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• Mountain lion kittens found in mountains near Los Angeles

  14-01-2016 23:21
  
  THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The National Park Service says biologists recently discovered two mountain lion kittens in the Santa Monica Mountains west of Los Angeles. Jeff Sikich, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area biologist, says the births indicate the quality of the habitat is high for such a relatively urban area. The park service […]
  
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• “Bastard” . . . “SOB” . . . See Donald Trump get potty-mouthed over malfunctioning microphone

  14-01-2016 23:18
  
  Candidates for President are known for holding their tongue in public but cussing up a storm in private, witness confrontations involving John McCain and wife Cindy, and Hillary Clinton  and advisers, recounted in the bestselling book “Game Change” on the 2008 presidential election. Even Barack Obama briefly lost his cool. But nothing has even stopped billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump from public vulgarity. While contemplating a run for the White House in 2012, he talke
  
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• “Bastard” . . . ‘SOB’ . . . Listen as Donald Trump loses it over malfunctioning microphone

  14-01-2016 23:18
  
  Candidates for president are known for holding their tongue in public but cussing up a storm in private, witness confrontations involving John McCain and wife, Cindy, and Hillary Clinton and advisers, recounted in the bestselling book “Game Change” on the 2008 presidential election. Even Barack Obama briefly lost his cool. But nothing has even stopped billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump from public vulgarity. While contemplating a run for the White House in 2012, he talke
  
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• Savage Love: Racist Preferences

  14-01-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  JOE NEWTON
  As a queer man of color—I'm Asian—I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto, or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people. But it is unfair for a gay Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I had the same pain of being gay in high school and the same
  
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• UW to begin building new Burke Museum without $24M needed to finish project

  14-01-2016 22:56
  
  Construction is expected to start this summer on a new building to house the Burke Museum collection on the University of Washington campus.
  
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• The Latest: EPA reviews New Mexico’s plans to sue over spill

  14-01-2016 22:39
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The latest on New Mexico’s plans to sue the EPA over a toxic mine spill (all times local): 2:40 p.m. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it’s reviewing New Mexico’s plan to sue the federal government over a massive spill last year that contaminated rivers in three Western states. The agency […]
  
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• We'll Be Liveslogging the Sixth GOP Debate Tonight!

  14-01-2016 22:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Just a reminder that we still live in a world where people are actively considering this man a viable candidate for the presidency.CJ Hanevy / Shutterstock.com
  A quick little hello to say that we will act as funnel, filter, and resident fuckboi for the GOP debate tonight (😐🔫). Dan's got all the deets here. I'm just here to say we're not going to waste our goddamn time watching Fiorina, Huckabee, and Santorum fight over the scraps at the kids' table. But if you're feeling particul
  
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• NASA adds 3rd company as space station shipper; shuttle back

  14-01-2016 22:29
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is adding a third company to its short list of space station suppliers, a Nevada business that will bring back a mini version of the shuttle. On Thursday, NASA announced Sierra Nevada Corp. will join SpaceX and Orbital ATK in launching cargo to the International Space Station. These flights […]
  
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• Just How Bad Is Ted Cruz's Goldman Sachs Loan Fiasco?

  14-01-2016 22:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Hapless clown Ted Cruz waits for someone to spray him in the face with seltzer water. Again. Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com
  Hey, we've all been there. You need some extra cash on hand—maybe $50 for groceries, or a couple thousand for your leaky roof, or maybe a million bucks to run for Senate against a far more popular candidate. Under those circumstances, it's easy to understand how some chump change might slip your mind.
  So now we know, thanks to New York Times investigators, that Ted Cru
  
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• 30 jobs that pay over $100,000 in Seattle

  14-01-2016 22:17
  
  These 30 jobs in the Seattle area all pay more than $100,000 per year, and some crack the $200,000 mark.
  
