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Puyallup Seeks Library Funding Fix
SUMMARY: Puyallup’s city-run library has suffered deep cuts and can’t keep up with customer service demands so the city is being urged by local library officials to examine contracting with or annexing...
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Nailed Lakewood merchant: “it was necessary to cheat on the taxes”
SUMMARY: State documents released today show that a merchant in the Pierce County, Washington city of Lakewood admitted to cheating the state out of at least $92,543 in sales taxes at his cigarettes...
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Weak job growth triggers frustration for Washington’s unemployed
When Tommy Lamoth lost her job in 2009, she didn’t envision a job hunt that would include eight months of collecting unemployment benefits, ping-ponging between temp jobs across Seattle, and still...
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WSDOT survey: If there’s more freight delay, you will pay
If traffic congestion on Washington’s interstate and state highways were to grow by a far-from-impossible 20 percent, 56 percent of freight-dependent businesses would pass the added costs on to...
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Puyallup council likely to ban electric dog leashes
Following several months of investigation, the Puyallup City Council Tuesday night is poised to give approval to an ordinance that electronic dog leashes and collars don’t meet its code requirements to...
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Sound Transit’s ridership up, but big challenges loom
Commuter volume through August of this year on the buses and trains of Seattle’s regional transit agency Sound Transit was 18.5 million, up 11.7 percent compared to the same time last year. Regional...
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Citizen Panel: Sound Transit Needs To Tighten It Up
In its year-end 2012 Performance Report, presented Thursday at the monthly Sound Transit board meeting in Seattle, ST’s Citizen Oversight Panel took the regional transit agency to task for poor...
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Troubles for most Pierce County school districts in 8th grade
By a rate of more than two-to-one, public school districts in Pierce County last year underperformed the statewide average for percentage of eighth-graders who could pass Washington’s math achievement...
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