Woman takes job hunt to the streets of downtown Seattle (Seattle Times)

After losing her job of eight years when her marketing employer downsized, Simmjaze Sayles has spent 20 months looking for full time work, finally resorting to wearing a sandwich sign in downtown Seattle that says, “I WANT A JOB And Nothing Else!”

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Port of Seattle to pay BNSF $81M for Eastside rail line (Seattle Times)

Port of Seattle officials have signed final documents to pay BNSF Railway $81.4 million for the partially abandoned Renton-to-Snohomish rail line. A year and a half ago, the Port was willing to pay $103 million plus closing costs, but a weakened real-estate market resulted in a lower price.

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EPROPERTYDATA HOSTS 2ND ANNUAL COMMERCIAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE INNOVATION SUMMIT (dBusinessNews.com)

Gig Harbor, WA (December 21, 2009) – ePropertyData, the leader in Commercial Information Exchange (CIE) technology, brought together a group of commercial real estate experts for the 2 nd Annual Commercial Information Exchange Innovation Summit held in Las Vegas in early December.

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Seattle Port’s purchase of Eastside rail line finalized (Seattle Times)

The Port of Seattle announced today it is buying the partially abandoned Renton-to-Seattle rail line from BNSF Railway for a reduced price of $81.4 million — a deal that may eventually lead to side-by-side trails and passenger trains.

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Food-stamp use takes record jump in Washington (Seattle Times)

A record number of people in Washington state are enrolling in the federally funded food-stamp program, outpacing the national growth rate.

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