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    Tom Banse
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    NW News Network
    Every new car ferry added to the Washington State Ferries fleet over the past fifty years was built at a Puget Sound shipyard. Now, state lawmakers are considering a break from past policy in order to obtain new vessels faster and cheaper for the troubled state ferry system.
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    Tom Banse
    /
    NW News Network
    When the MAX was grounded in 2019 after two deadly accidents, Boeing kept on manufacturing the airplane. Today, one hundred or more undelivered MAX’s are still parked at an airfield in Moses Lake, Washington, awaiting modifications. The work is lasting so long that some technicians and machinists who were sent there from Boeing’s Puget Sound facilities are now buying homes and putting down roots.