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Obama calls Romney; congratulates him on GOP nod
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called Mitt Romney to congratulate him on winning the Republican nomination on Wednesday, just as the Democrat's campaign opened a new critique of Romney by focusing attention on his economic record as governor of Massachusetts.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Nation & World
Workforce Development names 5 board members
Workforce Development names 5 new board members
Date: 05/29/2012 | Bizblog
Judge denies injunction in health care lawsuit
SEATTLE -- A King County judge has denied a motion to force Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna to alter his filings with the U.S. Supreme Court on the multistate lawsuit seeking to overturn the federal health care law.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
'America will be there for you,' Obama tells veterans
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the men and women who have died defending America, and pointed out Vietnam veterans as a sometimes-maligned group of war heroes who remained true to their nation despite an unwelcome homecoming.
Date: 05/28/2012 | Nation & World
Senate acts to extend flood insurance program
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday voted to extend the life of the National Flood Insurance Program for 60 days, giving lawmakers time to work on a long-term extension that would seek to restore fiscal solvency to the debt-ridden plan.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Obama seeks repeat of Iowa 2008 magic
DES MOINES, Iowa -- President Barack Obama delivered his harshest rebuttal yet to rival Mitt Romney on Thursday, dismissing his challenger's claims as "a cowpie of distortions" while seeking to rekindle the all-but-faded Iowa magic that launched him in 2008. Escalating his criticism of Romney's...
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Gov. Christie: N.J. will start sports betting on its own
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- New Jersey will defy a federal ban and let people bet on the outcomes of football, basketball and other games this fall, Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Obama taps Yucca Mountain critic to lead nuclear agency
WASHINGTON -- Moving quickly to stem a controversy, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
Pakistan convicts doctor who helped find bin Laden
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an already deeply troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
Investigation launched into veterans charity
HELENA, Mont. -- U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana said Wednesday that the legislative finance committee that he chairs is launching an investigation into a charity it suspects may be exploiting veterans.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers, lawmaker contends
WASHINGTON -- A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
U.S. appeals court clarifies piracy definition
RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday on the legal definition of piracy, saying an armed attack on a U.S. vessel can be considered piracy even if no one ever boards or robs the ship.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
Speaking up for tribal women
Tulalip leader lobbies for protection for women
Date: 05/23/2012 | Local News
Senate panel OKs $2.50 hike of airline security fee
WASHINGTON -- A Democratic-controlled Senate panel has approved a $2.50 increase in airline security fees that would double the per-passenger fee for those taking nonstop flights.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Business
Everett mail facility remains on USPS closure list
EVERETT -- The U.S. Postal Service is continuing with its plan to close nearly 250 mail-processing centers, but it is still unknown if the closures include the facility in Everett."It's not 100 percent certain, but it remains on the list," said U.S. Postal Service spokesman Ernie Swanson.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Local News
Elwha River dam removals ahead of schedule
PORT ANGELES-- Work to remove the Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River is ahead of schedule and should be completed next year -- a year earlier than expected.A Bureau of Land Management river expert, Tim Randle, updated the Port Angeles City Council Tuesday on the work.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Northwest
Postal Service to begin closing plants this summer
WASHINGTON — The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with a multibillion-dollar cost-cutting plan that will close nearly 250 mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Nation & World
Mitt Romney all but cedes Massachusetts
BELMONT, Mass. -- Don't bet on Mitt Romney winning his home state. Or even trying."That's not been a topic of discussion," Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden said when asked if the Republican former Massachusetts governor would compete in the heavily Democratic state.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Nation & World
GI killed in Vietnam War gets Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON — Leslie Sabo's Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade, hurled at an enemy bunker in Cambodia to save surrounded comrades. Forty years later — and a dozen years after the long-lost paperwork turned up in military archives — he was honored by President Obama...
Date: 05/16/2012 | Nation & World
Congress votes to reauthorize Export-Import Bank
WASHINGTON -- The government's vehicle for promoting U.S. export sales, and of specific importance to Boeing, survived a challenge from conservatives Tuesday with a Senate vote to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years. The vote, coming after the Senate rejected amendments to...
Date: 05/15/2012 | Business
State warns consumers about crowdfunding
The state Department of Financial Institutions today issued a warning to consumers about the emerging practice of crowdfunding. We've written about it before, but the state news release below lays it out pretty well,...
