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The University of Washington is offering $1,000 and a place in history to someone who can come up with a new school anthem.

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Posting agent Richard Nakamura's job is to deliver residential foreclosure notices. Here, he posts a notice at a Juanita-area home. Read story

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He's a King County foreclosure man: "I'm the bearer of bad news"

Foreclosure man Richard Nakamura is on a tight schedule these days. Business is booming, even here in the relatively prosperous Greater Seattle area. It's never-ending, the list of homes, condos and even entire apartment complexes that Nakamura visits in his Toyota pickup. Nakamura's official job title is posting agent, and he is one of three such employees who work for Foreclosure Expeditors/Initiators of Bellevue, one of the bigger players in the business.

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Light rail clears way in Rainier Valley

Over the past year private, for-profit developers have proposed more than 1,500 condo and apartment units within a 10-minute walk of a rail station. They will be the Rainier Valley's first multifamily projects built without government subsidies in more than 30 years.
New light rail clears way for an MLK makeover
Light rail spurs development along MLK Way

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