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• 2 Idaho brothers accused of illegally killing deer in Nevada

  20-05-2019 23:58
  ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities have filed a total of 27 charges against two Idaho brothers accused of illegally killing a pair of mule deer bucks in northeast Nevada. The Nevada Department of Wildlife announced Monday that Elko County prosecutors recently filed the charges against Wade and Blake Asher. State game wardens arrested Wade Asher […]
  
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• The Women in Iranian Film Orange Days Have More to Contend With Than Just Sexism

  20-05-2019 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeOur female subject, working in a man's world
  This superb Iranian film illuminates the raw reality of Iranian capitalism. And yes, Iran is a capitalist society, and so many of the problems that define this economic system in the US and Europe (class struggle, for example) are also present in this Islamic state. But what makes this feature really great are the performances, the director’s eye for detail, and the effortless rhythm of his blocking (the direction of the movemen
  
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• It's Only May and Washington Is Already in a Drought

  20-05-2019 23:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogWelcome to summer!ANGELO D'AMICO/GETTY IMAGES
  Summer hasn't even arrived yet and much of Washington is already in a state of drought.On Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he is expanding a declaration of drought emergency to cover nearly half the state thanks to low rainfall and lower than average snowpack, which, despite record snowfall in the western part of the state last winter, is currently at less than half the average for this time of year across much of the region.Gov.
  
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• His Boyfriend Made Constant and Baseless Accusations of Cheating and Then He Cheated

  20-05-2019 23:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I'm a 29-year-old gay male and I just screwed up a year-long relationship. I was head over heels in love with this man, he was the first serious relationship. However, he is/was very insecure. We live in neighboring towns and I usually would go see him on the weekends. On a handful of occasions, I would wake up in the middle of the night to see that he had blown up my phone. He would accuse me of ignoring him and of screwing around behind his back and s
  
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• Pete Buttigieg Goes on Fox News and Shows Democrats How It's Done

  20-05-2019 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Going on Fox News was not a mistake for Pete Buttigieg.by Christopher Frizzelle"A lot of people in my party were critical of me for even doing this," Mayor Pete says. "And I get where that's coming from, especially when you see what's going on with... this network." Screenshot from Fox News Town Hall
  Elizabeth Warren (who is, full disclosure, my current first choice for president) said hell no to appearing on Fox News. Pete Buttigieg (my second choice) took a different tack. He went on Fox News
  
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• Washington State Will Vacate Small-Time Pot Convictions. Yakima County Says They'll Think About It.

  20-05-2019 22:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog NASTASIC / GETTY IMAGES
  Seven years after Washington state voters passed Initiative 502 legalizing recreational marijuana, Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law last week that will require courts to vacate misdemeanor weed possession convictions for those who were 21 years or older at the time of their arrest. The law could impact nearly 60,000 individuals with small-time pot convictions.Under the new law, anyone convicted of misdemeanor possession will need to apply for a crimi
  
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• Ex-nurse accused of raping patient appeals HIV testing order

  20-05-2019 22:47
  PHOENIX (AP) — A former nurse charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility has appealed a court order requiring a test to determine if he has HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. A lawyer for Nathan Sutherland says in an appeal filed last week that […]
  
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• Oregon joins response in US to crimes against Indian women

  20-05-2019 22:35
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Native American women have gone missing on reservations or been killed at an alarming rate, but officials say statistics are hard to come by amid confusion by law enforcement over who has jurisdiction, which also results in lax pursuit of cases. Oregon, home to nine federally recognized tribes or confederations, has […]
  
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• Oregon joins effort to solve crimes against Native women

  20-05-2019 22:35
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Native American women have gone missing or been killed at alarming rates, federal and private studies show, and there is growing concern that confusion by law enforcement over who has jurisdiction can lead to lax pursuit of cases and insufficient data. Oregon, home to nine federally recognized tribes or confederations of […]
  
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• Officials identify pilot killed in southwestern Idaho crash

  20-05-2019 22:35
  MELBA, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in southwestern Idaho say 71-year-old Craig Wolter died when his single-engine aircraft crashed on Sunday. The Owyhee County Sheriff’s office says Wolter’s Beach Bonanza SE-35 plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Sunrise Skypark Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.
  