Date: 05/15/2012 | Bizblog
Senate to vote on Export-Import Bank today
WASHINGTON — Legislation to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank appeared headed for approval by Congress Tuesday after months of debate over the role of the independent federal agency in aiding American exporters.
Date: 05/15/2012 | Business
Guatemala: U.S. refuses to return adopted girl
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala -- The U.S. government has told Guatemala it won't return a girl adopted in 2008 after allegedly being snatched from her Guatemalan mother, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction Convention at the time of the kidnapping, a Guatemalan official said...
Date: 05/15/2012 | Nation & World
New plan in battle against Alzheimer's
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration adopts a landmark national strategy to fight Alzheimer's on Tuesday, setting the clock ticking toward a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
Americans train Ugandans for Somalia mission
KAKOLA, Uganda -- American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
County councilman to run for 1-month Congress post
Snohomish County Council Chairman Brian Sullivan said Sunday he's agreed to be the Democratic Party's candidate in this year's special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee.
Date: 05/13/2012 | Local News
Man pleads guilty to stealing U.S. trade secrets
SALT LAKE CITY -- A scientist accused of stealing secret formulas from a Utah chemistry company has pleaded guilty to a federal computer charge.
Date: 05/13/2012 | Nation & World
Crop subsidies benefit wealthy, critics say
It's a deal that most businesses would relish: Buy an insurance policy to cover losses or falling prices, and the government will foot most of the bill.
Date: 05/13/2012 | Nation & World
John Edwards to face jury in corruption trial
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards on Friday, meaning the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury.
Date: 05/12/2012 | Nation & World
F-16 jets intercept small plane as Obama leaves L.A.
LOS ANGELES — Two F-16 fighter jets intercepted a small private plane that violated restricted airspace Friday as President Barack Obama was about to depart from Los Angeles International Airport aboard Air Force One, authorities said.
Date: 05/11/2012 | Nation & World
Letter carriers still driven to stamp out hunger
Saturday's forecast is sunny, but there are clouds of uncertainty for postal workers about to do a good deed on the job.
Date: 05/11/2012 | Local News
Crowds welcome Obama
President visits Seattle for fundraisers (photo gallery)
Date: 05/10/2012 | Northwest
Franklin Graham: Obama is shaking his fist at God
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In another provocative comment aimed at Barack Obama, evangelist Franklin Graham on Thursday accused the president of having "shaken his fist" at God by changing his position on same-sex marriage.
Date: 05/10/2012 | Nation & World
Feds push food stamps at farmers markets
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The federal government is spending $4 million to help hook up farmers and low-income customers.
Date: 05/10/2012 | Nation & World
Call for Social Security, Medicare changes to figure in elections
WASHINGTON -- Republicans are taking a bold political gamble by pushing historic changes in Medicare and Social Security.The popular programs, designed primarily to provide health care coverage and income security for seniors, have been politically untouchable for decades.
Date: 05/10/2012 | Nation & World
Postal Service to keep rural post offices open
WASHINGTON — Bending to strong public opposition, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday backed off a plan to close thousands of rural post offices after May 15 and proposed keeping them open, but with shorter operating hours.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Nation & World
Fed approves Chinese bank purchase of U.S. bank
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has for the first time given approval for a large Chinese bank to purchase a U.S. bank. It also gave approval to two other large Chinese banks to expand their operations in the United States.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Business
Proposal would delay end of C-130 work in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY — A proposed amendment in the U.S. House Armed Services Committee would — if accepted — delay efforts to end a program in Oklahoma City to upgrade the cockpits of U.S. Air Force C-130 transport planes.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Business
House votes to renew charter of Ex-Im Bank
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank, culminating a struggle that has split Republicans between pro-bank business groups and anti-big government conservatives seeking to have it dismantled.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Business
Lugar loss tempers Romney primary victories for GOP establishment
After more than 35 years in the United States Senate, Richard Lugar of Indiana was ousted Tuesday by a "tea party" challenger in a Republican primary that demonstrated the perils of compromise in an era of ideological purity and intransigence in Congress.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Nation & World
FDA review favors first drug for HIV prevention
WASHINGTON -- A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Nation & World
GOP blocks Senate debate on Dem student loan bill
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Tuesday to preserve low interest rates for millions of college students’ loans, as the two parties engaged in election-year choreography aimed at showing each is the better protector of families in today’s rugged economy.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Nation & World
James Browning, nation's longest-serving appeals judge, dies at 93
SAN FRANCISCO -- James Browning, the nation’s longest-serving federal appellate judge, died more than a half-century after his appointment by President John F. Kennedy. He was 93.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Nation & World
Federal watchdog urges stronger air-safety oversight
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration has repeatedly dragged its feet in responding to whistleblower complaints about safety problems and stronger oversight of air safety is needed, a government watchdog said Tuesday.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Business
State to get $7 million in drug settlement
OLYMPIA -- Washington state will receive $7 million from multistate settlements with Abbott Laboratories over allegations the company illegally promoted an anti-seizure drug.Abbott has agreed to pay $1.5 billion over the illegal off-label marketing of its anti-seizure drug Depakote.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Northwest
Judge dismisses suit to free orca from captivity
SEATTLE -- A federal judge in Tacoma has dismissed a lawsuit aimed at freeing the killer whale Lolita from captivity at Miami Seaquarium.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Northwest
Senate turns to fight over student loans
WASHINGTON -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other.
