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Water Cooler: Losing a job? Get a fair reference first

By ERIN CONROY

Confirm the answers your boss will give to prospective employers, and get the details in writing.

Lender takes over stalled golf resort in Puerto Rico

By DAVID McFADDEN

Lenders have assumed ownership of a stalled luxury resort in Anguilla that has the tiny tourism-dependent island's only golf course and was codeveloped by a U.S. media mogul, officials said Monday.


Free house painting for low income

By Journal Staff

Applications for free house-painting for low-income seniors and low-income people with disabilities in Tacoma and Pierce County are due April 15. Volunteers from Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful do the work.


Time for states to privatize liquor sales?

By RACHEL LA CORTE

Washington is one of a handful of states weighing whether privatizing liquor sales is the way to get back into the black.


Community center dream lives on even after 20 years of struggling

By THOMAS BOYD

The extreme green project has attracted a diverse group of people to help remodel an old gas station in Portland, but the Delta Sigma Theta sorority is still short of its $700,000 goal.


Cheney seeks help with school projects

By Journal Staff

Cheney School District No. 360 is seeking a consultant to manage nearly $100 million in school projects.


Teufel restructures under Chapter 11

By BENJAMIN MINNICK

The weak economy and changes in a lender's plans forced Teufel Nursery to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, but now the Portland-based landscaping and nursery company says it is poised to come out of bankruptcy.

Developer says north lot project ready, but capital markets aren't

By JON SILVER

Kevin Daniels says local real estate markets need to rebound, too, but he expects that to happen relatively quickly.


Dry weather may mean $6M loss for BPA in ‘10

By WILLIAM McCALL

If the forecast holds, the melting snow would produce the lowest runoff in the Northwest since 2001.


Would pollution tax help state budget?

ironmentalists have begun publicly pushing a major hike in pollution taxes, unveiling a plan to aid the state's recession-hobbled budget by raising about $225 million a year, mostly from oil refineries.


UPS: Pilots must agree to more cuts

Shipping giant UPS is again telling its pilots they need to agree to more cost savings or the company will have to furlough at least 300 of them.


Biggest Boeing plane takes flight

The biggest plane Boeing Co. has ever built takes off on its first flight.


ODOT fixes some street sign typos

Not only are the signs wrong, they're hard to pronounce.


Dow closes below 10,000

The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months Monday on nagging concerns about debt loads in Europe.



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