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• UW College Republican "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" Draws Resistance and Controversy

  03-05-2019 23:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneySaleem Juma (right) gets in a confrontation with two protestors who asked not to be named for this caption. UW College Republican Vice President Armen Tooloee (center, green sweatshirt) attempts to break up the fight. Timothy Kenney
  The University of Washington College Republicans (UWCR) hosted their “Affirmative Action Bake Sale” on UW campus today to protest the passage of I-1000, a repeal of anti-affirmative action laws. Their booth was dwarfed by the large crowd
  
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• GOP lawmaker leaves Alaska House majority over budget vote

  03-05-2019 23:49
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The bipartisan Alaska House majority has lost one of its Republican members in a disagreement over a budget vote. Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux was the only House member Friday to vote to accept the Senate’s version of the budget. She said it’s because it contained a full dividend payout from Alaska’s oil-wealth […]
  
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• Kamonegi Chef Opens A Sake Bar and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: May 3, 2019 Edition

  03-05-2019 23:47 via thestranger.com
  News and events for foodies: May 3 Editionby Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, chef Mutsuko Soma of Kamonegi opens her exciting new sake bar Hannyatou,Sunset Hill gets a new cocktail bar, and Nosh will bring proper British fish and chips to Bainbridge Island with a new restaurant. Read on for more of the latest in Seattle food news. For more ideas, try our Cinco de Mayo calendar, our list of seven dining deals to try in Seattle this spring, and our full food and drink calendar.
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• Inslee still pushing for donations to secure spot in the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate

  03-05-2019 23:05
  The Democratic National Committee has said up to 20 candidates will be picked for the debate, which will be divided into two nights with half the candidates appearing on each. Currently, 21 Democrats are running for president, and more could enter the race.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: Zen Mother's Celestial Hymn "Lumache" from Their Score of Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain

  03-05-2019 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Check out ex-Seattle band Zen Mother's "Lumache," a celestial hymn inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre 1973 cult film, The Holy Mountain.by Dave SegalThe Ascent is another high point in Zen Mother's career. Lauren Rodriguez
  Zen Mother, "Lumache" (self-released)
  In 2017, recently departed Seattle avant-rock band Zen Mother won a Puget Soundtrack competition whose prize was scoring Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 cult occult film The Holy Mountain. Finally, on May 17, the public can hear the fr
  
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• Senate Democrats Killed the Capital Gains Tax. Here's What Happened.

  03-05-2019 22:27 via thestranger.com
  
  One lawmaker says it'll pass next year. Another is not so optimistic.by Rich SmithHave fun paying zero state taxes the next time you sell $1 billion worth of stock, Mr. Bezos. ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES
  This year was supposed to be the year Democrats passed a capital gains tax. They had healthy majorities in the House and the Senate. The bill, having already done seven tours through the House, was so carved out that only 42,000 of the wealthiest households in Washington state would have been affec
  
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• Corps extends comment period on draft Pebble Mine review

  03-05-2019 22:07
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will extend from 90 to 120 days the comment period for a draft environmental review of a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. The corps had received comments arguing against an extension and comments urging more time. Notably, U.S. […]
  
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• Get Down to Lush Dub Sounds with Wild Belle This Saturday

  03-05-2019 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkWild Belle is Elliot and Nathalie Bergman Phil Knott
  As Wild Belle, siblings Elliot and Natalie Bergman synthesize the headiest elements of reggae, dub, and ska, and add flavors of Afrobeat, psych pop, electro, and funk to the mix for a vibrant stew of grooves. Elliot is a multi-instrumentalist whose incredibly diverse arsenal includes alto saxophone, electric kalimba, and hand-built bronze and steel instruments like bells he makes by melting down guns and bullet casings. Natalie&
  
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• Last-Minute and Affordable Cinco de Mayo Events

  03-05-2019 21:27 via thestranger.com
  Mariachi Bands, Taco Trucks, and More for May 3-5by Stranger Things To Do StaffCinco de Mayo is this Sunday, May 5, which calls for celebrations of Mexican American culture all weekend long. If the holiday snuck up on you or you're short on cash, we've got you covered with a roundup of $10-and-under events you don't have to plan ahead for, from the Taco Truck Challenge 2019 to the 15th Annual Cinco De Mayo Block Party.FRIDAYFOOD & DRINKRocket Taco Cinco de Mayo WeekendKeep coming back all we
  
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• Washington Democrats demand reprimand of GOP Rep. Matt Shea after report of involvement with extremists

  03-05-2019 21:12
  "Through his words and actions, Representative Shea has aligned himself with voices that seek to erode the very ideals of our democracy," the letter from House Democrats said.
  
