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• The Biggest Events to Look Forward to This Month

  30-03-2019 23:27 via thestranger.com
  The 175 Arts, Music, Food & Culture Events to Know Aboutby Stranger Things To Do StaffNo fooling—the second official month of spring brings tons of entertainment options across genres to Seattle, not to mention major happenings like 4/20, Easter and Passover, National Poetry Month, and Earth Day. Below, we've compiled the biggest art and theater shows, concerts, food events, and other great things to do, from Lizzo to Dance Theatre of Harlem's 50th Anniversary Celebration, from the Ska
  
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• Your Complete Guide to April 2019 Events in Seattle

  30-03-2019 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss the opening of MoPOP's new Prince from Minneapolis exhibit this month, which will use nearly 50 artifacts to delve into what made the late soul-pop artist a superstar. Rock Martinez
  No fooling—the second official month of spring brings tons of entertainment options across genres to Seattle, not to mention major happenings like 4/20, Easter and Passover, National Poetry Month, and Earth Day. Below, we've compiled the biggest art and theater shows, co
  
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• New report on liquefied natural gas project in Tacoma says facility ‘will not cause significant adverse impact’ from greenhouse-gas emissions

  30-03-2019 21:43
  After months of review, two public hearings and thousands of public comments, the final version of a report prepared for the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency will do little to calm the fight over a liquified natural gas plant being constructed on Tacoma’s Tideflats. More than a year after calling for an environmental review of […]
  
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• Liquefied natural gas project in Tacoma ‘will not cause significant adverse impact’ from greenhouse-gas emissions, new report says

  30-03-2019 21:43
  After months of review, two public hearings and thousands of public comments, the final version of a report prepared for the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency will do little to calm the fight over a liquified natural gas plant being constructed on Tacoma’s Tideflats. More than a year after calling for an environmental review of […]
  
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• Coroner identifies body as that of missing hiker

  30-03-2019 20:00
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A body found in the Boise foothills has been identified as that of a 27-year-old man who went missing while hiking in early February. Boise County Chief Deputy Coroner Mike Johnson says the body was Kyle Crowden, who was last heard from on Feb. 9 when he headed on a hike […]
  
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• Some Yellowstone Park roads open to bicyclists

  30-03-2019 19:15
  YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Some roads in Yellowstone National Park have opened to bicyclists willing to brave the unpredictable spring weather and other potential hazards. On Friday, 49 miles (78.8 kilometers) of park roads from the West Entrance to Mammoth Hot Springs were opened to bicyclists. As conditions allow, bicycles will also be […]
  
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• Animal rights group files complaint against OSU

  30-03-2019 19:08
  CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — An Ohio-based animal rights group has filed a complaint against Oregon State University with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over seven animal deaths. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN) filed the complaint in late March contending the university violated the federal Animal Welfare Act in the deaths of […]
  
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• Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic

  30-03-2019 18:01
  President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions. Judge Sharon Gleason in a decision late Friday threw out Trump’s executive order that overturned […]
  
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• Anchorage Assembly evaluating $1.9B port cost estimate

  30-03-2019 16:13
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Assembly is working to determine if it needs to spend about $1.9 billion to rebuild the city’s deteriorating port. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reported on Wednesday that Assembly member Christopher Constant said at a March 21 Assembly committee meeting that the group needs to look closely to figure […]
  
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• Air Force removes JBLM commander after investigation finds ‘culture of hazing’

  30-03-2019 16:11
  The Air Force has removed a squadron commander from his position at Joint Base Lewis-McChord after investigators found what they described as “a culture of hazing” that included binding airmen with duct tape. Leaders in the 354th Fighter Wing said Lt. Col. Joshua Cates of the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron at JBLM was relieved […]
  
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• Air Force removes a JBLM commander after investigation finds ‘culture of hazing’

  30-03-2019 16:11
  The Air Force has removed a squadron commander from his position at Joint Base Lewis-McChord after investigators found what they described as “a culture of hazing” that included binding airmen with duct tape. Leaders in the 354th Fighter Wing said Lt. Col. Joshua Cates of the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron at JBLM was relieved […]
  
