Topic: Seattle
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A California man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to threatening to kill Congressman Jim McDermott in phone messages that railed against the Washington state Democrat's opposition to extending federal tax cuts.Charles Habermann, 32, was arrested in January, four days after ...
Back in February, Congress passed and the President signed a $787 billion stimulus package. Onvia (ONVI), a Seattle company that tracks federal spending, estimates that some $65 billion of the $420 billion that was in the stimulus package for contract and infrastructure ...
The "stimulus" legislation just signed into law by President Obama includes billions of dollars for transportation and infrastructure, with little regard as to whether the projects meet any serious national or regional need other than supposedly creating or " On California State ...
Kerry Killinger can't say he wasn't warned. Two months before Washington Mutual failed, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned then-CEO Kerry Killinger that he ought to sell the Seattle-based thrift before it deteriorated further.. "Paulson said, 'You should have sold to JPMorgan Chase ...
