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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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Don’t get punked by the Cash for Clunkers frenzy.
As with millions of dollars waiting in Nigerian bank accounts and cheap asphalt driveway repair, there are many schemes and always schemers willing to take advantage and help you part with your money.
It’s the same with Cash for Clunkers, says the Better Business Bureau in a release. This time, as it has been with several other well publicized programs, the scammers are out fishing for your personal information.
“Not only were some consumers quick to take advantage of the new program, but scammers didn’t waste any time either,” said Robert W.G. Andrew, CEO of the regional BBB. “Because the program is new, identity thieves know that they can cull sensitive personal information from consumers while looking like they are actually trying to offer assistance to participate in the program.”
So watch out: The scammers are asking people to register in the program. But you need not register or receive a voucher to participate; the car dealer will complete all necessary paperwork.
Unless you know exactly with whom you are dealing - either online, in person or on the phone - don't give out your Social Security number, credit card data or bank account information.
The Canadian government today signed an order for 15 Boeing CH-47F heavy-lift helicopters. The contract is worth $1.15 billion.
The twin-rotor helicopters will be produced in Boeing's Ridley Township, PA plant. They will be delivered between 2013 and 2014.
Boeing has promised the Canadian government it will offset the value of the helicopters going to the U.S. by producing a like value of aircraft parts in Canadian factories.
The helicopters, powered by two 4,733-horsepower Honeywell engines, will be able to transport 21,000 pounds of cargo.
Unmanned aircraft are finding increasing usefulness as surveillance platforms and even weapons, but Boeing thinks it's found yet another use for the remote control vehicles.
The Marine Corps is curious enough about Boeing's idea of using remotely-controlled aircraft to sign a $500,000 contract to demonstrate how such an aircraft can be drafted into delivering cargo to the front lines.
The demonstration will use Boeing's helicopter-like A160T Hummingbird to deliver up to 2,500 pounds of cargo to a remote site. The first of those demonstration flights will happen beginning in February.
The unmanned aircraft will reduce the risks that trucks or manned helicopters pose to personnel operating them in war zones.