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• Man gets 18 years for sexually abusing young boy

  30-03-2019 15:40
  HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — A man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for sexually abusing a child for years. KPTV-TV reports Felipe Del Cid pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of first-degree sex abuse and one count of first degree attempted sodomy. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Hillsboro first started investigating Del Cid […]
  
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• Ketchikan author discusses new fantasy novel

  30-03-2019 15:35
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Ketchikan author Patrice Motschenbacher-Hammer has recently released her new fantasy novel, “The Weavings of Akaria,” the first in her planned series: “The Veils of Wisdom.” Motschenbacher-Hammer sat down at a local coffee shop Wednesday with her husband, Bob Hammer, to talk about the journey of publishing her first novel. “It just […]
  
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• Portland police sergeant files notice to sue city

  30-03-2019 15:20
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A tort claim says a Portland police sergeant who received a city award last year recognizing her fight against sexism now intends to sue the city alleging discrimination and retaliation. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Liani Reyna alleges in the notice that she continues to “experience an on-going pattern and practice severe and […]
  
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• Half of Fort Wainwright’s largest unit will deploy this year

  30-03-2019 15:18
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Officials say about half of the largest unit on the Army post in Fairbanks will deploy to Iraq later this year. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the Army announced Friday that the Fort Wainwright soldiers will replace the Fort Campbell, Kentucky-based 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. The unit, […]
  
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• Family donates ice classic clock UA Museum of the North

  30-03-2019 15:10
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A clock from the beginning of the Nenana Ice Classic has come home to Alaska while the tripod still stands on the river for this year’s round of betting. “The reason we’re donating the clock is because our family feels it’s a part of Alaska history and that it needs to […]
  
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• Police identify woman found dead in apartment fire

  30-03-2019 14:05
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Hillsboro Police Department identified the woman found dead in an apartment fire Monday evening as 74-year-old Sharon Inglish. KATU-TV reports police say the fire’s cause and Inglish’s death remain under investigation. Firefighters responded to the apartment fire at around 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Bendemeer Court Apartments. The Hillsboro Fire […]
  
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• State laws ban surprise medical bills. A Washington woman got one for $227,000 — and fought back.

  30-03-2019 14:00
  No one told a Washington state woman she was racking up massive out-of-pocket charges during a monthlong emergency stay in an Oregon hospital. For six months, she and her husband were haunted by looming debt — and bill collectors.
  
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• Fear, resentment — and more demand for vaccines as one Washington county grapples with measles outbreak

  30-03-2019 14:00
  Some families are shut in, others feel shunned as Clark County deals with a measles outbreak that has health-care workers figuring out how to treat exposed children with exposing others. Tensions are high: "Their unvaccinated children are putting my child in danger.” said one mom.
  
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• After beloved teacher dies, former students get letters she asked them to write to themselves in the ’80s

  30-03-2019 14:00
  After battling different forms of cancer for more than three decades, former Redmond High School teacher Vivienne Klingbeil decided to end her chemotherapy treatments last July. She died from the illness on Jan. 12. She was 77 years old. During the region’s record-breaking snowstorms in February, her two sons, Chris and Kevin, arranged a memorial service; the weather […]
  
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• Mozambique says cholera cases up to 271 in cyclone-hit city

  30-03-2019 11:29
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Cholera cases among cyclone survivors in Mozambique have jumped to 271, authorities said, a figure that nearly doubled from the previous day. The Portuguese news agency Lusa cited national health director Ussein Isse, who declared the outbreak of the acute diarrheal disease on Wednesday with just five cases. So far no cholera […]
  
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• Remembering two young lives lost in Burien

  30-03-2019 04:16
  Candles flickered and balloons waved in the wind as family and friends gathered in memory of Eveona Cortez and Elizabeth Juarez, teenage girls gunned down at an apartment complex in Burien one year ago Thursday. Cortez was 19 when she was shot alongside Juarez, who was only 13 at the time they were killed at […]
  
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• ‘Up there to humiliate:’ Seattle school’s detention list sparks debate about shaming

  30-03-2019 03:00
  Official public shaming in schools supposedly went out with the dunce cap. But a Seattle school's display of a detention list, in lights on the cafeteria wall, has some wondering if it's making a comeback.
  
