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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids. John Gillie writes about the aerospace and airline industries, commercial development and consumer issues. During his 30-year-tenure at The News Tribune he has covered issues as diverse as the Native American fishing rights disputes, crime and the courts, the wood products industry and energy. He lived in Tacoma with his family for 25 years, but now lives in Kent because his wife heads a five-state non-profit foundation headquartered in Ballard, and it only seemed a sensible compromise to make considering their workplaces are 40 miles apart. Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
First Russell, now Blue Box Group. Or first The Northern Pacific, then Weyerhaeuser, then Russell, now Blue Box Group.
The Tacoma-based and -born Web hosting and specialty application firm has announced that it has left Tacoma in favor of Seattle.
All 11 staff members will relocate by the end of the year, according to CEO and owner Jesse Proudman, who grew up in Tacoma and attended the University of Puget Sound.
“It was a staffing decision. We’ve grown 100 percent a year for last three years, and we’ve had a very difficult time finding and attracting a high level of people to a Tacoma office,” Proudman said earlier today. “A Seattle office would have been much more attractive.”
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