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• State agency looks to more logging, improved forest health

  08-03-2019 23:51
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s forestry agency is working with federal, local and private organizations to increase logging on national forests to improve forest health and decrease the risk of disease and catastrophic fires. State lawmakers are supporting a $2.2 million request from the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to hire people to help […]
  
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• Neon Taco Will Close, Two New Beer Places Have Opened, and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: March 8, 2019 Edition

  08-03-2019 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffYou only have three more weeks to snag Monica Dimas' handmade tortillas on Broadway. The Capitol Hill Neon Taco is closing at the end of the month. Neon Taco via Facebook
  This week, Neon Taco announced it will be saying goodbye, Maximilien introduced some new rooftop "igloos," and Seattle got two new places to drink craft beer with the arrival of Best of Hands Barrelhouse in West Seattle and The Brewtap in Ballard. Read on for more details, plus more food news, like
  
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• Noname Brings Effervescent Rap to The Showbox This Weekend

  08-03-2019 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jasmyne Keimig Noname artfully blends rap, R&B, and jazz in a clever and engaging way.Chantal Anderson/Courtesy of the band
  Chicago poet-turned-rapper-turned-poet Fatimah Warner, aka Noname, is performing both Saturday and Sunday at Showbox with support from rapper Elton. Noname artfully blends rap, R&B, and jazz in a clever and engaging way. Her voice and cadence is effervescent, quick, effortlessly jumping from beat to beat, word to word—it's expressive. Some of you might know
  
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• Arizona now oversees center where incapacitated woman raped

  08-03-2019 23:16
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix long-term care facility where an incapacitated woman was raped last year and gave birth in December without any healthcare workers noticing her pregnancy was placed Friday under state supervision, subjecting the center to strict oversight requirements. The Arizona Department of Health Services and Hacienda HealthCare entered into a voluntary agreement […]
  
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• US regulators clear path for genetically modified salmon

  08-03-2019 23:09
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light to salmon genetically modified to grow about twice as fast as normal, but the company behind it may face legal challenges before the fish can be sold domestically. The Food and Drug Administration said it lifted an alert that had prevented AquaBounty from […]
  
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• Bill proposes line of succession for lieutenant governor

  08-03-2019 23:05
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska Senate bill seeks to set a line of succession if the office of lieutenant governor becomes vacant. Under current law, the governor picks the lieutenant governor successor and the nominee is subject to legislative confirmation. Sen. John Coghill’s bill outlines a list of Cabinet members who would be in […]
  
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• Sawant Faces Ethics Complaint from Challenger, 12 Candidates in Ballard, and More City Council Election News

  08-03-2019 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Why does the socialist always have the most money?by Lester BlackThese danishes will make a lot more sense about halfway through this post. iStock / Getty Images PlusNational news right now is depressing. The felon that chose our vice president just got a slap on the wrist when he should have been sent to jail for the rest of his life. That shit is offensive, but it’s also out of your hands! You should pay attention to things that you have control over, like the upcoming Seattle City Counc
  
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• Woman to receive small part of award in suit with deputy

  08-03-2019 22:32
  IDAHO CITY, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury has awarded more than $4.8 million to a woman injured in a U-turn accident partially caused by a sheriff’s deputy. The Idaho Statesman reports Chellus Dawn Towell will receive only a small part of that amount due to a state law that caps judgments against public agencies […]
  
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• Woman to get small part of award in suit involving deputy

  08-03-2019 22:32
  IDAHO CITY, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury has awarded more than $4.8 million to a woman injured in a U-turn accident after deciding it was partially caused by a sheriff’s deputy. But the Idaho Statesman reports that Chellus Dawn Towell will receive only part of that amount due to a state law that caps […]
  
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• Feds probe alleged prison cellphone use by ‘Pharma Bro’

  08-03-2019 21:46
  The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has opened an inquiry into whether Martin Shkreli, nicknamed the "Pharma Bro," violated prison rules forbidding inmates from conducting business and possessing cellphones.
  