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• Alaskan company pays $2M in Army post kickback, bribery suit

  03-05-2019 21:06
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Officials say an Alaskan company and its subsidiary have paid over $2 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit that accused the company of paying kickbacks and bribes to secure government contracts at an El Paso Army post. A federal court complaint shows that the scheme involved a construction work […]
  
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• Alaska company pays $2M in Army post kickback, bribery suit

  03-05-2019 21:06
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — An Alaska company and its subsidiary have paid more than $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the federal government that accused the company of paying kickbacks and bribes to secure government contracts at an El Paso Army post, officials said. Kikiktagruk Inupiat Corp. and KIC Development LLC agreed […]
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 101 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do in Seattle This Weekend: May 3-5, 2019

  03-05-2019 21:05 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 Free Comic Book Day to SLU Saturday Market Opening Day, and from the Inscape Open House to the Tilth Alliance's May Edible Plant Sale. For even more options, check out our complete Things To Do calendar an
  
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• Gray whales starving to death in the Pacific, and scientists want to know why

  03-05-2019 21:05
  Thirty-one dead gray whales have been spotted along the West Coast since January, the most for this time of year since 2000, when 86 whales died. So far, scientists say, most of the 21 dead whales that turned up on California shores weren't fully grown and might have starved to death.
  
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• 33 Last-Minute and Affordable Cinco de Mayo 2019 Events in Seattle

  03-05-2019 21:05 via thestranger.com
  Mariachi Bands, Taco Trucks, and More for May 3-5by Stranger Things To Do StaffCinco de Mayo is this Sunday, May 5, which calls for celebrations of Mexican American culture all weekend long. If the holiday snuck up on you or you're short on cash, we've got you covered with a roundup of $10-and-under events you don't have to plan ahead for, from the Taco Truck Challenge 2019 to the 15th Annual Cinco De Mayo Block Party. See them all below, and find even more options on our complete Cinco de Mayo
  
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• Slicing small cruise ships in half is first step in $250M expansion project

  03-05-2019 21:00
  Cutting a ship in half might seem like the first leg of a voyage to the scrapheap. But for the Star Breeze and two other small cruise ships owned by Seattle-based Windstar Cruises, it’s more of a rebirth. In a $250 million project, each in turn will be sliced in two at an Italian shipyard […]
  
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• Meet Tuca & Bertie, Your New Favorite Birdwomen

  03-05-2019 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jenni MooreThe two birdwomen represents contrasting sides of writer Lisa Hanawalt's personality, and are voiced by Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish.Netflix
  In Tuca & Bertie, Netflix’s latest cartoon for adults, creator/illustrator Lisa Hanawalt centers the bestfriendship between two bird women as they navigate everyday life in their 30s. From the very first episode it’s apparent: Tuca & Bertie is a weird show. And that’s exactly what makes it so delightful.
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• Idaho appeals ruling ordering release of execution records

  03-05-2019 20:27
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials are appealing a judge’s order that they turn over documents that will reveal the source of the lethal injection drugs used in a recent execution. The Idaho Department of Correction filed the notice of appeal this week in Ada County’s 4th District Court. In the notice, the prison […]
  
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• Body found on beach in Yachats identified

  03-05-2019 20:21
  YACHATS, Ore. (AP) — A man who was found dead on the beach in Yachats has been identified at 43-year-old Michael Clift. Clift was found Thursday and the cause of death is still under investigation. The Newport resident was pronounced dead at the scene. No more information was immediately available. Most Read StoriesNew York tech […]
  
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• Audit: Portland’s pot taxes go to police and transportation

  03-05-2019 20:16
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Portland voters approved a 3% tax on recreational cannabis sales in 2016, they expected the funds would benefit marijuana business owners and individuals who were negatively affected when cannabis was illegal. A report from the Portland City Auditor reveals that’s not the case. Instead, most of the collected taxes have […]
  
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• Seattle's Favorite Breakfast & Brunch Spots

  03-05-2019 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkThe khachapuri at Dacha Diner. UAN T. WILK
  Make your first meal of the day a great one at any of these local breakfast and brunch joints; Reader's Choice winner included. Check out more of our 2019 Food & Drink Guide favorites here.
  Dacha DinerIn the space of the recently closed Saint (you know, the triangular building that was painted turquoise, then fuchsia), the team behind Independent Pizzeria has opened Dacha Diner, an airy, light-filled restaurant serving comforting East
  
