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• Records: Writer was near husband’s work at time of killing

  19-04-2019 23:44
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Unsealed court documents say a self-published romance writer charged with killing her chef husband in Portland was seen near her husband’s work around the time he was fatally shot there. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that despite telling police she was at home June 2, surveillance video captured Nancy Crampton Brophy driving her […]
  
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• The Top 5 Tracks Burning up the Airwaves on Eva Walker's KEXP Show, Audioasis

  19-04-2019 23:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Leader of the great Seattle rock band the Black Tones, Eva Walker, picks 5 tracks currently burning up the airwaves on her KEXP show Audioasis.by Dave SegalWhen not singing and playing guitar for rising Seattle rock band the Black Tones, Walker is exposing KEXP listeners to overlooked Northwest musical gems. Brian Snyder
  EVA WALKER (KEXP, The Black Tones)
  Current top 5 favorite tracks:
  Black Ends, “Maybe When” (self-released)
  Sellout by Black EndsThe Whags, “To Me” (self-
  
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• Because Rich Seattle Has Too Many Poor People, QFC Has Installed Monitors That Assume You Are One of the Poor

  19-04-2019 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeYou are a criminal even before you are criminal... Charles Mudede
  Basically, Seattle has a homeless crisis that no one with actual power is willing to do anything about. And so the city's present situation is this: As the number of the excluded soars, due to the collapse of public housing and social services, and a building industry that is almost totally devoted to forms of housing that has those in the upper middle class as its poor, businesses and institutions and individuals
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Joins Team ITMFA

  19-04-2019 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Warren, welcome.by Rich SmithWarren, welcome.DREW ANGERER / GETTY IMAGES
  Elizabeth Warren appears to be the first 2020 presidential candidate to call for Trump's impeachment following the release of Barr's version of Robert Mueller's report. On Friday the senator from Massachusetts laid out her case on the president's favorite platform:The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the
  
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• A New Food Truck with Smoked Meat and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: April 19, 2019 Edition

  19-04-2019 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe new food truck Odin Star begins slinging porchetta sandwiches and other meaty delights today. Odin Star Sandwiches
  This week, Wallingford's beloved poke hole-in-the-wall 45th Stop N Shop joins the South Lake Union lunch crowd, and a new food truck comes bearing delicious smoked meat sandwiches. Read on for that and more recent food developments, like a new chocolate factory coming to Pike Place Market next month. For more ideas, check out our list of food and dr
  
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• Don't Drive Stoned on 4/20, Dummy

  19-04-2019 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't drive high on 4/20, ya dummy!by Lester BlackDon't drive high.sestovic/ Getty
  Driving stoned in Washington is dumb. Not only because you might kill yourself or someone else if you do a bunch of dabs and then drive down I-5, but also because you are putting yourself in a lot of legal danger by driving stoned. It’s really easy to get charged with a pot DUI, even if you don’t feel impaired, and that danger is especially elevated this weekend while cops are on high alert for people
  
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• Seattle city attorney, in settling records suit, discloses memo advising council that income tax was illegal

  19-04-2019 21:46
  The City Attorney's Office contends the memo is irrelevant to ongoing litigation over Seattle's "wealth tax" because it reflects legal advice about a different proposal from the measure that was ultimately adopted.
  
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• Idaho unemployment rate holds steady at 2.9%

  19-04-2019 21:41
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s unemployment rate remained at 2.9% in March, the same as the previous month. The Idaho Department of Labor in a news release Friday says the state’s unemployment rate has remained below 3% for 16 consecutive months. The agency says the number of people in the state age 16 or older […]
  
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• Human Composting Bill Passes in Washington State

  19-04-2019 21:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington will likely be the first state to legalize this form of body disposal.by Katie HerzogAn artist rendering of the future Recompose Seattle Katrina Spade
  Some excellent news for people who want to be composted came down from Olympia Friday when the Legislature passed Senate Bill 5001, which could change the future of after-death care in Washington state.
  "I am over the moon!" Katrina Spade says about the bill's passage. "It feels amazing to have this bill pass, and with so much support b
  
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• We Got a Lot of Nice Letters This Week—Really!

  19-04-2019 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: They're really into each other, but there are issues (for starters, her boyfriend); some letters don't require a response (but she got one anyway); learning the lessons and moving on with confidence; and the sex was great but then they fell in love… And, as always, last week's column and Savage Lovecast.Regarding Never Mind, the woman who didn't need a response but got one anyway...Get out, and get out now. And make it a clean and compl
  
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• FDA OKs 1st generic nasal spray of overdose reversal drug

  19-04-2019 21:19
  U.S. regulators have approved the first generic nasal spray version of Narcan, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday OK’d naloxone spray from Israel’s Teva Pharmaceuticals. Naloxone has been sold as a nasal spray in the U.S. since 2016 under the brand name Narcan. Pharmacists can dispense it without […]
  
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• Gov. Inslee signs a clean-energy bill. The twist? A Republican sponsored it.