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• Nationwide liver transplant policy caught up in court case

  20-05-2019 22:34
  ATLANTA (AP) — Organ transplant officials are rolling back a new nationwide policy over how to allocate scarce livers amid a legal fight in federal court, an attorney for the nonprofit that manages the U.S. transplant system said Monday. The United Network for Organ Sharing was on track to reinstate its old policy by Thursday […]
  
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• Desperate Boeing Bets on American Racism Being More Powerful Than the Fear of Flying 737 MAX 8

  20-05-2019 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeFlying while black... Sunshine Seeds/gettyimages.com
  Because of class struggle, Boeing has two main parts: a head and the rest of its body. The latter is mostly in Seattle; the former is now located in Chicago (the two were joined up until 2001). And so it is not surprising that the Chicago Tribune, on one side, and the Seattle Times, on the other, are closely monitoring the developments of the current 737 MAX 8 crisis. At the end of last week, both papers reported that Boeing h
  
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• Man stole daughter’s Girl Scout cookie money to pay for erotic massage

  20-05-2019 22:21
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say an Oregon man has been sentenced for stealing $700 of his daughter’s Girl Scout cookie money, using it to pay for an erotic massage and then staging a home invasion to cover up the theft. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Brian Couture of Forest Grove was sentenced Monday to 18 months […]
  
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• Man pleads guilty to taking lemur from California zoo

  20-05-2019 22:18
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a man has agreed to plead guilty to stealing a ring-tailed lemur from a Southern California zoo. The U.S. attorney’s office says in a news release that 19-year-old Aquinas Kasbar of Newport Beach agreed to plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of unlawfully taking an endangered species. […]
  
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• Higher Ground Productions Doc American Factory Explores the Incompatibility of American and Chinese Industries to Great Effect

  20-05-2019 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeAmerican Factory
  This feature-length documentary is the first work to emerge from Netflix’s partnership with the Obamas. The former president and his wife have a company, Higher Ground Productions, that finds and/or produces content for the California-based media distributor. T, American Factory, from veteran documentary filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, is just amazing. It concerns a Chinese corporation, Fuyao Glass, that opened in Moraine, Ohio, a factory that
  
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• EPA plans to get thousands of pollution-caused deaths off the books by changing its math

  20-05-2019 22:00
  The new death-modeling method, which experts said has never been peer-reviewed and is not scientifically sound, would most likely be used by the Trump administration to defend further rollbacks of air-pollution rules if it is formally adopted.
  
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• Port Angeles man arrested, accused of shining laser pointer at Coast Guard helicopter in 2016

  20-05-2019 21:46
  The MH-65 Dolphin helicopter was descending when it was struck by a laser that originated in Port Angeles. The indictment also alleges that the suspect made false statements to the FBI during its investigation.
  
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• Get Excited: The Stranger's First-Ever Burger Week is Coming Soon!

  20-05-2019 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger
  Excited for summer? So are we. That's why this year, for the first year ever, we're throwing a big, juicy, mouthwatering new event: The Stranger's Burger Week!
  Inspired by the Portland Mercury's cult-favorite Burger Week, The Stranger's Burger Week will feature exclusive, one-of-a-kind burgers at more than 15 of Seattle's finest restaurants, only available from July 8–13. The best part? They'll be a mere $5 each!We'll reveal more details as the event gets closer. For now, m
  
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• Man shot in Bitter Lake neighborhood on May 15 had died

  20-05-2019 21:36
  The man was found critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in a strip mall in Seattle's Bitter Lake neighborhood.
  