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• Aurora Avenue traffic will be slow going for next month with lane closures

  14-01-2016 22:02
  
  Transit rides will take longer on Aurora Avenue North for the next month, while construction pushes general traffic into the southbound bus lane. And during some nights and weekends, traffic will be scrunched into a single lane each way.
  
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• Business Insider: Washington’s economy ranks No. 1 in the nation

  14-01-2016 21:59
  
  Washington has the top-ranked state economy, according to a ranking by Business Insider. Business Insider did a worst-to-first ranking, with West Virginia and New Mexico at the bottom and Washington state and Washington, D.C., topping the chart.The Washington state ranking was decorated with the picture of an orca, the state’s marine mammal, while West Virginia was represented by a sleeping black bear, its state mammal. The Orca whale is Washington’s state marine mammal.  Accord
  
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• Slaying of popular Seattle art teacher was unprovoked, charges say

  14-01-2016 21:53
  
  King County prosecutors have charged a 55-year-old Seattle man with second-degree murder, accusing him of gunning down a beloved teacher on a Belltown sidewalk on Dec. 13.
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Doing Bob Dylan Doing "Hotline Bling" Is AMAZING

  14-01-2016 21:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Jimmy Fallon's impersonation of Bob Dylan is always spot-on—but this example tops them all! Taking Drake's "Hotline Bling" and giving it the Dylan treatment is more than just hilarious (which it certainly is), it's also now my favorite Bob Dylan song ever. (Also note the clever parody of Dylan's live performance of "Tangled Up in Blue.") A+++, Jimmy! [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Wrongfully convicted Seattle man who got $500K from state now charged with dealing meth, selling stolen guns

  14-01-2016 21:41
  
  Brandon Olebar, who received $500,000 in compensation in late 2014 after spending 10 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, is back in trouble with the law after allegedly selling guns and drugs.
  
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• McMorris Rodgers says judge Gov. Haley on ability, not looks

  14-01-2016 21:16
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The House’s highest-ranking Republican woman said Thursday that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley should be judged on her abilities, not her looks, dismissing a remark by fellow Republican Rep. Steve King. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who is fourth in leadership as the chair of the Republican Conference, was asked about King’s comment […]
  
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• Governor Jay Inslee Has Ordered a Halt to Bertha Work Until the Cause of the Sinkhole Is Found

  14-01-2016 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Governor Jay Inslee wants answers about the sinkhole near Bertha before the tunneling machine resumes digging. Washington State Department of Transportation
  Yesterday brought the news that a sinkhole had opened up just 12 yards from the rescue pit for Bertha, the $80 million tunnel boring machine on a long-delayed mission to dig a new highway tunnel under downtown Seattle.Today, Governor Jay Inslee told reporters in Olympia he'd ordered a stop to any more tunneling until the sinkhole is figured
  
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• Alan Rickman, the Signature Bad Guy AND Romantic Bohemian of His Generation, is Dead

  14-01-2016 21:09 via thestranger.com
  
  "And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." Featureflash/Shutterstock
  This has been a brutal week for anglophiles.Even as the stream of David Bowie tributes continues to flow, news came this morning that actor Alan Rickman—who, for a generation of film lovers, became the signature villain of his time in Die Hard, as well as the archetypal unattainable bohemian romantic ideal in Truly, Madly, Deeply—has also died, also at age
  
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• An Appetite Suppressant Courtesy of the Trump Campaign

  14-01-2016 21:06 via thestranger.com
  
  And just in time for lunch. ThinkProgress:
  In an apparent bid to land on the military's torture playlist, three young girls on Wednesday performed a creepy song and dance routine in honor of Donald Trump at a scheduled rally in Pensacola, Florida. The three girls—dubbed the "Freedom Kids" because, of course, they are—donned patriotic dresses and sang lyrics straight out of the presidential hopeful's playbook.
  Makes this timeless gem from the Seattle Fire Fighters Union look like som
  
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• Governor halts Bertha tunneling after sinkhole opens Tuesday

  14-01-2016 21:05
  
  Governor Jay Inslee Thursday ordered that all tunneling work by Bertha should remain halted until the contractor can determine the exact cause of the sinkhole that opened up behind Bertha Tuesday night.
  
