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• Free Will Astrology: December 26–January 1

  26-12-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rob Brezsny
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): I suspect that in 2019 you'll be able to blend a knack for creating more stability with an urge to explore and seek greater freedom. How might this unusual confluence be expressed in practical ways? Maybe you'll travel to reconnect with your ancestral roots. Or perhaps a faraway ally or influence will help you feel more at home in the world. It's possible you'll establish a stronger foundation, which will in turn bolster your courage and inspire yo
  
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• Check Out Our Complete Seattle New Year's Eve 2018 Calendar

  26-12-2018 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff Shutterstock
  New Year's Eve is just a few days away, but it's not too late to plan how you're going to say goodbye to 2018. Luckily, we have more than 200 options on our New Year's Eve calendar, which is sortable by neighborhood and venue. You can also narrow it down into music events, food events, parties, and performances. If the calendar is overwhelming, check out our lists of extravagant New Year's Eve parties, New Year's Eve dinners, or last-minute New Year's
  
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• Trump signs legislation making it easier to kill sea lions in the Columbia River

  26-12-2018 22:48
  The bill streamlines the process for Washington, Idaho, Oregon and several Pacific Northwest Native American tribes to capture and euthanize potentially hundreds of sea lions found in the river east of Portland.
  
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• Savage Love: Two Breakups, One Brake On

  26-12-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage Joe NewtonI'm a thirtysomething straight woman married for 16 years. Eighteen months ago, I met a man and there was an immediate attraction. For the first 15 months of our relationship, I was his primary sexual and intimate partner, as both sex and intimacy were lacking in his marriage. (My husband knew of the relationship from the start and is accepting for the most part.) After my lover's wife found out about me, she suddenly became very responsive to my lover's sexual and emotio
  
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• Displaced family focuses on silver lining after Christmas morning house fire in Spokane

  26-12-2018 22:24
  After everything settled, the outside of the home would look mostly unchanged, save for a large hole and charred wood with sections of chimney visible. The inside wasn’t so lucky.
  
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• Sister Wendy Beckett, art historian who became a BBC star, dies at 88

  26-12-2018 21:43
  Sister Wendy Beckett, an Oxford-educated Roman Catholic nun who soared to international stardom with her BBC documentaries on the history of art — and connected emotionally with millions in Britain and America — has died.
  
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• State calls suit challenging Medicaid expansion meritless

  26-12-2018 21:37
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho attorney general’s office calls a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a voter-passed Medicaid expansion initiative meritless. The Idaho Press-Tribune reports Deputy Idaho Attorney General Scott Zanzig, in arguments filed with the Idaho Supreme Court, says the lawsuit is so groundless that the Idaho Freedom Foundation should be ordered to […]
  
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• Lessons We Still Haven't Learned Since 2016

  26-12-2018 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  #3: Some people actually like Ted Cruz.by Michael Bell BLUIZ60/GETTY IMAGES
  1. Don’t Let Trump Control the Narrative
  National media outlets were the biggest donors to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Collectively, they gave him $5 billion worth of airtime for nothing. Polling numbers predicting a big Trump loss allowed media moguls to sleep at night while they amplified—oftentimes without context or correction—the vilest rhetoric we’ve heard from a national figure, all while
  
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• An Unfinished List of Lessons We Still Haven't Learned Since 2016

  26-12-2018 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  #3: Some people actually like Ted Cruz.by Michael Bell BLUIZ60/GETTY IMAGES
  1. Don’t Let Trump Control the Narrative
  National media outlets were the biggest donors to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Collectively, they gave him $5 billion worth of airtime for nothing. Polling numbers predicting a big Trump loss allowed media moguls to sleep at night while they amplified—oftentimes without context or correction—the vilest rhetoric we’ve heard from a national figure, all while
  
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• Coroner’s office identifies body found on Whidbey Island beach

  26-12-2018 21:05
  Matthew Fitch, 45, had gone missing from his home in central Whidbey Island on Oct. 29.
  
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• Gov. Brown announces new appointee to Oregon Supreme Court

  26-12-2018 21:01
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An adjunct professor at Willamette University will be joining the Oregon Supreme Court in 2019. The Statesman Journal reports Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday she will appoint Judge Chris Garrett to the state’s highest court filling a retirement vacancy. Garrett, in addition to teaching at the liberal arts college in […]
  
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• Again, Joe Biden, for the Love of God: Do Not Run for President

  26-12-2018 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Instead of running on his bad record, Biden should use his universal name recognition to help boost younger, more exciting, more non-Biden candidates.by Rich SmithInstead of running, use your influence with the "white working class" to stump for politicians like...uh...outgoing Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. Scott Olson / Getty ImagesHere we go again.A poll released on Christmas Eve shows former Vice President Joe Biden beating Trump in head-to-head matchup. A bunch of polls released earlier
  
