WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Professional Sports Team In Tacoma?: Unlikely for now. (King 5)

Washam Watch: Pierce County Assessor-Treasure Dale Washam cost the county $850,000. (News Tribune)

Tacoman In The House: Olympia School Board wants Dominic "Dick" Cvitanich as its superintendent. (News Tribune)

On The Docket: The Supreme Court is examining how much of the 2010 health care law might survive if the justices strike down the requirement that Americans buy insurance. (The New York Times)

Games Of Thrones Review: Let the war begin. (Hollywood Reporter)

Good One ... What?: The Daytime Emmy Awards might not be television. (TV Guide)

We Can Almost Remember Their Funny Faces: Aussie rockers Jet part ways after 11 years together. (NME)

Collectible Poster Would've Been Fine: An upcoming Flaming Lips release will contain blood from the band's collaborators. (Paste Magazine)

Go Big Today

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Battle Over Tacoma Cop's Pension: Victim's family wants Gov. Gregoire's help. (News Tribune)

Tacoma Public Schools Deputy Superintendent: Joshua Garcia receives the nod. (News Tribune)

Syria: It accepts a plan to end violence. (CNN)

When Fake Billionaires Visit Dollar Stores: Paul Allen's ID got hijacked. (Seattle Weekly)

Obamacare Vs. Supreme Court: May Congress decide to regulate how people pay for the health care they will almost inevitably need? (The New York Times)

Soundgarden: It's first new song in 15 years will be for The Avengers. (USA Today)

The Borgias: Here comes the season premiere. (TV Guide)

The Perfect Gift For That Recently Deceased Loved One: Own Beetlejuice's The Handbook for the Recently Deceased. (The Atlantic Wire)

The Well Is Dry: The cast of Glee visits Inside The Actors Studio. (Zap 2 It)

DJ Drawing Machine: Wave your Sharpie in the air like you just don't care! (CNET)

Kill Us Now

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

City Of Tacoma Performance Report: Nuisance complaints are up, violent crime is down ... (Exit 133)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Speaks: The national economy will have to rev up more substantially for the unemployment rate to keep improving. (CNN)

Opinion: Jeffrey Toobin says a health care defeat could imperil President Obama's bid for re-election. (CNN)

Tweets Prove It: Rich guy James Cameron's voyage to the bottom of the sea. (Daily Weekly)

Do They Make You Tell The Truth?: Wonder Woman Chuck Taylor sneakers. (Wired)

Record Store Day: A list of the goods. (Pitchfork)

Mad Men: The best lines from last night. (Flavorwire)

Today In Kick Ass

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Why You Can't Read Morning Spew: Because your power is out. (News Tribune)

Not Good: Taliban vow revenge for Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army staff sergeant who went on a killing rampage in Afghanistan. (CNN)

Finally: Pierce County leaders stopped paying Assessor-Treasure Dale Washam's legal bills. (News Tribune)

President Obama's Health Care Law: It's go time for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (The New York Times)

Bob Dylan: He's working on a new album. (The Guardian)

Guns N' Roses: Reunion unlikely at Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction. (NME)

Taylor Swift: She was the highest-earning musician of 2011. (BBC)

We Have To Drive To Lynnwood?: AMC Theaters to hold ultimate Marvel Marathon on May 3. (Coming Soon)

Will Ferrell: He has a new music video. (Hollywood Reporter)

Will This Happen In Tacoma April 23?

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Go Tacoma!: A consortium of three shipping lines is leaving Seattle for the Port of Tacoma. (Seattle Times)

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Toll: You'll need to break your piggy bank. (News Tribune)

Tacoma School Of The Arts: Here comes the first-ever freshman class. (News Tribune)

Lights, Camera, More Action: Washington's Legislature brings back tax credits to lure movie production to the state. (News Tribune)

The Economy: U.S. employers continued the stronger pace of hiring last month, but the overall job market is not out of the woods yet. (CNN)

Health Care Law: The Obama administration has begun an aggressive campaign. (The New York Times)

Maya Rudolph: The Fresh Air interview. (NPR)

Ralph Baer: 90-year-old video game pioneer. (Boing Boing)

Mantyhose: Nylons for guys aren't for Robin Hood anymore. (Time)

Nerd Alert: The 15 nerdiest Saturday Night Live sketches. (Topless Robot)

Today In Craptastic!

BURN BAN IS OFF! >>>

The fire marshall has turned off the burn ban for Pierce, King, Kitsap and Snohomish counties because winds are dispersing the air pollution that built up across the Puget Sound over the past week. You may fire up now.

For those who like charts, click here. 

BURN BAN IS ON! >>>

Once again, the fire marshall has thrown down a stage one burn ban for Pierce and Kitsap counties this time prompted by high pressure over the Puget Sound region bringing cold temperatures and calm winds. You have to stop burning your crap beginning at 4 p.m. today. You can't light up until further notice.

For those who like details, click here. 

WHAT WE HAVE FOUND TODAY >>>

Manhunt: Search continues for killer of Mount Rainier ranger. (News Tribune)

State Political Map: It's a go. (News Tribune)

Giant Check: Washington state Health Care Authority receiving $17 million as a federal bonus payment for having enrolled children in subsidized health care coverage. (News Tribune)

L.A. Arson: Fifty-five "fires of concern" have broken out in the Los Angeles area since Friday. (CNN)

Iowa Caucuses: Late strategies emerge. (CNN)

New Year On The Korean Peninsula: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak says the two Koreas are at a turning point. (BBC)

Marginal Revolutionaries: The crisis and the blogosphere have opened mainstream economics up to new attack. (The Economist)

Year-end Lists Continue: The 30 harshest musician-on-musician insults in history. (Flavorwire)

Year-end Lists Continue II: The worst people of 2011. (Videogum)

New Year's Eve: World's tallest building shows off. (Gizmodo)

Portrait Of The Year: George (Sexy People)

Every New Year's Eve we do it to ourselves. Why? Is it the sweet clink of the ice cubes? The exhilarating pop of the cork? Or just the way the night seems to open up into endless magical possibilities?

Whatever it is, things aren't so magical the next morning. There's nothing glamorous or exhilarating about bloodshot eyes swollen shut. Instead of trying to remember who dropped the poison into your eyeballs, soothe the savage orb with wikiHow's seven steps to cure puffy eyes. You're so welcome.

From everyone at the Weekly Volcano and Spew land, we wish you a happy new year!

LINK: 5 Ways to be a Better (cough) You!

NOT GOOD >>>

A new study from the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner gives a bleak picture of our state's population without health insurance. The number of Washingtonians with no health insurance has reached 1 million, according to a new report from state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. About 14.5 percent now have no coverage at all.

See the whole study at:
http://www.insurance.wa.gov/legislative/uninsured-washington.shtml

"This is a grim milestone for the state, and we believe the situation will remain bleak for two more years," said Kreidler. "But it's important for people to know that there is hope is on the horizon."

• Among the report's findings: From 2008 through 2010:
• The number of uninsured people in Washington grew by 180,000.
• Charity care by hospitals and health care providers rose a staggering 36 percent.
• And the percentage of residents without health coverage worsened in 31 of 39 counties.
• In several counties, more than 1 in 5 residents has no health coverage.

Counties with a particularly high percentage of uninsured residents include: Adams, Grant, Okanogan, Franklin and Yakima. But the problem also worsened in King, Pierce, Snohomish and Spokane counties.