Seahawks survive
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Seattle at 4-4 heading into bye week after edging Dallas.
ELECTION DAY: Voters on
Tuesday will be making decisions on two state initiatives as well as important local and county races, including Snohomish County Executive.
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High school football playoffs begin this week; and the state cross-country championship meet is Saturday in Pasco.
NEW ER: Swedish Edmonds opens its $63 million expansion, the largest at the hospital in 40 years. There will be a public grand opening from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. ●
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Number of troopers at risk The state patrol can’t recruit enough people to fill existing vacancies and others leave for better paying jobs. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Patrol is seeing its ranks depleted faster than can be replenished.
It can’t recruit enough new troopers to fill existing vacancies and newer hires aren’t staying as long as many leave for jobs with local law enforcement agencies that pay better and offer more action.
On top of this, 80 department veterans will be eligible for retirement by year’s end. They could make a difficult situation worse if they all decided to hang up their shields. So what can be done about this? That’s what lawmakers and state patrol leaders are counting on a consultant to tell them in a study due in December.
“It’s a huge challenge,” said Capt. Monica Alexander. “We’re trying to evaluate how to get people in the door and keep them. We can’t have people going out the back door as soon as one enters the front door.” The state patrol had 147 vacancies in its commissioned See TROOPERS, Page A2
Korry Electronics goes lean Plant stripped and reassembled to make it run more efficiently
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Mike DeRepentigny (left) and Samples Eng work to reinstall a down flow booth in the clean room of Korry Electronics at Paine Field in Everett on Tuesday. Continuing work at Korry Electronics is leading the way in parent company Esterline Corp.’s initiative to introduce lean manufacturing.
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EVERETT — The team lead had to shout for his line workers to hear him. “Cadence and quality, those are the drivers,” he said. Behind him electric drills buzzed, scissor lifts beeped, and contractors shouted back and forth. Esterline’s Korry
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Electronics plant at Paine Field had become a construction site. The plant was stripped and reassembled to make it run smoother and faster with more flexibility. The physical changes, though, are only part of Korry’s comprehensive overhaul into a “lean” operation. Lean is a business philosophy pioneered by Japanese carmaker Toyota to relentlessly focus on
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reducing waste and increasing customer value. Amid the reconfigured production lines, workers were figuring out how to make the overhead control panel for the cockpit of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners at the plant’s new pace of 17 minutes per station. “Do what work you can in 17 minutes and pass the whole kit to the next person,” the team
Grampa’s mad And another thing: Get off my lawn: Advice columnist John Rosemond’s bone to pick with parents this week is when moms and dads ask their kids where they’d like to sit in restaurants (Living With Children, Page B2). Then the parents read the menus to their tots and ask Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8
leader said. Finding the new pace will lead to smooth work flows that turn out high quality parts, said Steve Dardaris, Esterline’s lean evangelist. His vision is to cut production time for one of the control panels from more than 30 days down to five.
them what they’d like to eat. The Buzz sees an easy way to avoid this: Don’t take your kids to the Early-Bird Special. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1865, Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States, was born in Ohio (Today in History, Page B6). Surprisingly, Harding had a
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Expect drama with budget The county executive and council chairman, both running for election, disagree on multiple issues, from the courthouse to taxes. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — Snohomish County’s annual budget has had a way of wringing drama from what might otherwise be a dull exercise in government finance. A year ago, disputes between Executive John Lovick’s administration and a majority of the County Council almost caused the first county-level government shutdown in Washington’s history. A mid-December compromise prevented that from happening. Expect a repeat of some of the same themes this fall as county leaders attempt to craft a budget for 2016. For a closer look, anyone can attend hearings about the executive’s proposed budget in council chambers at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. A final budget vote is set for Nov. 23. Lovick stands behind what he calls “a fiscally sound, solid budget.” He proposes a $228 million operating budget that adds about $2 million to this year’s plan. Council Chairman Dave Somers and two of his colleagues say the executive is putting county services in jeopardy by ignoring pressing financial realities. Add to the mix Tuesday’s election, with the marquee contest between Lovick and Somers for the executive’s job. Somers and Lovick issued dueling press releases about the budget last week, accusing the other side of providing incorrect information. Each blames the other for politicizing the process. If the sides agree on anything, it’s that the county’s ill-fated courthouse project continues to cast a shadow over county finances. Plans for a $162 million, See BUDGET, back page, this section
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lot in common with John F. Kennedy: ■ Like Kennedy, Harding was a womanizer. “It’s a good thing I’m not a woman,” he once said. “I would always be pregnant. I can’t say no.” ■ Like Kennedy, Harding had secret health problems. In July 1923, Harding’s personal physician said POTUS was “feeling fit and Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1
in splendid physical trim.” Less than a month later, he dropped dead. ■ At his inaugural speech in 1921, Harding said: “Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.” Just like Kennedy — without the “Ask not” poetry.
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