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Dan Savage speaking at Illinois Wesleyan University, 2007.

Sparks fly over Savage's comments to students about Bible

Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 9:32am

SEATTLE -- Dan Savage, Seattle's reigning journalist provocateur, has again stumbled into the cross hairs of political conservatives, this time for a speech involving the Bible, gays and what he called a "pansy-assed" protest by high-school students.

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Banks shun medical-marijuana industry

Jonathan Martin The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, April 30, 2012 - 2:24pm

SEATTLE -- Conscious Care Cooperative has a solid footing in a growing industry, with three storefronts in Seattle and a loyal customer base. But for much of the last two years, the nonprofit medical-marijuana provider has lacked one business basic: steady access to a bank.

The cooperative has bounced among five financial institutions, and four others rejected the cooperative outright, said CCC's president, Nate Chrysler. In one case, a bank closed the account without notice.

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Army officer at troubled Wash. base arrested in alleged plot to kill wife

Jonathan Martin Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 4:52pm

An Army lieutenant colonel stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord has been arrested and accused of threatening to kill his estranged wife, his commanding officer and girlfriend.

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Judge stabbed, deputy shot in courthouse attack

Jennifer Sullivan, Jonathan Martin The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 5:20pm

MONTESANO, Wash. -- Grays Harbor County sheriff's deputies are searching for a man who stabbed Superior Court Judge Dave Edwards and shot a sheriff's deputy at the county courthouse in Montesano, Wash., Friday afternoon.

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Kathy Perkins of Seattle, Washington, uses medical marijuana legally in her home state but is under state supervision after being arrested for posession in Arizona which does not have a medical marijuana law.

Felons who want medical marijuana put Washington state in awkward position

Jonathan Martin, The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 12:50pm

SEATTLE -- Several times a week for the past two years, felons on supervision have asked the Washington state Department of Corrections for special permission to use medical marijuana.

Some of the requests, which are signed by doctors, are vague, listing just "chronic pain" as the reason for the drug. But others describe agony: anorexia from AIDS or chronic vomiting from chemotherapy.

As regular as rain, the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) has turned down nearly all of them. Out of 320 requests, seven people have gotten permission -- a select group that includes a forger wasting away from AIDS and a white-haired grandmother named Kathy Parkins with fibromyalgia.

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Whistler's Olympic spirit wavers

Jonathan Martin The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 6:51pm

WHISTLER, B.C. -- The day British Columbia won the 2010 Winter Olympics, an elbow-to-elbow crowd in Whistler Village broke out in a 10-minute ovation. A conga line snaked past a maple-leaf flag nearly as big as a house.
Fast-forward six years, and Olympic fever in Whistler feels more like a hangover -- six months before the Games even begin.
Gripes about the Olympics and the local costs to put them on fill letters-to-the-editor pages, online petitions and the bar stools around Tapley's Pub.

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