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• Gates Foundation hurt by downturn

  June 9, 2009 in City SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation may be the world’s richest charitable foundation, but that hardly shields it from the economic downturn. Between January and April, the foundation …

• Hanford project receives cleanup stimulus

  April 1, 2009 in City on Page A6 RICHLAND – The Department of Energy plans to spend about $2 billion in stimulus money to speed some of the cleanup at Washington’s highly contaminated Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Hanford will …

• Postmaster General: Mail days may need to be cut

  January 28, 2009 in Nation/World Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that …