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Digging into meat pies delivers the scoop on rising gas prices

A little journalism lesson learned: Sometimes, the best way to find out about something is to stop talking to spokespeople — and start listening to their stomachs.

With spiking local gas prices being partially blamed on the Feb. 17 fire that swept through the BP…

2012-03-05
Foreclosure notices stay with print papers

They’ve called off the cavalry in Olympia — Washington’s small-newspaper publishers on Tuesday quashed a Senate bill that would have required all residential foreclosure notices to be published on the Internet, a move that the papers fear could lead to the curtailment or elimination of…

2012-02-01
The strange case of Washington's newest newspaper publisher

Community newspapers, those familiar once- or twice-weekly papers that line family scrapbooks with tales of athletic glory, county-fair ribbons and Main Street parades, are as much a part of the region's history as courthouse statues and church steeples. A newspaper was often among the very…

2012-01-31
Webb, Nielsen named Page Legacy Educators for 2012 2012-01-19
Bellingham coal port plan trips over new objections

October is threatening to turn into a rough month for developers of a large shipping terminal at Cherry Point north of Bellingham. SSA Marine, which is proposing the exporting of some 48 million tons of coal a year plus 8 million tons of other commodities, continues to have problems because of…

2011-10-05
Valerie Bauman joins PSBJ to cover nonprofits, research beat

Valerie Bauman has joined the Puget Sound Business Journal as a reporter covering nonprofits and research.
She brings experience that includes five years at The Associated Press in Mississippi, North Carolina and New York. Her work has been published in USA Today, The New York Times and…

2011-09-23
Carolyn Nielsen presents at journalism conference, elected to national board 2011-09-02
Sheila Webb to be honored by Association for Education In Journalism and Mass Communication this week 2011-08-08
Whidbey Islander sings in ‘Porgy and Bess’ at the Seattle Opera

Samantha O’Brochta, of Freeland, thought she was dreaming when the Seattle Opera called her back.

“A friend of mine posted the audition on Facebook,” O’Brochta said.

That’s how she found out the major company was holding auditions for…

2011-08-04
Don’t Ms.: Shameless Karaoke, The Whistleblower, Gender Odyssey and More!

Today is my first day at Ms., and I’m feeling blissfully overwhelmed by the wealth of feminist knowledge in this office—including information on hundreds of upcoming feminist or women-centered events. Below are my top six picks for this week. Here’s hoping you live near one of these cities:…

2011-08-03
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