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| Feb 1, 2024 | Thursday, February 1 | Free community college bill advances through House committee
All students in Washington high schools could soon be eligible for a free 13th year of school. House Bill 2309 would establish the “Washington 13 Free Guarantee,” providing studen... |
| Oct 10, 2023 | Whoops: Sinclair Broadcasting Airs Sponcon Featuring White Nationalist Who Wants Travis Kelce Executed For Vaccine Advocacy | Generally, when you talk about disinformation or propaganda, “big tech” companies like Facebook, or media giants like Fox News get the lion’s share of the attention. But as I’ve often noted, local news outlets in the U.S. were hollowed out ... |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Texas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not Exist | Over the past two years, there has been a concerted push by state legislatures to regulate the Internet, the likes of which has not been seen since the late 90s/early aughts. Content moderation, financial relationships between journalists a... |
| May 5, 2023 | Friday, May 5 | WA’s first-of-its-kind officer training center opens in Pasco. Inslee signs police pursuit law
Name placards are all laid out for Monday’s start of the first class of Washington state’s first regional police training center in Pasco. Among ... |
| May 2, 2023 | Tuesday, May 2 | New law, inspired by WSU student’s death, stiffens penalties for hazing
Washington’s laws against hazing were significantly stiffened Monday, as Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation named in honor of a Washington State University student who ... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | Lawmakers call on 8 states to pass wealth taxes to help pay for childcare, affordable housing, and ending homelessness | Rep. Pramila Jayapal Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Lawmakers and advocates are pushing to pass wealth taxes in eight states, after a federal plan failed to pass.
The taxes would target both realized and unrealized capital gains, assets like ... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | Experts cast doubt on coordinated wealth tax bills | (The Center Square) – State legislators announced a collection of bills that target the wealthiest citizens in the U.S. across eight states. Yet many experts don’t expect most of the country’s wealthiest to pay up if any of these bills pass... |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Monday, January 16 | MLK Jr.’s dream not yet achieved, but still attainable, advocates say
Sixty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, racial justice advocates say that dream has not been achieved. As Black Americans continue... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | Wednesday, January 4 | Murray becomes first female president pro tempore in Senate
When Washington Sen. Patty Murray was elected to the Senate in 1992, she says, male senators treated her with some trepidation. But now she has outlasted almost all of them, becomi... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Wednesday, November 30 | Cantwell pushes to clear Boeing’s final 737 MAX models, with conditions
In what could be good news for Boeing, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell on Tuesday circulated draft legislation that would clear the way for the final two Boeing 737 MAX models... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Washington Bikini Baristas Lose 1st Amendment Challenge To City Ban, But Win On Equal Protection Cause Claims | One interpretation of the First Amendment has been found by the federal courts (both levels) to be far more interesting than meritorious. But the plaintiffs have at least made the court (and the city of Everett, Washington) admit that an or... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Thursday, October 13 | Seattle launches emergency command center for homelessness with fed help
One of the last pieces of an ambitious plan to reduce visible homelessness downtown is now up and running in Seattle’s Emergency Operations Center. Known as the Housin... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | Tuesday, October 11 | We’re having driest October since the 1940s in Puget Sound area. Any rain in sight?
