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Visit our photo gallery from our first Green Washington Awards banquet. Spot the Senator.
The military is Washington state's third-largest employer. Mouse over to our interactive graphic that shows you who and where they are.
Take a slideshow tour of Vancouver, Wash., Washington's fourth-largest city, with additional pictures, facts and figures.
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A roundup of the 2008 Best Companies to Work For in Washington and what makes them great places to work
Winners of the 2008 Best Companies to Work For competition in the small company category
Winners of the 2008 Best Companies to Work For competition in the medium company category
Winners of the 2008 Best Companies to Work For competition in the large company category
Jennifer Sizemore is vice president and editor-in-chief of Redmondbased MSNBC.com and an executive producer at NBC News. Sizemore, 39, joined MSNBC.com in 2005. Prior to that, she held managerial positions at the Houston...
Executive Decision
Megan Murphy
What book should every businessperson be reading right now?
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin, $24). "I love this book because it studies the relationship between...
Car collectors are drawn to the smooth lines, the storied pasts, the powerful engines ... gas prices be damned
Washington's canine love affair pays the bills for these doggie daycare entrepreneurs
In Washington's third-largest industry -- the military -- leadership
isn't much different from that in the private sector
Peer-assisted learning defines life at Seattle?s Holy Names Academy
Strong leadership propels Approach Management Services to the top
Tech services firm Allyis treats workers like real people,
and - surprise! - they stick around
How to maintain your culture when you get bought out
The University of Washington is very difficult to deal with. ... We have great relationships with some departments but not the relationship we hoped [for].
-- Richard Shea, CEO of Spiration Inc., at a UW-Bothell-sponsored summit...
The nation continues to flirt with recession, hammered by problems in the financial services sector, but buoyed by Federal Reserve actions to stimulate lending and buttress troubled financial institutions. Strong exports are also...
Washington CEO Magazine was honored three times this year at the annual Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards banquet. Senior Writer Aaron Corvin won a second- place award in business news and...
O Ecotextiles Inc., a Seattle company that makes environmentally friendly materials for drapery, upholstery and bedclothes, has been awarded $50,000 from the Zino Society's second annual Green-Socially Conscious Investment Forum...
BELLEVUE -- Groundbreaking for European Tower, a 16-story luxury condominium project, has been postponed. Developer Eugene Gershman says he's waiting until the market improves, possibly next fall. More than a third of the units...
A program developed by the Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce has become a national model in a campaign to encourage local businesses to hire the wives and husbands of people serving in the military. Backers say that too...
Say "DuPont" and the first thing that comes to mind is the American global chemical giant. But DuPont also is a small and, perhaps, easily forgotten city in south Puget Sound. Well, start paying attention. While DuPont is, in...
Bellevue truck maker Paccar Inc. has donated $1 million to Overlake Hospital Medical Center to set up the Paccar Education Center -- a 7,000-square-foot education facility intended to boost training for medical professionals...
Nintendo of America will start work later this year on a new 275,000-square-foot building at its Redmond headquarters. It will replace seven low-rise buildings currently on the site. The company intends to build sustainable...
The Port of Everett has landed an anchor tenant -- Bayside Marine -- for its new "Craftsman District" on the Everett waterfront.
The $13 million Craftsman project is intended to revitalize the industrial waterfront with...
Seattle-based Big Fish Games promotes Laurent de Segur from vice president of technology to chief technology officer.Kevin Doerr is named senior vice president of Oodle, Seattle.Dennis Fitzpatrick is named general manager of...
Maybe you work at home alone. Maybe you're on the road a lot and you have no headquarters or co-workers. You like your independence, but you're beginning to forget what it's like to grab a coffee with another human being who also...
Leaders come in many forms, but great leaders all have something in common
BOOKS & TALKS
Intiman Theater
Jul 16 Clayton Corzatte and Michael Winters: Acting the Classics. Part of the Conversations with Artists series, in which artists discuss their craft with each other and Intiman communications...
Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young TalentBy Chris Resto, Ian Ybarra and Ramit Sethi (Portfolio, $24.95)
It shouldn't only be giant corporations that recruit top talent from college...
Riesling lovers have much to smile about these days. The once-lackluster varietal is now having a renaissance of sorts and shining brighter than ever before.
The grape has had an illustrious career dating to the 1400s, but a...
Make sure you choose a property that matches your lifestyle
Three companies offer new models for recruiting employees and executives
Reform math draws criticism in schools and creates an opening for business
In his 21 years at Boeing, Don Bryant has worked on just about every commercial jet the company has built. But as he gazed out recently at the first 787 Dreamliner coming together in the massive final assembly factory in Everett,...
Top nonprofit Organization - Spokane Federal Credit Union focuses on balance
Top large Company - Leadership and open communication define life at McKinstry
Top medium Company - Clark Nuber represents a different sort of firm that nurtures talent
Top Small Company - Openness, flexibility, lifestyle underpin Construx Software
Employees of Pot o'Gold Coffee rave about the cold beer available from their company kegerator, while at Comcast they love their benefits. An aQuantive employee is impressed by the $100 bill once taped to the bottom of his chair...
Washington employers increase salaries to attract talent, but relationships matter, too
Fox Sports Net Northwest has carved out a lucrative niche on cable
The most remarkable thing about the first quarter 2007 numbers is the 4,912 building permits granted to builders in King County, a 116.6 percent increase over the first three months of 2006. If all those units are actually built,...
Software publishing continues to expand in Washington, with 3,100 jobs added in April since the year before. The expansion is driven by Microsoft. But there is also a large and growing information technology cluster. ...
ISSAQUAH - A long-running battle with the state Department of Health came to an end when Swedish Medical Center was given the green light to build a new full-service hospital in Issaquah. Swedish and Overlake Hospital Medical...
What do you do if you're a small, suburban city with no downtown? If you're University Place, a city of 31,000 people southwest of Tacoma, you spend $250 million on a "Town Center" project that is expected to generate...
Two developers plan to transform a 36-acre Safeway distribution center in Bellevue into an urban village featuring 2.5 million square feet of office space and more than 600 housing units. Seattle-based Wright Runstad and San...
Vulcan Real Estate's 2200 project has been nationally recognized by the Urban Land Institute as one of 10 winners in this year's Awards for Excellence competition. The award is widely recognized as the country's most prestigious...
A growing appetite for dairy products in Asia could be largely to blame for rising milk prices, which are projected to increase through the end of the year.
In April 2006, the government-mandated price for milk in the...
Former University of Washington president Lee Huntsman will lead a planning team from the university as it decides where to build a new UW campus and how to run it. The state wants to open a new branch UW campus and must decide...
The north Olympic Peninsula is fertile ground for cool-climate cultivation of grapes, a new study concludes, and growers should take the opportunity to make the light, crisp, aromatic style of wine that goes well with the seafood...
Safeco Insurance Foundation has named Virginia Anderson, former director of Seattle Center, its new president.CollinsWoerman of Seattle has promoted Helen Brown to principal.Getty Images has hired former U.S. Attorney John McKay...
The amount of certified organic land in Washington rose to 64,325 acres last year, up from 46,181 acres in 2005, according to Washington State University.
The number of certified organic producers grew to 554 last year from 529...
The ports of Tacoma, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., plan to team up to reduce air emissions from port activity in the Puget Sound area. The ports are proposing goals of reducing particulate matter emitted by ships at berth by 70...
Paccar Inc. plans to build a $400 million engine manufacturing plant in Columbus, Miss. Construction on the 400,000-square-foot plant is expected to be completed by 2009. About 200 workers will initially build 12.9-liter and...
