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• Republicans: ‘All options’ on table to stop cap and trade

  18-06-2019 23:46
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Senate Republicans issued a thinly veiled threat Tuesday to block a vote on what would become the nation’s second economy wide cap and trade program. Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger, Jr., said in a statement that Republicans are “prepared to take action to stop” Democrats’ sweeping climate plan which passed […]
  
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• Health advisory issued for Cannon Beach due to fecal matter

  18-06-2019 23:22
  CANNON BEACH, Ore. (AP) — State officials have issued a public health advisory for the ocean water at Cannon Beach, citing higher-than-normal levels of fecal matter in water samples. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the Oregon Health Authority said Tuesday that people should avoid direct contact with the water near Cannon Beach until the advisory is lifted. […]
  
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• Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion approved; ‘shovels in ground’ soon, Canada’s PM says

  18-06-2019 23:13
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Tuesday. The completed project would result in a surge of new oil tanker traffic through Pacific Northwest waters.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Slo-Mo Epiphany of "Rat (Hopefully, the Boy)" by Seattle Rock Iconoclasts TERMINATor

  18-06-2019 22:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Check out "Rat (Hopefully, the Boy)," a weird, jelly-legged dream of a song by Seattle rock oddballs TERMINATor.by Dave SegalAnything but the same-old same-old. Lauren Rodriguez
  TERMINATor, "Rat (Hopefully, the Boy)" (self-released)
  Featuring members of Rose Windows and Dræmhouse, Seattle trio TERMINATor are one of the city's most interesting rock bands. Their sound is at once methodical and ramshackle, their guitar tones redolent of 4AD goth/post-punk iconoclasts such as (early) Dead Can
  
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• Searchers recover bodies from Columbia River

  18-06-2019 22:31
  UMATILLA, Ore. (AP) — Search and rescue authorities have recovered the bodies of two people earlier reported missing in the Columbia river. Searchers recovered the bodies of Janice Arsenault, 44, and Trenton Williams, 20, from Idaho, Monday evening, following a multiday search, according to The East Oregonian . The pair were reported missing late Saturday […]
  
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• His Foot Fetish Went From Mild to Wild—How Does He Break It To the Wife?

  18-06-2019 22:30 via thestranger.com
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I am a straight male, 30, in a long-term monogamous relationship. I love my wife, we have good sex, and often. When we first got together, I had a mild foot fetish, and she has gorgeous pedis. We have done and still do foot play on occasion. But my fetish has grown stronger as time has passed, and I have grown thirstier for her appendages. They are all I can think about. I am still willing to do everything with my partner and make sure she is satisfied.
  
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• 114 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do in Seattle This Week: June 18-23, 2019

  18-06-2019 22:20 via thestranger.com
  Unusual, offbeat, quirky events you might not otherwise know about.by Elaina FriedmanOur arts critics have already recommended 54 great things to do this week and our music critics have picked the 52 best music shows, but there are still hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the quirkier and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, we've compiled them here—from the satirical Straight Pride Parade: The Drag Show to Drag Queen Bingo in the Sky! Featuring Betty W
  
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• 113 Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do in Seattle This Week: June 18-23, 2019

  18-06-2019 22:20 via thestranger.com
  Unusual, offbeat, quirky events you might not otherwise know about.by Elaina FriedmanOur arts critics have already recommended 54 great things to do this week and our music critics have picked the 52 best music shows, but there are still hundreds more events happening. To prevent some of the quirkier and more extraordinary ones from slipping through the cracks, we've compiled them here—from the satirical Straight Pride Parade: The Drag Show to Drag Queen Bingo in the Sky! Featuring Betty W
  
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• Marijuana use doubles in US pregnant women to 1 in 14

  18-06-2019 22:13
  CHICAGO (AP) — Pot use in pregnancy has doubled among U.S. women and is most common during the first trimester, government research shows. Overall, 7% of pregnant women, or 1 in 14, said they used marijuana in the past month. That’s from a nationally representative health survey in 2016-17 and compares with a little over […]
  
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• Family: Missing Everett man found dead in Cascades

  18-06-2019 22:07
  SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. (AP) — The family of an Everett man who has been missing since October says he has been found dead northeast of Snoqualmie Pass. The Herald reports 28-year-old Gavin Johnston told his father Oct. 17 he was heading to Stevens Pass for a two-month trip on a section of the Pacific Crest […]
  
