Mike Feiner's course on leadership was one of the highlights of my year spent at Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. It was a treat talking to him again recently, in connection with this month's profile on U.S. Navy...

Boeing share prices continued their decline on Monday, much to the chagrin of Puget Sound-area employees hoping for a bigger payout through a stock-based incentive program.

Shares of Boeing closed today at $65.72, down $1.20....

SEATTLE - Washington needs to invest more in workforce development and do a better job marketing itself - and more tax breaks wouldn't hurt either - aerospace industry leaders say.

A shortage of trained workers is "our biggest...

SEATTLE -- Boeing will have to juggle its orders book in the months ahead, as airlines hit hard by rising fuel prices seek to delay jet deliveries, while others who desperately want fuel-efficient planes try to get theirs sooner,...

In news guaranteed to increase sales of Bud Light and tequila across Everett this evening, the Government Accounting Office has upheld Boeing's protest of a Pentagon decision to buy $35 billion worth of Airbus tankers.

This...

SEATTLE - Washington Mutual will keep investing in its profitable retail banking business as it attempts to recover from its losses in mortgage lending, CEO Kerry Killinger said Wednesday.

"The retail channel is the...

I swung by my favorite south Everett watering hole, for the first time in a while. The regulars were quick to abuse me, saying that just because I work down in the city and have a girlfriend now, that's no excuse for not showing...

Angelos Angelou may be a leading thinker on urban development and all, but really, what does he know about the Tri-Cities?

That was kind of the gist of an interesting chat with Ken Nelson, the economic development director for...

Everybody's favorite Seattle-based commuter airline - Horizon Air - is feeling the pinch. A combination of shrinking passenger counts and rising fuel costs is leading it to make cuts on a number of routes.

Horizon is pulling out...

The growth Puget Sound faces in the decades ahead is staggering: a population mass the size of the entire Portland, Ore., metropolitan area will move into King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties by 2040. That's an increase of...

Boeing is open to more deals like its recent purchase of half of problem-plagued 787 supplier Global Aeronautica

As the price of oil rises and concerns about global climate change intensify, it's good and important that we're talking about developing more efficient vehicles, such as hybrid cars, and lower-carbon fuels, such as...

These days, real estate is no longer primarily about your house, how much you value it and how much others value it. Why? Because transportation, its cost increasing as oil supplies tighten, demand for fuel grows and...

With 80 percent of its record orders backlog booked with overseas customers, the Boeing Co. should comfortably weather the current U.S. credit mess, CEO Jim McNerney said this morning.

"Right now, these developments aren't...

Boeing is reporting a 38-percent jump in first-quarter profits this morning.

The company reported net income of $1.2 billion for the quarter, compared to $877 million in the first quarter of last year.On a per-share basis,...

Oil is the bloodstream of the global economy, but its time as the dominant source of energy, powering everything from our cars and trucks to our pharmaceuticals and farming practices, is coming to an end.

At least,...

The Federal Reserve has just released its April Beige Book report, a collection of observations and reports from around the nation. We'll let CNBC worry about the nationwide outlook, and focus on what the 12th District board of...

If McDonalds' humorous new commercials, featuring corporate coffee orders and disillusioned customers admitting they only pretend to like jazz music, are an indication, the Golden Arches is attempting a hostile takeover of at...

Boeing and its partners have made a lot of progress toward getting the 787 on track, says Pat Shanahan. "We simply haven't made enough."

As a result, the company is pushing back its timetable for first flight and...

In a statement released this morning, the company says that while "significant progress has been made assembling Airplane #1," the first flight is being rescheduled, due to "slower than expected completion of work that traveled...

There's not much room at the inns in Spokane. Hotel occupancy rates last year grew by 14 percent - the fastest rate in 16 years, the Spokane Journal of Business reports. That's more than four times the growth rate in...

Whether you think being "green" - in your company's use of energy, transportation, etc. - is mostly a matter of putting on a good and trendy corporate face (with side benefits) or mostly a matter of doing what's right, you...

That's what I get for thinking.

I heard the rumor a couple months ago, that Boeing was going to buy the troubled Global Aeronautica factory in Charleston, S.C. Global is a joint venture formed by two long-time Boeing suppliers...

It's time to start watching Boeing's stock price.

As my friends at The Daily Herald in Everett noted this week, the deadline is approaching for another payout from the company's Share Value Trust program. If Boeing share...

Not all real-estate meltdowns are created equal. That's the upshot of this San Francisco Chronicle column which delivers data suggesting that sprawling suburban areas are seeing higher foreclosure rates than compact, urban...

Boeing appealed the tanker contract? What?  You woke me up early the day after I get back from vacation to tell me that? Of course Boeing appealed the Pentagon's decision to buy tankers from the EADS/Northrop Grumman joint...

The EADS/Northrop Gruman tanker proposal was superior to Boeing's in every regard, says tanker guru Loren Thompson of the Lexington Insitute.

"Boeing didn't manage to beat Northrop in a single measure of merit," Thompson wrote...

A university can thrive in a city or a suburb, but a city, by its nature, has certain immediate advantages over the 'burbs.

In a city, you find historic buildings in need of redevelopment, ample sidewalks and...

OK, the press conference is over.

My first reaction - this is a huge strategic win for Airbus' parent company, EADS. The Pentagon is the biggest weapons buyer in the world, and EADS wants - heck, needs - to get a share of...

Obviously, there was no tanker announcement Wednesday afternoon. Instead, a top Pentagon official told Reuters yesterday that her "best bet" is that word on the decision about who gets the $40 billion contract will come down...