What’s Trending: Why Thanksgiving is the most quintessentially Americana holiday and is central to the Judeo-Christian hertitage. // Big Local: Despite opposition from the voters, the Snohomish County Council approved a 4% property tax hike. It turns out that Washington actually followed the national trend and moved slightly to the right. A Bellevue woman and her children miraculously escaped unscathed from a tree falling on their home. // Alec Baldwin said he thinks Americans are uninformed about the important issues such as “climate change.”