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• Washington Wants Climate Policy

  10-01-2019 23:49 via thestranger.com
  
  There are three climate policies being introduced into the legislative session this go-around: 100% clean, a clean fuel standard, and a clean buildings proposal.by Nathalie GrahamSave us from ourselves, effective climate policy! KAMILPETRAN/GETTY IMAGES
  Everyone was screaming about the carbon fee last fall. The voter tug-of-war between the Yes on 1631 (yay carbon fee) and No on 1631 (carbon fees are the devil ~xoxo Big Oil) didn't turn out great for the environment.Washington voters aligned reso
  
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• Man sentenced to 60+ years for beating, decapitating 2 Tacoma women

  10-01-2019 22:51
  Matthew Leupold murdered the two women in January 2017 in their Tacoma home after using drugs with them and hearing voices, according to court documents.
  
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• Man gets over 60 years for decapitating 2 women in Tacoma

  10-01-2019 22:51
  Matthew Leupold murdered the two women in January 2017 in their Tacoma home after using drugs with them and hearing voices, according to court documents.
  
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• Buy Your Tickets to These 11 Newly Announced Events Before They Sell Out

  10-01-2019 22:48
  Ja Rule and Ashanti, SPLIFF Film Festival, and More Events on Sale the Week of Jan 10.by Stranger Things To Do StaffWe all know that many of the biggest Seattle events often sell out well in advance. But it's not a lost cause—if you plan ahead, you can still score tickets for the most popular events. To help you with that, we've rounded up all of the major events that are going on sale in the next couple of days, like Ja Rule and Ashanti, plus things that have just gone on sale, like the s
  
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• Q13 Fox Fires Seattle Editor Who Doctored Trump's Oval Office Speech

  10-01-2019 22:46
  It's regretful this staffer didn't make Trump look even more negative.by Lester Black
  President Trump's Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office already looked ridiculous, but an editor at our local Fox News affiliate made our Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief look even more idiotic by digitally doctoring a video of the speech. Q13 Fox quickly fired the staffer today, according to the Seattle Times.
  Q13 News Director Erica Hill told the Times that they regret that the doctored video "is seen as portraying
  
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• Fox News Fires Seattle Editor Who Doctored Trump's Oval Office Speech

  10-01-2019 22:46
  It's regretful this staffer didn't make Trump look even more negative.by Lester Black
  President Trump's Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office already looked ridiculous, but an editor at our local Fox News affiliate made our Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief look even more idiotic by digitally doctoring a video of the speech. Fox News quickly fired the staffer today, according to the Seattle Times.
  Q13 News Director Erica Hill told the Times that they regret that the doctored video "is seen as portrayin
  
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• Washington state backers submit signatures for I-1000, to re-legalize affirmative action

  10-01-2019 22:41
  Gov. Jay Inslee and former governors Dan Evans, Gary Locke and Christine Gregoire all have backed Initiative 1000. It would undo what state voters did in 1998 when they outlawed affirmative action.
  
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• An Interview with Sub Pop Biographer and Respected Seattle Rock Historian Gillian G. Gaar

  10-01-2019 22:26
  
  An in-depth interview with Seattle rock historian Gillian Gaar about her fascinating history of Sub Pop Records, World Domination.by Dave SegalLook at these babies. (Photo from World Domination taken by Charles Peterson) Dave Segal
  Veteran Seattle rock historian and former Stranger freelancer Gillian G. Gaar (She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll, Entertain Us: The Rise of Nirvana, former editor of The Rocket, etc.) has written what will likely be the definitive history of
  
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• Gray, activist from lunch counter protest photo, dies at 84

  10-01-2019 22:25
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A community organizer shown in an iconic photograph while challenging racial segregation at a Mississippi lunch counter in the 1960s has died at his home in Pocatello, Idaho. Known by his birth name John Salter Jr. when he worked at historically black Tougaloo College in Mississippi, he later changed his name […]
  
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• Weather service warns of high wind, waves in North Pacific

  10-01-2019 22:07
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The National Weather Service warned of hurricane-force winds with hazardous conditions for mariners in the North Pacific. The agency’s Ocean Prediction Center said offshore winds Thursday could reach 80 knots, or 92 mph (148 kph), with waves to 50 feet (15 meters) or higher. The storm was heading northeast toward Alaska’s […]
  
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• Hearing planned on barrel ruptures at E. Idaho nuclear site

  10-01-2019 22:03
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A government board that makes recommendations on U.S. Department of Energy facilities plans to hold a public hearing concerning the rupture of four barrels containing radioactive sludge at an eastern Idaho nuclear site. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board will meet in May in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ruptures at […]
  
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• Star Trek: Discovery Returns Next Week. Here's an Easy Way to Get Caught Up

