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• Swinomish Indie Rocker Black Belt Eagle Scout on How to Do Indigenous Land Acknowledgement the Right Way

  22-08-2019 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Gregory ScruggsBlack Belt Eagle Scout is Katherine Paul, who plays tonight at Olympic Sculpture Park, then this weekend at THING. Eleanor Petry
  Scroll all the way down on the Seattle Art Museum’s website and you’ll find the following line: “The Seattle Art Museum acknowledges that we are located on the ancestral land of the Coast Salish people.”
  That act of land acknowledgment has been de rigueur for decades in Canada, Aoteaora (New Zealand), Australia, and many tribal
  
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• Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker

  22-08-2019 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Some of Dorothy Parker's best quotes, in honor of her birthday.by Christopher FrizzelleDorothy Parker, a hundred years ahead of her time. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
  In 1915, Dorothy Parker got a job at Vogue writing captions. Under a picture of underwear, she wrote: "Brevity is the soul of lingerie." She was the funniest person in the Algonquin Round Table—a group of humorists, including Robert Benchley and Harpo Marx, who used to gather for lunch at a Manhattan hotel—and also, for
  
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• Appeals court rules South Bend abortion clinic can stay open

  22-08-2019 23:13
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction allowing a South Bend abortion clinic to remain open without a state-required license until there is a final ruling in a lawsuit on the license. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued the ruling Thursday, thwarting an attempt by Indiana Attorney General […]
  
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• Shaun Scott Wins Candidate Survivor 2019

  22-08-2019 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithScott brings home the crown for District 4. Timothy Kenney
  Last night, 10 of the 14 candidates running for city council attempted to impress the youths gathered at Neumos for Candidate Survivor 2019, a candidate forum organized by the Washington Bus and The Stranger. Judging by the amount of premium heckling coming from the audience, many of the candidates did not succeed in their mission to win the youth vote.But with an actually pretty funny standup routine and a bold stance on af
  
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• Seattle school district and union still divided on pay less than 2 weeks before school starts

  22-08-2019 22:57
  Union bargaining member Kate Eads said she was “skeptical” the parties could pull things together that quickly. 
  
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• Jury finds ‘sexual predator’ former Seattle indoor soccer owner Dion Earl guilty on all counts

  22-08-2019 22:36
  Former Seattle Impact indoor soccer team owner Dion Earl on Thursday was found guilty of sexual assault, sexual abuse, kidnapping and other charges in an Arizona case involving two female babysitters for his children. But the case got a huge assist from two former Imapct dance team members who testified about being sexually assaulted by Earl in 2014, though King County prosecutors never laid charges.
  
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• Arizona jury finds former Seattle indoor soccer team owner Dion Earl guilty of sexual assault and sex abuse, among other counts

  22-08-2019 22:36
  Former Seattle Impact indoor soccer team owner Dion Earl on Thursday was found guilty of sexual assault, sexual abuse, kidnapping and other charges in an Arizona case involving two female babysitters for his children. But the case got a huge assist from two former Imapct dance team members who testified they were sexually assaulted by Earl in 2014, though King County prosecutors never laid charges.
  
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• Alaska governor picks Schulte for marijuana board

  22-08-2019 22:21
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy has brought a marijuana advocate back to the board that regulates Alaska’s legal cannabis industry, a shift from an earlier appointment of a skeptic who was rejected by lawmakers. Dunleavy’s office said Thursday he has appointed Bruce Schulte to the Marijuana Control Board. Schulte is a former board […]
  
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• Alaska governor is bringing back member of marijuana board

  22-08-2019 22:21
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy is bringing back a marijuana advocate to the board that regulates Alaska’s legal cannabis industry after his earlier appointment of a marijuana skeptic was rejected by lawmakers. Dunleavy’s office said Thursday that he has appointed Bruce Schulte to the Marijuana Control Board. Schulte was involved in the 2014 […]
  
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• Portland, Oregon police hire homeless liaison

  22-08-2019 22:17
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Police Bureau has hired its first-ever liaison officer for working with the city’s large homeless community. The agency said Thursday that Stephanie Herro will be the primary contact between the police bureau, homeless advocacy groups, social service agencies and other government departments. She was hired after an eight-month search. […]
  
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• Feds to revamp confidentiality rules for addiction treatment

  22-08-2019 22:15
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials proposed Thursday to revamp stringent patient confidentiality regulations from the 1970s to encourage coordination among medical professionals treating people caught in the nation’s opioid epidemic. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the goal is to make it easier to share a patient’s drug treatment history with doctors […]
  
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• Firefighters rescue person stuck in septic tank for days

  22-08-2019 22:14
  ESTACADA, Ore. (AP) — Firefighters rescued a person who fell into a septic tank and was stuck there for days in a rural area southeast of Portland. The Estacada Rural Fire District No. 69 said on Facebook that crews responded Tuesday to a report of the person falling into the tank while working on it. […]
  
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• City Council Candidates Endorse Vape Ban. WTF?

