Happy end-of-the-special-legislative-session day! Here's what else is going on: charges for the man accused of running down some pedestrians in Fremont, high schoolers make their voices heard, taller buildings for Roosevelt and some alleged terrible child-rearing. more ›

Boeing and its union have made nice, and agreed to a sweeping 4-year contract. Observers are calling the sudden move a "surprise deal," and perhaps most surprising is that both sides seem satisfied. more ›

SPD mistakenly punishes the wrong officer, and the School Board unveils a new ethics policy. Meanwhile, Boeing Machinists approve a new contract, Hertz gets sued by former employees who had been working out of Seatac Airport, and the Duwamish River gains... a semi truck. more ›

A guy gets stabbed in the library, Renton gets a big deal (thanks, Boeing!), and Gregoire wants to re-classify pot, and tampons are something that can be trafficked. Who knew? more ›

What'd you miss while you sleeping? Not much, but did you know that Boeing hasn't payed taxes in three years? Happy Friday. more ›

More on the Tacoma Teachers' Strike, some bandits, a crazy day at the swap meet, Boeing and more Bellevue City Council and East Link Light Rail business, in this morning's headlines. more ›

Today: a test kids can actually pass, Penney's comes back to Seattle, delighting Grandmas across the Sound. more ›

At long last, the Boeing 787 has been cleared for commercial flights. Meanwhile, the PDC gets a new director and the Sounders get a new teammate. Oh, and some people argue about bike lanes. more ›

Compost, Boeing, and talking about the weather. What's more Seattle than that? more ›

Schools plan a shut-down, jobs do an up-and-down and Boeing gets put down. You know. The usual. more ›

The Obama presidency has been potent fertilizer for a new crop of right-wing conspiracy theories about the President, Democrats, liberals, and institutions identified with liberals. By now we're all familiar with birtherism, but there's a whole galaxy of bizarre innuendo to buy into if you hate the President. There's the theory that he's deliberately destroying the economy, that Weatherman Bill Ayers ghostwrote his best-selling memoirs, that Malcom X was his real father, that he's motivated by hatred of British colonialism, that he's a Muslim, that he wants to build a brownshirt-like organization in America, that liberals are indoctrinating your children in public schools, the list continues ad nauseaum. Most of them were made up out of whole cloth by talk radio hosts and other conservative hypemen, but some contain a grain of truth that has been spun into a larger fable. more ›

When the economy gets tough, the tough take to the courts. Today, we've got unions, law suits, men in suits and the possibility of paid sick leave for all. more ›

Hikes and declines in the news today. Tuition is up, the Mayor is down and Weinergate rages on. more ›

Following up to our earlier entry on Southwest Airlines grounding 70 flights after a five-foot tear ripped through the body of a Boeing 737, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated inspections for all similar, early 737 models. more ›

If you were planning on flying Southwest in the next couple of days, check your flight status. more ›

Our fair city is still small enough that it's exciting when we get a mention in the New York Times. It's especially exciting when our history is dissected into what's basically a glowing review of our priorities and way of life. more ›

In light of recent glitches in Boeing’s expansive international supply chain used to build the new 787 Dreamliners, Boeing is now committing to a serious reinvestment in their Puget Sound operations to help smooth out the production process. The Seattle Times reports that the expansion of the company’s manufacturing research center will bring 900 new jobs, and presumably more through new production at the Auburn plant. more ›

Southwest unveiled their Florida One speciality plane back in April, and this video takes a peek into its assembly in the Boeing manufacturing plant. They sure can build an airplane quickly these days!! [via consumerist] more ›

"2009-12-15: BOEING 787 DREAMLINER FIRST FLIGHT @ PAINE FIELD, EVERETT, WA" by JASON TANG from the Seattlest Flickr pool.
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Seattle Bubble sees a flatline, more or less, for housing prices since this March, with a loss of 22 percent off the price peak. So the question you have to ask yourself is, is this the moment when the hero pulls himself up over the edge of the cliff and dusts himself off...or is this the moment when the branch that stopped his fall pulls loose? Barring more economic shocks, we lean towards a slow recovery. But economic shocks aren't really barred, so long as Boeing is still thrashing around, trying to get its new plane to fly. more ›

August 23 is Friends and Family Day at Boeing's Everett plant. Visitors with connections get to tour the bigger-than-Disneyland campus, and they might want to take advantage of that this year as opposed to next, because 275 Boeing employees in the Puget Sound area are getting 60-day layoff notices. Those are going to be a busy 60 days if Boeing means to hold to its 787-flies-at-year-end promise to Quantas. more ›

Amazon buys Zappos, the online shoe store. Amazon already runs high-end shoes and accessories site Endless.com. Zymogenetics stock is up with promising new lupus treatment. more ›

One hundred lucky locals who work at Boeing are getting an extra special prezzie today: a pink slip! They're part of 668 workers world-wide the company's axing today. Good luck. more ›

Amazon is getting sued for broken Kindles and promises to replace them at no charge. JP Morgan says there will be no new layoffs in Seattle, where it purged WaMu's operations after taking it over several months ago. More UW scientists are cashing in on their lab work and raising venture capital to go into the biofuel business. more ›

The is reporting that due to Pentagon cuts, Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems, which employs 7,000 in the state, will be shedding at least 1,000 jobs. more ›

Jon Talton has a great (i.e., it supports our position) piece in the Seattle Times about Boeing "overplaying its hand" with a new South Carolina love-nest. (That Vought plant is a union shop, and SC during a recession isn't in a position to write a lot of incentive checks.) Says Talton: "It's healthy to run a little scared in today's economy as long as you don't run over the edge of a cliff or throw others off. That's the risk with the most strident comments about the bad-business climate here. It's mostly a myth. And, in addition to being divisive because much of it translates into blaming workers or programs that benefit them, it obscures the real competitive issues that face us." Boom! He also presents facts and figures, if you're into that sort of thing. more ›

Yesterday we thought only a huge idiot would really believe Boeing was going to leave its Northwest workforce behind and move to South Carolina. But then Matt the Engineer commented: "Bad news, or perhaps part of the bluff: I just received an e-mail from Boeing letting me know that an engineering job I had applied for has been cancelled. I went back to their site to see if other jobs are available (there used to be a handful), and found absolutely no engineering jobs posted for Washington." more ›

So Boeing is "in talks" to buy the a South Carolina factory that currently makes sections of the 787 (huh, that's funny, the autotext is "long-delayed 787") fuselage, which has sparked rumors that the plane-maker is thinking about, in the words of Billy Joel, "movin' out." Anti-union business interests blame...the devil union. Jon Talton focuses on a huge Southern sucking sound. And Rick Anderson points out that the state gets advice from Deloitte Consulting on how to keep Boeing, while Deloitte & Touche does Boeing's books--this is okay because they are "separate but affiliated" entities. We are not Boeing experts by any means, but this is what we see: a) low labor costs alone don't build a plane that flies, b) Boeing's future requires a more highly trained and skilled work force than ever before, and c) we haven't noticed Boeing crowing lately about any profits generated by moving its corporate HQ to Chicago. more ›

"Boeing stock takes a beating" as engineers work out how to reinforce the spot where the carbon-fiber composite wings meet the fuselage. Not only are people saying it'll delay a first 787 flight by months, but Boeing engineers are hanging their heads low...or privately trash-talking management that ignored the problem for on-time promises: "Although the issue popped up during tests last month, Boeing initially didn't think it would affect the first flight," reports the Everett Herald's Michelle Dunlop. more ›