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• Man shot in Bitter Lake neighborhood last week dies at Harborview

  20-05-2019 21:36
  The man was found critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in a strip mall in Seattle's Bitter Lake neighborhood.
  
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• Slain Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputy’s name to be added to Washington, D.C. memorial

  20-05-2019 21:33
  The name of a Cowlitz County sheriff’s deputy killed in April will be engraved on the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C., joining the names of more than 20,000 officers who have died in the line of duty throughout American history. Justin DeRosier, 29, was shot April 13 while investigating reports of a motor […]
  
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• Senate GOP leader would raise age for buying tobacco to 21

  20-05-2019 21:27
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose home state of Kentucky was long one of the nation’s leading tobacco producers, introduced bipartisan legislation Monday to raise the minimum age for buying any tobacco products from 18 to 21. The chamber’s top Republican, who said he was making enactment of the bill “one of […]
  
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• Students accused of putting bodily fluids in teachers’ food

  20-05-2019 21:23
  POWELL, Ohio (AP) — Authorities are investigating accusations that students at an Ohio middle school put bodily fluids into food that was then served to teachers. A Delaware County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman says that office is investigating reports of students putting urine and semen into crepes eaten by teachers at Hyatts Middle School in Powell. […]
  
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• Decommissioned Eastern Idaho nuclear reactor opens for tours

  20-05-2019 21:19
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho National Laboratory’s Experimental Breeder Reactor-I will open for tours on Friday. The site designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1966 is now a museum that draws about 10,000 visitors a year. The nuclear reactor was completed in 1951 and later that year lit four lightbulbs, proving that […]
  
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• The 44 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: May 20-27, 2019

  20-05-2019 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCatch the Horse in Motion's immersive production of Max Frisch's "morality play without a moral," The Arsonists, this week. Colby Woods
  Our music critics have already chosen the 38 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from a reading with Karen Russell to Richard Greenberg's Tony-winning comedy Take Me Out, and from the Northwest Folklife Fes
  
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• Our Arts Critics' Picks for This Week—Plus Memorial Day

  20-05-2019 21:10 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's arts critics recommend the best local events.by Stranger Things To Do StaffHere are our arts critcs' picks for the week—from a reading with Karen Russell to Richard Greenberg's Tony-winning comedy Take Me Out, and from the Northwest Folklife Festival to Taste of West Seattle.ALL WEEKFESTIVALSSeattle International Film Festival 2019The 45th annual Seattle International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the United States, with more than 400 films (spread over 25 da
  
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• After long journey, bear spared by governor returns home

  20-05-2019 21:08
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A bear whose life was spared two years ago by the governor of New Hampshire has returned to her home turf after traveling thousands of miles since being relocated. The state’s Fish and Game Department had decided to euthanize the black bear and three of her young offspring in 2017 after […]
  
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• Low snowpack, hot spring lead to drought declaration for nearly half of Washington state

  20-05-2019 21:05
  Winter left many areas of the state with lower-than-normal snowpack. A hot, dry spring quickly zapped much of the snow that did accumulate.
  
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• Gov. Inslee declares drought for nearly half of Washington state

  20-05-2019 21:05
  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has declared drought for much of Washington state. Winter left many areas of the state with lower-than-normal snowpack. A hot, dry spring quickly zapped much of the snow that did accumulate. Every water basin in the state is below the 30-year median for snowpack, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]
  
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• Boise city council president announces she’ll run for mayor

  20-05-2019 20:49
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Boise City Council President Lauren McLean has announced she’ll challenge longtime Boise Mayor Dave Bieter in the November election. McLean in the announcement Monday says she’s frustrated with how the city is handling growth and what she says is a lack of transparency with the current city administration. Bieter has been […]
  
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• The Woman Who Loves Giraffes: A Fine Profile of Feminist Pioneer Anne Innis Dagg

