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October, OutFront Briefcase

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The Port of Columbia is pursuing plans for what it's calling "the world's first organic...

October, OutFront Boeing Model Grounded

Alaska Airlines has retired the last of its MD-80s, grounding them in favor of Boeing 737s. The...

OutFront, October Freight Rail Grows

Freight rail traffic is growing across Washington state, spurred by growth in Asian imports, high...

October, OutFront Biotechs Feel the Heat

It's not been a good year for many Seattle biotechnology companies. In the last weeks of August,...

October, OutFront Window Shopping

Luxury markdowns around the state

October, OutFront State Gets a 'C' For Friendliness to Manufacturers

There is little doubt that manufacturing is an economic driver in Washington state, employing more...

OutFront, October A Trucker's Guide to the Ports

Do business with the Port of Tacoma or Port of Seattle? Have jitters about your truck drivers...

October, OutFront Taking the Needle to New Heights

The Space Needle isn't just a landmark attraction of the Pacific Northwest. It's also a private...

October, OutFront WaMu's New Direction ... Straight Ahead

Is WaMu in play? CEO Kerry Killinger's forced retirement last month immediately opened speculation...

October, OutFront Executive Appointments

Russ Aldrich is named CEO of QL2, Seattle.Jones Soda Co., Seattle, appoints Michael O'Brien as CFO,...

October, OutFront A Glass Half Full

Washington looks past a gloomy summer to a brighter future

Agriculture

Interactive map: Washington gas prices

Browse our list of the lowest gas prices in the state or search the interactive map to find prices in your neighborhood.


Ask a Lawyer

Washington CEO Magazine is partnering with attorney ranking company Avvo to provide the list of the top lawyers in the state. Online we provide an entry into Avvo's question-and-answer feature, with real attorneys answering real...


The Top Business Attorneys in Washington

Washington CEO Magazine has teamed up with Avvo Inc., the Seattle company that rates attorneys across the country, to present a list of the top lawyers in Washington.


Publisher Bob Ritter
The Greening of Business

For Washington companies, the environment is the bottom line


Local Farming On The Rise

Small to midlevel farmers in Washington state look stronger than ever despite spiking oil and food prices. Traditionally muscled out by large agribusinesses ? whose capital, infrastructure and federal commodity subsidies enable...


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Executive Appointments

·          Ellen Bovarnick is named regional director of the Anti-Defamation League?s Pacific Northwest Region.

·          Paul Campbell...


Outront
Shifting Grounds In Seattle Property Market

The continuing credit crunch has claimed another victim: Clise Properties' plans to sell and redevelop a 13-acre tract in downtown Seattle, a $7 billion project on the scale of London's Canary Wharf.

That project has now been...


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State Kicks Tobacco Money To Biosciences

Fund, a state fund charged with distributing $350 million in tobacco settlement money to life sciences, has announced its first grants: $22 million to fund five programs.

THE...


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Recent Company Acquisitions

Rvs Come, Rvs Go

Western Recreational Vehicles Inc., a Yakima maker of the eponymous yachts of the highways, is shutting down after a failed merger attempt. While company president Bob Wert issued a statement April 17 saying the...


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Window Shopping

Three Puget Sound-Area Homes With Green Features


Outfront
Briefcase

Short news items about Washington business


O. Casey Corr
Icons Come and Go

Seattle?s class of business visionaries shows its age


Real Estate
Getting Green From the Brown

Developers and governments find new opportunities in old industrial sites


Cover story
How Green Was My Company?

With the first Green Washington Awards, Washington CEO Magazine celebrates businesses and organizations that have found innovative ways to be environmentally sustainable


Environment
The Color of Tomorrow's Money

The road to green business practices becomes a path to profits


Made in Washington
So You Wanna Run a Restaurant

Local restaurateurs rise and fall in the business of dining


Policy
Renewing The Cities Of The Plains

Economists. They're kind of dry. They look at charts and graphs and spreadsheets and laugh at inside jokes most of us just don't get.But lately, Dean Schau, a Tri-Cities labor economist, has been waxing quite lyrical. "Give us...


Finance
Balance and Grace

A private banker and arts patron steps lightly between work and life


Life and Style
Homeward (Re)bound

The Northwest has many offerings for those looking for a second home


Bookend
Bookend

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

By Stewart D. Friedman

(Harvard Business Press, $25.95)

It?s been said again and again by business leaders that you can either be successful at work or have a good...


Q&A
Q&A With Fred Brown of NextIT

Fred Brown is president and CEO of Spokane-based Next IT, which he founded in 2002. Next IT develops artificial intelligence software that humanizes Webuser interactions with virtual characters, such as Alaska Airlines' "Ask...


Q&A - Eric Spangenberg

Eric Spangenberg is dean of the College of Business at Washington State University, where he holds the Geoff and Florence Maughmer Freedom Philosophy Endowed Chair. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from...


Out on the Town

ART

Bellevue Art Museum

Jun 7-Aug 19 Offering Reconciliation: The exhibition features 135 ceramic bowls created by Israeli and Palestinian painters, sculptors and photographers. Each bowl represents the longing for an end to...


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FOR YOUR DESK

Doing Business in China: How to Profit in the World’s Fastest Growing Market

By Ted Plafker

(Warner, $24.99)

As Earth’s most populous nation, housing fully one-fifth of all humans alive today, China...


Wine

MUSIC ON AND OFF THE VINE

As children of the 1960s, Dean and Verdie Morrison are countercultural by nature. But with their Morrison Lane Winery in Walla Walla, they have extended their challenge-thestatus- quo attitudes to...


Playing's the Thing

I'm sitting at lunch at Pasta Piatti in Ashland, Ore., with Lewis the Dauphin, son of the King of France. He's eating a terrificlooking sandwich on foccacia bread and talking about some of his favorite haunts in town. Lewis...


Rivers in the Sky

Heli-fishing British Columbia?s Sunshine Coast


Full Stream Ahead

RealNetworks rebounds by embracing new markets


Building Blocks

An inventor uses grit and ingenuity to build a legacy


Cleanup Crew

HALOSOURCE INC.

Location: Bothell

Website: www.halosource.com

Founded: 2002 (as a merger between Vanson Co. and HaloSource, a previous incarnation of the company)

Key Innovation: HaloSource's principal products are used to...



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