Gas prices still holding steady
Labor Day was more than a week ago and the summer driving season is quickly fading into memory, but it hasn’t helped cool off local gasoline prices yet. According to AAA, the average price for a gallon of unleaded fuel in the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett region was $2.01 on Monday – exactly the same price as just before Labor Day. The statewide average price also has stalled between $2 and $2.01, even though the national average, which was $1.84 Monday, has begun falling.
Everett Chamber decries Senn attack
The Everett Area Chamber of Commerce moved to distance itself Monday from news that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was the financial backer of political ads targeting Deborah Senn, a candidate for state attorney general. Everett Chamber President Louise Stanton-Masten said her organization’s bylaws prohibit involvement in individual campaigns and that she has been assured by the national chamber that no local funds were used in the ads, which have since been pulled from the airwaves after a controversy over nondisclosure of their financial backers.
New Jefferson nickels coming
Thomas Jefferson is getting a makeover, the first since his face was put on the nickel in 1938. A new portrait of Jefferson, the third president, will be on the front of the two new coins. Each coin also will have a change on the back, “with one of the designs harking back to a favorite coin of the American people,” the U.S. Mint said. The designs will be revealed Thursday.
New Linux standard wins agreement
In an effort to be more competitive with Microsoft Corp., supporters of the Linux operating system have agreed on a standard version that seeks to ensure programs written for one Linux distribution will work with the others. The agreement organized by the nonprofit Free Standards Group is meant to prevent Linux from splitting into several conflicting distributions.
Bon name faces retirement in 2005
Just more than a year after The Bon Marche took on the hybrid name of Bon-Macy’s, Federated Department Stores Inc. said Monday that the retail chain will just be called Macy’s in early 2005. Federated, which owns Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and regional department stores across the country, said it wants to consolidate them under the Macy’s or Bloomingdale’s names. The Bon Marche was started in Seattle in 1890 and became part of Federated in 1988. Signs at Bon-Macy’s stores, including those at Alderwood and Everett Mall, will be changed sometime early next year.
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