aggregated from: Strange Bedfellows

Ken Vogel, a former Olympia reporter for The (Tacoma) News Tribune, is in Nashville this weekend covering the Tea Party convention for Politico. Here are a few of his stories:...

aggregated from: Sound Politics

Students awash in purple gathered on the Capitol steps in Olympia Friday, calling for lawmakers to resist further cuts to higher education and to protect financial aid. An estimated 350 to 400 people from the University of Washington's Seattle, Tacom...

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

Time for the monthly reporting roundup, where I read all the local paper rehashes of the NWMLS press release so you don t have to.Here s a link to this month s NWMLS press release: Northwest MLS members report 28 percent increase in pending sales fro...

topics: affordability, everett, foreclosures, mls, neighborhood

aggregated from: Metroblogging Seattle

If you happen to be a cardholder with the Bank of America, you have a chance to score some free entertainment and enlightenment starting this weekend and continuing on the first full weekend of every month through December courtesy of BoA s Museums ...

aggregated from: Seattle Bubble

It would appear that our old friend Bill Virgin (formerly of the print P-I), is now writing a weekly column for the Tacoma News Tribune. Here are a few excerpts from his latest piece regarding what we may expect to see in store for the local economy...

topics: bellevue, development, housing, housing-market, real-estate

aggregated from: Daily Weekly

According to cops, Sauni Misi is lucky his aim isn't any better. The 5'6'', 325-pound Samoan man from Tacoma allegedly tried to settle a road rage incident with gunfire, with near-tragic r... Continue reading Road Rage Suspect Sau...

aggregated from: Daily Weekly

In 1929, Tacoma was suffering through a drought and looking for help. No rain meant no hydroelectric power. Cascade Paper Company had to cut power and lay off 300 people. Fort Lewis had to... Continue reading Could an 80-Year-Old ...

topics: cascade, tacoma

aggregated from: Daily Weekly

For a guy who helped run a complicated scheme that all told defrauded over 71 victims of an estimated $100,000, Leon Anderson managed to get caught in a particularly dumb way. On May 29,... Continue reading Tacoma Check Scammer Do...

aggregated from: James Wallace on Aerospace

One of the largest planes in the world stopped off at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Friday....

aggregated from: James Wallace on Aerospace

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Thursday showed off its first-in-the-nation bird tracking system, which features real-time, mobile displays of bird activity on and around the airport....