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• 700K in state would be uninsured under GOP health plan, Inslee says

  15-03-2017 23:52
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee and Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said 700,000 Washingtonians would not be insured under the proposed GOP health plan unless the state came up with more than $2.5 billion a year.
  
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• 700,000 Washingtonians would be uninsured under GOP health plan, Inslee says

  15-03-2017 23:52
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee and Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said 700,000 Washingtonians would not be insured under the proposed GOP health plan unless the state came up with more than $2.5 billion a year.
  
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• Seattle judge delays decision on Trump’s revised travel ban

  15-03-2017 23:39
  
  The Seattle-based Northwest Immigrant Rights Project sued the U.S. government on behalf of legal immigrants from countries banned in President Trump’s first travel ban who were separated from their families.
  
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• Seattle judge delays decision on immigrants’ challenge to travel ban

  15-03-2017 23:39
  
  The Seattle-based Northwest Immigrant Rights Project sued the U.S. government on behalf of legal immigrants from countries banned in President Trump’s first travel ban who were separated from their families.
  
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• Ultra-liberal Portland moves to rein in protests

  15-03-2017 23:07
  
  After months of raucous protests, the City Council approved an emergency ordinance that would allow the city to eject disruptive protesters and ban them from council chambers.
  
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• Ultra-liberal Portland moves to rein in protesters

  15-03-2017 23:07
  
  After months of raucous protests, the City Council approved an emergency ordinance that would allow the city to eject disruptive protesters and ban them from council chambers.
  
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• Climber, clothing company founder Royal Robbins dies at 82

  15-03-2017 23:00
  
  Robbins was part of the Golden Age of Yosemite, a post-WWII time from roughly 1955 to 1970, when a vagabond group of climbers lived in Yosemite and devoted their lives to climbing. He was also a major promoter of clean climbing techniques and equipment to avoid rock damage.
  
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• Update: Reichert defends GOP health-care bill following report that millions would go uninsured

  15-03-2017 22:30
  
  U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert has promised the Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act will not toss anyone off their health insurance. But he's remained silent since the Congressional Budget Office issued its report.
  
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• Reichert mum on estimate that 24 million fewer will be insured under GOP health-care bill

  15-03-2017 22:30
  
  U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert has promised the Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act will not toss anyone off their health insurance. But he's remained silent since the Congressional Budget Office issued its report.
  
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• Brrrr, they might say: UW cherry blossoms won’t peak until late March

  15-03-2017 22:28
  
  The University of Washington Quad's iconic cherry trees typically attract throngs of photographers and flower lovers when they reach full bloom.
  
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• Weather’s been dour for flowers: Drippy Skagit Valley fields running late — but there’s hope

  15-03-2017 21:14
  
  Last year, fields were brilliant yellow in February. This year, La Conner forges bravely on with its Daffodil Festival, with blooms a bit late. Tulips? Sometime in April is a good bet.
  
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• Study: Stopping global warming only way to save coral reefs

  15-03-2017 19:10
  
  Severe bleaching is killing coral at catastrophic rates, and according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the only way to save the world's coral is with a war on global warming.
  
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• Stopping global warming is only way to save coral reefs, study says

  15-03-2017 19:10
  
  Severe bleaching is killing coral at catastrophic rates, and according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the only way to save the world's coral is with a war on global warming.
  
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• Watch out: Mammals shrink when Earth heats up, study says

  15-03-2017 19:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming shrank certain animals in the ancient past, and scientists worry it could happen again. Warm-blooded animals got smaller at least twice in Earth’s history when carbon dioxide levels soared and temperatures spiked as part of a natural warming, a new study says. University of New Hampshire researcher Abigail D’Ambrosia warned […]
  
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• U.S. Attorney’s Office launches investigation of Swedish neurosurgery unit

  15-03-2017 18:31
  
  Swedish CEO Guy Hudson wrote in a memo to staff members Wednesday that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is now among the agencies reviewing practices at the institute, based at the Cherry Hill campus in Seattle.
  
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• Central Area eviction of activist spurs protest as redevelopment looms

  15-03-2017 17:10
  
  A demonstration broke out in Seattle’s changing Central Area during an eviction on a block being targeted for redevelopment.
  
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• Flooding a concern as ‘conveyor belt’ of wet weather hits Western Washington

  15-03-2017 16:06
  
  Seattle has surpassed normal rainfall totals for March, and the month is only half over. A flood warning is in effect for the White River and the Green River has a flood watch as the rain continues.
  
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• Yoga pants, cozy clothes may be key source of sea pollution

  15-03-2017 14:56
  
  KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Comfortable clothes are emerging as a source of plastic that’s increasingly ending up in the oceans and potentially contaminating seafood, according to Gulf Coast researchers launching a two-year study of microscopic plastics in the waters from south Texas to the Florida Keys. The project , led by the Mississippi-Alabama Sea […]
  
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• Yoga pants, cozy clothes may be key source of plastic pollution in seas

  15-03-2017 14:56
  
  Comfortable clothes are emerging as a source of plastic that's increasingly ending up in the oceans and potentially contaminating seafood, according to Gulf Coast researchers.
  