  22-08-2019 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogWhy would anyone want to ban this?? Matt Cardy/Getty ImagsThere was no shortage of cringe-worthy moments at last night's Candidate Survivor, the Stranger's semi-annual beauty pageant in which candidates for political office humiliate themselves in front of an audience. This was my first time attending, so I'm not sure how it was compared to other years on the Oh Fuck This is Awkward Scale, but when District 7 candidate Jim Pugel—a former cop who was booed each time he walked
  
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• Ivory sales still banned, says wildlife conference committee

  22-08-2019 21:55
  GENEVA (AP) — International trade in elephant ivory will remain banned, according to a vote at the World Wildlife Conference, known as CITES, in Switzerland. Thursday’s vote by a key committee makes it likely that the plenary session next week will uphold the prohibition of ivory sales. Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe had proposed they be […]
  
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• Here's Hoping This One Is Fake (But It Probably Isn't, Which Is Too Bad)

  22-08-2019 21:45 via thestranger.com
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I'm a straight woman married to a wonderful man who claims to be a polyamorous sex addict. He hid both his addiction and his tendency to be polyamorous from me until a few days after we got married. Once we married he also disclosed his desire to participate in BDSM and admitted to having encounters with men and transgender people. While I respect him and appreciate his openness I feel betrayed that he hid these things about himself until after we marri
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Holy Drone Opus "The Stranger" by Avant Guitarist Zaïmph

  22-08-2019 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Hear Zaïmph (Marcia Bassett) turn her guitar and voice into a holy dronescape on "The Stranger," and catch her live at Chapel Performance Space tonight.by Dave SegalProfound tone poet at work. Drawing Room Records
  Zaïmph, "The Stranger" (Drawing Room)
  ICYMI, Rhizomatic Gaze was one of the most fascinating experimental releases of 2018. On it, Zaïmph (aka Marcia Bassett, a guitarist with the Hototogisu, Double Leopards, GHQ, Un, and others), erects a forest of eldritch drones and u
  
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• Charging bison damages rental car in Yellowstone

  22-08-2019 20:54
  YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A video shows employees at a rental car agency all they need to know about how a car got damaged in Yellowstone National Park. The footage shows one of dozens of bison stampeding through the park as it rams the rental and cracks the windshield. No injuries were reported. […]
  
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• Review: 7 clergy members named in Alaska misconduct review

  22-08-2019 20:47
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Catholic church officials say an independent review has found credible accusations of past sexual misconduct against seven clergy members of an Alaska diocese, including a former priest who was killed in a July plane crash. The Diocese of Juneau released the results of the review, which identified six priests and a […]
  
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• Utah scraps state-run dispensary system for medical cannabis

  22-08-2019 20:34
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah legislators are drafting a proposal to scrap a planned state-run medical marijuana dispensary system after facing pressure from county attorneys who said the system put public employees at risk of being prosecuted under federal drug laws. Republican Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers says medical cannabis would instead be distributed […]
  
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• Utah moves to scrap state-run pot dispensary system

  22-08-2019 20:34
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah legislators were moving Thursday to scrap a planned state-run medical marijuana dispensary system after county attorneys said it would put public employees at risk of being prosecuted under federal drug laws. Under the revised plan being written by Republican Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers, medical cannabis would instead be […]
  
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• The Most Surprising Thing About Angel Has Fallen Is That It's Actually Pretty Good

  22-08-2019 20:25 via thestranger.com
  by Ben Coleman Simon Varsano
  Olympus Has Fallen was a forgettable Gerard Butler action-movie vehicle best known for being the worse of two "Die Hard in the White House" movies released in 2013. (Here at the Stranger, at least, we haven't forgotten you, White House Down.)London Has Fallen was perfunctory "war on terror" throwback schlock rife with tasteless xenophobia and mindless jingoism. But Angel Has Fallen, the third movie in the inelegantly named ______ Has Fallen series, pulls off an unexp
  
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• World powers increasingly see icy Arctic as a hot property

  22-08-2019 20:08
  TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) — From a helicopter, Greenland’s brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here — its whole population wouldn’t fill a football stadium — are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide. One scientist called it the […]
  
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• Climate change turns Arctic into strategic, economic hotspot

  22-08-2019 20:08
  TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) — From a helicopter, Greenland’s brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here — its whole population wouldn’t fill a football stadium — are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide. One scientist called it the […]
  
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• Mindhunter's Excellent Second Season Doesn't Give You What You Want

