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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc. (OTCBB: ETLE), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, will join Nissan North America today in the debut of the zero-emission LEAF electric vehicle in the Pacific Northwest. The news conference that offers this first glimpse of the LEAF will begin...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
UNDATED -- It's cold in the Pacific Northwest and getting colder.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
It's cold in the Pacific Northwest and getting colder.
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VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
This article from Washington State may reveal more than the reporter intended about the cultural chasm between some “immigrants” and our own society. Also, they come to America for the money only. How diverse are Mixtecs? Many don’t speak Spanish which indicates they were not assimilated to the majority culture of their home country.(After 489 years.) [...]
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A Contest Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
This holiday season, the Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association will be celebrating the family tradition and environmental benefits of a real Christmas tree by giving away Christmas trees to four of their lucky Twitter followers. To be eligible to win a real Christmas tree (via a $40 gift card), just follow the Pacific Northwest Christmas [...]
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Dig in with Kym (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
As I wait for the winter solstice, I find inspiration in the photographs of experts, which remind me of the glory days.
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Handmade Nation (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... years. When ever I am here it instantly feels like home. Once you have the grey dampness of the Pacific Northwest in your bones it never goes away. I am pretty excited that there are four screenings today around the country of Handmade Nation. Come meet me here in Bellevue or if you are in Allentown, PA or Santa Cruz, CA, and Rochester, NY there are shows there as well (details listed...
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Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Several Northwestern states are the beneficiaries of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $620 million in funding for smart-grid demonstration projects announced in November. The losers: two National Grid projects in the Northeast. The $178-million Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project (PDF) was one of 16 regional smart-grid demonstration awards selected by the DOE,...
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roma-wp.net (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
By Tim Brown, INDIANAPOLIS – There’ll be no telling for weeks, maybe months, but for a few days in December the American League West leaned a little more toward the Pacific Northwest. Not a lot. But, a little. The Seattle Mariners have more talented teams in Anaheim and Arlington to overtake, which hasn’t happened. They dusted away that [...]
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GeekDad (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Happy Comic Release Day! Today’s spotlight is on Caliber. I received the trade paperback as part of a review packet that Radical Publishing sent out, as Geek Dad Jonathan detailed last week. Summary: Caliber revisits the myth of King Arthur, this time setting it in the American West, specifically the Pacific Northwest. Arthur is the one chosen to [...]
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Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from eight institutions led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has solved a software and hardware problem that had perplexed scientists studying atmospheric aerosols for climate research. Not only did they fix the problem, but the instrument now performs better than it did when it was new.
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Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Tad DeHaven Since 1908, the U.S. Forest Service has paid 25 percent of its gross receipts to the states for use on roads and schools in the counties where national forests are located. In the Pacific Northwest, receipts started to decline in the late 1980s due to lower timber sales as a result of efforts to protect [...]
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The Insider (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
About a month ago, I took a trip to Mt. St. Helens while returning to Redmond from Portland. It was a beautiful day and thought I would shoot some video and take some photos for readers of the blog who may not be able to make it to the Pacific Northwest. And to bring it all together I used Windows Live Movie Maker . I shot both video and photos with my new Canon PowerShot SX20 IS. The...
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The Writing Life II (Free subscription) | yesterday
... seasonal, it has terrific characters and it gets to the heart of that elusive thing called the Northwest spirit. I’m convinced that with a good production it’d be a hit. ... The parallels between the Rajneeshee movement and Christmas at the Juniper Tavern were obvious, and audiences and critics alike assumed the play was a comic riff on current events. Deemer declared his play...
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The Puget Sound Business Journal (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Purchasing manager optimism in the Pacific Northwest fell last month but the results indicate the economy is still expanding.