  10-01-2019 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Erik Henriksen
  It was a rocky beginning. The first season of Star Trek: Discovery—the series that, in the US at least, exclusively streams on the deeply annoying, otherwise useless, pay-per-month service CBS All Access—had its share of stumbles, and it wasn't until the season's final episodes that it started to gel. When it it finally did, it started to feel like a promising new Trek—one that embraced both exploration and humanism. Or... whatever the interstellar equivalent
  
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• Eastern Idaho man sent to prison for brother’s manslaughter

  10-01-2019 21:24
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An eastern Idaho man has been sentenced to up to 13 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter after prosecutors said he killed his brother by hitting him with a pool cue. District Judge Bruce Pickett said Wednesday that Cory James Hix will be eligible for parole after serving at least […]
  
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• Lusine—Seattle's Master of Subtle Dynamics and Euphoric Swells—Is Playing Nectar Tonight

  10-01-2019 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal Sarah McIlwain
  Seems like I’ve been writing about Lusine (aka Seattle electronic-music producer Jeff McIlwain) for—checks notes—about 15 years. The last few of them, I’ve been waiting for his quality control to decline, as it does with most musicians who’ve been in the game as long as he has (since 1999). But he refuses to fade. A trusty mainstay with the respected Ghostly International label, Lusine released the strong, song-based, quasi-techno charme
  
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• Ocean warming is accelerating faster than thought, new research finds

  10-01-2019 20:52
  A new analysis finds that the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a U.N. panel estimated five years ago. “2018 is going to be the warmest year on record for the Earth’s oceans,” says one of the study's authors.
  
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• Robert C. Jones, noted Northwest painter and longtime UW professor, dies at 88

  10-01-2019 20:45
  Over half a century, in a daily studio practice, Robert C. Jones patiently pursued a lush, poetic vision built up with layers of loose, lyrical paint, for which he achieved awards and recognition.
  
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• Her Awful Ex Moved to Her Small Town: Two Questions, One Answer

  10-01-2019 20:45
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  Two questions.
  Question one: A few years ago I was in a toxic relationship that left me feeling traumatized and abused mentally and physically. I left. Cut him off completely. I went to therapy. I started to feel better, and then... my toxic ex moved to my tiny town. He lives five blocks away. I can’t get a restraining order, I checked. He doesn’t call me or text me or email me. He just lives down the fucking street. There is a potential to
  
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• Idaho legislative committee OKs 12th-grade immunization rule

  10-01-2019 20:35
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The state Legislature’s House Health and Welfare committee is recommending approval of a rule that adds a second meningococcal vaccine dose to the list of school-required vaccinations. Parents and legal guardians still have the option of exempting their children from the required immunizations. Deputy State Epidemiologist Kathy Turner says the new […]
  
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• Food & Drink Specials To Try Now

  10-01-2019 20:29
  Elvis-inspired cupcakes, eclipse-inspired ice cream, and more Seattle food & drink specials for January.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis month, Trophy Cupcakes, Cupcake Royale, and Salt and Straw are all paying tribute to the King with Elvis-inspired creations, and Molly Moon's bids adieu to the viaduct by giving it its own ice cream flavor. Read on to discover those and more food and drink specials for this January.Central District Ice Cream
  This month, the lineup at the Central District
  
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• It Looks Like Kshama Sawant Is Running for City Council

  10-01-2019 20:27
  
  by Rich SmithShe's running, according to a Facebook post.Kelly OA *checks notes* Facebook post about an upcoming event called Socialists Into City Hall—Building the Mvmt in the 2019 Election describes Seattle's only socialist city council member as, emphasis mine: "Councilmember Kshama Sawant - Socialist Alternative Member & 2019 Candidate for D3." This is the first place I've seen Sawant listed as a candidate running for city council in the 3rd District.
  A representative for CM Sawant
  
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• Flavors of the Month: Seattle Food & Drink Specials to Try in January 2019

  10-01-2019 20:25
  Elvis-inspired cupcakes, eclipse-inspired ice cream, and more Seattle food & drink specials for January.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis month, Trophy Cupcakes, Cupcake Royale, and Salt and Straw are all paying tribute to the King with Elvis-inspired creations, and Molly Moon's bids adieu to the viaduct by giving it its own ice cream flavor. Read on to discover those and more food and drink specials for this January. For more ideas, check out our list of places to drink hot chocolate in Se
  
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• Split court: Local initiatives subject to disclosure rule

  10-01-2019 20:24
  The Evergreen Freedom Foundation provided free legal services to citizens gathering signatures for local measures, but said it didn't report the legal services as contributions because the measures hadn't yet been turned in.
  
