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• Anti-Drunk Driving Bill Crashes and Burns in the Legislature

  25-02-2026 23:30 via thestranger.com
  The bill to lower the legal blood alcohol content limit died in the House, even in spite of The Stranger's flawed-science experiment last summer.by Nathalie GrahamCongrats  you lushes, winos, drunkards, sots, and tipplers. A bill to lower the legal driving limit from a 0.08 percent blood alcohol limit to a 0.05 blood alcohol limit (BAC) has failed for the fourth year in a row. Despite passing the Senate, it floundered in the House Committee on Community Safety. It’s not such a wi
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Played Game Show Host During the State of the Union, Nurses Are Fleeing the Country, and the Heated Rivalry Cottage Is on Airbnb

  25-02-2026 19:04 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingLast night, Trump delivered the State of the Union, in which he spoke for 1 hour and 40 minutes. Thankfully, Stranger editor Hannah Murphy Winter watched the whole thing and is here to summarize:
  Unsurprisingly, Trump’s State of the Union wasn’t a speech, it was a show. Like Bob Barker telling contestants to “come on down!” he trotted people through Congress like props: the Team USA men’s hockey team, military vets,
  
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• Thank You, Team USA, for Helping Me Love Hockey Again

  25-02-2026 02:11 via thestranger.com
  Thank you, Team USA, for giving all of us disenfranchised hockey fans a reason to love the sport again.by Megan SelingMen ruin everything, so I wasn’t surprised when they finally ruined hockey. It was death by a thousand disappointments—a sexist comment from Don Cherry here, a years-long cover-up of systemic sexual abuse there. Seeing the USA’s men’s hockey team party in the locker room with Kash Patel and laughing at President Trump’s quip about the women&rsqu
  
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