Mike Force Last Tuesday morning, a tunnel at the nation’s largest nuclear cleanup site partially collapsed, leaving a 20-by-20 hole that exposed rail cars carrying some materials with dose levels so lethal they could kill a person within an hour, according to Hanford worker safety activists. Responding to the emergency, authorities sent hundreds of cleanup […]
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Hanford Nuclear Site Evacuated Over Emergency
On the left: a Department of Energy photo of Hanford’s B reactor, the world’s first plutonium reactor. On the right: a sign near the site today. The Stranger A nuclear cleanup site at Hanford, one of the biggest, most complex superfund sites in the country, has been evacuated. At 8:26 this morning, the Hanford Emergency […]
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Oregon Nonprofit Has Information on the Murray Allegations, But They’re Refusing to Share It
Volunteers of America Oregon refused to let The Stranger speak to Jeff Simpson’s former counselor, despite Simpson’s explicit permission. SB Jeff Simpson, the man who came forward to accuse then-state legislator Ed Murray of childhood sexual abuse in 2008, told The Stranger that he has gone to several addiction counselors to treat issues related to […]
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“I’m Not Lying”: One of Seattle Mayor Murray’s Alleged Victims Tells His Story
Jeff Simpson couldn’t get past the fourth step: taking inventory of the people who had hurt him. Long addicted to meth, he started a program called Celebrate Recovery in 2010. That came after other attempts to stay clean, like when his son was born and when Simpson’s parole officer sanctioned him to 30 days in […]
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Attorney for Ed Murray’s 2008 Portland-Based Accuser Believed Client, But Dropped Case Due to Statute of Limitations
PHOTO BY KELLY O, PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MIKE FORCE In an April 6 Seattle Times story that published allegations from three people who accused Seattle mayor Ed Murray of child rape and abuse, the Times reported that one of the alleged victims—a Portland-area resident—had tried to make his story public a decade ago. That person, […]
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New York Attorney General: If They Repeal the Clean Power Plan, They Have to Replace It
Make America Pollute Again! ollo/Getty Images A troll who once called climate change a Chinese hoax on Twitter signed an executive order today that starts to roll back the country’s plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. This will probably not result in the flourishing of coal jobs that Trump promised during […]
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Washington Attorney General Will Take on Trump’s New Travel Ban, Too
President Trump can’t get away with a repackaged Muslim ban, Attorney General Bob Ferguson says. SB Go, Bobby Ferguson, go! Two days after President Trump issued a new, supposedly more legal version of an executive order banning citizens from six Muslim-majority countries and Syrian refugees from entering the US, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson […]
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No Decision Yet on Whether to Sue Over New Travel Ban, Washington Attorney General Says
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson (center) and the team of lawyers that successfully halted the rollout of Trump’s original travel ban. SB As was expected, President Trump signed a new executive order this morning that tweaked his old travel ban into a new, supposedly less chaotic form. Where the old executive order banned citizens from […]
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Appeals Court Refuses to Reinstate Trump’s Travel Ban
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson outside the US District Courthouse in Seattle after a federal judge halted Trump’s executive order. SB A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has denied the government’s request to reinstate President Trump’s travel ban. After hearing oral arguments from the Department of Justice […]
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Today at 3 PM: Livestream the Oral Arguments in State of Washington vs. Trump
Federal Judge James Robart’s decision to block Trump’s travel ban is now being examined by the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. AGOWA Betsy DeVos is the Secretary of Education and President Donald Trump is reportedly offended that his press secretary was played by a woman on SNL. A lot of things are very, […]
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Before Nordstrom Cut Ties with Ivanka, Its Three Presidents Sent This Memo About the Muslim Ban to Employees
LEV RADIN / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM As we reported yesterday, Nordstrom severed its relationship from Ivanka Trump’s brand of shoes and handbags. The company defended the move as apolitical—one made purely because of “performance” issues—amid a Trump products boycott campaign called #GrabYourWallet. But while the decision to drop Ivanka Trump from the store may have been based […]
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Federal Judge in Seattle Grants Nationwide Temporary Restraining Order Against Travel Ban
Judge James L. Robart of the Western District of Washington has just ruled in favor of the Washington State Attorney General’s motion for a temporary restraining order on key section of POTUS’s Muslim ban. The temporary restraining order immediately halts federal officers from enforcing sections of the ban that target immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries […]