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• The Organizer Who Ran the State House Like a Union Hall 

  13-05-2025 19:00 via thestranger.com
  Remembering Frank Chopp's Activist Rootsby Shaun ScottTo many, he was more legend than state lawmaker: Frank Chopp, the mustachioed mafioso from the 43rd Legislative District who wielded the gavel as Speaker of the House for two decades, and who wielded as much power as any state lawmaker in Evergreen history. I knew him as a mentor and friend, as a co-conspirator at the social services agency Solid Ground, and as the fellow organizer thirty years my senior who I followed into the Washington Sta
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Candidate Forum Tonight, Trump Screws Over Afghan Refugees, RFK Jr. Swims in Pee and Poop

  13-05-2025 17:57 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallGood morning: A cloudy day will gradually give way to the sun and it may be the last we may see of it til Sunday. Expect a high of 66.
  Climbing Accident in North Cascades: Four people were repelling down a steep gully when their equipment failed and they fell 400 feet. Three died from the fall. Hours later the lone survivor, unaware of just how seriously injured he was, walked back to the trailhead, got in his car, drove to Newhalem and called
  
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• Brian Heywood Tortures Us With More Ballot Measures

  13-05-2025 01:32 via thestranger.com
  Soon enough, Heywood’s folks will be out on the street asking for your signature ahead of the July 3 deadline. They’ll need to collect 308,011 valid signatures from Washingtonians—or 8 percent of the total votes cast in the last gubernatorial election—for each depraved initiative to make it on the ballot. When you encounter them, do yourself and your neighbors a favor. Back away slowly.by Nathalie GrahamIt’s spring and this year’s crop of ballot measures from
  
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