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Boeing defends tax breaks An exec who spoke at a public hearing says changing the incentives would hurt the company’s relationship with the state. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — The Boeing Co. made clear Friday it’s concerned by efforts of state lawmakers to impose new conditions on the multibillion-dollar tax break that helped land the 777X
program in Everett. A Boeing executive appeared in front of a legislative committee to oppose a bill requiring the company to maintain certain job levels in order to reap the full benefits of those tax breaks that were extended in 2013. Bill McSherry, the company’s
vice president of state, local and global corporate citizenship, cautioned that imposing such a new condition would damage Boeing’s century-old relationship with the state. “Changing the incentives now after waiting until after Boeing has invested almost a billion dollars to deliver on our 777X promises threatens to undermine not only our trust in the state but the confidence of all businesses
CEO made nearly >> Boeing’s $29 million last year, A7 here, and those looking at coming here, that Washington will honor its commitment,” McSherry told members of the House Finance Committee. McSherry appeared at a public hearing Friday on House Bill 2147 sponsored by Rep. June See BOEING, Page A4
They’re defying stereotypes
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OSO — A rafting company has halted plans to offer sightseeing trips along the North Fork Stillaguamish River past the Oso mudslide. The trips, timed around the one-year mark since the slide on March 22, prompted criticism from survivors, victims’ families and locals, said Dave “Captain Dave” Button, 70, the owner of Pacific Northwest Float Trips based in Burlington. He’ll revisit the idea after attending a survivors support group next week, where he was invited to speak, he said. If survivors adamantly are against it, Button will revise the trips to stop short of the disaster zone, he said. “It’s still a proposal,” he said. “It’s not poured in cement that we’re going to do that.” Button, who used to teach and coach in Darrington, says he ran similar trips in the 1980s after Mount St. Helens erupted, without complaints. That was before social media, though, he said. After hearing from those affected by the slide, he also decided to donate all proceeds from the $90-perperson trips to a charity in Oso for relief efforts. Previously he had planned to donate a portion of the proceeds. The outcry over the rafting trips touched on the rawness of the grief in the Stillaguamish Valley as the one-year mark approaches. The slide killed 43 people, and everyone affected is in a different stage of recovery. Many struggle with unforgiven mortgages, post-traumatic stress and a future full of unknowns. Many in the valley consider the mudslide area sacred ground.
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MARYSVILLE — It was first period this past Monday morning at Arts and Technology High School. Students in a Spanish class were sitting in groups, chatting and working at the relaxed pace that often comes with a substitute teacher’s supervision. Junior Madyson Yetter took the opportunity to talk more girls into joining the robotics team, the “Pengbots.” One of the boys in the class interrupted: “Girls don’t like robots.” Madyson countered. There are, in fact, five girls on the robotics team.
“Do they all have glasses and look like geeks?” he asked. Stereotypes such as these are what researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences have been studying. People assume more women science teachers and mentors are the key to getting girls interested engineering and computer science, but new research shows that’s not necessarily true. It’s inaccurate stereotypes that are turning girls away from technical careers, said Allison Master, a researcher who worked with other UW experts on two recent studies.
The company’s owner says he’ll reconsider the trips, which drew criticism, after meeting with a survivors group. Herald Writer
Katherine Jordan explains what is needed to remove the front plate during the Pacific Northwest FIRST Robotics competition on Sunday at Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish.
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No raft tours past slide By Rikki King
Negative perceptions don’t deter girls on Glacier Peak’s robotics team
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We turn closer to home with our own Snohomish County list of the top 10 things that should not be missed… check it out, you might be missing something spectacular. More things to do this weekend in Venture, A11
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