  20-05-2019 20:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Gillian AndersonGiraffe whisperer Anne Innis Dagg gets the profile treatment in Alison Reid's new doc.
  In 1956, just after graduating college, Anne Innis Dagg went alone to South Africa to study giraffes. She was a pioneer in the research of a single animal in the wild, bringing back amazing film footage and observational notes. After returning from Africa, she earned a PhD, published numerous articles, wrote a foundational textbook on giraffes, and got into teaching. She wanted to do more gi
  
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• Ex-Oregon football star recounts disarming student with gun

  20-05-2019 20:14
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former University of Oregon football star Keanon Lowe said he had just entered a classroom at the Portland high school where he works as a coach and security guard when a student armed with a black shotgun appeared in the doorway. Lowe had just seconds Friday to react. He lunged at […]
  
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• Game of Thrones Discussion Group: Episode 6, Finale - "The Iron Throne"

  20-05-2019 20:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkAnother day, another city "liberated" courtesy of HBO
  That's all, folks. Game of Thrones cashed in its chips last night, with the HBO show airing its final episode amid a firestorm of controversy. Some fans hated the direction the show took during its final lap, while others were satisfied with all of the explode-y things and unearned character beats.
  As you might have guessed, the end of Thrones had us feelin' emotions. Let's take a look back at this week, and the series overall,
  
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• Gov: Abortion ban shows Alabama values ‘sanctity of life’

  20-05-2019 20:06
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor said Monday the new abortion ban she recently signed into law reflects the high value residents place on the “sanctity of life,” adding she doesn’t expect any fallout from the controversial measure on tourism or business recruitment. Gov. Kay Ivey last week approved the most stringent abortion law in […]
  
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• Instagram & Cannibalism: A Penny Dreadful for Millennials

  20-05-2019 19:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Joule ZelmanMrs. Lovett (Alyssa Keene) and Toby (Karin Terry) in Sweeney Todd at Reboot Theatre Company. Jessica Fern Hunt
  What has an overabundance of cannibalism jokes, a Game of Thrones-esque body count, and some of the wittiest, prettiest songs you’ve ever heard? Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s gory slice of melodrama Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.The 1979 musical took a 19th-century penny-dreadful monster and transformed him into the embodiment of class-b
  
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• Corps corrects end date for Pebble project comment period

  20-05-2019 19:25
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has corrected the closing date for the extended comment period for a draft environmental review of a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. The corps earlier this month said it was extending the comment period from 90 days to 120 days […]
  
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• California regulators not taking action against care homes

  20-05-2019 19:24
  Across California, at least 20 companies providing care for the elderly, disabled and mentally ill continue to operate illegally after being cited for failing to pay their workers more than $1.4 million in back wages and penalties. “There’s no accountability,” said Hina Shah, an associate law professor at Golden Gate University who directs the Women’s […]
  
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• 2020 hopeful Bennet proposes $1 trillion climate change fund

  20-05-2019 19:12
  DENVER (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet said Monday he wants to commit $1 trillion for underwriting research and projects to address climate change, set aside about one-third of U.S. lands and ocean territory for conservation and reach net-zero U.S. emissions by midcentury. His campaign’s climate plan also would require utilities to offer consumers […]
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear medical malpractice case for death at Bremerton military hospital

  20-05-2019 19:11
  Walter Daniel, whose wife died hours after giving birth, had challenged a doctrine that bars active-duty military members from suing the federal government for injuries.
  