  22-08-2019 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann NetflixIt’s strange that Netflix didn’t provide critics with advance screeners for the second season of Mindhunter, the true-crime thriller about the origins of the FBI Serial Crime Unit in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Instead, the nine new episodes hit the streaming service last Friday with little advance fanfare, and this week the internet’s been playing catch-up with what’s turned out to be a largely excellent new season. Of course, a big chunk of t
  
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• GOP sends 3 nominees for vacant Alaska Senate seat

  22-08-2019 19:10
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A state representative and a deputy commissioner in the Department of Administration are among the three nominees selected by Republican officials for a vacant Alaska Senate seat. Party officials in two Anchorage House districts sent to Gov. Mike Dunleavy for consideration the names of Rep. Laddie Shaw, Dunleavy administration employee Dave […]
  
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• Virginia soldier serving in Alaska dies in motorcycle crash

  22-08-2019 19:03
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 26-year-old Virginia soldier assigned to Alaska has died of injuries suffered in a weekend motorcycle crash. The Army says Sgt. Timothy Scott Woods II of Salem died Tuesday at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Woods was severely injured Saturday when he lost control of his motorcycle and hit a guardrail along […]
  
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• US indictment charges 80 in fraud, money laundering case

  22-08-2019 18:58
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. authorities on Thursday unsealed a 252-count grand jury indictment charging 80 people in a major conspiracy to steal millions of dollars through fraud schemes and launder the money through a Los Angeles-based network. Most of the defendants are Nigerians, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. “We believe this is one of […]
  
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• Unclaimed cremated remains found in Portland

  22-08-2019 18:53
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cremated remains found in a mortuary box on a Portland street belong to a World War II veteran who lived in a house that’s been demolished and who worked at a concrete and steel company that no longer exists. The Oregonian/OregonLive said Thursday it tracked down the details of Floyd Leslie […]
  
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• Raging fires in Amazon rainforest stir bitter dispute over who is to blame

  22-08-2019 18:26
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As fires raged in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government on Thursday denounced international critics who say President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing enough to curb massive deforestation. The growing threat to what some call “the lungs of the planet” has ignited a bitter dispute about who is to blame […]
  
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• Global worry over Amazon fires escalates; Bolsonaro defiant

  22-08-2019 18:26
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Amid global concern about raging Amazon fires, Brazil on Thursday said it was the target of a smear campaign by critics who contend President Jair Bolsonaro is not doing enough to curb widespread deforestation. The growing threat to what some call “the lungs of the planet” has ignited a bitter […]
  
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• Man sentenced to 30 years for attempted murder of officer

  22-08-2019 18:19
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 30-year-old man convicted of trying to kill an Anchorage police officer has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison. KTVA reports Superior Court Judge Erin Marston during sentencing Wednesday called 31-year-old Pagopago Beefcake Lelilio a danger to society. Prosecutors sought a 65-year sentence and cited Lelilio’s criminal history […]
  
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• Germany bolsters iodine supply in case of nuclear incident

  22-08-2019 18:19
  BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are increasing their stockpile of iodine tablets as a precaution for the possibility of a nuclear incident. Germany’s Federal Office for Radiation Protection confirmed Thursday it has ordered 189.5 million iodine tablets “to ensure a safe and widespread distribution in case of a radiological or nuclear emergency.” Public broadcaster WDR, […]
  
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• Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to seek reelection, hours after dropping presidential bid

  22-08-2019 18:18
  Inslee made the announcement in an email blast to supporters, saying he wants to "continue to stand with you in opposing Donald Trump and rejecting his hurtful and divisive agenda."
  
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• Cracking Bone, Ripping Skin, and the Worst Wedding Ever in Ready or Not

  22-08-2019 17:55 via thestranger.com
  by Robert Ham Eric Zachanowich
  It was right around the time when newlywed Grace (Samara Weaving) punched her pre-teen nephew in the face and subsequently fell into a pit filled with decomposing bodies that I found myself completely shutting off to Ready or Not, the new horror-comedy from filmmaking collective Radio Silence.From there, atrophy set in—rendering me numb to each subsequent act of violence that was supposed to shock and/or amuse me. In Ready or Not, the significant efforts&mdas
  
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• Giraffes move closer to endangered species protection

  22-08-2019 17:25
  GENEVA (AP) — Nations around the world moved Thursday to protect giraffes as an endangered species for the first time, drawing praise from conservationists and scowls from some sub-Saharan African nations. Thursday’s vote by a key committee at the World Wildlife Conference known as CITES paves the way for the measure’s likely approval by its […]
  
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• Conference on endangered species moves to protect giraffes

  22-08-2019 17:25
  GENEVA (AP) — An international conference on endangered species has agreed to protect giraffes for the first time, drawing praise from conservationists and scowls from some sub-Saharan African nations. Thursday’s vote by a key committee at the World Wildlife Conference known as CITES paves the way for likely approval by its plenary next week. The […]
  
