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State and local governments around the country have taken leading roles in responding to the challenge of climate change. Although the presumptive presidential nominees have pledged greater federal participation starting next...
Geoff P. Wood has been CEO of Windermere Services Co. since 2003. Under Wood's leadership, Windermere has moved into markets in seven Western states, including California. He joined Windermere in 1993, managing five offices in...
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
By Rob Walker (Random House, $25)
We hear a lot about how commercial advertising and slick marketing don't work on consumers anymore. We're too jaded, it's said,...
Even as fewer take up the sport, the hunting business still thrives
Executives get valuable experience (and compensation) as directors of public companies
Scientists work to reinvent the apple, from the genome up
Bob Potter still works his magic luring California businesses to the Inland Northwest
Washington renews efforts to promote itself, inviting businesses to forget "Say WA" and join the team
Washington falls short in math and science education as the WEA defeats teacher pay reform
Empty nesters, seeking a downsized life close to the action, perk up the condo market
Entrepreneurs, not politicians, can unleash the promise of biofuels
The major change in the May statistics was a sharp increase in the unemployment rate, from 4.6 percent in April to a preliminary estimate of 5.1 percent in May. This increase occurred because the decline in employment reported by...
BOTHELL -- Nastech Pharmaceuticals has changed its name to MDRNA and has a new CEO, Michael French. The company has been focused on developing nasal spray formulations of existing drugs. Under French, it's expected to focus...
Washington state's cherry crop was smaller than expected, due to colder-than-Siberia weather in May and June.
The harvest started about a week late because the cold kept the fruit from ripening, and early estimates were that...
Three Seattle-based entities -- the Cascade Land Conservancy, Vulcan Inc. and real estate investment adviser Kennedy Associates -- have received international recognition as winners in the first Sustainable Cities Awards program...
New Microsoft Surface tabletop computers in a Las Vegas casino have been installed with software that allows users to order drinks from the bar -- and flirt with other users at computers across the room.
In a move that seems...
Three Portland investors have launched a new airline that connects the Rose City with Seattle. On June 30, SeaPort Air began operating 16 flights each weekday from Boeing Field, with one-way fares starting at $149. The new...
The Port of Everett is scaling back an expansion after a report from a consultant suggested that West Coast container ca rgo volumes have hit their peak.
With growth slowing down and with several major expansions underway at...
Turns out, Moses Lake makes a fine stand-in for the moon.
Preparing to send astronauts to the moon by 2020, NASA chose Moses Lake for testing because of the room it offered. And the sandy surface in Grant County resembles that...
Perhaps the only upside to declining home prices is that our property taxes might go down. And then only to the owners, as lower taxes would mean county governments would take a revenue hit.
Snohomish County, at least, has...
Sound Publishing Inc. has purchased the Enumclaw Courier-Herald and Bonney Lake Courier-Herald newspapers for an undisclosed price. Sound Publishing, a subsidiary of Black Press Ltd., of British Columbia, bought the papers from a...
Washington CEO Magazine received a gold and two silver awards in the 2008 Editorial Excellence Awards competition run by the Alliance of Area Business Publications.
Washington CEO was named the second-best U.S. regional business...
A brand-new California wine company has acquired one of Washington's oldest wineries, along with two other Northwest winemakers.
The new company, Ascentia Wine Estates of Sonoma, opened for business with a splash this summer,...
Darin Brown is now president of Avenue A | Razorfish's Europe operations.Katerie Chapman is promoted to vice president at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.Bellevue-based Resolute Solutions Corp. names Frank J. Costa...
The collapse in home values has shaken consumer confidence, led to lower consumer spending and widespread job losses, and has put some homebuyers out of their homes. More bad news is coming: Washington Mutual CEO Kerry Killinger...
Ditch the rhetoric: We need clear plans to deal with critical issues in our state
Linden Barney has been promoted to CFO of Redmond-based Innuity Inc.
Donald Bloodworth has been named CFO and chief operating officer at Seattlebased Earth Class Mail Corp.
Michael A. Brochu, former CEO of Loudeye, has been...
BOOKS AND TALKS
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Aug 1 Tao Lin: The literary blogger (aka The Reader of Depressing Books) reads from his debut collection of short stories, Bed, and his novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee. His fiction is known...
Executive Decision
Casey Roloff
What book should every businessperson be reading right now?
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck...
TRADITION MEETS HIGH TECH
If you marry tradition and age-old methods for winemaking with cutting-edge technology in the vineyards and in the winery, the result is the newest addition to the wine scene in Woodinville - Novelty...
Smartphones, the category that the Black- Berry made so popular, aren't just workhorses anymore. The latest and most publicized of the bunch, Apple's iPhone, promises to neatly consolidate into one device a digital media player,...
HOLLISTER-STIER LABORATORIES LLC
Location: Spokane
Website: www.hollisterstier.com
Founded: 1921
Key Innovation: Hollister-Stier is the only contract manufacturer of sterile injectables in the Pacific Northwest. The company's...
It takes more than tax breaks to promote economic development
VITAL STATS
Age: 50
Education: Bachelor's degree in math and economics from Harvard University; dropped out of Stanford Business School.
Total compensation in 2006: $976,149
Value of Microsoft shares: Ballmer owns about...
The Seahawks' Tod Leiweke focuses on winning on and off the field
Landowners get a shot at a cutting-edge investment ... if it is allowed to develop
Zillow spokespeople want their company to be thought of as a media company, not an online real estate service. They talk about new products as a television network touts its top programs. In keeping with the media metaphor, here...
For 95-year-old National Frozen Foods, a solid reputation plants the seeds of success
BELLINGHAM - Boat-builder Aluminum Chambered Boats (ACB) has won a $9.9 million contract to build 47 rigid-hull inflatable boats for the U.S. Coast Guard's cutter fleet. It's the first major contract ACB has won with the Coast...
Washington winter wheat production is expected to reach 119 million bushels this year, a 66-bushel-per-acre yield - respectable but not a record, according to the Capital Press newspaper.
In fact, Washington's winter wheat...
King County placed 10th in a list ranking millionaire households in the United States by county. The county has 1 percent of the nation's millionaires.
The results of a survey, released May 1 by London-based market research firm...
In what may be the biggest change to downtown Seattle since Denny Hill was leveled, Clise Properties has announced that it is putting 12 acres in Seattle's Denny Triangle on the market. The parcel has mostly parking lots at the...
Hoping to help consumers navigate the legal labyrinth and choose the best attorney, Avvo, a Seattle start-up, has launched an online rating system that ranks thousands of attorneys in more than 110 practice areas based on their...
With its sagebrush and rolling hills, parts of the Columbia Basin look vaguely like west Texas - and now the image is becoming complete as the region develops its own burgeoning energy industry. The Port of Walla Walla has...
Gonzaga University will launch a master of business administration program with an emphasis on health care management this fall. The university says its Graduate School of Business Administration is spearheading the program to...
Chief executive officers usually profit from mergers involving their company, even if the deal destroys shareholder value, a University of Washington researcher found.
"They get a big enough slug of new options from even a bad...
