Tonight, When NWFF Screens Day of the Dead

  17-10-2018 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkSooo hongry.
  The late George Romero has a zombie film formula that’s easy to recognize—sociocultural themes embedded into a gory, post-apocalyptic context, with the dead who’ve risen from their graves to threaten all of humanity sometimes just as horrifying as the people trying to survive them. His series started with 1968’s iconic Night of the Living Dead, then came Dawn of the Dead (1978)—where the characters are holed up a shopping mall (you might
  
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• Shoe-shiner who gave $200K in tips to hospital dies at 76

  17-10-2018 20:27
  Albert Lexie, who for decades shined shoes part-time at a Pittsburgh children's hospital and donated his tips to its Free Care Fund, has died at 76. His gifts to the hospital amounted to more than $200,000.
  
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• Lisa Brown for United States Representative Congressional District No. 5

  17-10-2018 20:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control Board
  Voting Lisa Brown into office would mean voting Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers out of office, which would mean bringing down the fourth most powerful Republican in the House—the SECB has been leaking sex sauce into our collective jeans for weeks at the thought of that upset. (We're coming to avenge you, Tom Foley!)
  As the chair of the House Republican Conference, McMorris Rodgers's entire job for the last two years has been to sugarcoat Republican
  
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• How to Get Your Grandparents Into Weed

  17-10-2018 19:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog PETE GAMLEN
  For people younger than 70 who haven't been indoctrinated by the Church of All Drugs Are Bad, the truth by this point is clear: Smoking weed will not turn you into a criminal. It will also not make you lazy, unambitious, or unable to get out of your sweatpants. It will not make you listen to the Grateful Dead or Bob Marley on repeat—although, in rare cases, from some reason, it does lead people to hang tie-dyed tapestries on their bedroom walls. Despite what Nan
  
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• Bothell police officer injured, 4 patrol cars damaged in man’s attempt to flee

  17-10-2018 19:36
  The man was arrested on suspicion of felony assault, eluding and driving under the influence, police said.
  
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• Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocks

  17-10-2018 19:35
  WASHINGTON (AP) — What were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be some rocks, according to a new study. Two years ago, a team of Australian scientists found odd structures in Greenland that they said were partly leftovers from microbes that lived on an ancient seafloor. They were said to be 3.7 […]
  
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• Pot Is Legal in Canada, and That's a Huge Fucking Deal

  17-10-2018 19:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Our sensible neighbors to the north have legalized pot at the federal level, nationwide.by Lester BlackCanada is showing us how to legalize pot. Marcel ter Bekke/ Getty
  You can walk into a store in Canada today and walk out with legal pot. This is a huge deal. It's more radical than anything that has happened in the United States.That's because Canada actually legalized pot. We have never done that. Marijuana is entirely illegal in every single state in the US. Some places like Washington and Ca
  
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• Elderly man dies in Bonney Lake mobile home fire

  17-10-2018 18:27
  Firefighters were dispatched to house at 5:30 a.m., but it was already engulfed in flames.
  
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• Google, Facing Lawsuit, Now Argues It Didn’t Sell Political Ads in Washington State

  17-10-2018 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Much depends on the definition of "political advertising," says Google's lawyer.by Eli SandersWhen is a Washington state political ad not a Washington state political ad? Google has a theory. Stephen Brashear / Getty Images
  Four months ago, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued Google, alleging the tech giant has spent years ignoring this state's law on election ad transparency. Shortly afterward, Google announced it would stop selling political ads in Washington state altogether&m
  
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• EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

  17-10-2018 18:20
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science. The agency’s so-called transparency in regulatory science rule was one of the most contentious proposed by former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who stepped down […]
  
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• EPA puts off final decision on science transparency rule

  17-10-2018 18:20
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science. Critics say it could bar the use of landmark public health studies. EPA spokesman Michael Abboud said Wednesday the agency now expects no published action […]
  
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• All current US champions will compete at Skate America in Everett this weekend

  17-10-2018 18:08
  Skate America, the first of the International Skating Union's six-event Grand Prix series, opens in Everett on Oct. 19, and will feature a star studded lineup with numerous U.S. champions.
  
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• Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

  17-10-2018 18:00
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A California-based startup says it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia. Rocket Lab said Wednesday that it will build its launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. The spaceport is located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility where unmanned cargo missions already launch to the International Space Station. Huntington Beach, […]
  
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• Tacoma Weekly Publisher Is Allegedly Stealing Employee Wages

  17-10-2018 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  The publisher of the Tacoma Weekly was allegedly deducting healthcare premiums from employee paychecks without actually paying for the health insurance his employees thought they were buying.by Lester BlackIs this Tacoma? We've never been. Meleah Reardon Photography / Getty
  The publisher of the Tacoma Weekly allegedly stole his employees wages earlier this year by deducting health insurance premiums from their paychecks and then pocketing that money, instead of paying for the health insurance hi
  
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• Longview police fatally shoots suspect who shot at them

  17-10-2018 17:18
  The suspect began shooting at officers, who returned fire and killed him early Wednesday morning, police said.
  
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• Slog AM: Bill Gates Puts Down $1M for Carbon Tax Initiative, Canada Be Smokin' Dat Weed, #Boycott T.I.?