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• The LSD, Abuse, and Mindfuckery of Gaspar Noé's Climax

  08-03-2019 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Robert HamOops, didn't mean to take that LSD, who are we, again?
  With Climax, controversy-courting director Gaspar Noé—the enfant terrible behind Irreversible, Enter the Void, and Love—does everything within his power to fuck with viewers’ perceptions. The movie begins with the final moments of the story to come, followed quickly by the closing credits (running backwards, naturally). About a third of the way into the film, he drops the eye-popping opening credits, and
  
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• Amazon lobbies Washington lawmakers to exempt employees from labor protections

  08-03-2019 21:41
  The bill passed the Washington state Senate Tuesday with the salary threshold of $100,000 sought by Amazon. Employees above the threshold would be exempted from the labor protection.
  
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• Amazon lobbies to exempt employees from labor protections

  08-03-2019 21:41
  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Many of Amazon’s Seattle-area employees would be exempt from new labor protections in a bill passed by the state Senate after lobbyists for the tech giant pushed to change a key threshold in the rules. The protections would partially prohibit non-compete clauses — controversial agreements used by tech companies and others […]
  
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• Family awarded $3.38M for Royal Caribbean passenger’s death

  08-03-2019 21:32
  MIAMI (AP) — A federal jury says Royal Caribbean Cruises owes $3.38 million to the family of a passenger who died during an Alaskan cruise. The jury returned its verdict Thursday in Miami federal court. Court records show Richard Puchalski was with his family on the Explorer of the Seas in 2016. A civil complaint […]
  
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• Hope to Hell You Got Tickets for Legendary New Zealand Pop Group the Chills' Sold-Out Sunset Tavern Gig

  08-03-2019 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal Gabrielle Devereux
  Many Chills fans wore out the New Zealand rock group’s Kaleidoscope World comp of early singles and EP cuts, a perfect crystallization of the ’80s Flying Nun Records sound: understated vocals, refulgent keyboards, jangly guitars, moods that, no matter how jubilant, always retained traces of melancholy, and melodies that insinuated themselves with the salutary pressure of a new lover’s first kiss. It’s some of the greatest music ever, espec
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 82 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Weekend: March 8-10, 2019

  08-03-2019 20:39 via thestranger.com
  No advance planning required for these cheap events.by Stranger Things To Do StaffPanicking because you don’t know what to do this weekend and you're short on cash? Don't worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, ranging from Christopher Frizzelle's new reading series Give Up the Ghost to the Cultural Crossroads Festival, and from Patrick Moriarty: Deep Artwork and other Georgetown Art Attack events to Meet the Makers Seattle.
  
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• Help Me Spend My International Women's Day Allowance

  08-03-2019 20:17 via thestranger.com
  
  How should I spend my International Women's Day winnings?by Katie HerzogShould they get my money? Rawpixel/Getty Images
  Across the world, March 8th marks International Women's Day, an annual holiday that is part celebration and part protest.A creation of Russian-American suffragette and labor activist Theresa Malkiel and the Socialist Party of America, the first National Women's Day, as the day was then known, was held March 8, 1909, to honor 15,000 garment workers who had marched against poor w
  
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• Young Seychelles researcher offered surprise, historic dive

  08-03-2019 20:10
  ALPHONSE ATOLL, Seychelles (AP) — A young scientist from the Seychelles on Friday became the first known Seychellois to explore deep below scuba depth in the largely uncharted waters of her island nation. The 23-year-old Stephanie Marie looked stunned when she was offered a seat in a submersible for a technical test dive near the […]
  
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• Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ expands long-term care benefits

  08-03-2019 19:52
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the stakes of the “Medicare for All” debate by expanding his proposal to include long-term care, a move that is forcing other Democratic presidential candidates to take a stand on addressing one of the biggest gaps in the U.S. health care system. Medicare for All is unlikely […]
  
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• CDC: Unvaccinated Oregon boy almost dies of tetanus

