Everett extends talks for new hotel (Everett Herald)
EVERETT -- City officials need more time to negotiate with a Seattle developer picked to build a 10-story hotel on vacant city land in downtown Everett.
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Hard Rock Café to open in Seattle (Seattle Times)
Hard Rock Café will open a Seattle restaurant next fall a half-block from the Pike Place Market.
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Journalists: Register for Annual Meeting of Allergists in Seattle (Newswise)
Journalists are invited to report on the latest developments in the treatment of allergic diseases presented at the ACAAI Annual Meeting, Nov. 6-11, 2008, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle. Physicians, researchers and international experts will discuss allergies, asthma and immunologic disorders that afflict more than 50 million Americans.
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Boeing, union in 48-hour contract overtime talks (INO News)
(AP:SEATTLE) Representatives from Boeing Co. and the machinists union met with a federal mediator Thursday as the clock ticked on an unusual two-day contract extension after union production workers soundly rejected a contract offer and voted to strike.
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Columbia Nabs Chihuly Exhibit (Free Times)
In the world of artistic glassmaking, Seattle-based Dale Chihuly is a modern titan, a master of organic form and elaborate structure whose stunning works adorn everything from the world’s best art museums to the ceiling of the Belagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Businessman sets sights on taxis in the sky (The Florence Times-Daily)
Shoals businessman Ed Robbins wants to bring some variety to commercial air service in the Shoals.Robbins, owner of E.S. Robbins Corp. in Muscle Shoals, is working with Robert McKinney, chief operating officer of a Seattle, Wash.-based air taxi service, to bring a similar service to the Shoals.
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Blanchette: Huletts find solace through faith, baseball (The Spokesman-Review)
LAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Tim Hulett paced his hotel room, trying to will his imagination through the radio and into the eyes, hands and synapses of his oldest son.
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Wednesday's sports briefs (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Former Kansas stars Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur were sent home Wednesday from the NBA's mandatory rookie transition program for violating unspecified league rules. Source told ESPN The Magazine they were caught in their hotel room with marijuana and women.
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Boeing, Machinists talk in last-ditch effort to avert strike (Seattle Times)
Union leaders and Boeing executives spent the first 15 hours of a 48-hour cooling-off period to avert a strike just getting to the negotiating...
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Chef at Seattle's Lampreia sets out to make not a bigger eatery, but a better one (Seattle Times)
Scott Carsberg, chef/owner of Lampreia, is moving his long-standing Belltown restaurant to fancy digs in the Gallery building at Second and Broad.
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