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• Yoga pants, cozy clothes may be key source of plastic pollution in oceans

  15-03-2017 14:56
  
  Comfortable clothes are emerging as a source of plastic that's increasingly ending up in the oceans and potentially contaminating seafood, according to Gulf Coast researchers.
  
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• Silence reigns as sewage spews into Puget Sound. Here’s why.

  15-03-2017 14:30
  
  There has been little response from environmentalists since the region’s largest wastewater-treatment plant was disabled in a catastrophic flood last month, though it continues to send tons of waste into Puget Sound.
  
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• Bookstore owner Vickie Williams, ‘a giver,’ created hub for Columbia City’s black community

  15-03-2017 14:30
  
  Vickie Williams wanted to create a place where people came in to browse and left feeling part of something bigger than themselves.
  
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• Rolled semi causes huge backup on I-405 northbound in Bellevue

  15-03-2017 14:28
  
  A rolled semi is snarling traffic in the northbound lanes of I-405 through Bellevue.
  
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• NB I-405 lanes reopen after rolled semi caused huge backup

  15-03-2017 14:28
  
  A rolled semi is snarling traffic in the northbound lanes of I-405 through Bellevue.
  
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• I-405 lanes reopen after rolled semi causes huge backup

  15-03-2017 14:28
  
  A rolled semi on I-405 snarled traffic in the Seattle area on Wednesday. At one point, travel time from Federal Way to Bellevue — a distance of 24 miles — was 144 minutes.
  
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• 3 Snohomish County jail employees hurt in assault by inmate

  15-03-2017 14:06
  
  An inmate in the Snohomish County jail assaulted three jail employees early Wednesday morning.
  
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• Q&A: Puyallup High newspaper editor on Washington student press-freedom bill

  15-03-2017 14:00
  
  Education Lab talked to Jaxon Owens, editor of the Puyallup High School student newspaper, about what it’s like for the principal to have veto power over what will be published.
  
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• GOP’s strange new politics: Going after seniors

  15-03-2017 14:00
  
  People 60 and older don’t get picked on much in politics. Seniors have long been a sort of untouchable “third rail.” That just changed with the GOP health bill.
  
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• Growing algae bloom in Arabian Sea tied to climate change

  15-03-2017 09:09
  
  BANDAR AL-ROWDAH, Oman (AP) — The Gulf of Oman turns green twice a year, when an algae bloom the size of Mexico spreads across the Arabian Sea all the way to India. Scientists who study the algae say the microscopic organisms are thriving in new conditions brought about by climate change, and displacing the zooplankton […]
  
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• The seal whiskerers: Navy looks to sea life for new ships

  15-03-2017 05:36
  
  NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. Navy is enlisting the help of seals — but not the kind of highly trained special operatives it usually associates with. Scientists think real seals, specifically their whiskers, may be the key to a new way for ships and underwater vehicles to sense their environment. When a fish swims […]
  
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• Bellevue board picks veteran educator as next superintendent

  15-03-2017 04:28
  
  The Bellevue School Board has chosen Ivan Duran, an educator and administrator who spent a good many years in Colorado schools, to become its next superintendent. He’s known for school-performance turnarounds.
  
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• Sea lion evades rescue from California farmland canal

  15-03-2017 03:37
  
  VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife experts are frustrated by a young sea lion that evaded their attempts to rescue him from a canal that cuts through farmland and an inland Northern California neighborhood. An animal services official spotted the sea lion Tuesday morning in Vacaville and contacted The Marine Mammal Center, according to spokesman Giancarlo […]
  
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• Seattle’s Cafe Racer, site of mass shooting, up for sale — future unclear

  15-03-2017 02:37
  
  The listing agent says a buyer could keep the place the same or try an entirely new concept there, though a re-development seems unlikely.
  
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• Golden Gardens attack survivor: My story was exploited in transgender-bathroom debate

  15-03-2017 01:43
  
  A woman who fought off a sexual assault at a Seattle park restroom last week is now calling out a political campaign that used her story and photo to promote an initiative to restrict bathroom access for transgender people.
  
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• Alaska residents warned to give grumpy moose their space

  15-03-2017 01:27
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Confrontations between moose and Alaska residents are leading wildlife officials to warn people to give the animals some distance. An agitated moose twice charged skiers in a lift line Saturday at Alyeska Resort, a downhill ski venue in the resort town of Girdwood. No one was hurt, but the moose was […]
  
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• Rain, rain, rain. And more rain. Seattle long-timers and newcomers: How do you deal?

  15-03-2017 01:23
  
  Will the rain ever go away? How do you get through the long winter months? And spring months? And fall months?
  
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• Former investment adviser in Bellevue charged with fraud

  15-03-2017 01:00
  
  Chris Young Yoo, a former investment adviser in Bellevue, was charged Monday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with wire fraud and making false statements related to his operation of Summit Asset Strategies and related companies.
  
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• Deputy fatally shoots man outside Fife motel

  15-03-2017 00:54
  
  The shooting happened after a Pierce County sheriff’s Special Investigations unit arrived about noon at the motel in the 5200 block of 20th Street East.
  
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