A conversation with Seattle
But Boeing’s support — and that of heavyweights the Association of Washington Business and Washington Roundtable — for a $9.5-billion transportation package was not enough for Washington’s Senate Republicans, who were against a 10-cent gas tax increase (phased in over five years, upped two cents annually). Continue reading The Divorce: Washington State Republicans vs. Big Business & Boeing
Why did that Boeing 787 catch on fire? According to a report from Britain’s Air Accidents Investigations Branch, the most likely culprit is a device known as an emergency location transmitter (ELT). Continue reading A “Why Did That Boeing 787 Catch on Fire?” FAQ
Yesterday afternoon, the Everett Herald’s Jerry Cornfield reported that the delay in approving a Washington State budget was truly fishy: “Boeing’s opposition to fish study a sticking point in budget,” went the headline. With a government shutdown to come in fewer than five days, it might seem strange that negotiations are getting hung up on a mundane study of how often people eat fish. Continue reading Why That Fish You Ordered is Holding Up the State Budget
It comes back to a conflict at the heart of the Duwamish clean-up — could the river ever be made safe enough for residents to eat the fish and shellfish that lived in it, or was it enough to approximate the urban contamination we live with in Elliott Bay, Lake Union, and Lake Washington? Continue reading How Clean is Our Water? How Clean Should It Be?
This looks fishy, doesn’t it? Washington residents average just 6.5 grams of fish per day, while Oregonians inhale almost 30 times that? It makes you wonder how on earth Ivar’s manages to stay in business. More worryingly, these fish consumption rates are what the state uses to determine acceptable levels of water pollution. Continue reading Washington State’s Water-Pollution Regs Assume People Hate Fish
When Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Ray Conner– former commercial airplanes head Jim Albaugh parachuted out of Boeing suddenly over the summer–says, “When we get the airplane right, that’s when we’ll go forward,” it sounds like a lesson learned from 787 Dreamliner delays, often blamed on a too-market-driven timeline. Continue reading Boeing on 777X Timeline: New Jets are Hard!
All Nippon Airlines will offer direct SeaTac-to-Tokyo Narita flights by mid-2012 earliest, but Seattleites will be flying the same old boring planes to Japan on Delta and United for a while yet, despite their orders of 18 and 50 787s, respectively. A United-ordered 787 provided a photo op for President Obama recently, in his visit to Seattle, but United plans to put the new plane in service first on its routes between Houston and Auckland, New Zealand; and Houston and Lagos, Nigeria. Continue reading Wait, Boston Will Be First in U.S. to Fly 787?