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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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Wildlife officials will remove young Red-tailed hawks from nests near Sea-Tac Airport Wednesday in an effort to keep the birds and jetliners from colliding.
The young hawks will be re-introduced to other territories in northern Washington, far from the airport.
The airport has successfully relocated more than 200 raptors since 2001. Only one pair of the tagged hawks eventually returned to the airport.
Six pairs of adult hawks live in the airport vicinity, but the airport allows them to stay because they've learned to stay away from the incoming and outgoing planes.
Having resident hawks in the airport area also prevents other hawks, not so wise to the ways of aviation, from moving in.
Airliners and birds are not a good mix. Planes, most recently an Airbus US Airways A320 departing from New York's LaGuardia Airport, have been downed when their jet engines have ingested birds and shut down. The US Airways flight was forced to land in the Hudson River.
Three of four Boeing 767-based aerial tankers have become operational in Japan's Air Self-Defense Force, Boeing announced today.
The three tankers mark a milestone for Boeing which has struggled to get the new tankers into service. A fourth tanker will join the Japanese forces soon.
The Japanese tankers are somewhat similar to the 767 tankers that Boeing hopes to sell to the U.S. Air Force.
Boeing is also building 767 tankers for the Italian Air Force. The tankers are a derivative of the 767 twin-jet Boeing supplies to commercial airlines.
Boeing and its European rival, Airbus, are in a dogfight to win the multi-billion dollar contract from the Pentagon for new tankers.
Boeing won the first competition, but that result was set aside because of Boeing misconduct in influencing a Pentagon procurement official with the promise of a post-retirement job.
Airbus won the second contest, but that award too was vacated after government investigators declared the competition was skewed toward Airbus.
The Obama administration has said it will start the competition anew this summer.
A national home price tracking index says home sales prices declined by more than 22 percent in March in the Puget Sound area from year-earlier prices.
The S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index released today said home prices nationwide dropped 19.21 percent in that same period.
In the Puget Sound area, those March figures were the twelfth month in a row prices fell.
The decline here, according to the index, began in July 2007 and dropped in 19 of the 20 months since then.
The Puget Sound area index stood at 149.03 in March. That compares with 152.12 in February, and 154.37 in January.
A year ago March, the index stood at 178.29 for Puget Sound homes.
Phoenix and Las Vegas were the worst performers on the index with drops of 36 percent and 31 percent respectively.
Dallas has been the least harmed with only an 11 percent drop since its June 2007 peak. Phoenix prices have fallend 53 percent from June 2006, the home sales highest point in the desert city.
In this economy, the endurance and strategies necessary to find a job can wear you down. So, Paul Anderson, a career psychology consultant with ProLango Consulting, Inc., will present a free job search and networking seminar Wednesday.
The seminar begins at 1:30 p.m. at Blue Water Business Center,
3323 Pacific Ave. in Tacoma. Space is limited. To reserve your place, RSVP to Jane Milhans, jane_milhans@yahoo.com, 253-279-4245 or
Joanna Felt, joannafelt@hotmail.com, 253-222-3510.
Sponsoring Anderson's presentation is A Future and a Hope Networking Group, which meets at 9 a.m. Mondays, for support, prayer, networking and encouragement for those who are facing financial challenges due to loss of work, income, reduced hours or wages.
Anderson, formerly of Microsoft and Expedia, travels the country offering seminars in a wide range of career development subjects, including the psychology of job interviews, advanced resume writing and the psychology of sales.
