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Ice Storm Warning: The roads are pure death this morning. (News Tribune)

Vacations Delayed: Want to get out of here? You Can't. Sea-Tac Airport has shut down the runways. (King 5)

Tacoma Police Union Concessions: Tacoma leaders are keeping mum. (News Tribune)

Want To Buy A Tudor Estate?: Tacoma historic Haddaway Hall for sale for $6.4 million. (Realtor.com)

GOP Presidential Race: looks like Texas governor Rick Perry is out. (CNN)

New Study: Opposites don't attract. (Neatorama)

Early Buzz: 10 most anticipated Sundance movies. (Flavorpill)

Checking In With Springsteen: His new album is called Wrecking Ball. (Vulture)

Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Hello Kitty Dental Clinic (Topless Robot)

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What's Up With The Snow?: Cliff Mass knows. (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)

Is It A Good Idea To Drive In The Snow?: No. (News Tribune)

Before The Snow Fell: Pierce council dangles carrots to create a flood-control zone. (News Tribune)

Snogasm: The Crystal Mountain staff is probably celebrating in the Snorting Elk. (News Tribune)

Something Worse Than Snow: Concordia rescue operations were suspended earlier today because the ship started to move, but crews plan to blast more holes in the hull to aid divers. (CNN)

Here's Something To Read On Snow Day: 10 great albums recorded at home. (Paste)

Here's Something To Do On Snow Day: Jello origami. (BuzzFeed)

What Brown Can Do To You: Here comes Ms. Brown. (BuzzzFeed)

There's An App For That: George Harrison's guitars. (The New York Times)

Oh For Fuck's Sake: Grandmother gets beaten up at Chuck E. Cheese after she asks someone to stop swearing. (Jezebel)

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Pvt. Neil Turner: The Lincoln High graduated died in an Afghanistan training accident. (News Tribune)

Tacoma Area Hotel Occupancies: Dropped. (News Tribune)

Blame Game: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei points to the CIA and Israel's intelligence agency in an Iranian nuclear scientist's killing. (CNN)

Old Fashioned Egging: Apple ends China iPhone store sales after scuffles. (BBC)

Political Prisoners: Burma frees high-profile dissidents in amnesty. (BBC)

The Flaming Lips: Hope they come back to the Puyallup Fair with Bon Iver and Yoko Ono. (NME)

Really?: David Letterman sticking around. (New York Daily News)

We Use To Have A Crush On Martha: The original MTV VJs sign a book deal. (80s VJs)

The Big Bang Theory: Geeks have reasons why they hate it. (UGO)

Culture Buzz: 50 things you never see in real life. (BuzzFeed)

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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)

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Property Tax Chat: A long legal and lobbying effort by the hospital industry is further shrinking taxable values in the South Sound and across the state. (News Tribune)

Simon And Rosalind Bailey: Facing animal cruelty charges after 173 animals were seized from their 5-acre Kitsap County property. (News Tribune)

North Korea: "Expect no change." (BBC)

End Of The Year List: Top stories of 2011. (CNN)

End Of The Year List II: The 10 biggest band beefs of 2011. (Stereogum)

End Of The Year List III: The very worst of 2011. (Salon)

Year-end Think Piece: The end of rock 'n' roll. (The New York Times)

Creepy Christian twin sisters pantomime to Radiohead's "Street Spirit"

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Kalakala vs. Coast Guard And Army Corps Of Engineers: Four options must be met now. (News Tribune)

Crime Hot Spots: Tacoma Police Department's fledgling program might get axed in the budget cuts. (News Tribune)

Rescuing The Ruskies: A research ship has arrived to help rescue a Russian fishing vessel that got stuck in the frozen waters off of Antarctica 10 days ago. (CNN)

Syria: Not good. (BBC)

Apple: New patent filings have revealed that the computer company is planning to power its laptops and smartphones with longer-lasting hydrogen fuel cells. (Telegraph)

PETA's Grinch of the Year: Janet Jackson. (NME)

Year End List: Ten best mobile games of 2011. (Paste Magazine)

Year End List II: Top 25 people of 2011. (USA Today)

Real Life Superheroes: No comment. (The New York Times)

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T.C. Broadnax Is Tacoma's Next City Manager: The stars at night are big and bright (clap, clap, clap, clap), deep in the heart of Texas. (News Tribune)

Tacoma Regional Convention & Visitor Bureau CEO Tammy Blount Is Outta Here: All the leaves a brown and the sky is grey. I've been for a walk on a winter's day. (News Tribune)

Floatplane Dock Coming To The Foss Waterway?: You know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. (News Tribune)

Yippee!: Food scraps soon will be accepted in the yard waste bin. (News Tribune)

Analysis: Playing payroll tax roulette. (CNN)

Roger Ebert: Best films of the year. (Sun Times)

Trent Reznor: Comes clean on Fresh Air. (NPR)

Hall & Oates Hotline: Are you having a tough day? Do you love Hall & Oates? Call: 719-26-OATES. (The Atlantic Wire)

Christmas Movies: The worst. (Time)

Best SNL Skits Of The Year? (Pajiba)

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Prince At The Tacoma Dome: Flawlessly flamboyant. (Seattle Weekly)

Politics: Republicans on the House rules committee have voted to prevent a direct vote today on a Senate plan to extend the payroll tax cut for two months. (CNN)

Iraq's Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi: He denies any wrongdoing, a day after a warrant was issued for his arrest on terrorism-related charges. (BBC)

Piers Morgan: His first name might not be the only dumb thing about him. (BBC)

The Fug Girls: Celebrities who could really use a red-carpet boost in 2012. (New York Magazine)

Another Year-end List: The 15 best single episodes of television in 2011. (Pajiba)

No Comment: MTV brings back Punk'd. (TV Guide)

Oh Course "Tiny Dancer": Cameron Crowe's best musical moments. (Spinner)

Christmas Gifts: What people wanted in 1975. (Buzz Feed)

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Occupy Olympia: Many remain even after judge told them to scat. (News Tribune)

Race To The Top: Washington among nine states winning grants for Obama administration's cornerstone education initiative focusing on K-12 education. (News Tribune)

Burglaries: On the rise in Pierce County, University Pace and Edgewood according to reports. (News Tribune)

Intermission: What 7 billion people looks like. (Good Design)

Wikinews: Wikileak suspect wants recusal. (CNN)

Wha-What?: Will Amazon soon spy on you through tour kindle? (Gizmodo)

Late-Night Comedy Series: Russell Brand has inked a deal with FX to host one. (New York Post)

Cool: Radiohead will play Austin City Limits TV. (Consequence Of Sound)

230 Movies Of 2011 In 5 Minutes

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Just Like The Movies: Washington State Patrol troopers and law enforcement officers from three counties chased two suspected burglars from Tumwater to DuPont early today but ended the pursuit after it got too dangerous. (News Tribune)

Oh So Special: The Legislature adjourned a 17-day special session after voting to close $480 million of the state's $2 billion budget gap. (News Tribune)

Encouraging: About 366,000 people applied for jobless benefits last week, the smallest number since May 2008. The news was better than analysts expected and sent stocks higher. (CNN)

Best Reality TV Series of 2011: Republican presidential debates. (CNN)

Ten weird holiday albums: Including Scott Weiland's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. (Flavorwire)

The Best Celebrity Tweets of 2011: Note: several are NSFW. (BuzzFeed)

Cheerios Site Posts Graphic Honey Bee Comic: We're talking honey bee sex. (Cinemablend)

TCM Remembers: Celebrities we lost this year. (TCM)