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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
ON TODAY’S CALENDAR
► From the CALENDAR at The Stand — Town Hall Meeting to Save the Public Airwaves — Speculators have bought KING 5 TV in Seattle just as the federal government is ready to auction off broadcast frequencies to the highest bidder. Join Kshama Sawant, Nick Licata, and Nicole Grant, and others to learn what can be done to save KING 5 and the other local TV stations at a Town Hall Meeting on TONIGHT (Wednesday, Sept. 23) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall, at University of Washington in Seattle. Click for details.
BOEING
► In today’s Seattle Times — Boeing plans to intensify global collaborations, says new CEO Muilenburg — New Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg in Seattle Tuesday offered a vision of the jet maker as a sprawling multinational enterprise that intends to build ever deeper industrial connections across the globe.
► In the P.S. Business Journal — Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO: China deal won’t result in layoffs in Washington — Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner sent a letter to employees Tuesday reassuring them that whatever the deal is — and he was vague about the details — that it won’t affect employment levels or result in layoffs in Washington state.
ALSO at The Stand — Boeing’s plan to shift work to China “causes great concern”
XI-LAPALOOZA
ALSO at The Stand — A time to reflect on U.S. role in Chinese workers’ exploitation (by Lynne Dodson)
► From KUOW — Solar supplier warns of big layoffs if trade dispute drags on longer — Solar company REC Silicon Tuesday warned of big layoffs at a factory in central Washington if a trade dispute between the U.S. and China drags on much longer.
LOCAL
► In today’s (Longview) Daily News — Kelso teachers’ union, school district closer to contract — Striking Kelso teachers and the school district seemed to edge closer to a contract agreement, but a legal issue was holding them up Tuesday night and school has been canceled today.
► In today’s Seattle Times — 101-story skyscraper on Seattle’s Fourth Avenue proposed — A Miami-based developer is proposing a 101-story mixed-use building at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Cherry Street that, if built, would be Seattle’s tallest skyscraper and the tallest on the West Coast.
► In today’s Bellingham Herald — CH2M Hill to close its Bellingham office — Citing a downturn in the oil and gas industry, CH2M Hill has announced it is closing its Bellingham office. The closure will impact 120 employees.
► In today’s News Tribune — TPU director keeps his job after Tacoma Council’s 7-1 vote — Tacoma Public Utilities Director Bill Gaines will keep his $338,229/year job for another two years, after a 7-1 City Council vote Tuesday night. Many urged the council to fire Gaines because of how they say he has managed Click Cable TV.
► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub forced out — He was forced to resign Tuesday following complaints about his combative leadership tactics.
STATE GOVERNMENT
► In today’s Seattle Times — Despite Supreme Court ruling, charters may get some tax money — As the state Supreme Court considers motions asking it to reconsider a ruling that prohibits charters from receiving public money, the schools may continue to get it.
ALSO at The Stand — Charters ruling is a rebuke of the privatization agenda
► From AP — State’s disclosure commission names new director — The PDC announced that Tacoma lawyer and former assistant attorney general Evelyn Fielding Lopez will lead the agency.
► From AP — State health exchange premiums will now go directly to insurer
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
► In today’s NY Times — Senate Republicans take steps to avert a government shutdown — Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday took the first steps to avert a government shutdown by scheduling a vote on a temporary spending measure that would keep agencies functioning through Dec. 11.
► From AP — Government shutdown could cut off food stamps — A government shutdown Oct. 1 could immediately suspend or delay food stamp payments to some of the 46 million Americans who receive the food aid.
► In today’s NY Times — Bernie Sanders joins rally of striking federal workers to call for wage increase –The Vermont senator joined a rally of striking government workers on Tuesday at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, and pressed Congress and President Obama to heed Pope Francis’ call for social and economic justice.
NATIONAL
CAMPAIGN 2015
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