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David Condon has assembled an elite team dedicated to stormwater reduction. (SR)

Sen. Patty Murray thinks that we won't have to shut down the government to get a budget deal. (SR)

So many students were sick of the flu in the little town of Troy, Idaho, that they just decided to shut down school entirely. (KREM)

That tent city in Downtown spokane. Turns out it hid a bicycle chop shop. (KXLY)

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As Obama launches his gun-control proposals, the NRA has a controversial new ad calling Obama a hypocrite for the fact that his daughters are protected by armed guards. (WP)

The French go to war in Mali, extremists take hostages in Algeria. (NYT)

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This is what you did to us, Lance Armstrong. You made us write and read long thinkpieces in The New Yorker.