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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014
Vol. CXXIII, No. 191
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF TACOMA Devoted to the Courts, Real Estate, Finance, Industrial Activities, and Publication of Legal Notices Visit our Web site at at www.tacomadailyindex.com
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Port of Tacoma
Report: Local marine cargo ports generate $4.3B in economic activity Posted online Tues., Sept. 30 File Photo By Todd Matthews, Editor Marine cargo operations at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma supported more than 48,000 jobs in 2013, which generated nearly $4.3 billion in economic activity, according to a study commissioned jointly by the two ports. If those 48,000 jobs were represented by individual people, they would almost fill the Tacoma Dome and KeyArena. This marine cargo activity produced more than $378 million in local and state taxes to support education, police, fire services and road improvements, according to the study. The analysis, performed by Martin Associates, a Pennsylvania-based firm that has conducted economic studies for ports through the U.S., focused on direct, indirect and induced jobs. Direct jobs include trucking
companies and railroads moving cargo to and from terminals and warehouses, longshore workers, steamship agents and freight forwarders. Indirect jobs include office supply firms, maintenance and repair firms, and parts and equipment suppliers. Induced jobs are those created by people directly employed by marine cargo operations re-spending their wages in the community on housing, food and other consumer goods.
If the farmers and manufacturers who ship products through the ports of Seattle and Tacoma are factored in, the ports‘ activities reach 443,000 jobs overall in Washington, according to the study. The Port of Tacoma Commission and Port of Seattle Commission met in Tacoma CONTINUED Tuesday morning to discuss ON PAGE 2 the results of the study. The
A Reporter At Large
New anthology highlights a decade of Tacoma journalism Posted online Weds., Oct. 1 A new anthology published this month revisits some of the people and stories that have appeared in the pages of a local Tacoma newspaper over the past ten years. A Reporter At Large: A Decade of Tacoma Interviews, Feature Articles, and Photographs by Todd Matthews is an e-book collection of thirty-six journalism pieces first published in the Tacoma Daily Index between September 2004 (when Matthews was hired as the newspaper's editor/reporter/photographer) and September 2014. "It's the nature of daily newspaper journalism for articles to appear briefly in print or online before they are quickly buried by the next day's headlines," says Matthews. "This e-book captures some of the memorable stories I have written over the past decade at the newspaper." Notable stories collected in the book include a profile of irreverent political cartoonist R. R. Anderson, who skewers local elected officials while entertaining the masses; Steven Nikolich's effort to re-open a rural bank in Buckley that was once the site of a dramatic heist and shootout during the 1920s; an interview with local blog-
ger Jack Cameron, who memorializes Tacoma's homicide victims; a series charting the path of Sun King, a once-ridiculed, three-ton piece of public art, as it is moved out of storage after seven years and placed prominently in a waterfront park, thanks to a grassroots effort; a pair of historians from Artifacts Consulting racing to document Pierce County's old barns and homesteads before the buildings are razed by developers; and a series of interviews with tenants of the Winthrop Hotel in downtown Tacoma — nearly 100 years after it opened, the former four-star hotel is now a crumbling highrise and home to some of Tacoma's most vulnerable residents. The Tacoma Daily Index is a legal newspaper that was founded more than 100 years ago in Tacoma, Wash., on May 1, 1890. In 2007, Matthews earned the award for Outstanding Achievement in Media from the Washington State Department of Archeology and Historic Preservation for his journalism at the Tacoma Daily Index. In addition to his work at the newspaper, Matthews has been an award-winning freelance journalist nearly 20 years, writing for such publications as Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Monthly, Wash-
ington CEO, and Washington Law & Politics, among others. His journalism is collected online at wahmee.com. A Reporter At Large: A Decade of Tacoma Interviews, Feature Articles, and Photographs is available as an e-book online at amazon.com and wahmee.com.