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• US air quality is slipping after years of improvement

  18-06-2019 21:36
  After decades of improvement, America’s air may not be getting any cleaner. Over the last two years the nation had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier, federal data shows. While it remains unclear whether this is the beginning of a trend, health experts say it’s troubling to see air quality progress […]
  
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• Oregon advances bill allowing undocumented immigrants to drive

  18-06-2019 21:20
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Undocumented immigrants in Oregon could legally obtain drivers licenses under a measure approved by the House. Lawmakers voted 39-21 Tuesday to send the Senate a plan expanding driving privileges to all Oregon residents regardless of their immigration status. The bill has been a priority for pro-immigration groups who say that undocumented […]
  
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• Ore. advances bill allowing undocumented immigrants to drive

  18-06-2019 21:20
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Undocumented immigrants may soon be able to drive in Oregon after the House voted 39-21 Tuesday to remove proof of legal status as a requirement for obtaining a driver’s license. The measure, known as the Equal Access to Roads Act, would expand driving privileges to all Oregon residents regardless of their […]
  
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• Seattle nightlife entrepreneur Dave Meinert re-emerges after #MeToo allegations. Will he be welcomed back?

  18-06-2019 21:16
  After a high-profile series of #MeToo allegations, nightlife entrepreneur and Seattle power broker David Meinert has emerged from self-imposed exile with a takeover of the 90-year-old Mecca Cafe.
  
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• Judge orders Sawtooth Valley water diversions examined

  18-06-2019 21:14
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Forest Service to consult with other federal agencies about nearly two dozen water diversion projects in central Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley that could be harming salmon, steelhead and bull trout. U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued the order Monday following a lawsuit filed […]
  
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• Authorities: BYU-Idaho student drowned in Teton River

  18-06-2019 20:54
  MALAD, Idaho (AP) — Officials say a 21-year-old Malad man drowned Friday while floating the Teton River in an inner tube. Fremont County Sheriff Len Humphries said Cal Willie, a student at Brigham Young University-Idaho, was tubing with 10 other friends when the group encountered a low-head dam in the Wilford area. Humphries says Willie […]
  
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• Faculty organization lifts ISU sanctions

  18-06-2019 20:51
  POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — The American Association of University Professors has lifted a sanction at Idaho State University, indicating that the organization no longer disapproves of how the school is handling governance issues. The Idaho State Journal reports the organization, which promotes academic freedom and shared governance at U.S. universities, issued the sanction more than […]
  
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• California governor, lawmaker alter proposed vaccine rules

  18-06-2019 20:03
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California public health officials would have more oversight of doctors and schools with high numbers of medical exemptions for vaccinations under a legislative compromise announced Tuesday. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the bill’s author disclosed the deal aimed at cracking down on fraudulent exemptions issued by sympathetic doctors. The updated measure by […]
  
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• Late Night Is a Welcome Callback to Nora Ephron Comedies

  18-06-2019 19:52 via thestranger.com
  by Elinor JonesSomething great has been happening in comedies the last few years: Women who grew up watching the Nora Ephron comedies of the 1980s and ’90s realized Hollywood studios aren’t making movies like that anymore—comedies by and about women, where women are real characters and not just plot devices to advance a man’s growth. And they said fuck it, let’s make some!There have already been some excellent women-driven movies this year (Booksmart, Isn’t It
  
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• Dear Marty Kaplan: You Were Right. ADUs Are Ruining My Neighborhood.

  18-06-2019 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  by Gregory ScruggsThis ADU's not for you.Brad Khouri of B9 Architects
  Dear Marty:
  From one single-family homeowner to another, you’re right: Accessory Dwelling Units are a plague destroying everything that makes Seattle great. I’ve watched with admiration from across town as you’ve filed frivolous lawsuit after lawsuit against the nefarious densinistas on city council trying to weasel a backdoor, backyard upzone through our precious bungalow enclaves. Even when that socialist r
  
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• Centralia Police fatally shoot 18-year-old while responding to reported burglary

  18-06-2019 19:04
  Police gave few details about the Tuesday morning incident but said officers were responding to a report of a burglary in which the suspect was armed.
  
