Top priority for Legislature is keeping 737 MAX in state | Renton Reporter Editorial

20,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues. Those are two really good reasons why Gov. Chris Gregoire is rallying local and state leaders, educators, unions and businesses to show Boeing why it should build the 737 MAX in Washington. Of course, we think production of this newest member of the 737 family should land in Renton.

November 17, 2011 1:51 pm

20,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of  dollars in tax revenues.

Those are two really good reasons why Gov. Chris Gregoire is rallying local and state leaders, educators, unions and businesses to show Boeing why it should build the 737 MAX in Washington. Of course, we think production of this newest member of the 737 family should land in Renton.

Education is the key component  of Gregoire’s plan to keep the 737 MAX in the state, backed up by $9.8 million in spending. The Legislature needs to  act expeditiously to approve that spending, even in the face of deep budget cuts, to preserve and increase family wage jobs in the state.