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• US judge to consider blocking new Mississippi abortion law

  20-05-2019 18:59
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Inside Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, administrator Shannon Brewer has been fielding phone calls from women who want to know whether they can still terminate a pregnancy if they think they might be more than a few weeks along. The confusion comes from a Mississippi law that’s set to ban abortions after […]
  
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• Orville Peck Had a Very Special Surprise Opener

  20-05-2019 18:35 via thestranger.com
  I was verklempt.by Chase Burns View this post on InstagramA post shared by Marc Castillo (@marc.notjacobs) on May 19, 2019 at 4:28pm PDT
  Last Saturday, shoegazing country crooner Orville Peck surprised audiences at his sold-out show in Seattle.
  "I am beyond excited to announce that our show tonight at [Barboza] will be featuring a secret opening set by a legendary guest," Peck tweeted the afternoon of the show. The tweet included four emojis: a crystal ball, a cowboy, a heart, and fireworks. Thr
  
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• Aniara Review: Trapped on a Spaceship, Staring Into the Abyss

  20-05-2019 18:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Erik HenriksenEmelie Jonsson (as Mimaroben) in space, where shit gets dark and living feels meaningless Magnet Releasing
  “Hell is other people,” goes the Sartre quote, a thought that gets thoroughly examined in the Swedish Aniara, a bleak, gorgeous science-fiction film in which the sun-scarred residents of a climate-ravaged Earth board a massive spaceship to begin a “happy, new life on Mars.” Naturally, a collision promptly knocks the ship off course, sending it drifti
  
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• Fleabag Finds Faith in Its Second Season

  20-05-2019 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Robert Ham Steve Schofield/Amazon
  Phoebe Waller-Bridge didn’t need to make a second season of Fleabag. The 33-year-old Brit was in a very comfortable place career-wise with the success of Killing Eve, the intoxicating spy series she helped develop, and plum acting gigs like her role as Lando Calrissian’s droid girlfriend in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Her star is rising so high that Daniel Craig reportedly asked her to take a pass at the script for the forthcoming James Bond flick.Th
  
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• Troopers arrest suspect in death of Fairbanks woman

  20-05-2019 17:43
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have arrested a 25-year-old Fairbanks man suspected of killing a 69-year-old woman with whom he had been staying. A trooper patrolling Friday north of North Pole spotted Patrick Marsh walking. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Marsh provided a false name but troopers positively identified and arrested him. Marsh […]
  
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• Sextuplets born in Poland; mother and newborns doing well

  20-05-2019 17:43
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 29-year-old woman gave birth to six babies in Poland on Monday, in what is believed to be the country’s first-ever case of sextuplets. The mother and newborns are said to be doing well. The babies, four of whom are girls, were born through cesarean section at University Hospital in Krakow […]
  
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• Poland welcomes sextuplets; 4 girls, 2 boys doing well

  20-05-2019 17:43
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A hospital in southern Poland says sextuplets have been born through cesarean section and all are said to be doing well. Maria Wlodkowska, a spokeswoman for the University Hospital in Krakow, said the four girls and two boys were born Monday in the pregnancy’s 29th week and that each weighed about […]
  
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• Spokane County leads 5 largest counties in drug charges

  20-05-2019 17:41
  An analysis by The Spokesman-Review finds that Spokane County files more drug-possession charges than King, Pierce, Snohomish or Clark counties.
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Has 56 People Running for City Council, A New Chicago Mayor, Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Approved by FCC

  20-05-2019 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneySiri, what's the fastest way to T-Mobile-Sprint-Park to watch the Mariners? FG Trade/Getty Images
  Greetings from Chicago! Coming to you live from my childhood home with my 15-year-old dog Hobie on my lap. I think this column needs a mascot, so he’s the official Slog dog (eat your heart out ugly pets). Since I’m in Chicago, I might as well start this off with some exciting Chicago news…
  He's an old man but we love him. Timothy Kenney
  Lori Lightfoot takes over t
  
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• Bellingham woman, 20, dies in motorcycle crash near Nooksack River

  20-05-2019 17:19
  This is at least the fifth motorcycle fatality in the Puget Sound area since March.
  
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• Gun control measure expected back after miss this session

  20-05-2019 16:54
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A multifaceted gun control bill pushed by Oregon Democrats may be dead this session, but advocates and opponents alike are confident it will return. The Statesman Journal reports that Senate Bill 978 was a casualty of the deal that got Senate Republicans to end their four-day walkout and return to the […]
  
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