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What Was This Week's Top Story In 12saquah And Hawkuiam?

caption: It's not just in Seattle, where buildings are lighting up 12s, that people are celebrating the Seahawks -- Issaquah took on the honorary name of "12saquah" and Hoquiam becaume "Hawkuiam."
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It's not just in Seattle, where buildings are lighting up 12s, that people are celebrating the Seahawks -- Issaquah took on the honorary name of "12saquah" and Hoquiam becaume "Hawkuiam."
Flickr Photo/Yuri Levchenko (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Seahawks fever is alive and well across the state, with cities taking on nicknames in advance of the new name: Shermmamish, Pete Angeles, Hawkilteo. We could go on… and we will. Also, this week: Why did a Seattle police officer hassle a 69-year-old man over a golf club? Will Washington state abolish the death penalty? Should cyclists have to pay a toll to roll on the new 520 bridge? And why is Bill Gates worried about artificial intelligence?

Bill Radke makes sense of these stories and more with Crosscut's Knute Berger, The Stranger's Eli Sanders and news analyst Joni Balter.

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