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• There's a GOP Debate Tonight

  14-01-2016 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  At Slate Josh Voorhees predicts it'll be a bloodbath. Trump and Cruz have had nothing but nice things to say about each other at past debates. But their bromance is likely to end tonight...
  Trump has spent the past several weeks hitting Cruz on his Cuban ancestry, questioning his religion, and reliving his past opposition on federal ethanol subsidies, a particularly sensitive subject in the corn-rich Hawkeye State. More recently, Trump’s reached into his birther bag of tricks to stoke conc
  
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• Oscar Nominations for 2016: Hollywood Versus Wall Street

  14-01-2016 20:36 via thestranger.com
  
  Steve Carell saying either "buy, buy, buy" or "sell, sell sell" inThe Big Short. PARAMOUNT PICTURES
  The nominations have arrived, and there are three main points to make. One: Creed, a film by the talented black American director Ryan Coogler (his first film, Fruitvale Station, only made one, though not fatal, mistake—the marijuana scene), and starring the black American actor Michael B. Jordan, received one nomination, and it went to the veteran white actor Sylvester Stallone for best sup
  
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• Folio: Athenian Revival or Mediocre-but-Benign Cultural Gesture? Discuss.

  14-01-2016 20:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Folio: It’s fun to stay at the A-T-H-E-N-A-E-U-M. KELLY O
  For roughly the price of a standard Netflix account, you can become a member of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, a membership library opening January 20 in the YMCA building downtown. David Brewster, founder of various arts-and-media-type institutions around town including Seattle Weekly, Town Hall, and Crosscut, is Folio's founder and president.
  Brewster told me that he sees the library as a work space and reading space for members, a
  
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• Ski report: More snow expected heading into the holiday weekend is blissful for skiers and snowboarders

  14-01-2016 20:11
  
  The fun times for skiers and snowboarders will carry on as another weather system brought 2 to 8 inches of snow throughout the Cascades on Wednesday creating a cache of powder spots along with firm packed groomed trails. Several more weather systems will bring a mix of rain showers and snow – heavy at times […]
  
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• Bones of hunted mammoth show early human presence in Arctic

  14-01-2016 20:05
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The remains of a mammoth that was hunted down about 45,000 years ago have revealed the earliest known evidence of humans in the Arctic. Marks on the bones, found in far northern Russia, indicate the creature was stabbed and butchered. The tip of a tusk was damaged in a way that […]
  
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• Scientists spot brightest supernova yet, twice as luminous

  14-01-2016 20:03
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the brightest star explosion ever, a super supernova that outshines its closest competitors by 2-to-1. An international team reported the findings Thursday in the journal Science. The astronomers used a network of telescopes around the world to spot the record-breaking supernova last year. Super luminous supernovas — […]
  
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• Inslee, GOP lawmakers trade barbs over mistaken release of prisoners

  14-01-2016 19:50
  
  Acrimony out broke as GOP lawmakers and Gov. Jay Inslee’s office began trading barbs over the state’s sentencing-calculation error that has led to the early release of up to 3,200 prisoners since 2002.
  
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• Anglicans sanction U.S. Episcopal Church over gay marriage

  14-01-2016 19:46
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Anglican leaders have temporarily suspended the U.S. Episcopal Church from key positions in their global fellowship because the church accepts gay marriage. Episcopalians will be barred from international Anglican committees and from decision-making for the 85-million-member fellowship. The sanctions will be in place for three years. The penalty was announced in […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: New Mexico to sue EPA over mine spill

  14-01-2016 19:38
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico officials said Thursday they plan to sue the federal government and the owners of two Colorado mines that were the source of a massive spill last year that contaminated rivers in three Western states. The New Mexico Environment Department said it filed a notice of its intention to sue […]
  
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• State Lawmakers Propose Legislation to Make Weed Cheaper and More Available, and Seattle Changes Zoning Rules

