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First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

More meetings on Tacoma airport plan set

May 23, 2013 - 02:38 PMPierce County will hold its second set of public meetings on Tacoma Narrows Airport’s master plan update on June 5.The county and stakeholders will discuss the airport’s inventory and aviation forecasts. Topics will include existing ... [Published Business Examiner - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Aviation, Public Works, Demographics, Middle School, Ferry

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Port of Tacoma honors businesses at breakfast

May 23, 2013 - 01:25 PMAt this morning's Port of Tacoma Annual Breakfast, the Port honored four of its customers and tenants with the second annual Summit Awards, recognizing contributions to Port business and the Pierce County community.And if that number ... [Published Business Examiner - May 24 2013]

Entities: Ports, Environmental Stewardship, Don Meyer

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

GHDWA honored by Main Street program

May 16, 2013 - 01:57 PMThe Gig Harbor Downtown Waterfront Alliance was honored today with the Washington State Main Street Program's “Green Community” award at the "Excellence on Main" Awards Ceremony in Vancouver.The GHDWA was recognized for its summer ... [Published Business Examiner - May 22 2013]

Entities: Public Works, Vancouver

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

State unemployment rate slowly improving

May 15, 2013 - 10:16 AMWashington’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to an estimated 7 percent in April, the lowest point since December 2008. All told, the unemployment rate has fallen by half a percentage point since the start of this ... [Published Business Examiner - May 22 2013]

Entities: Unemployment Rate, Unemployment, Recession

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 3 reports

Multicare's Lenihan performs new robotic surgery

May 14, 2013 - 01:34 PMA team led by Multicare's Dr. John Lenihan, M.D., was recently among the first in the country to perform a new robotic surgery.The newly FDA-approved procedure is a single-site, robotic-assisted gynecological surgery through an ... [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]

Entities: Robotics, gynecologic, Surgeon, hysterectomy

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Tacoma's Old Town Dock to reopen

May 14, 2013 - 02:49 PMAfter being closed for nearly five years, Old Town Dock will officially reopen to the public during a ribbon cutting celebration co-hosted by the City of Tacoma and Metro Parks at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.First built in 1873, Old Town ... [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 3 reports

Woman faces workers' comp fraud charges

May 14, 2013 - 02:50 PMA 39-year-old Tacoma woman faces charges on five counts of theft for fraudulently collecting more than $50,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries.According to the Washington ... [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]

Entities: Fraud, Workers, Washington State Department of Labor

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Train oil spill drill tomorrow

May 7, 2013 - 02:36 PMThis week, about 50 environmental emergency responders from the Washington Department of Ecology will be in Richland to learn how to safely and effectively respond to crude oil spills from trains -- especially incidents reaching ... [Published Business Examiner - May 13 2013]

Entities: Oil Spill, Crude Oil, Richland (Washington, United States), Refinery, Ecology

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 3 reports

Eastside Tacoma HS kids are 'coders'

May 10, 2013 - 10:56 AMA learning partnership with a Bellevue-based technology firm and Tacoma’s Lincoln Center high school brings opportunity to 17 students, and elected officials to the rostrum this afternoon.For the past six weeks, five employees from ... [Published Business Examiner - May 11 2013]

Entities: Expense Management, Shadowing

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Mount Rainier National Park hit by sequester

May 9, 2013 - 03:26 PMEffective March 1, 2013, Mount Rainier National Park was required to reduce its annual operating budget for Fiscal Year 2013 by 5 percent due to the impacts of sequestration.The park has announced that is eliminating $603,000 in ... [Published Business Examiner - May 10 2013]

Entities: Sequester, Fiscal Year, Sequestration

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

MBA Pierce to host forum on Wednesday

- 03:34 PMThe Master Builders Association of Pierce County will host a housing forum on Wednesday to address the building lot availability crisis.The event, slated for 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the MBA office, 1120 Pacific Ave. #301, in Tacoma, will feature industry ... [Published Business Examiner - May 07 2013]