We’re only 10 days in, but so far October is proving to be the driest since the 1940s, according to the National Weather Service. No measurable precipitatio... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Monday, October 10 | Traumatized by boarding schools, WA tribes chart new path for Native kids
Lingering scars caused by residential boarding schools run deep for many Native American families, after decades of targeted efforts by U.S. government and religious ... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Wednesday, September 21 | New estimate for number of WA residents eligible for student loan forgiveness
Nearly 700,000 Washingtonians are eligible for President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program, with the majority of them Pell Grant recipients, according to an... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Thursday, September 8 | New Covid-19 boosters coming to a site near you
Doses of the new omicron-specific Covid-19 boosters should become available at pharmacies and health-care sites around King County starting this week. Roughly 92,000 doses of the updated shots... |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Friday, September 2 | Labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, a bright spot in the economy
The U.S. labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, hitting a 20-month streak in strong job growth that’s powering an economy through ominously high inflation. The unem... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Thursday, September 1 | Free transit starts today for most youths across WA
Young transit riders in most of Washington won’t pay their bus fares today or any day until they turn 19, as agencies across the state pivot toward providing free rides for people 18 and u... |
| Aug 24, 2022 | Wednesday, August 24 | Biden to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for most borrowers
President Biden said Wednesday he will cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for many borrowers — and double that amount for Pell Grant recipients — a move that co... |
| Aug 12, 2022 | Friday, August 12 | House poised to send Inflation Reduction Act to Biden for his signature
Today, the House returns to Washington for the expected passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, a sweeping package that aims to lower health-care costs, combat climate ... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | Thursday, August 11 | DOH releases COVID-19 updates for Washington K-12 schools, child care
With school starting back in just a few weeks, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has updated its COVID-19 guidance for K-12 schools and for child care. “We ... |
| Aug 10, 2022 | Wednesday, August 10 | Seattle makes interfering with abortion care a misdemeanor, prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy outcome
It will soon be illegal in Seattle to discriminate against someone for seeking or receiving an abortion, part of the city’s effo... |
| Aug 9, 2022 | Tuesday, August 9 | FBI searches Trump’s Florida home as part of presidential records probe
Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation i... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | Monday, August 8 | How the Inflation Reduction Act might impact you — and change the U.S.
Major changes to the Affordable Care Act. The nation’s biggest-ever climate bill. The largest tax hike on corporations in decades. And dozens of lesser-known provisions ... |
| Aug 5, 2022 | Wednesday, August 3 | Water shortages in E. Washington will happen in our lifetime, climate change to blame
A new long-term forecast has predicted that shifts in river flow and reduced snowpacks due to climate change over the next 20 years will result in drier s... |
| Aug 5, 2022 | Thursday, August 4 | WA tenants need to work 72 hours a week at minimum wage to afford rent
Significant increases to Washington’s minimum wage have not been enough to offset rising rent prices for scores of workers across the state. A minimum-wage worker in Was... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Wednesday, July 27 | King County approves free transit for youths
Beginning Sept. 1, people 18 and under will ride King County buses, water taxis and streetcars for free. The new policy comes as the result of a nearly $17 billion transportation funding package ... |
| May 5, 2022 | Thursday, May 5 | End of Roe v. Wade looms large in Idaho, where women are likely to seek abortions in Washington A trigger law signed by Idaho Gov. Brad Little in 2020 would ban abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother.... |
| Oct 24, 2021 | Some Americans were primed for vaccine skepticism after decades of mistrust in Big Pharma | How distrust in pharmaceutical firms gave rise to the anti-vaxx movement, according to experts in the anti-vaccine movement and the history of Big Pharma. Samantha Lee/Insider
Claims of mismanagement and greed in the pharmaceutical industry... |
