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Boeing to slice 747 rate The company will write off $885 million before taxes and hopes to avoid layoffs by moving workers. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — The Boeing Co. announced a further 747 production rate cut, an announcement analysts likened
to a swan song. “They’re keeping the doors open long enough to get the Air Force One order,” said Richard Aboulafia, an industry analyst and vice president at the Teal Group. The U.S. Air Force has said it
wants to order modified 747s to replace the two 747s used by the U.S. president by 2018. The planes are commonly known by the call sign Air Force One. The military has not signed a contract, though. Boeing said Thursday it plans to make only six 747s a year in Everett starting in September and that it will write off $885 million
before taxes as a result. The company hopes to avoid layoffs due to the rate cut by moving affected workers to other programs, Boeing spokesman Doug Alder said. “If we do need to go down in employment, we’d start with executives and managers.” See 747, Page A2
Eyman measure rejected Judge: Anti-tax effort is a constitutional amendment in disguise
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Tim Eyman watches in King County Superior Court on Tuesday as the legality of his latest anti-tax ballot measure is argued before Judge William Downing.
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(I)t does not change what the voters decided and I would certainly encourage this Legislature to move forward with it as it goes upward to the Supreme Court. — Tim Eyman
Voters last fall narrowly approved Initiative 1366, which would cut the sales tax by 1 percentage point, beginning in April, unless lawmakers allow a public vote on an amendment that would require a two-thirds supermajority in the Legislature for future tax increases. The
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SEATTLE — A judge struck down Tim Eyman’s latest taxlimiting measure Thursday, finding among other problems that it was a thinly disguised effort to propose a constitutional amendment — which can’t be done by initiative in Washington. The decision from King County Superior Court Judge William Downing was an overwhelming win for Eyman’s opponents, who prevailed on their major arguments, but it’s certain to prompt an appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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sales tax cut would be a drastic hit to state revenue, costing an estimated $8 billion through the middle of 2021 at a time when lawmakers are struggling to boost spending on education and mental health. “It is solely the province of the legislative branch of our
SBUX bucks flap Red cup runneth over: Starbucks’ sales jumped 9 percent over the holidays, despite online protests that the minimalist red design of the coffee giant’s holiday cups was a declaration of war on Christmas (Page A7). Starbucks customers obviously were OK with Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . B7
representative government to ‘propose’ an amendment to the state constitution,” Downing wrote. “That process is derailed by the pressure-wielding mechanism in this initiative which exceeds the scope of initiative power.” The lawsuit was brought by a group of taxpayers, two Democratic lawmakers and the League of Women Voters of Washington, who argued that constitutional amendments can’t be proposed by initiative and the measure violates the rule that initiatives be limited to a single subject.
the cups, but a War on Chai Pumpkin Spice could get very ugly indeed. Somebody’s got to do it: Data scientist — which involves analyzing data for corporations — is the best job in America, according to a list by a careers website (Page A8). The worst job in America
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is currently being sought by about a dozen people who, in order to be considered for the position, must traipse about Iowa and New Hampshire in the middle of winter while smart alecks jeer at them on Twitter. The successful candidate will spend the next four years essentially under house arrest in Washington, D.C., Sports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . . .A8
Speech covers social issues Everett mayor’s annual address includes progress being made in tackling homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
EVERETT — State of the city addresses tend to be a laundry list of accomplishments, wish lists and jokes, and seldom contain any surprises. By necessity, they are almost always optimistic. Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson’s 13th such speech, delivered Thursday, was true to form, but there was a new sense of mission in the mayor’s policy statements. In addition to the lists of new businesses, construction and transportation projects and financial projections, Everett in 2015 underwent a major turnaround in how it deals with social issues, especially homelessness. Stephanson previously has said the city would open its first low-barrier housing units for chronically homeless people in the first half of the year. On Monday, he said the first units would be ready by the end of January. “By the end of this month, we’ll have lined up permanent supportive housing for five of our chronically homeless citizens, with another 15 targeted for housing by the end of June,” Stephanson told the crowd at the Edward D. Hansen Conference Center. The city is also beginning a capital campaign to fund the construction of a dedicated facility for 60 homeless people, he said. Other initiatives the city is pursuing are the creation of a “diversion” work crew as an alternative to jail time for lowlevel offenders, a second public forum on low-barrier housing to be held Feb. 1, and the creation of a dedicated unit within the police department that includes social workers as well as officers. Acknowledging that law enforcement is only one tool among many used to deal with See SPEECH, Page A2
where they must deal with crushing responsibilities while dedicated foes try to stymie them, and the news media will pounce on every mistake and misjudgment. They will surely be loathed and despised by at least half of Americans. On the other hand, they do get to fly on a cool private jet.
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