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Good news. Really. Prices are down. It's costing less to live. Inflation is deflated.The Bureau of Labor Statistics is out this week with its latest two-month numbers. The All-Items Consumer Price Index for the Tacoma-Bremerton-Seattle area is down 0...

topics: bremerton, tacoma

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The schedule for replacement for the big aerospace manufacturers' bread-and-butter aircraft, the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737, keeps slipping.The latest schedule pushback came today at an Airbus' aviation forecast conference when Airbus' chief sale...

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SeaTac's Alaska Airlines says it is sponsoring five-time Olympic medalist Apolo Ohno in his quest for more medals at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.A Seattle-area native, Ohno also became a reality TV star with his winning performance on Dancing...

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week sent Tacoma-based Rainier Pacific Financial Group a Supervisory Prompt Corrective Action Directive making two demands.Because the bank had earlier been declared under-capitalized, said the dir...

topics: investment, tacoma

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Here's the latest on Tacoma's favorite car museum.The LeMay Automobile Museum held its first downtown auction last weekend with items both from private parties and the museum collection and from $2.5 million in total sales netted $1.1 million...

topics: downtown, tacoma, tax

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First Russell, now Blue Box Group. Or first The Northern Pacific, then Weyerhaeuser, then Russell, now Blue Box Group.The Tacoma-based and -born Web hosting and specialty application firm has announced that it has left Tacoma in favor of Seattle.All ...

topics: pioneer-square, tacoma, technology, weyerhaeuser

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I spoke today with Barbara Thompson, senior vice president for corporate communication at First Citizens Bank of Raleigh, N.C.That's the bank whose name you've been seeing on temporary signs placed over those of the former Venture Bank branches in th...

topics: business, employment

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Decades of neglect and a sour economy today took their toll on one of downtown Tacoma's most historic buildings.The City of Tacoma, declaring the six-story Luzon Building at South 13th Street and Pacific Avenue in imminent danger of collapse, ordered...

topics: downtown, economy, tacoma, transit

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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Monday reaped a paper profit about $14 million on stock options he exercised in the coffee retailer.Schultz reportedly purchased 982,792 shares of Starbucks stock using options that set his price for the shares at $5.81 a...

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Washington's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9.2 percent in August, up from 8.9 percent in July, according to new figures released by the state Employment Security Department today. The state lost an estimated 8,000 jobs in August,...

topics: business, employment, unemployment