Washington

Big stores, small, specialty and grocers – all will compete for your liquor
Bellingham Herald
This one battle for liquor business in Tacoma, with two powerful vendors directly across the street from each other, is a microcosm of the larger contest for market share that will be played out throughout Washington in the coming months.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
Salon
But they had been going through divorce proceedings since 2010, and Mary grappled for years with depression and alcohol. “She struggled so hard, for so long, with mental illness, which so many Americans suffer with,” Kerry Kennedy said in brief remarks

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Freightliner, Westport Schedule Cross-Country Trips to Prove Viability of CNG
Truckinginfo
Though the truck can run on either CNG or gasoline, the team plans to make the trip almost entirely on natural gas. "These days, CNG at the pump is about half the price of diesel or gasoline," said a Westport spokesperson in a statement.

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In the South Sound and statewide, competition for liquor-sales money shaping
TheNewsTribune.com
This one battle for liquor business in Tacoma, with two powerful vendors directly across the street from each other, is a microcosm of the larger contest for market share that will be played out throughout Washington in the coming months.

Obama Faces Questions on Federal Fight for Same Sex Marriage
ABC News (blog)
But African-American Voters, like most of the US voting population, can hear through the GOP noise, and see through the lame Republican whitewash. People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. The sound of Silence is deafening.

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