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• Wildfire forecaster sees late start for Idaho forest fires

  18-06-2019 18:58
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s wet spring and below-average temperatures the last three months will likely mean a later start for forest fires, but rangeland fires could be a problem as grasses dry out, a federal wildfire forecaster said Tuesday. Bryan Henry of the National Interagency Fire Center in a presentation before the Idaho Land […]
  
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• New Savage Lovecast: The Case for Nudism

  18-06-2019 18:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode #660 — June 18, 2019by The StrangerA gay man is dating a self-described "Sex Pig." His antics in public are epic. The caller wants to figure out if he can learn to be more carefree and uninhibited or negotiate some rules to please them both. Hear and learn from the cautionary tale of the dutiful daughter housesitting for her parents, and the hidden videocamera.
  On the Magnum, Dan stammers through a conversation about a topic that makes him feel...uncomfortable: NUDITY. Stéph
  
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• Jerome teacher arraigned on attempted murder charge

  18-06-2019 18:17
  JEROME, Idaho (AP) — A southern Idaho teacher who prosecutors say stabbed her ex-boyfriend has been arraigned on an attempted murder charge. The Times-News reports 36-year-old Tawna Day Huttanus of Jerome pleaded not guilty in 5th District Court Monday morning. Her attorney Steven McRae said Huttanus’ mental competency is in question and she needs a […]
  
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• Bosnian city of Mostar awash in trash amid landfill protest

  18-06-2019 17:47
  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Uncollected thrash is piling up on the streets of the southern Bosnian city of Mostar — one of the Balkan nation’s main tourist destinations — since residents begun blocking access to the city’s sole landfill, insisting that it poses serious health and environmental risks. The landfill, located in a residential area, […]
  
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• Soldier dies in rollover of military vehicle in Alaska

  18-06-2019 17:46
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A soldier died when his military vehicle rolled during training in interior Alaska. The Army says the crash killed 25-year-old Spc. Marquise Gabriel Elliott on Friday in the Yukon Training Area at Fort Wainwright. Elliott was driving with one passenger when the vehicle rolled. He was treated at the scene by […]
  
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• Hospital cleared in handling of newborn cut from mom’s womb

  18-06-2019 17:04
  OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) — Officials have cleared a suburban Chicago hospital for its handling of a baby who was cut from his mother’s womb and later died. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the federal Department of Health and Human Services told the hospital last week that Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn “was […]
  
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• US preschoolers less pudgy in latest sign of falling obesity

  18-06-2019 17:03
  CHICAGO (AP) — Preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, a U.S. study found, offering fresh evidence that previous signs of declining obesity rates weren’t a fluke. Obesity rates dropped steadily to about 14% in 2016 — the latest data available — from 16% in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control […]
  
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• Slog AM: The Citizenship Question That Will Ruin the Census, Meth Is Booming in Washington, Facebook's Alternative Financial System

  18-06-2019 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamI am loving the borderline copyright infringement in this stock photo.gorodenkoff/Getty Images
  Alright, which one of you decided to break bad? Meth is rearing its head again in Western Washington. And it's back with a vengeance. Opioid crisis who? According to this Seattle Times report, the majority of discarded needles Seattleites are seeing on the streets aren't due to heroin, but to meth. Despite the crackdown on meth labs in Washington state since 2005, more of the stuff th
  
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• Spotty showers and cooler temps welcome in Seattle after dry, hot spring

  18-06-2019 16:08
  After a relatively warm and dry spring — one that saw temperatures consistently about 3 to 4 degrees higher than normal — some may welcome the cooler temperatures and that old, familiar damp.
  
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• Man formerly on death row agrees to life for prison murder

  18-06-2019 15:35
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — After spending a decade in and out of jail, waiting years on death row and having his death sentence overturned, a 41-year-old convicted murderer will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Statesman Journal reports Isacc Agee agreed to waive his right to a jury sentencing […]
  
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• Salvation Army women’s shelter to close

  18-06-2019 15:01
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The loss of public funding at one of Portland’s homeless shelters will leave about 80 women needing a new place to stay in late July. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the Salvation Army gave incomplete answers on a new application for taxpayer money, leading to the loss of funding. The Salvation Army Female […]
  
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• Meth is back in King County, bigger than it’s been for decades

  18-06-2019 15:00
  While the heroin epidemic consumes the public conversation, meth has made a comeback. More people are dying from it in Washington than during the height of the last meth wave in the early 2000s.
  
