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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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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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Alaska Airlines passenger traffic fell 10.2 percent last month, the airline reported today.
But the percentage of seats filled increase slightly to 73.5 percent from 73.3 percent in February 2008 because capacity dropped faster than passenger traffic.
Alaska's traffic declines were typical of a domestic airline industry hit hard by reversals in the economy.
Alaska's sister airline, Horizon Air, saw even steeper drops in business. There the traffic fell 21.8 percent and capacity declined 17.2 percent. The net effect was a reduction in the percentage of seats filled during February from 71.1 percent last year to 67.2 this year.
Horizon flies routes linking smaller cities in the West to larger hub cities such as Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles.
Some 700 Wichita, Kan., Boeing engineers have rejected Boeing's latest offer of a new contract for the second time in a row.
But those same engineers also declined to authorize a strike against the company Thursday night.
"The members have now rejected this contract twice," said Ray Goforth, the executive director of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. "We now hope boeing will have enough respect for their workforce to sit down and negotiate a respectful contract."
Some 68 percent of those voting said "no" to the new offer. Those voting to authorize a strike were 45 percent of the total.
Seattle's Tattoo Media has agreed to a $500,000 settlement with the Washington Attorney General's office and agreed to stop to falsely telling Internet users that they had a secret cyberspace admirer.
The company had agreed last year to stop misrepresenting that someone had a 'crush" on them, but the company continued the promotion nonetheless, the attorney general's office contended.
The AG's office alleged that Tatto has violated a November 2008 agreement that prohibits the company from telling e-mail recipients that a local person was romantically interested in them.
The promotion targeted users of social networking sites such as Facebook, Reunion.com and MySpace with an ad allegedly from an admirer. Users who followed up on the message were taken to a Web site where they wer instructed to enter a cell phone number. They were then enrolled in a text-messaging horoscope service.
