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Imagine Children’s Museum, 1502 Wall St., Everett, has holiday events planned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, including visits with Santa, crafts, ornament decorating, music and more. Admission is $9.80.
If you’d like to see the ballet, you have many options this weekend. Read our story at www. heraldnet.com/ nutcracker.
The Northwest Stream Center offers live trees to rent from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett. After the holidays, return the tree and it will be planted near a stream. $35 to $50.
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Boeing tax breaks faulted Unions say the company saves billions yet still ships jobs out of state and wants it to prove the incentives work. By Dan Catchpole and Jerry Cornfield Herald Writers
OLYMPIA — Union officials are looking for political backers in Olympia, while Boeing is
looking for friends. Both say they are after the same thing: aerospace jobs in Washington. At issue are aerospaceindustry tax breaks extended late last year by lawmakers as part of the state’s effort to
convince Boeing to assemble the new 777X airliner here, including its innovative wings. The tax exemptions depend on that work being done solely in Washington. It might have seemed that this was all settled when Boeing then announced that it would, indeed, build the 777X in Everett. But the company later said
it will disperse engineering work on the plane around the country, including design now done in Washington. That has critics, primarily unions, saying the tax-break law lacks teeth. Boeing, they say, can save billions in state taxes but can still See BOEING, Page A12
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Police: Story doesn’t add up They say a gas station clerk in Lynnwood who claimed to have been robbed on two different days actually was friends with the robbers.
Stillaguamish Tribe putting finishing touches on new hotel
Shelby Lloyd (right) works on a suite room Tuesday at the new Angel of the Winds Casino hotel in Arlington.
By Jim Davis The Herald Business Journal
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ARLINGTON — The “World’s Friendliest Casino” looks like the World’s Busiest Casino at the moment. Crews were scrambling this week to put the finishing touches on a $27 million, fivestory hotel addition to Angel of
the Winds casino, making beds, plugging in Keurig coffeemakers and fixing blemishes spotted with blue tape. Tribal elders will be the first to stay at the hotel Monday; other tribal members will check in Tuesday and then and other invited guests on move in Wednesday. “We get that one chance to
‘Downton’ abroad Bet they’ll get to bypass Ellis Island: The executive producer of “Downton Abbey” says he’d love to bring the aristocratic Crowley family and their servants to the United States for an episode — budget constraints permitting, of course (Short Takes, Page D4). The story line possibilities abound: ■ Lord Grantham squan-
ders yet more of the family fortune when a confidence man posing as the Duke of Westminster’s American cousin sells him swampland in Florida. ■ Invited to a “casual soiree” at a Park Avenue mansion, a horrified Dowager Countess must navigate a buffet line for the first time. ■ A Kennedy family member turns up dead in Lady Mary’s bedroom.
make a first impression,” said Travis O’Neil, the casino’s general manager. “We want to be ready.” The hotel opens to paying guests on New Year’s Eve — mainly loyal Angel of the Winds customers, but a few rooms might open to the general public. It’ll be up and running fully Jan. 2, O’Neil said. Stillaguamish Tribe Chairman
■ And, of course, Bates kills somebody. Thrones in the sky: The Boeing Co. is struggling with another 787 glitch: a subcontractor can’t produce $200,000 luxury seats for the first class cabin quickly enough (Page A10). There’s no shortage of chairs for coach, however — even after an unexpected order from the CIA for
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Shawn Yanity has only visited the hotel once during construction, joking that he wanted to stay out of everyone’s way. He likes what he’s seen, from the style and design to the attention to detail by developer DreamCatcher Hotels of Memphis, Tennessee.
By Rikki King Herald Writer
LYNNWOOD — The same Lynnwood man was robbed twice in two months while working at a local gas station near the Alderwood mall. The second time, he said he was hit and kicked until he blacked out. In the robberies, on Nov. 17 and again Wednesday, the suspects made off with thousands of dollars and cartons of cigarettes. The problem was, according to Lynnwood police, the whole thing was a crock. The “victim” was pals with the robbers. Investigators were told by the man’s friends that after the first robbery, he had “new tattoos, new tires and a new cocaine habit,” according to police reports. The 21-year-old was arrested Thursday for investigation of second-degree theft and seconddegree perjury. Both are felony offenses. He was being held Friday at the Snohomish County Jail. After both robberies, the man gave police written statements that were “signed under penalty of perjury,” according to the arrest report. A Lynnwood detective reviewed the store’s surveillance videos from those dates. The detective noted that the same robbers appeared to be involved both times. They wore face masks and distinctive sweatshirts with tuxedoed skeleton designs. The video from Wednesday showed the man being struck in the head by the robbers. The man’s fall to the floor “appeared to be inconsistent with the force of the blow,” detectives wrote.
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suitably uncomfortable detainee seating at its facility in Bulgaria. Wealth gap widens: Whites now have 13 dollars for every dollar held by African-Americans, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center (Page A10). Take LeBron James out of the equation, and the gap’s more like 17 to 1.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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