| May 21, 2021 | Rachel Dolezal's Copyright Follies: Sues CBS For Copyright Infringement In Case That Won't End Well | A little over a year ago, we wrote about a copyright dispute involving Rachel Dolezal, who now also goes by the name Nkechi Amare Diallo. As you may recall, there was a fair bit of attention paid to her years ago because while calling herse... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Use Successful Federal Housing Program To Rescue Dangerous Buildings | SEATTLE, UNITED STATES: A boy runs past damage to the Chocolate Candy Manufacturing Company on the ... [+] south side of downtown Seattle 28 February 2001, after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit the city and surrounding ... |
| Nov 16, 2020 | This Treehouse Is A Socially-Distant, Cannabis-Fueled Dream Vacation | Craving a socially-distant weed vacation to soothe the pain of 2020? |
| Nov 11, 2020 | 50 must-watch films starring Hollywood’s most popular actors | Hollywood’s biggest actors have been in a wide range of successful films. A24; Chuck Zlotnick/Sony Pictures Entertainment; New Line Cinema; Universal
Insider rounded up the highest-rated films of 50 popular Hollywood actors, according to cr... |
| Feb 10, 2020 | Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Drops Case After Suing On Behalf Of The Wrong Party And Trying To Swap Plaintiffs | Why oh why do people still hire copyright troll Richard Liebowitz? There are just so many stories of him messing up cases and getting scolded by judges, you'd think that people would think twice. But then, yet another story of Liebowitz mes... |
| Feb 10, 2020 | Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Drops Case After Suing On Behalf Of The Wrong Party And Trying To Swap Plaintiffs | Why oh why do people still hire copyright troll Richard Liebowitz? There are just so many stories of him messing up cases and getting scolded by judges, you’d think that people would think twice. But then, yet another story of Liebowitz mes... |
| Dec 23, 2019 | Bad Housing Policy Backed By Business Under The Tree? Bah Humbug! | Mr. Fezziwig's Ball, an engraving by John Leech who illustrated Dicken's novella, A Christmas Carol. ... [+] Leech is also well known for many other satirical engravings for satire in the Victorian period including my favorite, The Comic Hi... |
| Jun 7, 2019 | The Impossibility Of Content Moderation Plays Out, Once Again, On YouTube | I was traveling a bit this week so didn't watch the slow motion train wreck that was happening on YouTube in real time. The latest situation began when Vox video producer Carlos Maza posted publicly on Twitter about Steven Crowder -- one of... |
| Jun 7, 2019 | The Impossibility Of Content Moderation Plays Out, Once Again, On YouTube | I was traveling a bit this week so didn’t watch the slow motion train wreck that was happening on YouTube in real time. The latest situation began when Vox video producer Carlos Maza posted publicly on Twitter about Steven Crowder — one of ... |
| Feb 26, 2019 | Pharma’s tarnished reputation helps fuel the anti-vaccine movement | Let me start by getting this out of the way: Vaccines are one of humankind’s greatest health care achievements, along with antibiotics, clean water, and good sanitation. There should be no argument about this at all.
Vaccines save millions ... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | UK Cop Calls Up 74-Year-Old Woman To Ask Her To Stop Tweeting Mean Things | The policing of tweets continues in the UK. The literal policing of tweets. |
| Jan 23, 2019 | Seattle Newspaper Wins Federal Court Case, Opens Up Reporting On Secret Law Enforcement Surveillance | Late last year, a Seattle newspaper petitioned the court to unseal dockets related to electronic surveillance by law enforcement. The position was clear: the First Amendment provides citizens with a right to information, hence the presumpti... |
| 2019 | Announcing The Public Domain Game Jam: Gaming Like It's 1923 | Gaming Like It’s 1923: The Newly Public Domain Game Jam |
| Dec 27, 2018 | UK Cops Have Decided Impolite Online Speech Is Worth A Visit From An Officer | If you’re not a resident of the UK, thank the First Amendment for not turning Twitter fights into police action. The UK’s anti-hate speech laws have been extended to cover merely impolite speech — at least according to UK law enforcement ag... |
| Nov 16, 2018 | When Does BDSM Become Abuse? | In Instagram photos, Dylan Hafertepen, a master to five adult slaves, appears cartoonishly large, like a Tom of Finland sketch come to life. In one of his most iconic shots (since deleted from the gram) Dylan gives a military salute to the ... |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Lawsuit Argues Honking Your Car Horn Is Protected By The First Amendment | The First Amendment covers a whole lot of area. Since it covers “expression,” it doesn’t necessarily have to be anything commonly thought of as “speech.” It doesn’t have to be printed. It doesn’t have to be said. Lighting a flag on fire req... |
| Nov 30, 2017 | Seattle Newspaper Files Petition To Peel Back Layers Of Court-Aided Surveillance Secrecy | A Seattle newspaper is looking to bring some more transparency to law enforcement surveillance tactics. Working with the EFF, The Stranger is making a First Amendment argument about sealed court dockets. The government loves to seal dockets... |
| Nov 11, 2017 | 1aim brings connected devices to workplace doors & beyond | In the era of connected technology Berlin company 1aim are carving a niche for themselves in connected security for commercial buildings. I met with Torben Friehe, CEO of 1aim to find out more.
