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Boeing gives 60-day notice to employees in March

Friday, March 20th, 2009

As a part of a projected 10,000 jobs across the company some 900 Boeing employees are expected to receive 60-day layoff notices.  Of this latest group of layoffs 700 are from jobs in the Puget Sound region. Read more


One Seattle Newspaper goes electronic only - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Monday, March 16th, 2009

down graphHearst Corp, owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has decided to close the doors of the print operation and turn it’s publication strictly to it’s website. The historic move, the first major newspaper to do so, will occur after 146 years of delivering the news to the people on paper. Last year the paper posted a loss of 14 million dollars. Read more about the Seattle Post Intelligencer’s final days


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