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• Shrimp from 5 U.K. rivers have one thing in common: cocaine

  03-05-2019 18:58
  LONDON — Researchers seeking evidence of chemical “micropollution” in five rural English rivers have found pesticides in many of the freshwater shrimp they tested. And cocaine in all of them. The presence of the illegal drug was unexpected because the sites where the researchers gathered their samples, in the eastern coastal county of Suffolk, were […]
  
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• Salmon-eating sea lions targeted at Columbia River dam

  03-05-2019 18:53
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More California sea lions preying on imperiled salmon in the Columbia River below a hydroelectric project on the Oregon-Washington border are being killed under a revised policy, federal authorities said Friday. The National Marine Fisheries Service made public reduced criteria for removing sea lions at Bonneville Dam about 145 miles (235 […]
  
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• Former police chief sentenced for village corporation theft

  03-05-2019 18:15
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A former Fort Yukon police chief convicted of stealing $112,000 from the village’s Native corporation a decade ago has been sentenced to a year in prison. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports 66-year-old Zelma Fairchild also was ordered to pay restitution. She was convicted in May 2018 of stealing from the Gwitchyaa […]
  
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• El Corazon Is Probably Getting Demolished

  03-05-2019 18:12 via thestranger.com
  
  El Corazon will likely be demolished and replaced with a glassy tower.by Lester Black Courtesy El Corazon
  Three months ago, the owner of the El Corazon music venue received a demolition permit to tear down the grungy old venue. When I asked the owner, Dana Sims, what was happening he told me in no uncertain terms that he would not be demolishing the building.
  “There is no story here,” he wrote in one email, claiming the permit was only to allow him to make necessary updates to the bu
  
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• Real Ocean Sounds Keep Me Up; Alexa's Ocean Sounds Put Me to Sleep

  03-05-2019 18:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeMy nights with Alexa's Ocean Sounds look like this... da-kuki/gettyimages.com
  Lately, I have found it hard to fall and stay asleep without Alexa's soothing ocean sounds. It's one of my virtual assistant's skills. Its waves lap on a shore that's near, I imagine, a window in a wood-warm house that's close to a sea. The moon illuminates the beach and the logs, bits of wood, and ancient animal bones that drift and knock against each as the cold-sounding water rises, spreads, and ret
  
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• Families plan lawsuit claiming abuse at treatment center

  03-05-2019 17:36
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Families of residents at an Idaho treatment center for people with developmental delays and mental illness say in a planned lawsuit that some of those living at the facility have been abused and neglected. News outlets reported Thursday that the families filed notice of a forthcoming lawsuit against the Southwest Idaho […]
  
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• Slog AM: Jay Inslee Launches Presidential Climate Plan, California Passes Bill to Get Trump's Tax Returns, A Lot of Dead Dolphins

  03-05-2019 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyNo carbon tax, Jay? Lester Black
  ICE gets booted from Boeing Field: Over the last eight years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has used Boeing Field to deport some 34,000 people, but not anymore. King County officials announced last week that they would move to stop ICE from operating at Boeing Field. Just yesterday, the company that services those flights—Modern Aviation—announced they were severing all ties with ICE. I guess deporting people wasn’t good f
  
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• Anchorage police open homicide investigation in man’s death

  03-05-2019 17:24
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police have opened a homicide investigation in the death of a man found on the city’s east side. Police shortly after 1 a.m. Friday took a call of an unconscious man at Debarr Road and Patterson Street. Officers found the man lying face down near a bus stop. He was […]
  
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• New wilderness bill seeks protection of Rogue and Molalla

  03-05-2019 17:00
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — After passing legislation earlier this year that applied the highest form of environmental protection to 10,000 acres in the Coast Range and 250 miles of rivers in Oregon, Sen. Ron Wyden has returned with a new conservation bill. The Statesman Journal reports the Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Jeff […]
  
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• Toll evader named Stiff to pay up; had $128K in tolls, fines

  03-05-2019 16:55
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The worst toll evader in Pennsylvania is being ordered to pay up. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Jarrett Stiff didn’t pay for trips on the Pennsylvania Turnpike 2,264 times from 2012 to 2017, more than anyone else in the state. The 36-year-old from suburban Philadelphia racked up nearly $128,000 in unpaid tolls […]
  
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• Oregon Supreme Court rules on farmland replacement dwellings

  03-05-2019 16:49
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that dwellings on farmland can only be replaced if they were subject to property taxes within the past five years. The Capital Press reports the ruling reverses the current interpretation of Oregon’s replacement dwelling statute, which doesn’t impose such a limit on demolished homes. While […]
  