Date: 05/06/2012 | Nation & World
Obama dives into campaign, rips into Romney (video)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Plunging into his campaign for a new term, President Barack Obama tore into Mitt Romney on Saturday as a willing and eager "rubber stamp" for conservative Republicans in Congress and an agenda to cut taxes for the rich, reduce spending on education and Medicare and enhance power...
Date: 05/05/2012 | Nation & World
National business events for the coming week
All times are Eastern.Monday, May 7WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve releases consumer credit data for March, 3 p.m.Tuesday, May 8WASHINGTON — Labor Department releases job openings and labor turnover survey for March, 10 a.m.
Date: 05/05/2012 | Bizblog
High court to consider cops' use of Tasers
WASHINGTON -- Malaika Brooks was seven months pregnant when a Seattle police officer stunned her with a Taser. Hawaii resident Jayzel Mattos was at home when she, too, got zapped by police.
Date: 05/05/2012 | Nation & World
Post office: Action needed to stem big losses
WASHINGTON -- With financial losses mounting, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is urging the House to quickly pass legislation that would give it wide authority to close thousands of low-revenue post offices, reduce labor costs and end Saturday delivery.
Date: 05/05/2012 | Nation & World
Secret Service hooker says agents were 'fools' (video)
BOGOTA, Colombia — A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were "idiots" for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy and sensitive information was available, she could have easily...
Date: 05/04/2012 | Nation & World
UN completes study of Native American rights
WASHINGTON — A United Nations fact finder surveying the lives of Native Americans and Alaska Natives said Friday he'll recommend in an upcoming report that some of the tribes' lands be restored, including the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Nation & World
FAA seeks to fine Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air
WASHINGTON — Federal officials are seeking $655,125 in fines against Alaska Airlines and its Horizon Air affiliate for alleged safety violations, including failing to inspect a plane for cracks.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Business
Two things Congress can agree on to fix budget mess
At some point in the intellectual development of a child, there is the discovery that blowing into an empty bottle at just the right angle and velocity it will make a loud noise that can be quite annoying and virtually impossible to ignore -- two very important goals for some kids.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Business
Women suing McKenna over federal health care law
SEATTLE -- Dozens of women filed a lawsuit Thursday against Attorney General Rob McKenna, alleging that his participation in legal action seeking to overturn the new federal health care law threatens access to comprehensive coverage for women.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Northwest
William O. Douglas and the fall of the wild
Recent weeks have seen a lot of controversy about the fate of the historic U.S. Forest Service lookout atop Green Mountain near Darrington.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Need to Know
Effort continues to save Green Mountain fire lookout
DARRINGTON -- While federal lawyers ponder their next move in the saga of the Green Mountain Forest Fire Lookout, people who care about the landmark in the Glacier Peak Wilderness are continuing efforts to preserve it, talking with lawmakers about preventing it from being torn down.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Local News
One month in Congress will pay $15,000
Whoever wins this year's special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee can count on a nice salary and decent benefits for a month's work in arguably the world's most powerful political institution.
Date: 04/29/2012 | Local News
Unmanned drones are patrolling state's border
SEATTLE -- The federal government's unmanned drones patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border are venturing into Washington state's airspace.
