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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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Then and Now: Universal Auto Company

Stretching from the Model T to the Model A era, the Universal Auto Company was a Ford car dealership that began operation on Havermale Island. The name was likely borrowed from Ford’s nickname for the Model T as the “universal car,” referencing the car as a platform that could serve as a passenger car or adapted as a truck or cargo van. Fifteen million Model Ts were sold between 1908 and 1926.

News >  Washington

Wenatchee-based CMI Orchards, Royal Family Farms partner to turn agriculture waste into soil

Mar. 15—ROYAL CITY — The Soil Center will break ground in late May in Royal City and provide orchard growers and dairy farmers an opportunity to get rid of waste and compost it into reusable soil amendments, according to CMI Orchards. Wenatchee-based CMI Orchards announced The Soil Center was a partnership with Royal Family Farms of Royal City in a March 5 press release. The Soil Center will ...
News >  Washington

Feds plan for 14,000-acre ‘clean energy’ park in Eastern WA called shortsighted

Mar. 15—The federal government has a new plan for land it has controlled in the Tri-Cities area since World War II. By April 15 the Department of Energy wants to hear proposals from companies wishing to negotiate leases and develop unused land into clean energy projects, such as solar farms. The 14,000 acres are at the south end of the Hanford nuclear site by Richland in Eastern Washington. A ...
News >  Higher education

Workers at WWU, one of Bellingham’s biggest employers, rally for higher wages, benefits

Mar. 15—Union workers and others rallied Thursday at Western Washington University, seeking increased pay in the face of inflation and the rising cost of rent. About 200 students and employees, from professors to food servers and maintenance workers, gathered at WWU's Red Square for a noon event on March 14, or "Pi Day" in pop culture, to ask the Legislature to fully fund public education and ...
News >  Washington

What’s next for WA ‘Sunshine Committee’ with exits, legislative apathy

Mar. 15—OLYMPIA — Toby Nixon, a longtime government transparency advocate and former state legislator, has been tapped to lead a committee that has been toiling in relative futility to scrutinize the hundreds of exemptions to the state's public disclosure laws. Since Washington voters approved the state's public disclosure laws by ballot measure in 1972, legislators have passed hundreds of ...