Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-Up
- Farmers markets make life taste great. We are sure the lucky folks in Columbia City agree, as they welcome the opening of their neighborhood farmers market today (3-7 p.m.). Hold your horses, additional markets opening soon.
- Bank robbing bandit made the rounds this a.m. with a quick grab-and-go at the Banner Bank in First Hill. FBI suspects it may be the same man who robbed a Wells Fargo bank this past Saturday.
- Feel Good Business News: Local bio-tech Dendreon paving the way with new prostate-cancer therapy; The homegrown online restaurant guide Urbanspoon sold to a giant of the Internetz.
- Feel Sad Business News:SBUX second quarter earnings, down 77 percent are almost too hard to hear; Corporate restructuring sucks as 1/3 of ZymoGenetics is laid-off.
- Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48) announced that his Eastside-dwelling hat will be thrown into the "I'm running for King County Executive" ring. That makes five.
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