  19-04-2019 21:09
  Sponsored by Sen. Brad Hawkins of East Wenatchee, Senate Bill 5588 will allow Washington's public utility districts to generate hydrogen, which can then be used as a clean-energy fuel.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 111 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Weekend: April 19-21, 2019

  19-04-2019 21:00 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 Cucci's Spooky Weed to the World Rhythm Festival, and from a Canna 420 Carnival to the 8th Annual Easter Bonnet Contest. For even more options, check out our complete Things To Do calendar and our list of
  
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• US authorities: Marijuana involvement imperils citizenship

  19-04-2019 20:54
  The announcement comes weeks after officials in Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal, began warning residents that working for a dispensary or manufacturing operation could jeopardize their citizenship bids.
  
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• Stop Throwing Cans at Construction Workers, You Monsters

  19-04-2019 20:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's Studs Terkel is out with a new documentary-style play called Surfing Underground. It's about the lives of construction workers in Canada.by Rich SmithThe people throwing the trash at construction workers in Stokley Towles's new "docu-play" are Canadians. I can't believe it.Steve Davis
  Cigarette butts. Full cans of soup. Chairs. And, in one instance, a lamp. These are the kinds of things people are throwing at construction workers while they're busy trying to fix the water pipes of Calg
  
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• Bobcat survives deadly wildfire, has 4 kittens in California

  19-04-2019 20:02
  THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a young bobcat captured, collared and released a day before a massive, deadly wildfire has given birth to four kittens. Officials with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area said Friday that biologists recently found the bobcat’s den in dense vegetation in a large residential backyard in […]
  
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• Bobcat survives deadly California wildfire, has 4 kittens

  19-04-2019 20:02
  THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A young bobcat that survived a massive and deadly wildfire in Southern California last year has given birth to four kittens, wildlife officials said Friday. Biologists recently found the bobcat’s den in dense vegetation in a large residential backyard in Westlake Village just northwest of Los Angeles, according to officials […]
  
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• Wolf population declining in Yellowstone National Park

  19-04-2019 19:52
  POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — Officials say Yellowstone National Park’s gray wolf population has dropped to about 80 wolves — less than half of the highest population mark in the park. The Powell Tribune reported on Thursday that while park officials won’t have an accurate count until the fall after surviving pups are visible, the park’s […]
  
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• Idaho, Utah passengers had possible hepatitis A exposure

  19-04-2019 19:49
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Health officials in Idaho say anyone who used an on-board restroom during a Greyhound bus trip from Salt Lake City to Boise on April 10 might have been exposed to hepatitis A. The Central District Health Department in Idaho is asking anyone who used the restroom to contact them to get […]
  
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• My Favorite Sentence in the Mueller Report: "I'm Fucked."

  19-04-2019 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Trump said, "This is the worst thing that's ever happened to me."by Christopher FrizzelleHe said it to Jeff Sessions when they were in the Oval Office together. Win McNamee/Getty Images
  There are a lot of surprising sentences in the Mueller Report, but my favorite is: "I'm fucked." It comes on page 78 of volume one, and it is uttered by the President of the United States. News networks are bleeping it or displaying it as "I'm f***ed," but Mueller writes it out. You can find it (allegedly) in thi
  
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• Commission accepts settlement for Oregon’s former first lady

  19-04-2019 19:21
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Ethics Commission accepted a settlement agreement with former First Lady Cylvia Hayes Friday, after she apologized and admitted she “blurred the lines” between her role as a public official and a private lobbyist. The commission unanimously agreed to allow Hayes to pay a $50,000 fine after she was accused […]
  
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• Washington on the cusp of becoming first state to legalize human composting

  19-04-2019 19:08
  Passage of the bill fulfills a longtime hope for Seattle-based Katrina Spade, and is another step in a long effort to realize her vision for an urban, soil-based, ecologically friendly death-care option. She is founder and CEO of Recompose, which aspires to be the first "natural organic reduction" funeral home in the U.S.
  
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• Washington may become first state to legalize human composting

  19-04-2019 19:08
  Passage of the bill fulfills a longtime hope for Seattle-based Katrina Spade. She is founder and CEO of Recompose, which aspires to be the first "natural organic reduction" funeral home in the U.S. If Gov. Jay Inslee signs the bill, the law would take effect May 1.
  
