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  • Volunteers replace city workers

    Published February 24, 2012

    With budgets tighter than ever, cities across America are increasingly looking for more free labor. Nowhere is that trend more evident than Yakima, Washington. 

  • Powell 9-1-1 tapes released

    Published February 08, 2012

    Police in Pierce County, Washington have released the chilling 9-1-1 tapes from Sunday’s double-murder-suicide by Josh Powell—husband of Susan Powell who went missing in Utah more than 2 years ago.

  • Bloggers, Not Journalists

    Published December 22, 2011

    ‘Bloggers Beware’. That was the headline on a conservative blog following a $2.5 million judgment against blogger Crystal Cox in a defamation case tried in federal court in Oregon. It’s a case followed closely in the blogosphere and in the traditional media as it highlights the proliferation of blogging, the blurring of lines between journalists and bloggers and more libel cases born out of blog posts.

  • State Budgets Growing Despite Vows to Cut Spending

    Published December 09, 2011

    To lawmakers, a spending cut is often a reduction to the amount of spending growth that had been anticipated. This mindset helps explain why in state governments across the country, budgets are increasing despite vows to cut spending. 

  • Corporate Competitions Offer Employees Incentives to Lose Weight, Gain Cash

    Published December 01, 2011

    Is corporate America taking a page from The Biggest Loser? You bet. In an effort to reduce health care costs, a growing number of companies are offering cash to overweight workers who lose weight

  • Energy in America: No Bridge to Oil

    Published November 28, 2011

    North of the Arctic Circle, the tiny village of Nuiqsut, Alaska, has become the latest flash point in the struggle between oil drilling and environmentalism. 

  • Regulation Nation: Shell Ready to Move on Alaska Wells -- If Alphabet Soup of Challenges Would End

    Published November 16, 2011

    An estimated 27 billion barrels of oil are sitting just off the northern coast of Alaska in waters controlled by the United States, but despite spending more than five years and $4 billion, Shell Oil Company still can't get to it. 

  • Farmers Gear Up for Unexpected Boom After New Free Trade Pacts

    Published November 01, 2011

    With the Fall apple harvest winding down in Washington State, growers would normally be scaling back jobs, but not this year. Three new free trade agreements passed by Congress and signed by President Obama have farmers gearing up for a bumper crop of new business.

  • In Down Economy, Washington Lawmaker Pushes for More Logging

    Published October 26, 2011

    Tired of going back to the government every year with their hand out, rural counties are looking for a way to get off the federal dole and put unemployed loggers back to work. Washington Rep. Doc Hastings says he has an answer that would tackle both problems, but environmentalists say not so fast.

  • First-Time Owners Stuck in Their Homes

    Published September 21, 2011

    The housing decline that started in 2008 is having a profound impact on families across the country. Many who are in their first homes are stuck causing them to delay starting families or even moving for job opportunities.