1aim builds a complex array of hardware and so... |
| Oct 2, 2017 | Appeals Court Tells Seattle Cops New Use Of Force Policy Doesn't Violate Their 2nd Amendment Rights | When the Department of Justice handed down remedies for the Seattle Police Department’s excessive use of excessive force, it told officers they would need to dial back their penchant for deadliness. Just prior to the DOJ’s civil rights inve... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Seattle Week in Review: Blue Angels, Smoke, and Surveillance Above | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As the Blue Angels streak across Seattle’s smoke-filled skies preparing for this weekend’s Seafair, we’ll review some of this week’s news, including some of the latest dire cl... |
| Jun 27, 2017 | The game changers: 12 bold attempts to slow the opioid epidemic | The spiral of opioid addictions and overdoses is unrelenting. But there are bright spots all across the country: Men and women working in classrooms and courtrooms, in private labs and public offices, in clinics and on the street — all tryi... |
| May 22, 2017 | Chris Cornell And The Business Of Reclaiming A Voice | (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) |
| May 12, 2017 | Week in Review: Microsoft’s Introspective CEO on Trust in Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There was a lot of interesting tech news to catch up on in Seattle this week, though it was easy to miss it amid the roar and rumble of astonishing political, nuclear waste, a... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Seattle Week in Review: Amazon, Indy Bookstores, and Serendipity | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Amazon, the behemoth of digital and physical commerce, started out as an independent bookseller, albeit an online one, based in a home in Bellevue, WA. Now that it’s doing eve... |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Allen Pledges $30M to House Homeless Families Amid Funding Debate | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Paul Allen has pledged $30 million to help house homeless families in Seattle, as the city grapples with an ongoing crisis and debates how to pay for it.
With an additional $5... |
| Mar 24, 2017 | Seattle Week in Review: Mech Bezos, Bay Area Capital, Family Leave | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Spring will get here eventually, and it will be more glorious for the wait. In the meantime, we’re looking back on a relatively quiet week in local tech, including: Amazon’s J... |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Seattle Week in Review: A Renaissance Man for Computing’s Golden Age | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Stranger called Paul Allen “Our Modern Medici,” which is a pretty apt description of the billionaire philanthropist-entrepreneur. Allen’s beneficence has helped the Univer... |
| Oct 10, 2016 | Google Hired Pixar Writers to Make Google Assistant Loveable | Google's answer to Amazon Echo is called “Google Home,” and comes complete with an audio-interface
Audio-interfaces, as my dedicated readers are aware, are pretty hot right now. In order to compete, any audio-based AI needs to respond in a ... |
| May 31, 2016 | Court Says MuckRock Must Take Down Smart Grid Company's Documents Because Judge Has 'No Time' To Review Case Properly | Last week, we covered a multinational corporation’s attempt to force MuckRock to take down documents supplied by the city of Seattle to Phil Mocek. Landis+Gyr, which was awarded the contract to supply the city with “smart meters” in conjunc... |
| Dec 15, 2015 | Seattle City Council votes to allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize | Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien speaking at an October event in support of his bill to allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize. reader comments 199 with 105 posters participating
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| Aug 29, 2015 | Opening Pandora’s Dox: The Unintended Consequences of an Internet That Never Forgets | Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds a handful of new words in recognition of how technological and social progress have affected the English language.
One of the new words this year is the longstanding 4chan-ism “dox,” which, unfo... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | Seattle City Council Member Urges Grass Roots Broadband Revolution After Ten Years Of Failing To Fix Broken Broadband Duopoly | For most of the last decade Seattle, like many U.S. cities, has been painfully unhappy with its broadband options. If they’re “lucky,” Seattle residents have the choice of apathetic telco CenturyLink (formerly Qwest), or everybody’s favorit... |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Seattle PD Hires Coder Who Demanded It Hand Over Every Video Produced By Its Body Cameras | Back in December, an anonymous person requested pretty much every report the Seattle PD generates daily, along with all footage from its newly-instituted body camera program. Today, that man is no longer anonymous and was recently hired by ... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | Kickstarter campaign to save Seattle’s Paseo restaurant fizzles as backers retreat | Happier times at the Paseo restaurant in Fremont. Photo by Jeremy Keith, via Flickr.
Last week local entrepreneur Greg Gans of mobile restaurant ordering startup Savvy Orders launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to buy the assets ... |
| May 20, 2014 | Uber says new App-Based Drivers' union is 'bogus' | Rideshare drivers are forming their own union, but Uber claims the organization is “bogus.”
Over the weekend, hundreds of Uber drivers met to elect leaders for an App-Based Drivers’ Association. 500 drivers expressed interest in joining the... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Washington Dispensary Now Takes Bitcoin for Cannabis | Silk Road may be dead, but in at least one Washington State city, people can still buy marijuana and related products using bitcoin.
