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- It's not every day that a big municipal project turns out to be cheaper than expected, so let's have three cheers for the first phase of the Mercer Corridor project, bids for which came in millions of dollars under budget.
- Some Eastside residents got a bit shook up when a quake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale struck beneath Carnation early this morning.
- The retirement of Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices division which oversees games and mobile phones, was announced this morning, coming as a surprise to many observers who didn't even know Microsoft had a mobile phone division.
- In a scandal that has everything but rock n' roll, 72-year-old Seattle doctor Leonard D. Hudson stands accused of trading painkiller prescriptions for sex with a woman he had met through an online escort service. Which apparently doctors aren't supposed to do. Who knew?
- Pioneer Square businesses are still giving the cold shoulder to their newest resident, the non-profit, homeless distributed newspaper Real Change.
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