  08-03-2019 19:44
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An unvaccinated 6-year-old Oregon boy was hospitalized for two months for tetanus and almost died of the bacterial illness after getting a deep laceration on his forehead while playing on a farm, according to a case study published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2017 case […]
  
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• Leading Iditarod musher from France feted with gourmet meal

  08-03-2019 19:39
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nicolas Petit of France was the first musher to reach the frozen Yukon River in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and won a gourmet meal served in the Alaska wilderness. A chef was flown in from Anchorage to prepare a five-course meal in the community of Anvik, with a population […]
  
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• European mushers, Alaskan battling for Iditarod lead

  08-03-2019 19:39
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two men living in Alaska but with European ties and a Fairbanks musher are battling for the lead in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Race leaders Nicolas Petit, a native of France, Norwegian Joar Uslom and Alaskan Jessie Royer are all at the checkpoint in Grayling, about 530 miles […]
  
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• Man charged with arson, battery in domestic violence case

  08-03-2019 19:25
  COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho man has been charged with arson and aggravated battery after prosecutors say he doused his girlfriend with kerosene and lit her on fire. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports 38-year-old Dustin R. Hieronymus of Rathdrum was bound over to 1st District Court after a preliminary hearing on Tuesday. […]
  
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• Meet and chat with The Seattle Times Traffic Lab team

  08-03-2019 19:10
  Join The Seattle Times' Traffic Lab at a free event on March 27 to discuss transportation-related issues.
  
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• Lewiston man charged with possessing child pornography

  08-03-2019 19:06
  LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A north-central Idaho man is facing multiple child pornography charges after police say he possessed and uploaded the illicit images. The Lewiston Tribune reports 31-year-old Scott B.J. Martin of Lewiston was charged Thursday with 13 felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child. According to court records, Lewiston police were given […]
  
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• Study: Washington’s Pot Is Way Cheaper Than Weed in California, Nevada, or Colorado

  08-03-2019 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  You know that Washington has cheap pot, but this study points out just how good we have it.by Lester BlackWashington sells cheap pot. Lester Black
  It’s no surprise to Seattle stoners that we have access to incredibly cheap pot. Legalization has seen its price plummet in Washington to a fraction of what it was selling for when legal weed first went on sale in 2014. But a new report shows Washington has remarkably cheap weed even compared to other states that have legalized pot.
  The report,
  
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• Clallam County officials report a helicopter crash

  08-03-2019 18:52
  No information on the severity of the crash or injuries is available yet.
  
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• NY lawmakers: Let minors get vaccinated even if parents balk

  08-03-2019 18:46
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new bill in the New York state Legislature would allow minors to get vaccinated without parental consent. The legislation announced Friday by Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy and Sen. Liz Krueger would authorize anyone 14 or older to get immunizations even if their parents object. The two Democrats say the change is […]
  
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• Go To These Women-Owned Restaurants Today

  08-03-2019 18:44 via thestranger.com
  Go To These Women-Owned Restaurants In Seattle for International Women's Day.by Stranger Things To Do StaffAs part of the call for the Day Without A Woman strike on International Women's Day 2017, organizers asked for people to avoid shopping except at small, women- and minority-owned businesses. To help you with that, we compiled this list of restaurants, cafes, and bars in Seattle that are owned by women (at least partially—some of these are co-owned by men), and we've updated this list
  
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• Flu may have peaked, but experts eye jump in nastier strain

  08-03-2019 18:37
  NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials think there’s a strong chance this flu season has peaked, but they are watching a recent wave of illnesses from a nastier flu strain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday gave its latest report on this winter’s U.S. flu season. Flu was reported to be widespread […]
  
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• Second pedestrian in Boise crash dies

  08-03-2019 18:19
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Family members say an 89-year-old man who was hit by a vehicle while crossing the street with his wife in Boise several days ago has died. Boise television station KTVB reports Bob Goar died Friday, nine days after his wife Florence Goar died from the injuries she received in the collision. […]
  
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• Self-Driving Cars More Likely To Hit Black Pedestrians than White Ones

