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| Report: Bridge collapse kept Canadian shoppers away | After the Skagit River Bridge collapsed May 23, many business owners in Burlington and Mount Vernon reported declines in customer traffic of 15 to 80 percent, including patronage by increasingly important Canadian shoppers. |
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| Can you really be addicted to your smartphone? | Addiction is a powerful word that gets thrown around a lot these days. There's drug addiction and alcohol addiction – we're all familiar with that. There's also sex addiction and gambling addiction. |
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| Project provides water-quality data for small lakes | |||
| Romance, gender, and the measure of a 'real book' | "Why would you waste your talent on writing … that?" Most romance authors have gotten a similar question. (This one came many years ago from a dear friend who has since taken it back, and not because there were threats involved. I swear.) University professors Joanna Gregson and Jen… |
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| Several empty buildings filling up in Whatcom County | Filling up longtime vacant buildings appeared to be the theme in July from an economic activity standpoint. With the announcement of Carpet Liquidators going into the former Good Guys building and Sears Hometown going into half of the former Michaels craft store space near Cornwall Park,… |
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| The Great Burning: How Wildfires Are Threatening the West | It was the sound of her neighbors' propane tanks exploding that convinced Nancy Myers she had run out of time. Twenty minutes earlier, the 57-year-old potter had been standing with some friends on a rock-strewn hillside above the village of Yarnell, Arizona, on a hot Sunday afternoon,… |
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| An interview with Drs. Joanna Gregson and Jen Lois about the gendered community of romance | I sat down with Dr. Joanna Gregson and Dr. Jen Lois, two professors of sociology who are doing a years-long study of the sociology of the romance writing community. I attended their session at RWA and tweeted the pants off it (you can read the Storify collection of tweets if you'd like to… |
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| Border surveys track usage | Western Washington University students interviewed travelers at the county’s five border crossings this month, gathering data about when, where, how and why they cross the border. |
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| Market Report: North part of Bellingham attracting plenty of new economic activity | When it comes to new economic activity, the north section of Bellingham seems to be the place this summer. With two hotels under construction and one expected to get started next month, the area near Northwest Avenue and West Bakerview Road has been a hub of activity. The area is also… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø students to do survey on cross-border travel | Whatcom County soon will get a better idea of the impact cross-border travel has in this area. The Whatcom Council of Governments is partnering with Western Washington University's Border Policy Research Institute on a large-scale survey of travelers going through the five Whatcom… |