  17-10-2018 17:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Michael BellThey legalized it, baby! DONALD WEBER / STRINGER / GETTY
  Toke up, eh? Canada became both the second, and the largest country to legalize cannabis for recreational use at 12:00 a.m. this morning. They will also be pardoning anyone with prior pot possession records. That’s a great excuse to throw a big pot party, just don’t bring it over the border.
  Gates throws down for carbon tax: Yes! Calling all decent billionaires. I know you all read Slog! Once-richest-man-in-the-w
  
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• France floods death toll rises to 14; 1 still missing

  17-10-2018 17:15
  PARIS (AP) — Authorities in the southwest region of France hit this week by destructive flash floods say the death toll has increased to 14, with one person still listed as missing. Previously, the toll from the floods in the Aude region had stood at 13, with three missing. The Aude prefect said Wednesday that […]
  
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• How to watch the lone debate between Dino Rossi and Kim Schrier tonight

  17-10-2018 15:28
  In the race to succeed retiring Rep. Dave Reichert, Dino Rossi has agreed to just the single debate with Kim Schrier.
  
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• State Sen. Maralyn Chase draws a serious challenger — fellow Democrat Jesse Salomon

  17-10-2018 15:00
  As she campaigns for her third term for the 32nd District Washington state Senate, Chase faces Shoreline Deputy Mayor Jesse Salomon. The race has split the Democratic Party.
  
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• Kim Schrier tries to make lack of political experience an asset in race with Dino Rossi

  17-10-2018 15:00
  As a first-time candidate with no record in elected office, Schrier makes a clear contrast with Rossi, a real-estate investor and legislative veteran making his fourth run for higher political office.
  
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• Judge orders political consultant, city of Seattle to disclose polling results, other records related to council’s abrupt head-tax repeal

  17-10-2018 15:00
  The latest rulings come amid contentious courtroom wrangling over a lawsuit contending the Seattle's City Council broke Washington's Open Public Meetings Act in the lead-up to its abrupt repeal of the employee-hours tax in June.
  
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• Democratic state Sen. Maralyn Chase draws a serious challenger — fellow Democrat Jesse Salomon

  17-10-2018 15:00
  As she campaigns for her third term for the 32nd District Washington state Senate, Chase faces Shoreline Deputy Mayor Jesse Salomon. The race has split the Democratic Party.
  
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• A $21,634 bill? How a homeless woman fought her way out of tow-company hell

  17-10-2018 15:00
  The car Amanda Ogle lived in was stolen, then towed, then sold off for a measly $175. Not even a court order could get it back. But she didn't give in, and this week won a victory in court to reclaim the old car — and her life.
  
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• Report: Washington foster kids sent to Iowa were abused in facility run ‘like a correctional institution’

  17-10-2018 14:48
  In response to the report by Disability Rights Washington, Washington officials say they will stop placing foster children at the Clarinda Academy and they're working to get children currently there into other situations by the end of January.
  
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• Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds

  17-10-2018 11:06
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past few decades tornadoes have been shifting — decreasing in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi River and farther east, a new study shows. Scientists aren’t quite certain why. Tornado activity is increasing most in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, […]
  
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• After storm shuts down radio stations, 2 hosts carry on

  17-10-2018 06:14
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — First Hurricane Michael damaged the radio station where they worked and then the owner shut the station down permanently — but that hasn’t stopped two Florida radio hosts from continuing their mission of informing their listeners during the disaster. Instead, Tiffany Dunning and Sean Streeter, turned to their Facebook page to […]
  
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• Scope of Michael’s fury becomes clearer in Florida Panhandle

  17-10-2018 06:11
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Michael killed at least 16 people in Florida, most of them in the coastal county that took a direct hit from the storm, state emergency authorities said Tuesday. That’s in addition to at least 10 deaths elsewhere across the South. The scope of the storm’s fury became clearer after […]
  
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• Powerless victims of Hurricane Michael now suffer looting

  17-10-2018 06:11
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Armed looters are targeting homes and businesses that remain without electricity after being ravaged by Hurricane Michael a week ago. Sheriff’s Maj. Jimmy Stanford said deputies have arrested about 10 looters each night since Florida’s Bay County took a direct hit from the strong Category 4 storm last Wednesday. In […]
  
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• Mexico Beach residents return home 1 week after Michael

  17-10-2018 06:11
  MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of hard-hit Mexico Beach began returning home for the first time Wednesday since Hurricane Michael to see homes devastated by wind and water and pieces of their lives scattered across the Florida sand. Nancy Register sobbed uncontrollably after finding no trace of the large camper where she’d lived with […]
  
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• Potentially deadly infection hits California sea lions

  17-10-2018 05:04
  SAUSALITO, Calif. (AP) — A rescue center says California sea lions are coming down with a potentially fatal bacterial infection in near-record numbers. The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito says more than 220 sea lions rescued this year have been diagnosed with leptospirosis. It’s the second-largest outbreak recorded by the rescue center. The center says […]
  
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• Long lines, honking cars: Jubilation in Canada, world’s biggest marijuana market

  17-10-2018 04:33
  Canada became the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began early Wednesday in Newfoundland.
  
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• King County Council members clash over response to rape allegation against state Sen. Joe Fain

  17-10-2018 04:08
  Three county-council members say Councilmember Kathy Lambert's comments about rape allegations leveled against Sen. Joe Fain “do not represent the King County Council.”
  
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• County-council members clash over response to rape allegation against state Sen. Joe Fain

  17-10-2018 04:08
  Three county-council members say Councilmember Kathy Lambert's comments about rape allegations leveled against Sen. Joe Fain “do not represent the King County Council.”
  
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