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• USDA orders scientists to say published research is ‘preliminary’

  19-04-2019 18:32
  The disclaimer appears to conflict with the integrity policy that governs research at the USDA.
  
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• Listen to a Wide-ranging Interview with Mudhoney's Mark Arm on WTF with Marc Maron

  19-04-2019 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Iconic Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm gets personal on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. Many chuckles ensue.by Dave SegalMar(c)k their words. Courtesy of Sub Pop
  Mudhoney's iconic frontman Mark Arm appeared on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast on April 18 (his segment starts around 29:30). Mark and Marc talked about Arm's surfing, skateboarding, and skiing exploits; his childhood piano lessons; his Boeing engineer dad and Avon Lady mother; midlife crises; his record collection; his long musical career
  
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• Anchorage police lieutenant picked for Fairbanks chief job

  19-04-2019 17:51
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A lieutenant with the Anchorage Police Department has been picked to be police chief in Fairbanks. Fairbank Mayor Jim Matherly recommended Lt. Nancy Reeder for the job. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports she accepted an employment offer but that she must pass a background check and be confirmed by the Fairbanks […]
  
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• Slog AM: Olympia Bill Forces Vote on Safe Injection Sites, Conservative Vigilantes Detain Migrants Near Border

  19-04-2019 17:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyThey've been citizen-arresting asylum seekers at gunpoint. urbazon/Getty Images
  Safe injection sites come to a head in Olympia: With a governor who is running for president and a Democratic House that has been wishy-washy on their support for safe consumption sites, Republicans have just added an amendment to a bill aimed at improving opioid addiction treatment. The amendment would threaten funding for any public health entity that opens a safe injection site, so basically just
  
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• Climate change and pollution delay move of captive dolphins

  19-04-2019 17:38
  BALTIMORE (AP) — An aquarium in Maryland has been looking to build a refuge in the tropics for its captive dolphins. But it’s having trouble finding the right location because of pollution and warming waters from climate change. The Baltimore Sun reports that the seven bottlenose dolphins live at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. The […]
  
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• Two-wave US flu season is now the longest in a decade

  19-04-2019 17:19
  In 2019, a surprising second viral wave has just made this flu season the nation's longest in years. Still, this season is not nearly as bad as last winter's in terms of hospitalizations and deaths.
  
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• Idaho settles whistleblower case for more than $500K

  19-04-2019 16:53
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal trial in a whistleblower lawsuit filed against the state of Idaho has been canceled after the state settled the case for more than $500,000. The Idaho Statesman reported on Thursday that former Idaho Department of Labor purchasing agent James Cryer sued the department in December 2016, claiming it retaliated […]
  
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• Man shot to death outside Portland bar

  19-04-2019 16:40
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man was fatally shot outside a Northwest Portland bar. Portland Police said there was a disturbance outside Shake Bar around 1:20 a.m. Friday. As officers were responding they learned one person was shot. The man died on the scene. Authorities said there is surveillance video of the fight […]
  
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• How many cherries in frozen pie? FDA may soon drop rules

  19-04-2019 16:36
  It's not always clear why some food terms have standards and others don't. The rules are seen as arcane by many and are a sore spot in the food industry, with companies saying they prevent innovation or prompt lawsuits.
  
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• South-central Idaho teacher facing felony charges

  19-04-2019 16:12
  JEROME, Idaho (AP) — A third-grade teacher in south-central Idaho accused of injuring a man in front of three small children is facing three felony charges. The Times-News reports that 36-year-old Tawna Day Huttanus was charged early this week in 5th District Court with battery with intent to commit a serious felony, injury to a […]
  
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• With clear skies, you can see a full moon, meteor showers and 5 planets this weekend

  19-04-2019 16:03
  It’s going to be a stellar weekend for sky-watching and egg hunting in the Puget Sound.
  
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• Hurricane Michael gets an upgrade to rare Category 5 status

  19-04-2019 15:58
  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael, which devastated the Florida Panhandle last fall, was actually stronger than initially measured, prompting forecasters to posthumously upgrade it from a Category 4 storm to a Category 5, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Friday. The upgraded status means Michael was the first hurricane to make landfall in the […]
  
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• Drunk on smoke: Notre Dame’s bees survive cathedral blaze

  19-04-2019 15:55
  PARIS (AP) — Hunkered down in their hives and drunk on smoke, Notre Dame’s smallest official residents — some 180,000 bees — somehow managed to survive the inferno that consumed the cathedral’s ancient wooden roof. Confounding officials who thought they had perished, the bees clung to life, protecting their queen. “It’s a big day. I […]
  
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• Subversive saints show up in Phinney Ridge, just in time for Easter

  19-04-2019 15:00
  Parishioners at a Seattle church are paying tribute to local activists and others through the ancient art of iconography. "It makes you realize that we are all called to be prophets and saints."
  
