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SEATTLE, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Ernst & Young LLP today announced the finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Award in the Pacific Northwest. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and ex Full Article at PR Newswire

The social entrepreneurial nonprofit organization merges the best of business success and social good PORTLAND, Ore. , May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- DePaul Industries, a Northwest nonprofit organization dedicated to creating employment opportunit Full Article at PR Newswire

The Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. This summer, Microsoft is launching a new green energy initiative in which all of the company's direct operations, "including data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings," will go Full Article at Ars Technica

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Year Up announced today that six graduates and four staff members from its Bay Area and Puget Sound sites will attend Interop Las Vegas, the leading comprehensive, independent business technology even Full Article at PR Newswire

PASADENA, Calif. , April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The herpes zoster vaccine, also known as the shingles vaccine, is generally safe and well tolerated according to a Vaccine Safety Datalink study of 193,083 adults published online in the Journal of Interna Full Article at PR Newswire

SEATTLE, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Puget Sound Sage, a Seattle economic policy advocacy organization, and authored by economic impact expert Dr. Chris Fowler of the University of Washington, reveals that each new Walmart store open Full Article at PR Newswire

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SEATTLE, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While Seattle's downtown hotel sector sets for widely projected growth and profitability, its workforce endures poverty wages, pain and injury from unsustainable management practices. Our Pain, Their Gai Full Article at PR Newswire

GROTON, Conn. , April 4 (UPI) -- Contracts for maintenance and modernization work on seven U.S. Navy submarines and an aircraft carrier have been awarded to General Dynamics Electric Boat. The first contract is worth $15.4 million and is for the planning, Full Article at United Press International

HOUSTON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At Convergence 2012 today Microsoft Corp. announced 11 new Microsoft Dynamics customers from across the government, education and healthcare markets. These customers, including the United States Citizenship and Imm Full Article at PR Newswire

Published: March. 14, 2012 at 12:49 AM SEATTLE, March 14 (UPI) -- People who score highest on a key test for alcoholism experience longer post-operative hospital stays than those with lower scores, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Anna D. Rubinsky of Ve Full Article at United Press International

SAN FRANCISCO and SEATTLE, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Keiser Marine, the well respected full service marine surveying and consulting company, announces expanded services at the same low rate. As a North West based company, Keiser Marine serves the Pu Full Article at PR Newswire

Initially named B&B Heating, a strong customer satisfaction ethos made the company famous in the Puget Sound. The company steadily grew and moved to a larger facility in Redmond, WA in 1986 - remaining there to this day. History highlights include being Full Article at PR Newswire

Only one pollster has been brave enough to survey Washington, which will hold its Republican caucus on Saturday. That firm, Public Policy Polling, polled the state once in mid-February and again this week. The survey showed a shift toward Mitt Romney; h Full Article at The New York Times

Washington, D.C.’s weather forecasting challenges were documented yesterday. From trying to nail down the rain-snow line in winter to predicting the timing and location of pop-up thunderstorms in summer, the fickle nature of D.C.’s weather presents prob Full Article at The Washington Post