Date: 04/28/2012 | Northwest
U.S. may sell new fighter jets to Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The administration of President Barack Obama is raising the possibility that it could sell new jet fighter aircraft to Taiwan to help redress the island's air power deficit with China.
Date: 04/28/2012 | Nation & World
House puts imprint on Obama's defense budget
WASHINGTON -- Domestic military base closings are out. The Global Hawk drone is back in.
Date: 04/28/2012 | Nation & World
GOP student loan plan taps into health funds
WASHINGTON -- Republicans defied a veto threat and the House voted Friday to prevent federal loan costs from doubling for millions of college students. The vote gave the GOP a momentary election-year triumph on a bill that has become enmeshed in partisan battles over the economy, women's issues and...
Date: 04/28/2012 | Nation & World
Boy Scouts kick out lesbian den leader (video)
LOS ANGELES -- The Boy Scouts aren't budging. Neither is the Ohio Cub Scout leader forced to resign for being a lesbian.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Nation & World
New Secret Service rules limit alcohol, unsavory bars
WASHINGTON — Seeking to shake the disgrace of a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service late Friday tightened conduct rules for its agents to prohibit them from drinking excessively, visiting disreputable establishments while traveling or bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Nation & World
Five states fight D.C. for control of federal lands
LAS VEGAS -- Anticipating the bitter battle to come, governors from five Western states will meet in Salt Lake City today to devise strategies to persuade Washington to give them more control over federal land within their own boundaries.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Nation & World
Time to open ears to Social Security’s needs
There are two different stories in the latest Annual Report of the Social Security Trustees: what was said; and what was heard. What was said is the trustees' damage control report, which provides the cold facts and an assessment of what repairs are necessary.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Business
NLRB probes leaks to Romney campaign
WASHINGTON — A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Nation & World
Obamacare rule delivering rebates to 3 million
WASHINGTON -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Business
Supreme Court could back Arizona immigration law
PHOENIX — The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Nation & World
Student loans spark clash in Congress
WASHINGTON -- In an escalating election-year clash, the House will vote Friday on a $5.9 billion Republican bill preventing interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this summer, paid for by cutting money from President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Nation & World
College campus evacuated
Breathing issues reported after foul odor at Everest College
Date: 04/26/2012 | Local News
Secret Service story has reporters chasing hookers, cab drivers
CARTAGENA, Colombia — The Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in hiding.
Date: 04/22/2012 | Nation & World
National business events for the coming week
MONDAY, April 23ConocoPhillips reports quarterly financial results.Hasbro Inc. reports quarterly financial results.Netflix Inc. reports quarterly financial results.Dutch electronics maker Royal Philips Electronics reports quarterly financial results.
Date: 04/21/2012 | Bizblog
FDA proposes rules for nanotechnology in food
WASHINGTON — Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in their packaging may have to provide extra testing data to show the products are safe.
Date: 04/21/2012 | Nation & World
More Secret Service agents resign
WASHINGTON -- Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents' behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama's visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came to the White...
Date: 04/21/2012 | Nation & World
Canada pushes new route for Keystone pipeline
TransCanada has revealed the route it would like to use to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline through Nebraska, where the $7 billion project has become mired in concerns over the nation's most important agricultural aquifer.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Nation & World
25% of adults in U.S. lack health insurance
WASHINGTON -- With the future of the health care law emerging as a major campaign issue this fall, a new survey has found that more than a quarter of adults ages 19 to 64 in the United States lacked health insurance for at least some time in 2011.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Nation & World
Buffett Rule might be fair, but it’s not the answer
The "Buffett rule" tax bill failed in the Senate by a vote of 51-45. Mark Twain once described composer Richard Wagner's music as "better than it sounds." The Buffett Rule legislation is just the opposite: It sounds better than it really is.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Business
States asked to apply for unemployment test plan
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is looking for states that will experiment with unemployment insurance programs by letting people test a job while still receiving benefits.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Business
President Obama: Republicans are wrong on economy
ELYRIA, Ohio -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his Republican rivals are sincere, patriotic and absolutely wrong about how to reinvigorate the economy. He said they "don't seem to remember how America was built."
Date: 04/19/2012 | Nation & World
3 Secret Service agents out in hooker scandal
WASHINGTON -- Moving swiftly, the Secret Service forced out three agents Wednesday in a prostitution scandal that has embarrassed President Barack Obama. A senior congressman welcomed the move to get to the bottom of the tawdry episode but warned "it's not over."
