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Boeing's departure of the 787 project actually began nearly three years ago after Inslee vetoed a manufacturing tax break drop.

Inslee varied back and forth between thinly veiled threats and praise for Boeing.

In the same news release-statement, Inslee hints at threatening the Boeing tax breaks, but then says he and the state stand ready to help or work with Boeing.

Fox Business reports Boeing isn't doing anything new, thousands of aerospace jobs have moved out of CA, and west coast the last few years, to Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and other southern areas.

Boeing's Puget Sound operations (including Renton, Everett and others) suspended two weeks.

Boeing in Seattle was put on full alert after realizing certain systems were attacked by the WannaCry virus. Boeing's Chief Engineer Mike VanderWel sent an

Although he denies it, critics, especially on the GOP side, are saying Governor Inslee caved into special interests and labor unions when he vetoed part of a bill that would give the same Business and Occupation tax rate as Boeing.

Overall, officials and sources say it's part of a number of cost-cutting measures to save the aerospace giant money, and to reorganize and make itself more efficient.

In what we think is an insightful, if not brilliant, assessment of Gov. Inslee's inconsistencies on environmental policy, the political blog Sound Politics has taken the governor to task on his carbon tax idea.

Governor Jay Inslee, Boeing, and economic-development leaders are applauding the machinist union's re-vote on a new Boeing contract. But some labor activists say it's a loss of local power.