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Invest in a few energy savers

Times may be tight, but in making your home more energy-efficient it’s actually true that the more you spend the more you can save later.

Post carefully: Your virtual footprint can halt that job offer

MINNEAPOLIS – Rose McKinney recalls one job candidate who blogged and tweeted herself directly out of a job interview.

EMPLOYMENT: Hospital hires new chief quality officer

OLYMPIA – Amber Miller has been hired as Capital Medical Center’s new chief quality officer, the west-side hospital announced this week. Miller moved to Olympia from Meridian, Idaho, where she used to work at West Valley Medical Center, a Hospital Corporation of America facility. HCA used to own Capital Medical Center before it was sold to Capella Healthcare.

MEDICINE: Grant allows hospital to buy equipment

OLYMPIA – Providence St. Peter Hospital has received a $30,800 grant to purchase monitoring equipment for patients with acute neurological conditions, the hospital announced Thursday. The grant comes courtesy of Boeing’s Employee Community Fund, a fund that has contributed more than $500 million to local communities since 1951, according to a Providence news release. The new equipment will be used to measure blood pressure, oxygen levels and temperature and help to detect infection.

BAILOUT: GM fears alternative if plan is rejected

An attorney for General Motors Corp. urged a bankruptcy judge Thursday to approve the automaker’s sale plan, saying that the only other alternative would be a liquidation of the company’s assets.

AVIATION: Boeing deliveries near last year’s quarter

The Boeing Co. delivered 125 commercial jets in the second quarter, one less than the same period in 2008.

MANUFACTURING: U.S. factories report increase in orders

Orders to U.S. factories jumped in May by the largest amount in nearly a year, another sign that the nosedive in manufacturing is nearing an end.

Chrysler turnaround to take time

DETROIT – The latest numbers on auto sales show that Chrysler needs to quickly figure out how to navigate the car market as deftly as it did bankruptcy court.

WALL STREET: Stocks fall following joblessness news

Major stock indexes fell more than 2.6 percent after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate hit a 26-year high. The Dow Jones industrials lost 223.32 to close at 8,280.74, its lowest level in six weeks.

Manufacturer leaving Tumwater

TUMWATER – Albany International Corp. of New York announced Wednesday that it will close its plant on Littlerock Road, laying off 32 employees.