Entities: Umpqua Bank, Heritage Bank Limited, Recession, Construction, Crisis

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

Goodwill hopes to turn cleaning into placement

Apr 29, 2013 - 03:24 PMTacoma Goodwill is looking to turn spring cleaning into job training and placement.The group has announced that this year's community and household cleanup effort, which began last October and will last through September, will collect ... [Published Business Examiner - May 03 2013]

Entities: Donations, Terry Hayes, Recycling

Quotes

"The various interests from across the state — representing business, labor, farm, environment and transit — are putting aside historical and traditional differences. Participants will implore elected leaders to pass a bipartisan Transportation Revenue Package during the Special Session and keep the state moving forward."

Pierce Chamber to join transportation package rally [Published Business Examiner - May 18 2013]

...Jane Harty, senior lecturer in music. "Yet, for too long, we have not been offered fair pay, job security or access to benefits. Forming a union will help us to maintain those high standards of teaching so that we can better serve our students. It will also help us to honor our own remarkable mission statement as an institution, to serve others and our community."

PLU students to show support in union fight [Published Business Examiner - May 18 2013]

...leaders," said Steve Harding, business development manager for Dragados USA, the building company working on the tunnel project with EnCon. "We look forward to working with our business partners to build a world-class tunnel that serves a world-class region."

Seattle tunnel work brings jobs to Pierce [Published Business Examiner - May 17 2013]

...of their organizations, from operations to information technology to human resources," said Paul McDonald, Robert Half senior executive director. "The CFO role comes with wide-ranging responsibility and accountability, as well as a high level of job satisfaction.”"

Financial execs happy in their jobs [Published Business Examiner - May 17 2013]

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More meetings on Tacoma airport plan set [Published Business Examiner - 23 hours ago]
Port of Tacoma honors businesses at breakfast [Published Business Examiner - May 24 2013]
More SBA loans to veterans pledged [Published Business Examiner - May 23 2013]
WSDOT invites comments on its 'fairness' [Published Business Examiner - May 23 2013]
State, Local jobless rates still falling [Published Business Examiner - May 23 2013]
70 years and counting for NFIB [Published Business Examiner - May 23 2013]
Former congressman heads to campus [Published Business Examiner - May 23 2013]
GHDWA honored by Main Street program [Published Business Examiner - May 22 2013]
State unemployment rate slowly improving [Published Business Examiner - May 22 2013]
L&I webinar on 'Return to Work' grants [Published Business Examiner - May 22 2013]
Pierce Chamber to join transportation package r... [Published Business Examiner - May 18 2013]
Pierce tourism activity reported for Q1 [Published Business Examiner - May 18 2013]
PLU students to show support in union fight [Published Business Examiner - May 18 2013]
Frederickson Toray exec leads nat'l panel [Published Business Examiner - May 18 2013]
Financial Executives of Year announced [Published Business Examiner - May 17 2013]
Seattle tunnel work brings jobs to Pierce [Published Business Examiner - May 17 2013]
Financial execs happy in their jobs [Published Business Examiner - May 17 2013]
Multicare's Lenihan performs new robotic surgery [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]
Accrete Construction in Puyallup honored [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]
Tacoma's Old Town Dock to reopen [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]
Governor likes 'Zero Energy House' [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]
Woman faces workers' comp fraud charges [Published Business Examiner - May 15 2013]
Tagging arrests announced in Kent [Published Business Examiner - May 14 2013]
Midget racer on loan from ACM at Hotel Murano [Published Business Examiner - May 14 2013]
Train oil spill drill tomorrow [Published Business Examiner - May 13 2013]
Eastside Tacoma HS kids are 'coders' [Published Business Examiner - May 11 2013]
Goodwill announces SCSEP openings [Published Business Examiner - May 11 2013]
What do you think about PSE's rate hike? [Published Business Examiner - May 11 2013]
Mount Rainier National Park hit by sequester [Published Business Examiner - May 10 2013]
MBA Pierce to host forum on Wednesday [Published Business Examiner - May 07 2013]