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In "Spokane's First Family," William Stimson mentions legal actions surrounding the River Park Square public-private partnership. As coowner and publisher of The Local Planet Weekly newspaper in Spokane during the first half of...
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Craig Ueland is CEO of Russell Investment Group, a leader in the highly competitive world of global investing. Ueland, who holds degrees in economics and finance from Stanford University and the University of Washington, joined...
George Washington and the Art of Business: The Leadership Principles of America's First Commander-in-Chief...
Doug McCrea must have smiled when he learned that Wine Spectator Magazine, the bible of the global wine industry, recently named a southern Rhone wine blend as its Wine of the Year for 2007. After all, McCrea has quietly...
Washingtonʼs nuclear reservation has nurtured experts who are launching new start-ups
Elite schools are booming as a result of new wealth in the region, but now they face new challenges
Loss of a major manufacturer raises questions about how Washington can attract business
The housing market has dried up. Subprime mortgages? Evaporated... But regional banks hold the line
The emerging ability to spot disease networks in humans - and reprogram them - will upturn the medical establishment and create new business opportunities
As the economy slows, beware of the secondary impact of a weakening housing sector
Now that Proposition 1 has failed, where should we go now?
How to protect trade secrets in the age of the mobile workforce
Spokane is the third largest metropolitan area in the state, following the Seattle-Everett corridor and Tacoma. It is the transportation, health care and business services center for much of eastern Washington, as well as...
LACEY - Cabella's is here. The national catalogue retailer of hunting, fishing and camping gear opened its 27th and newest store in Lacey in November. Lacey officials expect it to attract as many as 4 million people in its first...
The University of Washington's third branch campus should be at the Everett Station transit center, a site consultant says.
The station is already home to Everett's University Center, where Everett Community College and five...
The Columbia Basin Railroad took over the line running from Vancouver to Chelatchie Prairie in Clark County in February 2004. Since then, the company, led by CEO Eric Temple, has grown steadily.
A projected 1,000 railcars were...
Last fall, Janelle Godfrey, a technical recruiter for Microsoft Corp., listed on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog/ articles/janelle.aspx) what she called "Best Comments Heard at Microsoft's 'Meet the Company'...
-Tony Colasin is new director of business development for Kirkland-based CellCyte Genetics Corp.
-Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, Yakima, names Stan Flemming president.
-R. Jordan Gates is appointed president...
The Schuster Group, a real estate investment firm, has raised $20 million of a $100 million fund it is putting together to invest in Puget Sound real estate. The fund, to be raised mostly from local individual investors, hopes...
Ever wonder how hard we're working compared to other states or the nation as a whole? Wonder no longer. A report by the Prosperity Partnership, a coalition of business, government, academic, labor and nonprofit agencies in Puget ...
CleanScapes, a small Seattle firm, beat Waste Management, the biggest name in garbage globally, to win the city of Shoreline's garbage contract. Now Clean- Scapes has been selected to negotiate for some of Seattle's residential...
When political leaders linked roads and transit together in a tax package called Proposition 1 on the Nov. 6 ballot, they believed they had concocted a winning formula for relieving congestion in Puget Sound.
However, the...
Bothell-based MediQuest Therapeutics is making steady, if quiet, progress toward treating a littleknown disease that primarily afflicts women.
The specialty pharmaceutical company, which focuses on developing therapies for...
Developers are moving forward with what some are calling the biggest commercial development Ellensburg has ever seen.
Ellensburg-based Triple L Properties has filed plans to build a hotel, retail and office complex on a...
NBC has commissioned two Seattle filmmakers to turn their independent movie, Outsourced, into a pilot for a half-hour comedy series. Director John Jeffcoat and screenwriter Jeff Wing (50 First Dates) are behind the effort. Their...
A New Year at Washington CEO Magazine begins with a new editor and a recommitment to our mission of providing our readers with the best of business journalism in print, online and through an expanding array of community...
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SEATTLE - What does Moody's Investors Service think about the potential success of mass transit? Moody's ranked Seattle's local improvement district (LID) bonds Aa1, the highest rating ever given to a LID in Washington.
The city...
TUKWILA - Lovers, a local chain of sex emporiums, celebrated its 25th anniversary by re-opening its 15,000-squarefoot flagship store (formerly known as Lover's Package) in Tukwila with an extravaganza filled with "unmentionables"...