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• ‘Up there to humiliate:’ Is a Seattle school’s detention list bringing shaming back?

  30-03-2019 03:00
  Official public shaming in schools supposedly went out with the dunce cap. But a Seattle school's display of a detention list, in lights on the cafeteria wall, has some wondering if it's making a comeback.
  
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• ‘I’ve been shot, I’ve been shot, I’ve been shot’: How a wounded Metro bus driver steered his passengers to safety

  30-03-2019 02:04
  Eric Stark's quick thinking enabled him to get his bus and its 10-or-so passengers away from the gunman who killed two people apparently at random in north Seattle on Wednesday.
  
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• UW Quad is in the pink

  30-03-2019 01:57
  March 2019 is going out like a lamb, and also in a blaze of pink at the University of Washington, where the 80-plus-year-old cherry trees are putting on their annual show of blossoms.
  
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• Slog PM: North Seattle Gunman Said He Was Blackout Drunk During Shooting, Mueller Report Will Be Made Available, The Great American Sex Drought

  30-03-2019 01:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamMe reading the Mueller report in mid-April. evgenyatamanenko/Getty Images
  Bus driver who survived North Seattle shooting speaks out: Eric Stark was struck by the gunman's bullet in the chest. With one hand staunching the blood flow and another on the wheel, he reversed his Route 75 bus off of Lake City Way and onto a side street to safety. Only then, after his 12 passengers were safe, did Stark call for help. His actions are being lauded as heroic. There's a GoFundMe for him.
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• Mexican immigrant, ordered to leave the country, takes sanctuary at St. Mark’s in Seattle

  30-03-2019 01:30
  A construction company owner, with an American wife and 6-year-old son, becomes the second immigrant to take sanctuary at a Puget Sound church. “They are part of our family," said The Very Rev. Steven Thomason of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral.
  
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• Sawant Cleared Over Ethics Complaint, Jayapal Calls Out Shaun Scott, Larry Gossett Is Running, and More Seattle Election News!

  30-03-2019 01:19 via thestranger.com
  
  This election news is getting spicy!by Lester BlackThe dude in the middle is running. Lester Black
  Spring is here and election season in Seattle is getting spicy. We’ve got Jayapal vs Scott. Brand Kruse vs. Erica C. Barnett. And a tidbit about Georgetown. Let’s get to the news:
  Larry Gossett goes for number seven: We’ve been hearing persistent rumors over the last few months that King County Councilmember Larry Gossett was going to retire this year, but my colleague Rich Smith
  
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• Alaska community hits temperature milestone

  30-03-2019 01:06
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A small southeast Alaska community reached 70 degrees last week, which weather data suggests is the earliest point that temperature has been reached in the state. National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Bezenek says Klawock (kluh-WOK) hit the mark March 19. He says the earliest that records indicate a community in Alaska […]
  
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• Don't Miss JusMoni at Clock-Out Lounge This Weekend!

  30-03-2019 01:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jasmyne KeimigJusMoni plays this Sunday at Clock-Out Lounge Lester Black
  Beacon Hill native JusMoni (aka Moni Tep) is bringing her dreamy, R&B-inflected tunes back to her home turf. This Sunday's show at Clock-Out Lounge celebrates her new three-song EP release, Ease & Mercy and another project that is coming out in April.On 2018’s Sweet to Me, her voice—sweet and ethereal—transports you to other dimensions on spacey, bass-heavy “Linked In,” much differen
  
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• Woman at War: A Fun, Funny Movie About Icelandic Eco-Terrorism

  30-03-2019 00:15 via thestranger.com
  by Ned Lannamann
  A chorus teacher, Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir), is also Iceland’s most notorious eco-terrorist, and we follow her skulking around the countryside and taking out the country’s power lines, in protest of the government’s alignment with the foreign interests that are plundering Iceland’s natural resources. It’s a fun, funny movie whose two extended sequences of Halla in action are suspenseful and terrific—Jóhann Sigur
  
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