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publication containing articles about

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people, issues, and events in the greater

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area. The publication also publishes a technology news website named TechFlash. In 2010, the newspaper was a finalist for a

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in Explanatory Reporting for a series of stories about the foreclosure crises and the federal shutdown of Seattle-based

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, which remains the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. The stories were reported by staff writers

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and Jeanne Lang Jones, and edited by Managing Editor

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. Congressman

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later honored the PSBJ alongside Pulitzer winners ''

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'' during his remarks, praising the former's "inclusive and thorough" reporting as an "invaluable public service".

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