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Clean Air
8:29 am
Tue December 11, 2012

Audit: Port Of Seattle's Clean-Diesel Subsidy Illegal

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A Port of Seattle program to reduce air pollution has been deemed illegal by the state auditor.
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A state audit that criticized the Port of Seattle for accidentally giving away free parking at Sea-Tac Airport has also faulted the Port for some intentional gift giving.

State auditors said a program that pays ocean-going ships to use low-sulfur fuel while they dock in Seattle constitutes an illegal gift of public funds.

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State Audit
7:21 am
Tue December 11, 2012

Free Parking Glitch Costs Sea-Tac Airport $400,000

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Sea-Tac International Airport
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If you study your credit card bills closely, you might have figured this one out already. If not, the Port of Seattle may have a little holiday gift for you.

Sea-Tac International Airport, run by the Port of Seattle, has given away nearly $400,000 in unintentionally free parking this year. That news comes courtesy of the Washington State Auditor’s Office.

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Same-Sex Marriage
7:10 pm
Sun December 9, 2012

Married At Last

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Newlyweds Danielle Yung and Robin Wyss kiss on the Grand Staircase outside City Hall.
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Danielle Yung (left) and Robin Wyss meeting with the judge before their wedding ceremony.
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Keith Bacon (left) and Corianton Hale taking their vows at City Hall.
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Family, friends and media gather in the Grand Lobby of Seattle’s City Hall to witness over 100 couples take their wedding vows.
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Two of the almost 140 newlyweds married at Seattle City Hall on Sunday.
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Well-wishers greet newly married couples as they make their way down the Grand Staircase outside of City Hall. Strangers give out flowers, toss rice and shout for the newlyweds to kiss.
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Wedding bells rang throughout Washington state Sunday as hundreds of same-sex couples said “I do.” December 9 was the first day gay couples could legally marry here, after voters upheld the state’s marriage equality law in the November election.

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Homeland Security
9:03 am
Fri December 7, 2012

Northwest Scientists Seek New Ways To Trace Chemical Weapons

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Originally published on Thu December 6, 2012 7:24 pm

RICHLAND, Wash. -- President Barack Obama has been publicly warning Syria’s leaders not to use chemical weapons against their own people. The news is unexpectedly relevant in southeast Washington. Researchers at at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing new scientific techniques to trace chemical agents back to their sources.

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