Dog Treats, Ice Pipes, and Infused Cocktail Syrups
Marijuana Gifts for Your Dog, Your Corporate Party, and the Stoney Cocktail Nerd in Your Life by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue Things for Dogs to Eat {{ image: 1, width: 200, align: left }} The holidays can be...
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Now Is the Time to Start Fighting for Better Light Rail in Seattle
Now Is the Time to Start Fighting for Better Light Rail in Seattle by Heidi Groover Here's the good news: Seattle is done fighting over whether light rail is a smart idea or not. Voters like light...
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Local Cannabusinesses Get Shut Down on Social Media
Legalization Can't Help Seattle Cannabusinesses from Getting Shut Down on Social Media by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue Don't be fooled by all the Instagram posts prominently featuring dank, trichome-laden...
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Subjects of The Stranger's 2015 News Coverage Regret Our Language, Our Wandering Eyes, and More! Oops, we did it again. More people mad at us in 2015! You know, if we really cared, we'd give some of...
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What Business Owners, Budtenders, and Marijuana Lovers Regret About 2015
What Business Owners, Budtenders, and Marijuana Lovers Regret About 2015 "I regret dabs. When I do them, my heart starts to beat so fast that it goes supernova and the force of my social anxiety...
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What's in Store for Weed in 2016?
What's in Store for Weed in 2016? Professionals in the Marijuana Industry Make Predictions by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue So 2015 was a helluva year for weed in Washington State: Cannabusiness became serious...
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What? You Want Action from Our State Legislature in 2016? Sorry.
What? You Want Action from Our State Legislature in 2016? Sorry. by John Stang It's probably best to think of our state legislature as a "Mini Me" version of Congress's gridlock in Washington, DC. Ever...
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Is Corporate Weed on Its Way to Washington State?
Is Corporate Weed on Its Way to Washington State? by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue Last week, I talked to a bunch of marijuana professionals about their predictions for the weed industry in 2016. Patrick...
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Seattle's Next Big "Sharing Economy" Challenge Is Regulating Airbnb
Seattle's Next Big "Sharing Economy" Challenge Is Regulating Airbnb by Sydney Brownstone Hunter Hudson's former apartment was built by fire. In 1889, the same year Seattle's great fire burned down 30...
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These Republicans Are Waging a War on Choice in Washington State. Tell Them...
These Republicans Are Waging a War on Choice in Washington State. Tell Them to Stop. by Heidi Groover "I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion—a rich woman, a...
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Welcome to Seattle, Stoners!
Welcome to Seattle, Stoners! Here's How to Avoid Getting Arrested and Enjoy Some Legal Weed by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue Now is a great time to be a pothead in the very, very green Emerald City. But it's...
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What You Need to Know About Your Rights as a Renter in Seattle
Everything You Need to Know About Your Rights as a Renter in Seattle by Kathleen Richards If you're new to Seattle, chances are you're a renter. Renters occupy more than half of the housing units in...
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How to Avoid Being a Political Dummy
How to Avoid Being a Political Dummy in Seattle by Heidi Groover Hey there, new-to-Seattle person. Welcome! Say, did you move here from a place where it was normal to not really follow politics? Well,...
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All the Natural (and Man-Made) Disasters You Should Worry About
All the Natural (and Man-Made) Disasters You Should Worry About by Sydney Brownstone Long before Seattle had skyscrapers, it was carved by glaciers, seeded with wild salmon runs, and populated by...
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Cheat Sheet
Vote Yes on the School Levies by The Stranger Election Control Board SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 Propositions No. 1 and 2 Yes The ballot now in your mailbox is asking you to renew two existing...
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An Anonymous Website Is Asking for Amazon Employees' Horror Stories
An Anonymous Website Is Asking for Amazon Employees' Horror Stories in Order to Publish Them Online by Sydney Brownstone An anonymous online group wants Jeff Bezos's attention. They've published...
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Seattle to Lose One of Its Few Minority-Owned Pot Businesses
Seattle to Lose One of Its Few Minority-Owned Pot Businesses by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue Fusion, a rare minority-owned applicant in Seattle's current class of dispensaries trying to become recreational...
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Four Seattleites Want Answers from Twitter About "State-Sponsored Actors"...
Local Activists Want More Info on Attempts to Hack Their Twitter Accounts by Ansel Herz Four local activists received strange, cryptic notices from Twitter in December. "As a precaution, we are...
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Three Things Seattle Is Doing About Homelessness
Three Things Seattle Is Doing About Homelessness by Heidi Groover Seattle is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. That's not news. The number of people living unsheltered in the city has been...
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The Stoners Who Called the Cops on Themselves
The Stoners Who Called the Cops on Themselves, the State That's Opening a Drive-Through Dispensary, and More Marijuana News by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue This Is Still the Best Thing Ever It's been a few...
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To Stop All This Conservative Bullshit, Democrats Have to Take Back the State...
To Stop All This Conservative Bullshit, Democrats Have to Take Back the State Senate by Heidi Groover Jay Inslee stood before a group of reporters wearing an orange tie and a scowl. "Folks," the...
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Washington State Law Makes It Virtually Impossible to Charge Police Officers...
The Washington State Legislature Kills a Proposal to Make It Easier to Charge Police Officers by Ansel Herz There is an extraordinarily high bar to criminally prosecute police officers when they kill...
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Senate Republicans' Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Are Unlikely to Pass—But...
Senate Republicans' Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Are Unlikely to Pass—But the Damage Is Already Done by Sydney Brownstone State senator Steve O'Ban (R-Pierce County) cracked open a can of carbonated...
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Thin Blue Line Meets Blinking Red Light
Dashcam Video Is a Window Into a "Clique" at the SPD by Ansel Herz "Do you ever want to punch anybody in the face?" Officer Salvatore Ditusa is sitting in his patrol car at Northgate Mall on June 18,...
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Construction & Destruction
These Mom & Pop Shops Survived Gentrification—So Far—But They Won't Survive the Overhaul of 23rd Without Help From the City by Heidi Groover "I'm all for change," Lois Harris says about her...
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Fighting Cancer and Deportation at the Same Time
The Story of Angel Padilla, Fighting Cancer and Deportation at the Same Time by Ansel Herz At about noon on February 19, Angel Padilla began to feel nauseated and dizzy inside Tacoma’s Northwest...
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Weed Stores Conduct DIY Recall
Weed Stores Conduct DIY Recall of Products That May Have Illegal Pesticides in Them by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue In the aftermath of what one pithy PR executive dubbed "Pestgate"—the recent revelations...
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Pioneer Square Residents Just Blocked an Apartment Building They Say Is "Out...
Pioneer Square Residents Just Blocked an Apartment Building They Say Is "Out of Scale" by Heidi Groover By any standard, the Old Seattle Parking Garage is unexceptional. The squat greenish-gray...
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What Will It Take for Washington State to Put a Price on Carbon?
What Will It Take for Washington State to Put a Price on Carbon? by Sydney Brownstone More than 30 years after scientists started warning policy makers about climate change, some politicians are...
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The Weed Delivery Bill in Olympia Is Effectively Dead
Don't Hold Your Breath on the Weed-Delivery Bill in Olympia, and Other Marijuana News by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue Don't Expect to See Legal Pot Delivered to Your Doorstep Anytime Soon The bill from...
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