  08-03-2019 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede"And now I also got to worry about racist autonomous vehicles." javi_indy/gettyimages.com
  The astonishing amount of technological and financial resources that, this decade alone, have been poured into the development of autonomous automobiles indicates the market's total commitment to maintaining the profitability of a form of transportation that is in every way inefficient. So, we have on one side, the Green New Deal, which wants to make huge public investments in high-speed ra
  
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• Lawmaker panel hears testimony on Medicaid work requirements

  08-03-2019 17:50
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Dozens of people crowded into a Statehouse auditorium Friday morning to testify on a bill that would put strict work requirements on those seeking health care coverage under Idaho’s new voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Nearly all of the testimony given during the first hour of testimony opposed the bill, with critics taking […]
  
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• Slog AM: Time to Spring Forward, Senator Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Big Tech, Happy International Women's Day

  08-03-2019 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyThese tech companies are just too dang big.WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES
  Developers smell blood in the water: The blood of the soon-to-be demolished viaduct is running green throughout the western side of downtown as developers hurry to buy up adjacent properties. This narrow strip of land is now one of Seattle hottest commodities, and developers want to repurpose, renovate, and cash in on every square foot of land. Parking lots are becoming buildings, and old office building are e
  
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• Slog AM: Time to Spring Forward, Sen. Warren Wants to Break Up Big Tech, Happy International Women's Day

  08-03-2019 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyThese tech companies are just too dang big.WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES
  Developers smell blood in the water: The blood of the soon-to-be demolished viaduct is running green throughout the western side of downtown as developers hurry to buy up adjacent properties. This narrow strip of land is now one of Seattle hottest commodities and developers want to repurpose, renovate, and cash in on every square foot of land. Parking lots are becoming buildings and old office building are eit
  
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• Iowa court: Medicaid can cover sex reassignment surgery

  08-03-2019 17:15
  The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling that the state cannot deny two transgender women Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgery. The state’s high court agreed with Judge Arthur Gamble’s ruling in June that a 1995 Iowa Department of Human Services policy denying Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgery violates the […]
  
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• Substitute teacher barred from district after racial remark

  08-03-2019 17:12
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A substitute teacher in Salem, Oregon, has been barred from teaching in a district after a student says the teacher said “go back to Mexico” when the student said he didn’t want to say the Pledge of Allegiance. KOIN reports the incident happened Tuesday at Swegle Elementary School in the Salem-Keizer […]
  
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• Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks

  08-03-2019 16:34
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in U.S. history, has been sent to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Wikileaks. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning to jail for contempt of […]
  
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• Man with skull fractures says he was attacked with hatchet; police seek suspects

  08-03-2019 16:05
  A man with multiple skull fractures who was "bleeding profusely" told police he was attacked with a hatchet.
  
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• Surrogate bonds with baby gorilla rejected by mother

  08-03-2019 15:11
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 30-year-old gorilla at a Florida zoo has become a surrogate mother to a baby gorilla whose mother hasn’t shown sufficient interest in her baby. Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens spokeswoman JJ Vitale tells the Florida Times-Union that Bulera began holding 5-month-old Gandai as soon as they were introduced on Feb. 27. She […]
  
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• Viaduct gold rush: Big money flows into area around doomed Seattle highway

  08-03-2019 15:00
  A property near the viaduct has been sold once every 11 days since the initial stages of the teardown began earlier this decade. Short-term property flippers saw the price of their land go up a median of about $11 million each. But those that have redeveloped their land have seen even bigger equity gains.
  
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• Presumed innocent? Not after eight DUI arrests

  08-03-2019 15:00
  Washington state's DUI laws are killing us, and costing us. And they have to change, writes columnist Nicole Brodeur.
  
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• Podcast: Covering Gov. Jay Inslee’s first presidential campaign trip to Iowa

  08-03-2019 15:00
  Looking behind the scenes on covering Gov. Jay Inslee's first 2020 campaign trip to Iowa.
  
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