Pierce County, Washington is one of the prettiest areas on the planet. It has 1,806 square miles with about 800,000 inhabitants as of July 2009. It's home to Mt. Rainier, and Tacoma, it's largest city. The South Sound area enjoys a lot of open spaces and a lot of Puget Sound waterfront with a tot
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08/11/2010
The Smith Tower The Smith Tower opened for business with much fanfare on July 3, 1914. The developer, New York tycoon Lyman Cornelius Smith (1834-1910), originally conceived of the project as a 14 story office building. His son, Burns Lyman Smith had bigger ideas and took on the project when his
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08/08/2010
We’re a little over the half way mark through this year on August 6th. Today is Friday, it's late afternoon and we're headed into Seafair weekend in Seattle. I had a few minutes before shutting things down at the office and thought I'd take a look "the" very very top, (the pinnacle) of this local
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08/06/2010
The first phase of the Smarter Highways project in the Northwest will launch next week. I've been watching the State Department of Transportation install these over the freeway lights for a couple of months now as I commute back and forth to Seattle. The first set is from south Boeing Field every
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08/06/2010
As I mentioned in my previous post about Fircrest... Fircrest, Washington: Flags and Flowers I was on my way to the Green Spot Tea House (check it out on the map below) for an internet marketing roundtable. I thought it would be interesting to follow up with a quick market analysis to see whats
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08/05/2010
Fircrest, Washington: Flags and Flowers Fircrest is a wondeful little town adjacent to Tacoma on the southwest. I was on my way yesterday morning to an Internet Marketing Roundtable at the Green Spot Tea House in University Place, another special little burg adjacent on the west. I was driving th
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08/05/2010
I have a lot of passion for prospecting. No matter what industry we're in, our primary function as entrepreneurs is looking for leads. The challenge is as always: Find the freshest, most accurate, focused, and affordable data possible! An important segment of the market place is undeniably the fi
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08/03/2010
Grandma’s House… We moved from the Renton Highlands to the Earlington neighborhood in 1958. Grandma and Grandpa moved that same year. Grandma just couldn’t bear to leave the neighborhood where she was surrounded by relatives and friends of so many years. Grandpa acquiesced, and they moved across
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08/01/2010