Medical marijuana dispensary Kouchlock Productions, which opened on Monday February 3, began accepting bitc... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Carreon Admits His Original Threat Letter Was A Mistake, But Keeps On Digging Anyway | Another day, and still, Charles Carreon keeps digging. In case you just woke up from a coma, here are all the earlier posts on Carreon. The latest is both a bizarre semi-backtrack, as well as another case of him feverishly continuing to dig... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | Mars Hill Church, now with its own music label | Rock, rap and Jesus? Seattle-based ministry Mars Hill is launching a record label to serve and attract its growing membership.
The fledgling record label is called Mars Hill Music and run by Deacon Jonathan Dunn. Dunn is a founding member o... |
| Feb 20, 2012 | Kickstarter gets its third $1M project in the span of two weeks with Order of the Stick | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Apr 6, 2011 | Sex columnist Dan Savage: The undisputed social media news king of Seattle | Dan Savage: Social media king?
The Stranger’s Dan Savage is crude, lewd and, at times, outrageously funny. Seattle’s best-known sex advice columnist also is an online superstar, operating the biggest “social brand” among the many media prop... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Seattle’s Questionland builds Q&A community around popular alt.weekly The Stranger | Yahoo Answers can be a helpful resource, but its questions and answers are by definition generalized to the entire Internet. Localized Q&A can focus questions and answers on geographic areas, specific industries, or in the case of Seatt... |
| May 30, 2009 | Loving the octothorpe; or, why Twitter's hashtags really do reflect reality | This episode of Recovery is brought to you by the Three Wolf Shirt and the newly leaked Palm Pre default ringtone. If one doesn't leave you awash in win, the other will. Both together, however, will probably cause your puny mortal frame to ... |
| May 13, 2009 | This is why you don't arrest people for taking pictures UPDATE from REI | Well, there are several reasons why you shouldn’t arrest curious passers-by with cameras, but this is a big one. Remember that poor Seattle guy who got arrested for snapping a picture of an open ATM at REI? Well, snarky local Seattle rag Th... |
| Jan 23, 2009 | Roundup: Intel’s Craig Barrett to retire, Verizon Wireless shows off web phone, NetApp is best place to work | Here’s the latest action:
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett will retire: The 69-year-old former CEO of Intel will leave his job as chairman at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in May. He will be replaced in the non-executive chair role b... |
| Nov 12, 2006 | Zune Contests are Over, Thanks for Playing, Check your Mail | OK Bucakroos, it’s high-Noon on Sunday, which means both of our contests to win Zunes (among other things) are officially over: the Seattle contest and the rest-of-the-country. We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to enter. In our ... |
| Apr 22, 2005 | Microsoft Slammed for Gay Rights Bill Reversal | While Microsoft prepares to "Start Something" next week at WinHEC 2005, the company is facing a heap of criticism that threatens to overshadow its biggest event in years. Microsoft is under fire from gay rights advocates and even ... |
| Does a Carbon Tax make sense? Minnesota Judge suggests cost of carbon could be 10x more than previously thought | A judge in Minnesota suggested that the proper price of the greenhouse gas Carbon Dioxide should be between $11 and $57/ton, ten times larger than current Minnesota estimates. A judge in Washington State recently ruled that the threat of cl... |
| Arizona GOP governor candidate Kari Lake, who has spread election conspiracies, raises cash from business leaders | Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who has pushed false conspiracies about the 2020 election, has seen financial support from corporate leaders in her bid for office.
Lake is one of at least 20 Republican candidates for g... |
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MTV Introduces VMAs Metaverse Performance Category | If video killed the radio star, maybe the metaverse can create a new kind of star.
MTV’s Video Music Awards, airing in August, will introduce the new Best Metaverse Performance category. Nominees include Ariana Grande, Blackpink, BTS, Charl... |
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‘TikTok Music’ App Would Extend Social Media’s Music Dominance | TikTok’s fingerprints have been all over the music business lately, with the video sharing app catapulting artists to the top of the charts.
The Culver City-based company’s influence over the industry could soon grow larger. Parent company ... |
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Genies Wants To Help Creators Build ‘Avatar Ecosystems’ | When avatar startup Genies raised $150 million in April, the company released an unusual message to the public: “Farewell.”
The Marina del Rey-based unicorn, which makes cartoon-like avatars for celebrities and aims to “build an avatar for ... |
