| Maritime week: Ports' job footprint goes much deeper |
| Barring major breaking news (and Europe's ongoing troubles and the failure of austerity aren't new), I want to continue to focus on the Puget Sound's seaports, whose competitive challenges I discussed in a widely read column on Sunday. The ports are a major element of Washington's trade-based economy. They're also big jobs engines. For example, the seaport of the Port of Seattle supports 21,000 ... |
| 05/07/2012 |
| Strange behavior shaped Issaquah gunman’s final days |
| Inquest into police shootout starts May 21 The rough outlines resemble doodles more than a far-fetched blueprint, and the instructions on the page defy explanation. In hand-scrawled notes about a manmade island scattered among the sketches, the creator urges, “Start building Atlantis.” The creator later stuffed the notes, sketches and more than $23,000 in Swiss francs into a [...] |
| 05/15/2012 |
| Heritage reports profits up |
| OLYMPIA — Improving credit quality, including no loan loss provision for originated loans, helped Heritage Bank’s parent earn a $4.2 million profit in the first quarter, up from a $764,000 profit in the same quarter a year ago. |
| 04/30/2012 |
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