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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.
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Turns out not one, but two Tacoma hospitals received awards this week.
A news release came in today that St. Joseph Medical Center joins Tacoma General Hospital as winners of the National Research Corporation Consumer Choice Award. The two hospitals were voted the health care center where area consumers would like to be treated. The awards were published in the recent edition of the trade publication Modern Healthcare.
"The Consumer Choice Award is another testament to our hospital's success at meeting the needs of patients and families," said Joe Wilczek, president and CEO of the Franciscan Health System, which includes St. Joseph.
The award is a survey of households in the areas that the hospitals serve. St. Joseph and Tacoma General are two hospitals off 226 to make the list.
This is the 10th time St. Joseph has been awarded.
The state Department of Financial Institutions is out today with a warning against scams – what with turmoil in investment markets typically heralding the beginning of scam season.
There’s been turmoil, so be on the lookout for con artists, hucksters, offers too-good-to-be-true and people offering advice that will separate you from your money.
The state’s minimum wage is going up.
On Jan. 1, the hourly rate will increase 48 cents to $8.55, according to a release today by the Department of Labor and Industries. The annual reassessment of the wage is mandated by a decade-old voter initiative.
L&I annually reevaluates the wage based on changes to the Consumer Price Index as prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor. For more information on how the wage is calculated, click here.
The CPI increased 5.9 percent during the 12 months ending in August, compared to a 1.8 percent increase during the same period of 2007. Following that increase, the state’s minimum wage rose 14 cents per hour.
Washington’s minimum wage applies to workers in both agricultural and non-agricultural jobs, although 14- and 15-year-olds may be paid 85 percent of the adult minimum wage, or $7.27, said today’s release.
For more information, visit www.wages.lni.wa.gov/ or call 360-902-5316 or 1-866-219-7321.
A former Eatonville telephone company that started in 1910 and has since grown into a multiservice telecommunications company will move into its new Tacoma corporate headquarters in three weeks.
Rainier Connect, which employs more than 60 people, has spent since last December refurbishing a historic, four-story brick building at 2516 Holgate St. The company will occupy 12,000 square feet of office space, use about 10,000 square feet for indoor parking and hold the remaining 8,000 square feet on the upper two floors for future expansion, said Brian Haynes, president and CEO.
Today Rainier Connect provides local and long distance telephone service, cable television, and Internet and high-speed data services.
Crews spent today installing the Rainier Connect sign atop the building. The company will move from its current space at 805 Pacific Ave.
Investors affiliated with Rainier Connect bought the building in December for $1,967,500, according to online records at the Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer's Office.
Prolific Tacoma architect C.A. Darmer designed the brewery block in 1891 for the Pacific Brewing & Malting Co. complex. The block received historic status on the Tacoma register in 1976 and national historic status in 1978, according to the Tacoma Public Library Buildings Index.
