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WASHINGTON — It's the coldest of cold cases.
OLYMPIA — State lawmakers enter their final week of session in Olympia on Monday with little to show for what has been a 98-day struggle to come to grips with a $9 billion budget shortfall.
Thurston County bankruptcy filings rose nearly 50 percent in the first quarter of the year, another undesirable economic statistic in a region reeling from higher unemployment, fewer home sales and lower consumer spending.
House Democrats haven't given up on a tax referendum for the Nov. 3 ballot, and the 0.3-cent sales-tax plan could go to a committee vote in the next few days.
OLYMPIA — The return of public access to a portion of South Sound's most costly and complicated hazardous-waste site was celebrated Friday at the tip of the Port of Olympia peninsula.