  14-01-2016 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Your state lawmakers want you to be able to afford and purchase this stuff more easily. Yarygin/shutterstock.com
  The first two weeks of the New Year bring many changes. We make resolutions, we break them immediately, and our state legislators introduce a bunch of weird bills. This year’s crop includes proposals to legalize delivery services, reduce taxes on marijuana, and change the regulation of scientific marijuana research. Noticeably absent: a bill on public consumption, which is fast
  
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• 1949: How Seattle’s waterfront looked before viaduct

  14-01-2016 19:33
  
  To see a glimpse of what Seattle’s waterfront might look like without a barrier obstructing the view we can look to the past. That is, of course, if Bertha gets moving again after it gets a new barge and despite a new sinkhole near the waterfront. In the photo above, you can see Alaskan Way along Elliott Bay, where the familiar viaduct […]
  
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• The Latest: Montana approves sending sage grouse to Canada

  14-01-2016 19:18
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The latest on a proposal to ship sage grouse from Montana to Canada to bolster the population (all times local): 11:15 a.m. Montana has approved a program to relocate dozens of sage grouse to help restore the struggling bird population in the Canadian province of Alberta. State Fish and Wildlife Commission […]
  
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• 15 Things To Do for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  14-01-2016 19:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Atomazul / Shutterstock
  Whether or not you have the day off on Monday, there are events all weekend long to help you celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day—from a $3 concert at Chop Suey on Sunday to King County's celebration today at noon and MLK Day of Service on Monday. See them all below or on our Things To Do: MLK Day calendar.
  STATE PARKS
  1. Free State Parks Day
  They'll waive their usual $10 entrance fee, and you can enjoy the wonder of the Columbia Gorge, Olympic Rainforest, or Decep
  
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• City of Seattle looks to pay $10,000 for drawbridge wordsmith

  14-01-2016 19:11
  
  Artsy urban hermits take note – the city of Seattle has just the tower for you. And would like to pay you $10,000 to hang out in it.
  
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• Homeland Security Asks Hotel Workers to Spy On Guests

  14-01-2016 19:08 via thestranger.com
  
  Do you "frequently" put the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door to your hotel room? Do dispose of condoms by placing them in the trash in your hotel room instead of throwing them out the window? Do you sometimes travel with "excessive sex paraphernalia" because you like to get all excessive on your partner's ass? Do you sometimes drink out of the minibar? Then Department of Homeland Security wants your hotel maid to report you. Reason:
  Despite federal fearmongering, there's no concrete evidence to
  
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• The Big Lid: The Time Is Right to Fix the I-5 Disaster

  14-01-2016 18:56 via thestranger.com
  
  A river of green runs through it. Seattle as it could be.PATANO STUDIO ARCHITECTURE
  A year ago, Chris Patano stood at the corner of Boren Avenue and Pike Street, looked out over Interstate 5, and began to sketch in his notebook.
  Earlier that same day, Patano had left his architecture firm, Patano Studio, and walked up Pike Street, through the soulless glass canyon of the convention center and then along the concrete walls of Freeway Park. When he got to the windswept Plymouth Pillars he turned t
  
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• Marysville teens face felonies for stealing principal’s BMW

  14-01-2016 18:55
  
  Two Marysville girls are facing felony charges for going on a joy ride in their assistant principal’s BMW.
  
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• 2 Marysville girls could face felony charges for taking joy ride in assistant principal’s BMW

  14-01-2016 18:55
  
  Two Marysville teens are facing felony charges for taking their assistant principal’s BMW.
  