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• Seattle’s study of downtown tolling was due Feb. 4. What happened to it?

  19-04-2019 15:00
  The idea of tolling Seattle streets has been discussed for years, but this time comes against the backdrop of the Seattle Squeeze, increasingly dire climate-change predictions and New York taking action.
  
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• Renter boom: Apartments filling up faster in Seattle area than anywhere in the U.S.

  19-04-2019 15:00
  The Seattle area is filling up new apartments faster than any region in the country, suggesting demand for housing is starting to catch up with the record construction boom – not a great sign for tenants hoping landlords get desperate and drop rents.
  
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• In the heart of a Kirkland tech campus, an old railway path becomes a fun public park

  19-04-2019 15:00
  Located on the Google campus in Kirkland, Feriton Spur Park boasts a sand volleyball court and an iconic caboose. And best of all, it's open to everyone.
  
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• Here’s why pink liquid keeps flooding Seattle’s John Muir Elementary School

  19-04-2019 15:00
  Seattle Public Schools says faulty piping at John Muir and several other district schools led to the leaking of a pink chemical solution.
  
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• Gov. Jay Inslee’s orca-recovery agenda advancing, but billion-dollar funding yet to be seen

  19-04-2019 15:00
  Inslee proposed a $1.1 billion agenda to help save southern-resident killer whales, who are facing extinction. But funding for several bills has yet to be set.
  
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• Downtown congestion tolling — Seattle needs to go with eyes wide open

  19-04-2019 15:00
  New York City is preparing to charge drivers a fee to enter its most crowded areas, becoming the first American city to implement congestion pricing. Other progressive cities are considering similar measures, including Seattle. The economic case is straightforward: If you want less of something, tax it. Congestion adds to pollution, hurts productivity and impedes […]
  
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• Portland settles invasion of privacy lawsuit for $50K

  19-04-2019 14:30
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland City Council has approved spending $50,000 to settle an invasion of privacy lawsuit brought against the Police Bureau by a former Washington County sheriff’s deputy. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the council approved the spending this week in connection with a 2015 domestic violence investigation gone wrong, according to a settlement […]
  
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• Man convicted of killing Corrections head ordered released

  19-04-2019 14:20
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a man convicted in the 1989 killing of the Oregon Department of Corrections’ director should be released from prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports unless prosecutors plan to retry Frank Gable, he should be released from custody within 90 days, according to a Thursday order written by […]
  
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• Teachers visit families at home in 700 communities nationwide. The idea is earning attention in Seattle.

  19-04-2019 14:00
  For the past 10 years, the school district in Reno, Nevada, has trained teachers to visit students and families where it might matter most — in their living rooms. New research links the approach to stronger relationships and academic outcomes.
  
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• Private cargo ship brings Easter feast to the space station

  19-04-2019 11:29
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private cargo ship brought food galore to the International Space Station on Friday. Space station astronaut Anne McClain used a robot arm to capture Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule as they soared 258 miles (415 kilometers) above France. The Cygnus and its 7,600-pound (3,450-kilogram) shipment rocketed from Wallops Island, Virginia, […]
  
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• US corporations embracing 420 as pot legalization grows

  19-04-2019 06:33
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Potheads have for decades celebrated their love of marijuana on April 20, but the once counter-culture celebration that was all about getting stoned now is so mainstream Corporate America is starting to embrace it. No, Hallmark doesn’t yet have a card to mark “420.” But many other businesses inside and outside […]
  
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• Brands roll with stoner ‘holiday’ as pot legalization grows

  19-04-2019 06:33
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Potheads have for decades celebrated their love of marijuana on April 20, but the once counter-culture celebration that was all about getting stoned now is so mainstream Corporate America is starting to embrace it. No, Hallmark doesn’t yet have a card to mark “420.” But many other businesses inside and outside […]
  
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• Group apologizes after appearance by banned Alaska professor

  19-04-2019 06:15
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An archaeology organization has apologized for the attendance of a banned Alaska professor at its annual meeting. The Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday that the written apology earlier that day from the Society for American Archaeology followed criticism after former University of Alaska Anchorage professor David Yesner appeared at the organization’s […]
  
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