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• Floating homeless camp sinks in Duwamish Waterway

  22-08-2019 17:02
  What authorities describe as a homeless camp on the water has sunk. KOMO-TV reports the floating camp was made up of three boats rafted together and tied up illegally to a fishing net piling belonging to the Duwamish Tribe. Two boats sank last week in the Duwamish Waterway, while a third remained afloat. How the […]
  
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• Slog AM: Jay Inslee Is out of the Presidential Race, Iceland Prime Minister Will Skip Pence Meeting, Frisky Senior Citizens Arrested

  22-08-2019 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamSee you back home, Jay.LESTER BLACK
  Jay Inslee lays his presidential dreams to rest: Welp, the book is officially closed on the Jay Inslee 2020 presidential campaign. Though Inslee gained attention for his July debate performance, and for being the ONLY CANDIDATE WITH A FULL ENERGY PLAN, it was too little, too late for Washington's golden boy. Inslee bowed out of the race on Wednesday night. He said he will be seeking a third term as governor—just as Stranger writer Rich
  
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• E. Idaho man gets 25 years for creating child pornography

  22-08-2019 17:00
  POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A 32-year-old eastern Idaho man who produced child pornography by sexually abusing a 4-year-old child has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Joseph Lavern Harris of Rigby received the sentence Wednesday in U.S. District Court that also includes a lifetime of supervised release after prison. Harris pleaded guilty in March […]
  
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• Last of its kind rocket puts GPS satellite in orbit

  22-08-2019 15:47
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rocket that’s the last of its kind has delivered the newest, most powerful GPS satellite to orbit for the Air Force. United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV medium-class rocket lifted off Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It was a fitting swan song for the rocket. […]
  
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• More than $1 million in cocaine found in banana shipments to Safeway stores in Western Washington

  22-08-2019 15:39
  More than a million dollars' worth of cocaine was found inside shipments of bananas at three Safeway stores in Bellingham, Federal Way and Woodinville, according to police.
  
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• More than $1 million in cocaine found in banana shipments to 3 Safeway stores in Western Washington

  22-08-2019 15:39
  More than a million dollars' worth of cocaine was found inside shipments of bananas at three Safeway stores in Bellingham, Federal Way and Woodinville, according to police.
  
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• Fatal crash on southbound I-5 near Pierce-King county line snarls traffic for miles

  22-08-2019 15:24
  A fatal predawn collision on southbound Interstate 5, near the line separating Pierce and King counties, has traffic backed up for miles, according to state police and transportation officials. One person involved in the crash died and another was arrested for investigation of driving while intoxicated, Washington State Patrol Trooper Johnna Batiste tweeted. Only the […]
  
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• The light-rail bridge being built in south Bellevue seems to soar unsupported over I-90. Here’s why.

  22-08-2019 15:00
  Sound Transit's bridge design is known as a balanced cantilever. Hundreds have been built worldwide, including some along Sound Transit's 2009 corridor from Rainier Beach to Tukwila.
  
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• Prizes for sobriety: As Washington meth use rises, this treatment is one of few that works

  22-08-2019 15:00
  It sounds weird, but it works better than any treatment for drug addiction outside of medication. So why isn’t it being implemented in Washington?
  
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• Prizes for not doing drugs: A treatment that works, but isn’t used much.

  22-08-2019 15:00
  It sounds weird, but it works better than any treatment for drug addiction outside of medication. So why isn’t it being implemented in Washington?
  
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• How much easier was it for baby boomers to buy a home in Seattle? Let’s adjust for inflation

  22-08-2019 15:00
  Census data shows that the median home value in King County in 1980 was $71,400, which, in today's dollars, is about $225,000. That's well below half of what it is now.
  
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• Man fatally shot in the head on Aurora Ave in North Seattle

  22-08-2019 14:56
  A man was fatally shot in the head on Aurora Avenue near North 102nd Street in North Seattle around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the Seattle Police Department.
  
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• Fatal shooting closes Aurora Ave near North 102nd Street in Seattle

  22-08-2019 14:56
  A fatal shooting on Aurora Avenue near North 102nd Street in North Seattle has several blocks of the arterial closed while Seattle police detectives investigate. The 2:30 a.m. shooting killed a 35-year-old man, KIRO News reported. The roadway is closed from North 100th Street to North 105th Street.
  
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• Mayor: Show extra love at Portland businesses after protests

  22-08-2019 14:05
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City of Portland, the Portland Business Alliance, Travel Portland and more are offering deals and free parking downtown this weekend in an effort to generate some of the revenue lost during last weekend’s political protests. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the Portland Business Alliance said Wednesday that demonstrations on Aug. 17 cost […]
  
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