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• Forest Service taking comments on Idaho open-pit mine plan

  26-12-2018 20:30
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is taking comments and holding a public meeting on proposed exploration drilling for an open-pit molybdenum mine a Canadian company is considering in the Boise National Forest in central Idaho. The agency on Friday released an updated environmental assessment involving drilling planned by a subsidiary of Vancouver, […]
  
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• Crater Lake, Mount Rainier limited after government shutdown

  26-12-2018 20:27
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Access to Crater Lake and Mount Rainier national parks will be limited due to the government shutdown. The Statesman Journal reports the lapse in federal funding prompted Crater Lake managers to close the visitor’s center, cancel ranger-guided snowshoe trips and close the road to the lake’s rim. Mount Rainier closed its […]
  
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• Rogue Pack of wolves takes down seventh cow

  26-12-2018 20:13
  MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say gray wolf OR-7’s Rogue Pack has killed another cow at a northeastern Jackson County ranch, marking the seventh confirmed livestock kill attributed to the pack since late October. The Mail Tribune reports that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reports that the dead and partially consumed cow was […]
  
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• 6 customers draw guns on men attempting to steal tools from Marysville store

  26-12-2018 20:06
  The men allegedly took four nail guns from the Coastal Farm & Ranch store Saturday and when they got into a car they were surrounded by about six customers with guns raised.
  
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• Tiny salamanders could complicate Shasta Dam project

  26-12-2018 19:56
  A 1972 state law prohibits the 602-foot Shasta Dam from getting any taller, but the Trump administration is planning to raise it. Environmentalists say the project would put the rare salamanders at risk of extinction.
  
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• Baby, New Year Can Go Straight to Hell!

  26-12-2018 19:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Old Man Last Year IPGGUTENBERGUKLTD / GETTY IMAGES
  That’s right—I said it! Baby New Year can go straight to hell! In case you’ve forgotten—and most of you have—I was Baby New Year once, too! In January 2018. And ohhhhh, you loved me then, didn’t you?
  You had such high hopes for me and the new year. But now? You hate me. Why? Because I’m no longer an adorable infant upon whom you lay all your hopes and dreams. Now I’m OLD MAN LAST YEAR! A living,
  
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• Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing the nation’s children

  26-12-2018 19:44
  More than 4 million children endured lockdowns last school year. But even when there is no gunman the halls, lockdowns can inflict immense psychological damage on children convinced that they’re in danger.
  
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• Art historian Sister Wendy Beckett has died. She was 88

  26-12-2018 19:36
  LONDON (AP) — Sister Wendy Beckett, an art historian and critic, has died. She was 88. The Carmelite Monastery of Quidenham said Beckett died Wednesday afternoon. She was a sister of the Catholic Church who became prominent in the 1990s presenting BBC shows about art history. Her work included a series of well received documentaries […]
  
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• Police to arrest woman suspected of causing car crash in West Seattle

  26-12-2018 18:44
  The woman driver showed signs of impairment, and after she is released from the hospital she will be booked into King County Jail for investigation of vehicular assault, according to police.
  
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• 2 people seriously injured in West Seattle crash; Sylvan Way is closed for several hours

  26-12-2018 18:44
  Sylvan Way between Southwest Morgan Street and Delridge Way Southwest will be closed for several hours, according to Seattle police. Three people, two of them seriously hurt, were taken to Harborview.
  
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• 2 people seriously injured in West Seattle car crash

  26-12-2018 18:44
  Sylvan Way between Southwest Morgan Street and Delridge Way Southwest will be closed for several hours, according to Seattle police. Three people, two of them seriously hurt, were taken to Harborview.
  
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• Seattle's Best Performances of 2018

  26-12-2018 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Remembering the best theater, dance, drag, and political performances that happened in Seattle this year.by Chase BurnsAngel Blue was unforgettable inin Porgy and Bess at Seattle Opera. PHILIP NEWTON
  Angel Blue in Porgy and Bess at Seattle Opera
  Angel Blue, who played Bess inSeattle Opera’s production in August, is one of the most charismatic performers I’ve ever seen onstage. Every time she walked out, she was all I could look at. Born in 1984, Blue has already performed all over th
  
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• Southeast Alaska fishermen target hagfish as winter catch

  26-12-2018 18:09
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Consider the hagfish. Maybe you’ve never heard of these deep ocean creatures, also called “slime eels” for their eel-like appearance and ability to secrete huge amounts of opaque slime. Not exactly a mouth-watering description at first glance; yet over the past two years, a small-scale effort has developed in Southeast Alaska […]
  
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• University of Alaska sets goal to improve teacher retention

