"It’s not like what I say makes any difference. My best self-praise never finds its way into my actual performance review. And not once has my self-eval moved my raise from fractions to whole numbers."

The Civic Alliance for a Sound Economy (CASE) has endorsed three Democrats with business or non-profit backgrounds in contests  with fellow Democrats.

The phased closures start this Monday, May 28, with 35 stores staying open until June 1, customers will see most limited service on May 31.

Darran Bruce sounds serious about towing floating billboards along Puget Sound and the major lakes.

A new report says that cross-border shopping is costing the Canadian economy much more than expected, and a change in the duty-free exemption will soon make the problem worse.

After several high bidders in the state's auction for the rights to sell liquor at existing store locations backed out, the sales rights are once again on the table. 

In 2002, residents passed a law banning new billboards on private property. Instead, companies put up hundreds more, and the city has signed off on an agreement to let one firm put up 125 smaller ones in return for removing some of the larger new ones.

With a bank run threatening to shake Greece, Angela Merkel said she wants to keep Greece in euro zone.

Everywhere else, gasoline prices are falling but they soared 20 percent in the Northwest over the weekend. Oil companies' 'polite' explanation? No interviews.

McClatchy reports, "The heavy fuel that oceangoing vessels burn adds so much to air pollution hundreds of miles inland that the United States joined with Canada during President George W. Bush’s administration to ask the International Maritime Organization to create an emissions-control area along the coasts."