In a column Don Brunell, president of the Association of Washington Business, wrote last year, he told the story of a mill in Camas whose owner took a thorough look at what it could do to reduce the number of on-the-job injuries. read more »

Boeing is leaving, but not on a jet plane. And not because of Washington’s business climate.

Yes, Boeing is moving 500 of its corporate staff out of state, but the jet maker is NOT moving its existing Washington-based manufacturing operations — or its 80,000 Puget Sound employees — to Texas or anywhere else.

And that fact — that the No. 1 aerospace company in the world will continue to make the 747, 767 and 777 right here in Washington — should put to rest these reflexive assertions that our state’s tax structure is to blame for Boeing moving its corporate headquarters. read more »

It has been a long and choppy crossing.

Since my days as executive director of the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce in the late 1980s, I have been working with the business community to get one fundamental message to Olympia: The economic viability of Kitsap County — one of the fastest-growing counties in the state — depends on ferry service and the expansion of the marine highways connecting us to the I-5 and I-90 corridors. read more »