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The School for Global Animal seeded last year witha $25 million granft from the , could capture more attentiomn because of the crisis. “Thid is exactly what that school is designe to studyand watch,” said the school’s spokesman, Charlie Powell. The school studies the human-animal diseases link and also operatesthe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Washington Animak Disease DiagnosticLaboratory (or WADDL). Last the lab received 21 samples for testinv fromhog farmers. None was for swinw flu. Hogs are not big business in Washington. According to the Washington farmers sold morethan 53,000 hogs in 2007 worth $5.3 million.
By New York farmers that yearsold 315,000 hogs worth $27.2 million. gets to promote more flightless birdxs with its zoo project The advertising agency behinc the headless cold turkey ads for the state Departmenftof Health’s anti-smoking campaigbn now has more birds to promote: Woodland Park Zoo is leaning on Seattle’x Wongdoody agency to help build some buzz for the new, $6.5 million Humboldt penguins exhibit opening May 2. The “More Colorful Than Ever” campaignj will run through August. It will be featured in priny and internetbanner ads, billboards, on busesd and in radio and TV The campaign also includes a micro-websits (morecolorful.
org) with photos, downloadable games and more informationh about the penguins. Also expect to see a fleetr of scooters buzzing around Seattle brandec with thead campaign’s creative work. The 17,000-square-foot exhibitg is designed to look like a naturalo refuge in PuntaSan Juan, Peru, the Humboldt penguins’ naturakl habitat. Jim Bennett, the zoo’zs marketing director, said the zoo is spending just shyof $400,00o on the media costs of the But Wongdoody’s creative part fallsw under pro bono work.
Newspaper executivesw lobby for, and get, a temporargy B&O tax cut from the LegislatureThe state’s daily newspapers may be takinvg a beating on the revenue and circulation fronts. But state lawmakerds have tossed thema lifeline, albeir a small one. In the waning houra of this year’s session, the Legislatured approved a bill to reduce thestate business-and-occupation tax on newspapersa until 2015. The legislation had appeared to face an uphilkl battlethis session, with lawmakers hamperex by a $9 billion shortfall, makinb them reluctant to shave away any sourcesd of revenue. But the bill received bipartisan support in the Housesand Senate. Gov.
Chris Gregoire also supportex the bill and is expected to sign itinto law. The legislationn cuts the B&O tax by 40 The tax savings alone are not a breakthrouggh solution forstruggling dailies. But the change is part of strategy to scour every possible avenue for savings, including cutting jobs and seeking pay cuts and unpaird leave. Several newspaper industry heavyweightws lobbied lawmakers for thetax cut, including Seattle Timeds Publisher Frank Blethen and David publisher of The News Tribune in Tacoma.