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Cuts in action The Department of Social and Health Services is cutting almost 400 positions and trimming back its mental health and long-term care programs, among others. Stock up on bed pans and mood stabilizers, people. (SR)

WSU threatens secession WSU President Elson Floyd told the guv and legislature to step off yesterday. "I must tell you," he said during his annual State of the University address, sounding like a bad-ass, "I am tired of being on the defense." Then he jumped on top of the podium, dived into the audience and crowd-surfed all the way to Olympia where he bombed the capitol dome like Guy Fawkes. (WSU)

Chillax, Spokies Late last night some dude tried to steal a rack o' beer from a Zip Trip and then stabbed the clerk who attempted to foil the oh so Spokie robbery. Classy. And, somehow the Spokie fever hit Moses Lake, where a funeral home owner was shot by her estranged husband when she was mowing the lawn at a cemetery. Creepy. (KXLY) 

Obama loves Dylan But is the feeling mutual? (Atlantic Wire)