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• Welcome to The Stranger’s July Issue

  02-07-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We don’t know how it happened, but it’s election season again. The season when the Stranger Election Control Board, our intrepid team of political obsessives, drags our elected officials (and aspiring electeds) into our un-airconditioned conference room to interrogate them, eat their bribes, and, ultimately, tell all of Seattle how to vote.  We aren’t electing any executives this year—no mayors or governors or county execs—so this election is all about legisla
  
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• It’s the End of the KCRHA as We Know It

  02-07-2026 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  King County Executive Girmay Zahilay and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced at a Wednesday press conference a three-step plan to “stabilize, right size, and reset” the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) after a damning forensic audit found the agency was running a $45 million deficit and had lost track of $13 million in funds. The audit was bad enough that a few politicians called to scrap the agency. Wilson and Zahilay have stopped short of that, but the KCRHA as
  
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• Arts Districts Galore! Concerned Artists! (And Does Seattle Finally Have a Style Scene?)

  02-07-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Congratulations are in order for Georgetown, which just received official designation as one of the city’s five Arts and Cultural Districts, and to Pioneer Square, which received a similar (but different) designation at the state level, as the newest of Washington’s 25 Creative Districts. What does that mean, practically? Recognition opens the doors for more grants and funding, invites increased arts programming (and art tourists), and hopefully helps create and preserve a bunch of
  
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• Slog AM: US Soccer Team Coming Back to Seattle, Trump or Vance Are Not Coming to Watch Them, Amazon’s Carbon Emissions Jumped 16 Percent Last Year Over Data Centers

  02-07-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger’s primary election endorsements are out! You can read them here.The concept of fair elections has me feeling almost patriotic ahead of the Big 250, and boy am I pumped. If any of you patriots can’t make it to the Great American State Fair and are consumed by FOMO, try this: Find an empty public park, blast some Flo Rida, and salute the empty air. It’ll be exactly like the real thing (according to CNN, Trump was “enraged” by the thin crowd at his kickof
  
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• The Stranger’s 2026 Primary Election Endorsements

  02-07-2026 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  It’s that time of year again—time for you to get mad at us. The Stranger Election Control Board has weighed hearts against feathers, consulted the oracles, and spoken with the pentagram on the floor of our office, appealing to all gods but reason, to arrive at our conclusions. Dozens sought our favor, most of them fools. Guess who? Washington is what happens when a liberal wishes upon a monkey’s paw. Democrats effectively control all three branches of government, and store the
  
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• The Stranger Election Control Board 2026 Primary Election Cheat Sheet

  02-07-2026 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Read every endorsement here!FederalUnited States Representative, Congressional District 1
  Suzan DelBeneUnited States Representative, Congressional District 7
  Pramila JayapalUnited States Representative, Congressional District 8 
  Kim SchrierUnited States Representative, Congressional District 9
  Kshama Sawant StateLegislative District No. 11, State Representative Position No. 1
  Ashley FedanLegislative District No. 32, State Representative Position No. 1
  Keith ScullyLegislative District
  
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• How to Vote!

  02-07-2026 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  OBJECT
  To elect the fewest number of freaks, weirdos, hacks, and losers to create a somewhat functional government.CONTENTS
  1 Voter Registration
  1 Ballot
  1 Return Envelope
  1 Pen
  1 Ballot Box
  1 Stranger Election
  Control Board Voter
  Guide or Cheat Sheet
  1 ElectionINITIAL ASSEMBLY
  Before filling out their (1) ballot, each player registers online at votewa.gov or in person at the County Elections Office in Renton or at a vote center. Players require a Washington State driver’s license, ID car
  
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• Smooth Operator

  02-07-2026 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  In the summer of 2023, Aaron Lindstrom became a free agent. After a decade working in the chocolate industry, the former director of chocolate experiences at Theo Chocolate lost his job when the Fremont factory closed its doors. He decided to put his résumé to work and start his own chocolate biz, starting with importing ethically sourced, single-origin cacao from Colombia and Peru. But because his other great love is music, it would also be a venue, he imagined, as well as a dayt
  
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• Beware the Wrap-Thieving Ostrich

  02-07-2026 00:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Dear neighbor,I know you saw five-foot-two-inch me struggling. Stretching and straining in vain to get my fingers around the last spicy lentil wrap at our neighborhood Trader Joe’s. Its delicious sauce calling to me from the very, very back of the top shelf in the prepared foods section.
  Oh yes, I know you saw me trying in vain to use some inferior sub-type sandwich to grab and drag that spicy lentil wrap to where I could reach it. But did you help? No. Instead, your six-foot-two-inch ass
  
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