King County boasts 68,390 millionaires
Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, May 1, 2007
SEATTLE – King County is among the country’s top 10 counties that are home to millionaires, according to a London-based market-research company.
Findings from TNS Global’s annual Affluent Market Research Program showed that the number of U.S. millionaire households has risen to a record high of 9.3 million as of mid-2006, a 5 percent increase from the previous year.
King County came in tenth with 68,390 millionaire households, according to the report. The top 5 were Los Angeles County with 268,136; Cook County, Ill., 171,118; Orange County, Calif., 116,157; Maricopa County, Ariz., 113,414; and San Diego County, Calif., 102,138.
Rounding out the top 10 was: Harris County, Texas with 99,504 millionaires; Nassau County, N.Y., 79,704; Santa Clara County, Calif., 74,824; and Palm Beach County, Fla., 71,221.
The TNS study is based on a national sample of over 1,600 households with a net worth of $500,000 or more, excluding primary residence.
Seattle ranks second on most humane city list
Seattle and Portland, Ore., placed No. 2 and 3 on an animals rights group’s list of America’s most humane cities.
San Francisco ranked No. 1 in the Humane Society of the United States’ inaugural index, released Monday, which the organization compiled using state and national data.
The group used such factors as the number of fur retailers per capita and the ratio of wildlife watchers to hunters in ranking the country’s largest 25 metropolitan areas by those most compassionate toward animals.
Rounding out the top 10 were Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Los Angeles; Boston; Tampa, Fla., and Baltimore (tied); and Riverside, Calif.
An 11-year-old female fennec fox at Woodland Park Zoo was euthanized Saturday after suffering acute seizures. Zoo veterinarian Kelly Helmick said the fox had a routine preventive health examination last fall that revealed a mammary tumor, which was successfully removed. A follow-up examination on April 20 revealed an enlarged liver, presumably due to cancer, Helmick said. Liver failure is the presumed cause of the seizures, Helmick said.
Fennec foxes live in arid regions of North Africa and the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas.
Researchers planned to perform an autopsy on a five-ton, nearly 30-foot gray whale that washed ashore dead near Johnson Point.
The whale was too thin for its age – estimated at up to 2 years – said John Calambokidis, a research biologist for Olympia-based Cascadia Research.
“Starvation was an element of it, and there may be other elements we discover during the examination,” Calambokidis told The Olympian newspaper.
People living in the area discovered the carcass on Sunday, and some were taking photos of the whale as researchers took measurements. The whale was on its belly, so researchers were not immediately able to determine its sex.
D.C: Rep. McMorris Rodgers gives birth
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers became the first member of Congress in more than a decade to give birth when her son was born a month early, her office said.
Cole McMorris Rodgers was born at 3:14 a.m. on Sunday at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, according to the office of the Republican from Eastern Washington’s 5th District.
The baby had been due on May 29, her office said Monday. He weighed 5 pounds, 9 ounces and is in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to address minor complications.
Associated Press