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• Italy's EasyJoints Are Low in THC, but Big Business

  10-01-2019 20:05
  
  by Josh Jardine easyjoint.itA couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how hemp flower is being sold in Oklahoma as "legal weed," and is being smoked by people who in all likelihood would much rather have access to something with a greater amount of THC than 0.3 percent. I'm an advocate for consumers not playing the THC numbers-chasing game, but come on—0.3 percent?
  I was under the impression that Oklahoma was the only place with such an offering, but—as is often the case—I was wrong
  
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• Activists want details on inquiry into ex-nuke weapons plant

  10-01-2019 19:59
  DENVER (AP) — Activists are asking a judge to make documents public from a 27-year-old criminal investigation into a former nuclear weapons plant outside Denver. The activists said Thursday that the documents could show whether the federal government did enough to clean up the site before turning part of it into a wildlife refuge and […]
  
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• 3 former state workers suing Alaska governor over firings

  10-01-2019 19:59
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three former state employees are suing Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his chief of staff, alleging wrongful termination when Dunleavy took office. The Alaska Civil Liberties Union of Alaska plans a lawsuit on behalf of former state attorney Elizabeth Bakalar and one on behalf of psychiatrists Anthony Blanford and John Bellville. After […]
  
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• Investigation: Care home resident smelled of “rotting flesh”

  10-01-2019 19:29
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A national corporation shuttered a Brookings group home for people with disabilities last month after state regulators found that managers repeatedly ignored caregivers’ concerns about a disabled person’s festering pressure wound, including that it smelled of “rotting flesh.” State regulators for the Department of Human Services moved to revoke the home’s […]
  
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• Couple indicted on counts of robbing Anchorage cab drivers

  10-01-2019 19:20
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage grand jury has indicted a couple suspected of robbing cab drivers. Hector Rivera and old Shirley Borrero-Qinones, both 21 years old, face multiple robbery, assault, burglary and theft counts. They are represented by attorneys in the Office of Public Advocacy, which did not immediately respond to an email request […]
  
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• Over-the-Counter Contraceptives Are Now Free for Washingtonians With Insurance

  10-01-2019 19:14 via thestranger.com
  
  The morning-after pill and vasectomies are now free in Washington!by Rich SmithNow free at all in-network pharmacies. Always free at all in-network gay bars.Chris Jackson / GETTY IMAGESAfter six years of infuriating Republican obstructionism in Olympia, the Reproductive Parity Act passed last session. A lot of the talk around the bill focused on the part that requires all insurers who cover maternity care to also cover abortion. And rightfully so. That provision expanded abortion access to great
  
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• Q13 FOX staffer fired after TV station airs altered Trump video

  10-01-2019 19:01
  A staffer at local FOX affiliate Q13 has been fired after the station aired what appears to be a doctored video of President Trump's Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office.
  
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• The Top Nine Things To See at Capitol Hill Art Walk Tonight

  10-01-2019 18:25
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffBaso Fibonacci's nature paintings and still lifes bristle with color.
  Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events for Capitol Hill Art Walk. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find a bunch of great options for the January 10 edition, but, below, we've compiled our critics' picks—the openings you shouldn't miss. Follow the links for more details and image
  
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• Marion County Sheriff leaving job at the end of June

  10-01-2019 17:54
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Marion County Sheriff Jason Myers has told deputies he will leave his elected position at the end of June for a job with the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association. The 50-year-old Myers was sworn in Monday after being re-elected to a third, four-year term. He Statesman Journal reports that Commander Joe Kast […]
  
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• 2 drivers die in east Anchorage head-on collision

  10-01-2019 17:51
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two drivers died in Anchorage in a head-on collision on the city’s east side. Three cars were involved in the crash Wednesday night on Tudor Road. Police say a driver in a Jeep traveling east shortly before 9:30 p.m. sideswiped a sedan near Baxter Road and continued east. Occupants of the […]
  
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• Should You Watch Surviving R. Kelly? Yes! Just Don't Binge It.

  10-01-2019 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jenni MooreTime's Up for R. Kelly. GETTY IMAGES/MIKE PONT
  By now you’ve probably heard about or seen Surviving R. Kelly, which aired on Lifetime last week. With more than 50 interviews, the six-part series by dream hampton unpacks R&B singer R. Kelly’s reported decades-long abuses against women—the vast majority of them Black, and many of whom were minors at the time. It is an important and powerful watch, providing an opportunity for R. Kelly’s alleged victims to
  
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• Norovirus outbreak sickens 277 on Oasis of the Seas

  10-01-2019 17:43
  MIAMI (AP) — Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is returning to a Florida port a day early and giving passengers full refunds of their fare after 277 guests and crew members were hit with an outbreak of Norovirus as it sailed to Jamaica. Cruise line spokesman Owen Torres told The Associated Press “we think […]
  
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• 2-year-old girl dies in mobile home fire west of Fairbanks

  10-01-2019 17:37
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 2-year-old girl died in a fire in a mobile home just outside the city limits of Fairbanks. Alaska State Troopers say the University of Alaska Fairbanks Fire Department at about 4:15 a.m. Monday took a call of a home fire at Gold Rush Estates, a mobile home park west of […]
  
