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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
C.R. Roberts is a Tacoma native. Before joining The News Tribune, he worked as a freelance writer and part-time cowhand on a cattle ranch in Northern Idaho. He writes about small business, personal finance and other business issues.
John Gillie writes about the aerospace and airline industries, commercial development and consumer issues. During his 30-year-tenure at The News Tribune he has covered issues as diverse as the Native American fishing rights disputes, crime and the courts, the wood products industry and energy. He lived in Tacoma with his family for 25 years, but now lives in Kent because his wife heads a five-state non-profit foundation headquartered in Ballard, and it only seemed a sensible compromise to make considering their workplaces are 40 miles apart.
Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
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Looking for an inexpensive plane ticket? Expedia will add low-cast airline JetBlue Airways Corp.
JetBlue will list flights on Expedia and unit Hotwire for five years, the companies said Thursday according to Bloomberg News.
JetBlue in August began selling flights to offline travel agencies through Sabre Holdings Corp. and is on a testing basis with Sabre’s Travelocity.com, the No. 2 U.S. online travel agency, JetBlue spokesman Bryan Baldwin said.
JetBlue, which trails Southwest Airlines Co. among U.S. low-cost carriers, is trying to boost sales after two straight years of losses and winter operating problems that caused the airline to cancel almost 1,700 flights, stranding more than 130,000 passengers.
St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, St. Clare Hospital in Lakewood and St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way this month received the 2007 Partners for Change Award for waste-reduction, mercury-elimination and recycling programs.
The awards were presented by Hospitals for a Healthy Environment. The three Franciscan Health System hospitals were among 128 hospitals, health systems and health care organizations in the United States honored by H2E.
In 2006, St. Joseph, St. Clare and St. Francis recycled, reused or donated 138,000 pounds of materials that otherwise would likely have ended up in landfills. “We always strive to be good stewards of our limited resources,” said Rozi Arends, Franciscan’s manager of value analysis.
It may be too soon to call this a trend, but the numbers look right. And what with gasoline prices traditionally bound upwards on the edge of a holiday weekend, today it’s different.
The price of gasoline is going down.
A gallon of regular gas in Tacoma fell again Friday – to $3.415, down from $3.429 on Thursday. In Bellingham, home of the state’s most highly priced gas, the price fell from $3.541 to $3.539, according to AAA. Spokane is maintaining its reputation for selling Washington’s cheapest gas, at $3.302 a gallon, down from $3.308.
A month ago, Tacoma gas was just over $3.19, and a year ago it was a hair above $3.17 – but down a penny in one day is cause for a small celebration.
Go ahead, smile.
Now get back to work. And have a pleasant holiday.
Hundreds of business and community leaders gathered at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center last night to honor four people for their work in community and business.
The room was crowded. The food was good - including the famous cheesebread. And everybody had read The News Tribune's series profiling the winners: Ray Tennison of Simpson Investment Group, Joe Stortini of Joeseppi's Italian Ristorante and George Weyerhaeuser of the company that bears his family's name. (Note to YMCA CEO Bob Ecklund and his fans: Bob's profile will run in Sunday's paper. Columnist Dan Voelpel will tell the story of how he raised money for the new Gig Harbor center.)
Keynote speaker Steve Rogel, CEO of Weyerhaeuser Co., told the story of an early Tacoma blessed with a deep water port and abundant natural resources. He talked of the boom and bust of the city. And he gave credit to business leaders who stepped up starting in the 1980s to start revitalization in the downtown core.
Weyerhaeuser has donated $11 million in Pierce County since 1998.
George Weyerhaeuser made a rare public appearance since retiring from the company about a decade ago and accepted his lifetime achievement award:
"We did a lot of good things. I don't know anyone who did more than (Columbia Bank founder) Bill Philip. I love this area. I think we have all the advantages of location and beauty."
Weyerhaeuser splits his time between Palm Springs and Lakewood.
