Gov. Chris Gregoire will be at Everett Community College on Thursday to announce federal funding for aerospace training programs. Her office says Gregoire has chosen to invest a portion of the state’s Workforce Investment Act money in the aerospace work force. Gregoire and other state leaders are engaged in a campaign to persuade Boeing to open its second 787 line in Washington rather than another state. Gregoire spoke last week at an aerospace summit in Spokane and pledged to do everything she could to attract and keep aerospace businesses in Washington.
Attorney general warns remodelers
Dozens of home remodelers in Washington have been warned to keep their sales pitches on the up and up. The state attorney general’s office has sent letters to 30 of the largest and most widely advertised roofing, window replacement, siding installation and other companies in Western Washington. The letters warn against offers for phony discounts on inflated retail prices, high-pressure sales tactics and fraudulent endorsements. In a settlement last month, one of the two largest of those firms, Evans Glass in Seattle, did not admit any wrongdoing but agreed to pay $60,000 in legal fees and costs. A $25,000 fine was suspended. Assistant Attorney General Jack G. Zurlini Jr. of Spokane says the subsequent warning reflects concern about complaints against Evans and other large home remodeling businesses.
Mattel to settle consumer lawsuit
Mattel Inc. and its Fisher-Price subsidiary have agreed to settle a consumer lawsuit for what could total more than $50 million over the 2007 recall of millions of toys made in China that were found to contain high levels of lead. The proposed class action settlement, filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, will resolve 22 suits filed against Mattel and Fisher-Price and major retailers on behalf of millions of families who purchased or received the defective toys as gifts before they were later recalled or withdrawn from market. In the settlement Mattel and Fisher-Price agreed to provide refunds or other reimbursement to those who purchased the Chinese-made toys.
Wall Street Journal tops USA Today
The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States. The Audit Bureau of Circulations won’t be releasing its latest figures until Oct. 26, but the Journal said Wednesday that it gained about 12,000 subscribers in the April-September period, compared with a year earlier. That puts its average Monday-Friday circulation at 2.02 million. The Journal claimed the top spot last week after USA Today released its circulation figures early, but had not given out specifics. USA Today, which has long been No. 1, said last week that it had its worst circulation decline ever, dropping 17 percent to 1.88 million.
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