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• How the 2020 Census could miss 4 million people living in America, and 1% of Washington’s population

  18-06-2019 15:00
  The U.S. Census could undercount Washington state residents by 75,000 people, according to a new report, if the form contains a question about citizenship. A lot of states could fare even worse, like California and Texas.
  
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• Seattle School Board opens its process to fill the South Seattle seat. Here’s how to apply.

  18-06-2019 14:00
  Their appointee will represent students attending the city's most racially diverse schools, and an area the district has neglected for building renovations and resources. The appointment will last through 2021, when they will have to run for election to keep the seat.
  
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• More than 100 children die in India in encephalitis outbreak

  18-06-2019 13:56
  PATNA, India (AP) — More than 100 children have died in an encephalitis outbreak in India’s eastern state of Bihar, authorities said Tuesday. Bihar health secretary Sanjay Kumar said 106 children had died and more than 430 others between the ages of 4 and 10 were being treated at hospitals in Muzaffarpur district, 80 kilometers […]
  
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• Porous border could hinder efforts to stem spread of Ebola

  18-06-2019 11:02
  MPONDWE, Uganda (AP) — Several well-trodden paths crisscross this lush area where people walk between Congo and Uganda to visit nearby family and friends and go to the busy markets. The problem is that the pedestrians may unknowingly be carrying the deadly Ebola virus, and hindering efforts to control the current outbreak in eastern Congo, […]
  
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• San Francisco weighs 1st US city ban on e-cigarette sales

  18-06-2019 07:12
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors are considering Tuesday whether to move the city toward becoming the first in the United States to ban all sales of electronic cigarettes as part of an effort to crack down on youth vaping. Supervisors will weigh a ban on the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes in San […]
  
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• Alaska climate change forcing some villages to relocate

  18-06-2019 06:50
  QUINHAGAK, Alaska (AP) — Accelerating erosion is forcing villages in western Alaska to begin making plans to move. Alaska’s Energy Desk reported Monday that erosion caused by climate change threatens village infrastructure and could force the relocation of communities such as Quinhagak. A 2012 state report listed Quinhagak’s sewer lagoon and multipurpose building as top […]
  
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• Former Oregon daycare worker found guilty of teen sex abuse

  18-06-2019 06:47
  HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — A former Oregon daycare employee has been found guilty of sexually abusing teen girls. KPTV reported Monday that Jonathan Alexander Tyler was found guilty last week of charges related to planning meetings with two underage girls and having sex with one of them while he was a daycare worker in Salem. […]
  
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• Government fails to release data on deaths in police custody

  18-06-2019 06:10
  More than four years after Congress required the Department of Justice to assemble information about those who die in police custody, the agency has yet to implement a system for collecting that data or release any new details of how and why people die under the watch of law enforcement. The information vacuum is hampering […]
  
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• Professor who once faced prison over allegations of sex with high-school student sues San Juan County for conspiracy

  18-06-2019 05:14
  Dr. Gerald Grellet-Tinner alleges former Detective Stephen Parker repeatedly violated his civil rights by becoming sexually involved with a 19-year-old undocumented Mexican national who had accused Grellet-Tinner in 2015 of having sex with her.
  
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• Selah man accused of repeatedly raping teen

  18-06-2019 03:40
  yakima county sheriffs office standing A Yakima County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle is pictured in this file photo shot June 5, 2018. Shawn Gust/Yakima Herald-Republic/// Facebook Twitter Email Print Save A 65-year-old Selah man facing second-degree rape of a child charges made a preliminary appearance Monday in Yakima County Superior Court. The man is being […]
  
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• “Solarize Yakima” campaign to push adoption of solar-powered energy

  18-06-2019 03:32
  A new campaign to encourage adoption of solar-powered energy could be coming soon to Yakima. The City Council will consider Tuesday an agreement with Spark Northwest, a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports local efforts in Washington and Oregon to invest in solar energy. Under the agreement, Spark Northwest would provide training and technical assistance to a volunteer […]
  
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