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• Slog AM: Grandpa Spews Fake News, Tech Snubs Sex Robots, Viadoom Is Coming

  10-01-2019 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy Kenney"Doris! We should send this nude picture of the congresswoman to the bridge club!" Alistair Berg/Getty Image
  Viadoom is nigh: Can you feel it in the air? The apocalypse is coming to Seattle. Get ready for LA traffic without any of the perks of actually living in LA, like great Mexican food and the chance to casually run into Ryan Gosling on the street. You better figure out your alternative route soon because by end of day tomorrow, you’re going to need it. If you have any
  
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• People keep stealing “420” milepost signs, but Washington state has a quirky solution

  10-01-2019 15:57
  The state Department of Transportation has replaced some mile-marker signs with the numbers 68.9 or 419.9, or removed mileposts 69 and 420 altogether, to combat thefts.
  
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• Reader photos: Views of the Alaskan Way Viaduct

  10-01-2019 15:00
  On Friday, the viaduct closes permanently, to be replaced by the new Highway 99 tunnel. But those scenic views from the elevated highway will live on in memories and photographs.
  
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• Questions about the viaduct closure and tunnel opening keep coming in. We have answers.

  10-01-2019 15:00
  Seattle Times readers have sent us 950 questions about the closing of the viaduct and the opening of the new tunnel. We answer a few of them in this fourth Q&A.
  
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• Portland bar sues bartender for $115K for drinking at work

  10-01-2019 14:00
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland bar is suing one of its bartenders for $115,000, claiming that’s the amount of money it will lose when its taps run dry because the bartender broke Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the suit claims Gunnar Hokan Jorstad was drunk while serving customers last Jan. 13 […]
  
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• Congo says healthy baby born to mom who recovered from Ebola

  10-01-2019 13:04
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A four-day-old baby is a surprise bright spot in Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak, as the country’s health ministry on Thursday called her the first child born to a mother who has recovered from the virus. “Baby Sylvana” is healthy and does not have Ebola, the health ministry said. It tweeted a photo […]
  
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• Scientists seek ways to finally take a real measure of pain

  10-01-2019 07:12
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia. “It’s really hard when people can’t […]
  
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• No stethoscope for pain: Scientists seek real way to measure

  10-01-2019 07:12
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia. “It’s really hard when people can’t […]
  
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• Juneau high school incorporates Alaska Native name

  10-01-2019 06:36
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Juneau high school incorporated Alaska Native culture into its name following a yearlong effort led by students. The school district board adopted the name change Tuesday for Juneau-Douglas High School, adding “Yadaa.at Kale,” the Juneau Empire reported . The name addition translates from the Tlingit language as “beautifully adorned face” […]
  
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• Juneau high school adds Alaska Native name

  10-01-2019 06:36
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Juneau high school has incorporated Alaska Native culture into its name following a yearlong effort led by students. The Juneau Empire reports the school board adopted the name change Tuesday for Juneau-Douglas High School, adding “Yadaa.at Kale.” The name addition translates from the Tlingit language as “beautifully adorned face,” the […]
  
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• Bethel to apply for transit grant despite deadline passing

  10-01-2019 06:35
  BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — Officials in a western Alaska city have been given the go-ahead to apply for a state public transit grant despite missing the deadline. The Bethel City Council voted Tuesday to apply for the $300,000 grant after residents warned that the city’s bus service would stop in June 2020 if action is […]
  
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• Bethel to apply for transit grant after deadline passed

  10-01-2019 06:35
  BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — Officials in a western Alaska city have been given the go-ahead to apply for a state public transit grant despite missing the deadline. KYUK-AM reports the Bethel City Council voted Tuesday to apply for the $300,000 grant after residents warned that the city’s bus service would stop in June 2020 if […]
  
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• Oregon begins killing sea lions threatening steelhead run

  10-01-2019 06:27
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon wildlife officials have started killing sea lions that threaten a fragile run of winter steelhead in the Willamette River. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the state Department of Fish and Wildlife obtained a federal permit in November to kill up to 93 California sea lions per year below Willamette Falls south […]
  
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• Oregon begins killing sea lions after relocation fails

  10-01-2019 06:27
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon wildlife officials have started killing sea lions that threaten a fragile run of winter steelhead in the Willamette River. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife obtained a federal permit in November to kill up to 93 California sea lions per year below Willamette Falls south of Portland, Oregon Public […]
  
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• Lane County to relocate homeless campers to new site

  10-01-2019 06:26
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Lane County officials are planning to relocate people in a homeless camp near Eugene to a new location managed by the St. Vincent de Paul organization. The Register-Guard reports officials will close the camp on State Highway 99 on Monday and move dozens of people to the new site a short […]
  
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