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Publicize your event!
New SPOL Calendar Open for Business - Add your own events. Accommodates one-day, series and recurrent events.
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Supersonics, UW B'ball
Sports Schedules now in SPOL Calendar - We've started with the 'Sonics. Let us know which others you'd like to see. Our system can accommodate any iCalendar by subscription.
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$17 million dollar facility announced
New Retirement Community for Lake City - The Stratford at Maple Leaf to offer retirement,
assisted-living and memory-care residences.
- Uwajimaya Village developer agrees to buy 6-acre lot at Northgate
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- AG opposes Qwest request to deregulate prices
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- Will $28-million tax incentive be enough for Boeing?
- Our efforts will make our state even more competitive and, in turn, help Boeing and its supplier network reduce their costs and compete even more effectively with Airbus—Gov. Gary Locke
- Qwest settlement to benefit consumers, say Attorney General
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- ‘Whatever it takes,’ says Locke on Boeing 7E7 bid
- The best airplane assembly workforce in the world lives and works here. The best aerospace engineers on the planet live and work here. We’re proud of our Boeing heritage—Gov. Gary Locke
- Business leaders push for jobs legislation
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- Biotechnology hub to rise in South Lake Union
- South Lake Union will be home to thousands of good-paying jobs in biotechnology and life sciences, employing people who will cure disease and save lives—Mayor Greg Nickels
- New Business Advocate is ‘go-to’ person for hassle-free businesses
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- Auto credit scoring not income-blind, says insurance study
- The industry alleges credit scoring is an income-blind, color-blind tool for assessing risk. Our study indicates credit scoring is not blind to income and the jury is still out on how it impacts race—Insurance Commissioner
- Minimum wage increases to $7.01
- Workers earning minimum wage in Washington will make $7.01 per hour starting January 1, an 11-cent-an-hour-increase over the current minimum wage of $6.90.
- QFC Card Protested
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- Fishing Fleet Readies for Summer Season
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- Housing Firm Looks At Northgate Lot
- Security Properties, a Seattle-based developer, is negotiating to buy the south parking lot at Northgate Mall from Simon Properties.
- 25,000 Grocery Workers Could be on Strike in May
- Twenty-five thousand supermarket workers in Seattle and other communities around Puget Sound could be on strike less than a month from now.
- White Collar Workers Look to Unions for their Future
- Last week, as the remarkable Boeing engineers strike was drawing to a close, the University of Washington was notified that 80 percent of their teaching assistants, graders and readers had signed up with the United Auto Workers, a militant and progressive
- Greenwood Hardware Sold
- Greenwood Hardware, one of the oldest continuously operating hardware stores in the city, has a new owner. Ron and Robin Lewis, who have owned the well-known neighborhood business since 1977, have turned the reins over to Queen Anne residents Mike and End
- Port Truckers Suspend Strike
- Truck drivers at the Port of Seattle went back to work August 31 after a one week stoppage to protest $8.50 average hourly wages, no health insurance and 50-hour work weeks.
