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The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamSeattle City Council Debates Ugly Street Billboards: Our business-friendly mayor and council want to blight Seattle streets with around 80 eight-foot-tall digital advertising kiosks scattered around dense parts of Ballard, the University District, and SoDo. They think these billboards, which doesn't do anything your phone can't, will be good sources of passive income. Stop making us live a life where we are constantly advertised to. If you wa