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• 13 exposed to radioactive material near Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center

  03-05-2019 16:12
  The spill of a radioactive substance near Harborview Medical Center contaminated 13 people Thursday night. A Seattle Fire Department hazmat team secured the area at the corner of Terry Avenue and Terrace Street on First Hill. There is no threat to the public from the radioactive material, which was being transported from the Harborview Medical […]
  
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• 13 exposed to radioactive material at UW research site near Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center

  03-05-2019 16:12
  The spill of a radioactive substance at a loading dock of a University of Washington Medicine research building on First Hill contaminated 13 people Thursday night. A Seattle Fire Department hazmat team secured the area near Harborview Medical Center at the corner of Terry Avenue and Terrace Street on First Hill. There is no threat to […]
  
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• ‘They get the trash they deserve’: The best comments this week on seattletimes.com

  03-05-2019 16:00
  With the city heartbroken over a fatal crane collapse, Gov. Jay Inslee's presidential run sputtering and a Mariners pitcher forging an unlikely bond with a rival, readers had a lot to say about the news this week. We rounded up some comments that caught our eye.
  
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• Podcast: Reporter Vianna Davila on breaking the cycle of homelessness to jail and back

  03-05-2019 16:00
  Seattle Times Project Homeless reporter Vianna Davila gives the backstory and lessons from her report on a King County program called Vital, which seeks to help people end a pattern of repeated arrests and homelessness.
  
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• ‘Hold your loved ones close’: The best comments this week on seattletimes.com

  03-05-2019 16:00
  With the city heartbroken over a fatal crane collapse, Gov. Jay Inslee's presidential run sputtering and a Mariners pitcher forging an unlikely bond with a rival, readers had a lot to say about the news this week. We rounded up some comments that caught our eye.
  
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• 7 things to know before you go boating on Opening Day

  03-05-2019 15:03
  Here are some to help you get the most — and stay safe — on Saturday's Opening Day of boating season.
  
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• Want to empower girls? Help Rat City Roller Derby relocate

  03-05-2019 15:00
  Every time Rat City Roller Derby gets close to a long-term lease on a new facility, the league has been outbid by a developer.
  
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• Frustrated by all those bikes in the middle of Seattle sidewalks? You’re not alone.

  03-05-2019 15:00
  Between 6,000 and 7,000 bike-share bikes are on the streets of Seattle in any given week. Among those checked by staff, the city found that about 14% of bike-share bikes were creating an obstacle that could be hazardous to people who have visual impairments or use wheelchairs.
  
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• At Pelington Village, a retired recycler runs a blue-collar preserve close to South Lake Union’s high-tech bustle

  03-05-2019 15:00
  Sooz Pell has transformed a ramshackle Westlake site into a warren of incubator spaces where mechanics, metalworkers and other traditional entrepreneurs can still afford to operate in Seattle's urban center.
  
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• Wildland-firefighting company fined for labor violations

  03-05-2019 14:40
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A Salem wildland-firefighting and roofing company has been hit with a hefty fine after violating overtime and record-keeping laws and hiring underage workers. The Statesman Journal reports West Coast Reforestation Inc. will have to pay over $73,000 to 26 employees for overtime violations and another $7,200 in civil penalties for disobeying […]
  
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• UN: Congo should exceed 1,000 Ebola deaths on Friday

  03-05-2019 14:31
  GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says Congo should exceed the grim milestone of 1,000 deaths from Ebola later on Friday. Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, made the announcement at a news conference in Geneva. The Ebola outbreak that was declared in eastern Congo in August is already the second deadliest outbreak in history, […]
  
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• Teachers share their experiences with home visits: ‘Now I care for my students on a deeper level’

  03-05-2019 14:00
  In reaction to our story, some readers doubted whether teachers even had the time to make home visits, or if they were safe. So Education Lab asked teachers to share their experiences.
  
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• Gov. Inslee’s national climate plan calls for banning sales of new gas-powered cars by 2030

  03-05-2019 14:00
  The plan relies heavily on federal regulatory action to swiftly transition the U.S. away from fossil fuels in the transportation, electricity and building sectors.
  
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• A galactic first? Hanford scientists may have seen a black hole swallowing a neutron star

  03-05-2019 11:30
  RICHLAND — The Hanford LIGO observatory near Richland may have again made scientific history in its first month of a new observing run. Along with two other collaborating gravitational wave observatories, it possibly detected the gravitational waves created as a black hole swallowed a neutron star about 1.2 billion light years from Earth. A neutron […]
  
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