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Allbirds shoes pivots to AI, stock surges 500+% in a day, tax season comes to an end, Starbucks presence in Seattle in question, Comcast agrees to $117M settlement, Pentagon taps manufacturing companies to boost weapon production, GM to open engineering office in Seattle
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PNW Market Look
As of market close 4.15.26
Nuclear Stock Face-Off: Is Oklo or NuScale Power the Better Buy Right Now? (Yahoo)
HVAC firm Madison Air raises $2.2 billion in US IPO (Reuters)
Headline Roundup
Nearly 200-Acre Central Oregon Ranch Sells for $15.6 Million, the State’s Biggest Deal This Year (MG)
An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility (TC)
Intel Climbs 5%: Landmark Google Partnership and Geopolitical Tailwinds Fuel the Rally (WS)
Measles takes a plane to Idaho, which has worst vaccination rate in US (AT)
Montana ranch tied to ‘Yellowstone’ universe hits market for $16.3M (Yahoo)
(WA) State invests $500K for Bothell quantum computing expansion, adds up to 2,000 jobs (KOMO)
Stock-clearing firm DTCC taps Amazon to aid shift to cloud- Bloomberg News (TV)
West Linn approves $17M for early work on new operations complex despite pending appeal (ORL)
7-Eleven expects to close 645 stores this year (DJC)
AI as an attorney? Student uses ChatGPT, Gemini to sue UW over alleged racial discrimination (KUOW)
Forest Service develops ‘sustained yield’ aimed at propping up Montana’s flagging timber industry (MTFP)
The award-winning “Best Damn BBQ Sauce” was founded in Salem (SBJ)
Salem Is the 9th Most Dependent Midsize U.S. Metro on Small Businesses (SBJ)
300+ homes proposed on Boise-area farmland by a new WinCo. What just happened (IDS)
Is Starbucks breaking up with Seattle? (ST)
Legacy Health is now out of network for Regence customers in the Portland area (PBJ)
Comcast agrees to $117.5M settlement in data breach case (Ground)
Pentagon Approaches Automakers, Manufacturers to Boost Weapons Production (WSJ)
(MT) State auditor says nearly $1 million in fraud loss prevented; fraud reports on record pace (DM)
Venture funding gap widens between Seattle's haves, have-nots (PBJ)
GM to open software engineering office in Seattle tower (PBJ)
Bellevue church property fetches $16.5 million ahead of redevelopment (PBJ)
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Ex-Nike exec plans to open sneaker museum in Portland (PBJ)
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Northbound I-5 reopens a day ahead of schedule, three weeks after landslide (CD)
“The 4-mile section of interstate between mile markers 246 and 252 closed March 19 when a 250-foot-long, 100-foot-tall section of the slope slid onto the road. Crews cleared 7,000 cubic yards of debris, enough to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools, from the section of road.
The debris was taken to different private gravel pits in the area, an agency spokesperson said.
A Burlington-based construction crew worked seven days a week to stabilize the slope, according to the agency. That included anchoring 96 steel dowels (one even had a sloth on it) 15 to 25 feet deep into the slope.”
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