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• City Council’s “People’s Budget” Just So Happens to Do Their Corporate Donors' Bidding

  26-11-2024 20:37 via thestranger.com
  Last week, the Seattle City Council voted 8-1 to approve their 2025-2026 budget proposal, dubbed “The People’s Budget” by Council Member Maritza Rivera. This characterization is not only a clear erasure of Council Member Kshama Sawant, but it's deeply untrue. The City Council failed to tax the rich, bastardized the City’s tax on corporations, defunded important programming for working people, inflated the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) already bloated budget, and
  
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• Turkey Run

  26-11-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  Got problems? Yes, you do! Email your question for the column to [email protected]!by Dan SavageDear Readers: I’m off for Thanksgiving. I was to tempted to re-run this column again — which has the single best Thanksgiving-related question that has ever appeared in an advice column — but I re-ran that column last year. So, instead I’m re-upping a column that appeared just before Thanksgiving in 2016. — Dan I’m a very sex-positive girl and I finally convi
  
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• Slog AM: No Closures for Seattle Public Schools, Trump Proposes 25% Tariffs on Mexico and Canada, Governor Jay Inslee Announces New Youth Prison

  26-11-2024 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news round-up.by Ashley NerbovigI'm cold: Usually my radiator has kicked on at this point in the morning, but I'm relying on a little space heater instead today and I'm shivering. Had to write Slog from bed. High of 47 degrees today with a slight chance of sprinkles. Should drop to 41 degrees tonight. 
  Ding-dong, the plan to close schools is gone: Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Brent Jones withdrew his plan to close four schools, according to the Seattle Times.
  
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• Spending the Holidays Alone Is Okay If You’re Queer

  26-11-2024 17:00 via thestranger.com
  For the holidays, do whatever the fuck you want. The day belongs to you.by Vivian McCallWhen I was a kid, Christmas was a complex, multi-day affair that began with a non-stop drive to my grandparent’s house in suburban Chicago.
  This sucked, and how much depended on where we happened to live at the time. Philadelphia is a manageable 11 and a half hours from Chicago. Dallas is a less manageable 14. If you’re lucky, the drive from Tampa to Chicago is 18 hours. It’s 22 if you&rsquo
  
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