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It’s 7:02 a.m., 46° going to 64°, and it looks like a little rain in the morning, clearing up by 3 p.m. or so. Details are here.

In your quasi-local news today:

Gas Accord V will increase public access to pipeline safety records, and it sounds like the name of a really excellent late-night movie.

U.S. lawmakers in the House of Representatives reintroduced the Uniting American Families Act yesterday. The law would help gays sponsor their foreign sweethearts.

And Slate explains a few of Google’s (legal) tax dodges. Probably a little too late to set any of these up ourselves, though. Maybe next year….

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