WOODINVILLE - The typical urban village promises a mix of houses, shops and parks. Why not add wineries to that list of traditional must-haves? That's the idea behind Woodinville Village, a master-planned community designed...
SEATTLE - Nationally, the real estate market seems headed for a tail-spin, but not Seattle. Experts say the city remains a bargain compared to other major metro areas, and they predict sales will increase significantly in the...
TACOMA - Port of Tacoma officials expect revenue for 2007 to be $102.5 million, a 12.6 percent increase over 2006. The port's commission kept the tax rate the same and is focusing on spending millions on infrastructure...
KALAMA - Where better to put a wine bottle manufacturing plant than in Washington, the second-largest wine producing state in the nation? Cameron Family Glass Packaging, a Pennsylvania wine bottle maker, has entered into an...
SEATTLE - Aiming to better serve the Latino population, Fisher Communications Inc. has completed a $19.3 million purchase of two television stations from Equity Broadcasting Corp. The stations, KPOU in La Grande, Ore., and...
SEATTLE - Memo to fashionable men: Forget pocket squares. Try designer boxer-briefs. In that department, Danial Hellman might provide the perfect package. Hellman has launched Danial Webster Design, a line of handmade men's...
SEATTLE - Sound Transit got good news last fall: The agency's survey of 800 registered voters on potential financing plans showed support for more rail and bus projects in trafficchoked Central Puget Sound.
About 77 percent of...
BELLEVUE - Puget Sound Energy, the largest utility in Washington, is giving customers who generate clean, renewable power the opportunity to become "green energy" partners by providing them annual incentive payments for all the...
TACOMA - Home furnishings giant Ikea will build a distribution center for goods shipped through the Port of Tacoma that may eventually top 1 million square feet, or the equivalent of 17 football fields. Products from some of the...
KENT - The King County Journal, a daily newspaper that publishes in east and south King County, has been sold to Black Press, a publisher of community papers headquartered in Victoria, B.C. Black Press paid an undisclosed amount...
SEATTLE - Northwest Architectural Co. and Jubany Architecture have merged, taking the new name NAC Architecture, with offices in three states and a staff of more than 150.
"The consolidation of expertise and knowledge gives...
BELLEVUE - Pharmacy management firm Talyst recently received a $20 million boost from two Seattle venture capital firms, and expects to significantly increase its client base next year. Investments by Ignition Partners and OVP...
LA CENTER -With a $510 million casino resort on the line, the Cowlitz Tribe in southwest Washington won't know until next year if land near La Center will be granted reservation status, clearing the way for the mega-project.
The...
BELLINGHAM -A voluptuous derriere is a key money maker, according to MannequinStore.com. The Bellingham mannequin manufacturer says its anatomically-correct mannequins are expected to increase sales to customers. The new...
Pumped by Boeing and population growth, Puget Sound looks muscular compared to the nation
Conservation group?s leader wields business savvy to bolster the environment
Science, business and philanthropy join to fight disease worldwide
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?s Patty Stonesifer can remake the world of philanthropy, but it?s a long and difficult road
Why we can?t find a healthier way to pay for public services
Forward-thinking patrons support Seattle Art Museum?s bold new vision
Outside investors are transforming Washington?s agricultural powerhouse into a diversified economy
Companies that are looking at clean (or cleaner) forms of energy are focusing on everything from batteries to vehicle fuel to electricity
Gonzaga basketball team given credit for raising the admissions bar at Spokane university
A new kind of fund sees green in some surprising sectors
Since 1901, when John W. Nordstrom opened the first Nordstrom shoe store in downtown Seattle, the business has grown into a Northwest icon, managed now by a fourth generation of the Nordstrom family. Nordstrom purchased Best...
Floating luxury resorts with big-thrill adventures put a new spin on the old fashioned cruise
Few people have seen, up close, the ravages of war and what it can do to the land and everything that grows on it - or doesn't grow. But Doug Tunnell, owner and winemaker for Brick House Vineyards in Newberg, Ore., experienced...
THEATRE Seattle Repertory Theatre Jan 11-Feb 10 Edward Albee's The Lady from Dubuque From the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A couple's house party is haunted by unexpected visitors and the hostess' deepest fears. 155...
