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In response to: What Tacoma buildings do you like?

The Miller Apartments and the Ansonia condos near 2nd and Tacoma in the Stadium District.

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Well - ignorant electorate - when you contunuously elect socialist democrats they just want to become one of the good-ole-boy socialists around the world and blend right in!! You can all see what a fine job socialism has done for the economies of the rest of the world!!!!????

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Lets see... in 1965 the US manufactured about 95% of the clothing sold here , in 1985 it was down to about 50% and in 2007 only 5% of clothing sold here in the US was made in the US.
That's just one industry and the outcome of outsourcing. The garment workers union was one of the strongest ones and yet they couldn't stem the tide.

Outsourcing has pretty well destroyed the US market place , workforce and production schedules. Only now does Boeing's leaders see that this might be a problem?

In response to: Expedia closing Tacoma call center

"Expedia did not offer an explanation"

Hows this?

Minimum wage Washington 8.55
Minimum wage Nevada 7.55

In response to: Goodwill opening new store in former Puyallup cinema

Minimum wage in Nevada 7.55
Minimum wage in Washington 8.55

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Yeah, and as long as you continue to use the Jack Welch model and trust leadership to the clowns that ran that operation into the ground, you are going to have big issues.

Rumor has it Boeing can't even manage to retool for the 737 in Renton without hosing the tooling up. And, a bunch young engineers who can't even speak enough english to talk to the factory workers run around shaking their heads and talking to themselves.

You laid off your brains and expertise over the laid 9 years to show a short term gain in the form of dividents for the stockholders and burned the future of the company at the stake of self-serving interests.

Condit accelerated the process and McDon/Douglas people finished it thanks to him. Condit and the Board turned a good company over to a bunch of also rans who couldn't build anything original.

What a shame.

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Outsourcing is only going to lead to the idiots we keep electing to DC to start thinking Tarriffs are a good idea.

And we all know how well Smoot-Hawley worked out.

In response to: Tight cost containment keeps TrueBlue Inc. in the black

It's nice to see a local company not leaking money through a sieve.

In response to: Second Dreamliner assembly site decision coming within two weeks

NC, definitely.
Boeing can't wait to leave WA, and who can blame them? Between regular strikes and the insane taxes Olympia levies on businesses, it's a wonder they didn't take the manufacturing with them when Corporate left 10 years ago.

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Before I retired from Boeing the senior management continuously went around "babbling" about Global Competiveness which meant "outsourceing" which translated to future problems and layoffs to anyone with a brain - welcome aboard management!!!

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Cut defense spending... then lay off union members. It must be tough being a Democrat... never knowing what special interest to pander to on a given day?

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Okay, so fix it.

In response to: Boeing CEO admits outsourcing went too far

Duh! You think so?

I don't know who going to destroy the first, the unions or senior management.

So far, the senior management is trying its hardest to do it single-handedly.

In response to: Second Dreamliner assembly site decision coming within two weeks

New Boeing commercial: "We thought Vought was so screwed up, we bought the company!"

Unbelievable!!!!

In response to: Goodwill opening new store in former Puyallup cinema

glad to see someone finally using some of these empty businesses. Now if someone like Whole Foods would redo the old Larson's lot that would be cool.

In response to: Second Dreamliner assembly site decision coming within two weeks

With on going union talks, this is a perfect time to strike. The union should show Boeing who is really in charge.

In response to: Chamber celebrating 125 years

...yet the street-level retail in their own building has been sitting empty for a couple of years now.

In response to: McClatchy earnings top those from a year ago

You know you're running a sinking ship when the only way to post a profit is by outsourcing to Mumbai, cut janitorial services, lay off, force unpaid time off and cut salaries.

Said it before, and I'll say it again: buying Knight Ridder (and their debt) in an era of declining print media was an epically stupid decision.

In response to: LeMay and city officials meet - and agree to meet again

For the love of...

Seriously! Just give LeMay the 10' of lot A that they need and get on with it. If our civic leaders feel that a parking lot is more valuable than the LeMay museum, I think it's time we gave all of them (especially Anderson) a UA to see just what it is that they're smoking.

In response to: Marcato units sell for an average of 55 percent of asking price at auction

Still too much.
When those things get down to $90,000 then we'll be at actual value.