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• Egypt unveils rare whale fossil museum to boost tourism

  14-01-2016 18:49
  
  VALLEY OF THE WHALES, Egypt (AP) — Egypt has unveiled what it says is the Middle East’s first museum dedicated to fossils and showcasing an early form of whales, now extinct and known as the “walking whale.” The museum opened Thursday near the Fayoum Oasis south of the capital, Cairo. It’s the latest effort by […]
  
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• One of the Most Important Climate Change Trials in the Country Is Happening in Lynnwood Right Now

  14-01-2016 17:44 via thestranger.com
  
  This climate disobedience action in 2014 got the Delta 5 charged with criminal trespass and blocking a train. Rising Tide
  Fred Millar talks fast. He's sitting at the witness stand to tell the six-person jury what he knows about crude oil trains.
  "The way the federal government measures the impact is in what they call 'societal damage,'" Millar, a 37-year hazardous materials and homeland security expert, explains. "And in their federal regulatory documents, they use the term 'societal damage': ho
  
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• The Morning News: A Surprise Boeing-Labor Deal, the Return of Ride the Ducks, and the Panama Hotel Is for Sale

  14-01-2016 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Surprise! Maxene Huiyu / Shutterstock.com
  Surprise Contract for Boeing Workers: "In a surprise breakthrough, peace has broken out between Boeing and its white-collar engineering union," the Seattle Times reports. "Management and the leadership of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) said Wednesday they have tentatively agreed on a new six-year contract extension well ahead of the current pact’s October expiration."
  The Return of Ride the Ducks: "Ride the D
  
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• Egypt opens exhibition of repatriated antiquities

  14-01-2016 17:33
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has opened an exhibition of the latest batch of antiquities that have been returned to the country after they were spirited out illegally. The exhibition, held in Cairo’s famed Egyptian Museum, has on display 198 artifacts from a total of about 500 pieces repatriated to Egypt in 2014 and 2015. The […]
  
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• Abandoned car crushed by semi on Highway 167 onramp

  14-01-2016 17:31
  
  No one was injured when a semitruck struck an abandoned vehicle near Highway 167, but the mangled car was jammed under the truck.
  
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• Lakeside School grad receives Oscar nod for ‘Straight Outta Compton’

  14-01-2016 17:11
  
  Seattle native Leigh Savidge is among several writers credited with writing “Straight Outta Compton,” which was nominated for best original screenplay.
  
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• What happens to Special Needs students after high school?

  14-01-2016 15:30
  
  College enrollment rates among special-needs students have been flat for several years, while employment is ticking upward.
  
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• Subtropical Storm Alex strengthens in the Atlantic

  14-01-2016 13:54
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Subtropical Storm Alex is expected to get stronger far out over the Atlantic and is threatening the Azores. The storm’s maximum sustained winds Thursday morning increased to near 70 mph (110 kph). Alex is forecast to move through the Azores with storm-force winds Thursday night and Friday. Alex is centered about 560 […]
  
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• Rare January hurricane forms in Atlantic, threatens Azores

  14-01-2016 13:54
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A rare January hurricane formed far out in the Atlantic on Thursday, and U.S. officials said it was the first hurricane to form in the month of January since 1938. Hurricane Alex’s maximum sustained winds were near 85 mph (140 kph). A hurricane warning was issued for Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands, where […]
  
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• Obama to highlight Louisiana decision to expand Medicaid

  14-01-2016 09:28
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s new governor, Democrat John Bel Edwards, is getting a public “thank you” from President Barack Obama for rejecting the stance of his Republican predecessor and starting the process to expand the state’s Medicaid program. Obama, for whom this is a key end-of-term policy priority, was appearing in Baton Rouge […]
  
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• Obama praises Louisiana’s decision to expand Medicaid

  14-01-2016 09:28
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday praised Louisiana’s new Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, for his decision to expand the state’s Medicaid program to provide health care coverage to thousands of residents. “He’s already delivering for the people of Louisiana,” Obama said. Edwards’ predecessor, Republican Bobby Jindal, had refused to expand […]
  
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• Becky Benaroya donates family art collection, $14 million to Tacoma Art Museum

  14-01-2016 09:01
  
  For her 93rd birthday, Becky Benaroya — whose husband, Jack, was a real-estate developer and philanthropist — donated the family art collection and $14 million to Tacoma Art Museum.
  
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