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• Winston Hightower's Slanted Lo-Fi Wizardry and Horse Lords' Saharan Freak Rock

  25-06-2024 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalWinston Hightower, “Insubordination Rules” (K Records/Perennial Records)Winston Hytwr collects 12 songs from obscure Columbus, Ohio lo-fi tune machine Winston Hightower. It makes all kinds of sense that Olympia's K Records would champion this hard-working bedroom tunesmith, who since 2015 has been toiling in relative obscurity in the vicinity of one of his most obvious inspirations—Guided by Voices. It also fig
  
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• Nicholas Kristof Could Not Be More Wrong About the West Coast

  25-06-2024 20:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Oregon, be glad this guy isn't your governor.by Charles MudedeWhat Nicholas Kristof's recent article, "What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?," makes too apparent is that Oregon must thank the stars (its supreme court) for disqualifying Kristof from the state's 2022 race for governor. This man is not a part of the solution. He really is at the heart of that state's problems, which stem from the perpetuation of a social structure with distributional commitments that are far from rational o
  
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• Seattle Parents Are Right to Yell About School Closures

  25-06-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If you're spending a lot of your time yelling at the school board, you should yell at them about stuff they actually control.by Oliver Treanor MiskaWith the latest kafka-esque announcement from Seattle Public Schools (SPS) delaying the announcement of 20 elementary schools closing next year, frustrated parents and educators who have attended over five district-led, citywide community meetings in the last month are boiling with good questions: How can we stop school closures? And how can we equit
  
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• Slog AM: Julian Assange Agrees to Plea Deal, Cops Owe Four Seattle Protesters Big Money, Social Housing Payroll Tax Campaign Submits Signatures

  25-06-2024 17:36 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah KriegI-137: House Our Neighbors (HON) gathered and submitted 37,819 signatures in support of their ballot measure, and now they await verification. To fund social housing construction, the measure would tax companies that pay anyone on a payroll more than $1 million. As I reported before, the tax would raise an estimated $52 million a year.
  When can I vote for I-137? To get this thing on the ballot for the big-turnout election in November instead of
  
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