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How Title X Cuts Impact UW Women’s Health

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How Title X Cuts Impact UW Women’s Health

Some student advocates worry that slashed budgets could drive student to misleading crisis pregnancy centers.

How Pedro the Lion’s Religious Roots Set the Stage for a Relevant Return

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How Pedro the Lion’s Religious Roots Set the Stage for a Relevant Return

Two decades before #MeToo, a young David Bazan was singing about the problems with patriarchy.

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Opinion

Tariffs on Newsprint a Threat to Newspapers

Tariffs on Canadian paper have surged costs with little benefit for U.S. mills.

Opinion

Mulling the Marchers, Saying Farewell to Burgess, and Slicing Up a Pizza Review

Our readers share their thoughts.

Students Sue Their School, a College Stuns a Candidate, and the Fight for On-Time Ferries

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Students Sue Their School, a College Stuns a Candidate, and the Fight for On-Time Ferries

Plus an effort to expand health coverage in South King County.

Kirsten Harris-Talley speaks to reporters after being sworn in as Seattle City Councilmember for position 8. Photo by Casey Jaywork

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Why Kirsten Harris-Talley Makes a Point of Using the Word ‘Houselessness’

‘Not everyone has a house, but everyone has a home.’

A Kia Crashes Into a Cabin, Shroom Hunters Unearth a Human Skull, and the Perils of Canoeing Across Lake Washington

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A Kia Crashes Into a Cabin, Shroom Hunters Unearth a Human Skull, and the Perils of Canoeing Across Lake Washington

Plus some traffic and safe drug site news.

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Kudos to Transparency

At activists’ urging, the council did the right thing in opening up Burgess’ council seat to all.

UW Grad Student Faces Torrent of Vile Harassment After Sticking Up for Immigrants

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UW Grad Student Faces Torrent of Vile Harassment After Sticking Up for Immigrants

Alan-Michael Weatherford questions whether the university understands the nature of trolling in today’s America.

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Muslim Community Members, Syrian Refugees to Give Out Supplies to Homeless

“These folks know what it means to suffer and they really want to give back.”

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Race and Pot in King County

The King County Metropolitan Council has taken strong steps to insulate wealthy communities from marijuana, leaving poor minority…

Is A.I. Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? No. Nor a Fourth Grader.

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Is A.I. Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? No. Nor a Fourth Grader.

The grunt work of teaching computers to think.

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Freestuff test

Testing post to freestuff from GPS to WordPress

Right, “Unviersity” station. Photo by Lindsey Yamada

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Assphalt: Why Does Light Rail Take Sooooo Long

Answering our readers’ burning questions.

Making the Law Work for Sex Workers

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Making the Law Work for Sex Workers

The national media has picked up on what Seattle advocates have been saying for a while: It’s time…

Art by Isaac Novak

Arts & Culture

Idea Machine Blends Standup, Improv, and Sci-Fi

We must tell jokes, or the interdimensional computer will kill us all.

Photo by Dan Person

News

A Guide to Washington’s Delegates

How your country’s “democracy” works.

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King County Kids Can’t Tell Time. Should We Care?

A recent study suggests that only 35 percent of children in King County can tell time on an…

The Beautiful People We Met on Opening Day Outside Safeco

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The Beautiful People We Met on Opening Day Outside Safeco

We hit the streets with camera in hand to capture some of the beautiful faces of Mariners fandom,…

Tacocat. Photo by Michael Lavine (detail)

Music

‘Lost Time’ Is Tacocat’s Sharpest Record Yet

If NVM is Tacocat’s Nevermind—the album that brought them to the world’s attention—then Lost Time is the Seattle…