  26-12-2018 17:34
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The University of Alaska wants to address public school teacher turnover with more locally educated educators. University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen has set a goal for 90 percent of all new teacher hires to have graduated from the university by 2025, the Juneau Empire reported . The current rate is […]
  
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• Troopers responding to shots find body of Wasilla man

  26-12-2018 17:26
  WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers are investigating the death of a 51-year-old Wasilla man. Julian Myers was found dead Monday night at a home southwest of the city. Troopers just before 9 p.m. took a call of shots fired during a disturbance. Troopers say the person responsible for firing the shots is cooperating […]
  
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• Oregon recycling rate short of 2020 goal

  26-12-2018 17:03
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is unlikely to reach its goal of recycling and recovering 52 percent of the waste generated in the state by 2020. The Statesman Journal reports that Oregonians recycled and recovered about 42.8 percent of all waste in the state in 2017. That’s just a slight increase from the state’s 42.2 […]
  
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• FBI concerned by money mules roped into fraud schemes

  26-12-2018 16:54
  Beyond the run-of-the-mill scams, officials say, a particularly concerning trend involves "money mules" — people who, unwittingly or not, use their own bank accounts to move money for criminals for purposes they think are legitimate or even noble.
  
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• Man charged in sex assault at fire camp agrees to plea deal

  26-12-2018 16:42
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Idaho inmate accused of sexually assaulting a woman after he was sent to work at a wildfire base camp in Utah has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery. The woman approved the plea deal so she could avoid having to testify in the case, prosecutor Kevin Daniels said Monday. […]
  
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• Slog AM: Gentrification Comes to SeaTac, Trump's Favorite Podiatrist, Happy Boxing Day

  26-12-2018 16:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Merry Wednesday, maybe some snow in Everett, the Lakers are good?by Nathalie GrahamAh, yes, according to ALL OF THIS MONEY you definitely, for sure, have bone spurs. AlexRaths/Getty Images
  Does anyone know what happened while we were gone? Look, I know it was pretty much just Slog AM-less Monday and Tuesday but it felt like an eternity since we were together. In that time, some serious stuff went down, I'm sure of it. But, I'm at a loss. All I know is that Trump told a 7-year-old her belief (or
  
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• Israel to allow medical marijuana exports

  26-12-2018 16:07
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Parliament has unanimously approved a law to permit exports of medical marijuana, allowing Israel to tap the lucrative global market. Israel will become the third country, after the Netherlands and Canada, to take its medical cannabis global. The Israeli medical cannabis company iCAN predicts the global industry will reach $33 billion […]
  
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• ‘Tech addicts’ seek solace in 12 steps and rehab

  26-12-2018 15:47
  A secluded ranch outside Seattle now houses one of the few residential programs in the nation specializing in tech addiction. There are also 12-step groups. The addiction diagnosis, not officially recognized, is cropping up among tech workers and others.
  
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• He’s a ‘tech addict’ who works in the tech industry

  26-12-2018 15:47
  A secluded ranch outside Seattle now houses one of the few residential programs in the nation specializing in tech addiction. There are also 12-step groups. The addiction diagnosis, not officially recognized, is cropping up among tech workers and others.
  
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• Gentrification battle moves to SeaTac as immigrant-owned businesses face displacement

  26-12-2018 15:00
  SeaTac says it badly needs the affordable, transit-friendly housing a $15.5 million deal will bring. But as many as 50 businesses that serve as a regional gathering place for Somali refugees and other immigrants worry about their future and distrust city plans with a questionable past.
  
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• ‘King tides’ arrive on Seattle-area beaches; snow possible north of Everett

  26-12-2018 14:57
  The tide in coastal areas around Seattle is predicted to reach between 12 and 13 feet each morning through the new year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 
  
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• Rhode Island man gets Nebraska jail time for drugs

  26-12-2018 13:27
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Rhode Island man arrested on a drug charge has been sentenced to time in a Nebraska jail. Lancaster County District Court records say 51-year-old John Carlson, of Cranston, Rhode Island, pleaded no contest last week and was found guilty after prosecutors lowered the charge to possession of more than a […]
  
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• Japan will resume commercial whaling, but not in Antarctic

  26-12-2018 03:45
  TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Wednesday it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume hunting the animals for commercial use but said it will no longer go to the Antarctic for its much-criticized annual killings of hundreds of whales. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the hunts will be limited to Japan’s territorial waters […]
  
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• Japan to resume commercial whaling, but not in Antarctic

  26-12-2018 03:45
  TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years, but said it would no longer go to the Antarctic for its much-criticized annual killings. Japan switched to what it calls research whaling after the IWC imposed […]
  
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• Wintry holiday scenes around Seattle

  26-12-2018 03:17
  Seattle Times photographers Bettina Hansen and Ken Lambert show the many faces of our city as night fell on Christmas Eve.
  
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