Date: 04/19/2012 | Nation & World
Secret Service satisfied Ted Nugent did not threaten Obama
WASHINGTON -- Rocker Ted Nugent said he had an amicable meeting with the Secret Service on Thursday, seemingly ending the dustup over controversial comments Nugent made at the National Rifle Association convention last weekend.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Nation & World
Agency says eastern Steller sea lions recovering
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Steller sea lions from Alaska's Panhandle to California's Channel Islands have reached recovery targets and should be removed from the endangered species list, according to the federal agency that oversees them.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Northwest
3 agents out in Secret Service hooker scandal
WASHINGTON — The international prostitution scandal at the Secret Service claimed its first casualties Wednesday. The agency announced three agents would leave the service, even as separate U.S. government investigations were under way into the incident. The tawdry episode took a sharp...
Date: 04/17/2012 | Nation & World
Obama wants to target oil market manipulation
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama pushed Congress on Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump.
Date: 04/17/2012 | Business
Secret Service hooker scandal deepens; 11 suspended
CARTAGENA, Colombia — An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents deepened Saturday as 11 agents were placed on leave, and the agency designed to protect President Barack Obama had to offer regret for the mess overshadowing his diplomatic mission to Latin...
Date: 04/15/2012 | Nation & World
Secret Service hooker scandal deepens; 11 placed on leave
CARTAGENA, Colombia — An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents deepened Saturday as 11 agents were placed on leave, and the agency designed to protect President Barack Obama had to offer regret for the mess overshadowing his diplomatic mission to Latin...
Date: 04/13/2012 | Nation & World
Mitt Romney lashes Obama at NRA convention (video)
ST. LOUIS -- Mitt Romney drew a warm reception from the National Rifle Association on Friday as he attacked President Barack Obama for "employing every imaginable ruse and ploy" to restrict gun rights, which Romney pledged not to do if elected in November.
Date: 04/13/2012 | Nation & World
Obama tax return shows 2011 earnings of $789,674
WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama and his family paid more than $160,000 in federal taxes last year.
Date: 04/13/2012 | Nation & World
Goodman ends bid for 1st District House seat
State Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland, said today he is ending his campaign for the 1st Congressional District seat and instead will seek re-election to the Legislature.
Date: 04/13/2012 | Local News
JOBS Act’s merits unclear, but it can’t hurt
One balmy day last week in the Rose Garden, President Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act into law. He was surrounded by a cheerful group of Democratic and Republican senators and representatives -- the main supporters of the legislation who had held its hand and...
Date: 04/13/2012 | Business
Federal aid to help 570 K-C mill employees find work
EVERETT -- Hundreds of mill workers who lost their jobs at Kimberly-Clark are about to get more help finding new work.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Business
75-plus House Democrats are communists, GOP lawmaker says
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Allen West said he believes 75-plus House Democrats are members of the Communist Party, a claim that echoed Joe McCarthy's unsubstantiated 1950s charges that communists had infiltrated the top ranks of the U.S. government.
Date: 04/11/2012 | Nation & World
Obama to visit Seattle on May 10
SEATTLE -- President Barack Obama is coming back to Seattle.A state Democratic official said that Obama will be in the state May 10th. No other details were available Tuesday. Obama last visited the state in February, part of a West Coast fundraising tour.
Date: 04/10/2012 | Northwest
Study: Obama's health care law would add $340B to deficit
WASHINGTON -- Reigniting a debate about the bottom line for President Barack Obama's health care law, a leading conservative economist estimates in a study to be released Tuesday that the overhaul will add at least $340 billion to the deficit, not reduce it.
Date: 04/09/2012 | Nation & World
Consumer watchdog proposes crackdown on mortgage companies
WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday will consider a host of new rules that would force the nation's mortgage servicers to provide greater accountability and transparency in their dealings with borrowers.
Date: 04/09/2012 | Nation & World
Judge won't block discharge of Marine critical of president
SAN DIEGO -- For a second time, a federal judge Friday refused to order a halt to the Marine Corps' process of discharging a sergeant who made comments critical of President Barack Obama on Facebook.
Date: 04/06/2012 | Nation & World
IRS chief warns of congressional inaction on taxes
WASHINGTON -- IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman warned Thursday of a disastrous tax filing season next year if Congress puts off dealing with tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of the year or have already expired.
Date: 04/06/2012 | Business
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