March, Technology

Geeks of a Feather

Microsoft alumni help each other out after they leave

March, Q & A

A Q&A with Mary McWilliams

Mary McWilliams, president of Regence BlueShield since 2000, has been founding CEO of two other health plans...

Bookend, March

Bookend

What book should every businessperson be reading right now? Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, by Felipe Fernandez- Armesto (Norton, $17.95)...

March, Life & Style

Loading your Float

When it comes to outfitting a mega-yacht, creativity, rather than budget, becomes the limit.

March, Wine, Life & Style

The Prodigal Grape

Riesling returns to reclaim the white wine throne

March, Snapshots

Natural Enterprises

From flooring to fashion, four companies prove it's possible to stay green and make green.

Finance, March

Dollars and Sense

It's not just the super-rich who could use a personal wealth manager

March, Technology

The Wealth in Health

Microsoft moves fast to get into the health care IT market

March, Healthcare

Beyond the 15-Minute Checkup

Health exams designed - and priced - for executives

March, Real Estate

Luxury real estate lures global buyers

Is sleepy Seattle now a go-to destination for the international jet set? Agents and developers say new downtown luxury condos...

March, Policy

Washington For Sale

An old plan to lure foreign investment gets dusted off

March

When Sohn Speaks, Business Listens

The state's chief economic forecaster tests political waters

March, Cover

Welcome to Boomerton

Puget Sound's forgotten stepchild comes into its own

Sports Biz, March

Are You Ready for Some Fútbol?

Seattle gives Major League Soccer a free kick at the goal

CEO Adviser, March

What Goes Around Comes Around

Keeping employees satisfied helps overall performance

March

CEO Scene

Important faces in the crowd around the state.

Outspoken, March

Failing Upward

Even in defeat, there are lessons to learn and opportunities to be seized

March, Vital Signs

A Strong Employment Outlook

Early in 2008, the U.S. economy was teetering at the edge of a recession, with unprecedented losses at major financial institutions, falling stock market indexes...

March, OutFront

Can I Get Upgraded to Cougar Class?

Seattle-based Horizon Air has repainted four of its 70-seat CRJ-700 jets in the school colors of Washington and Oregon's four Pac-10 universities.

The first - in WSU's crimson and gray - rejoined the fleet after being repainted...

March, OutFront

PCC Expands its Green image

PCC Natural Markets, the Seattlebased grocery co-op, plans to open its ninth store, in Edmonds, by the end of June, coming as a flurry of much larger U.S. grocery and retail chains aggressively move into its market:...

March, OutFront

All Aboard the Bratwurst Express

By March 2009, the Bavarian-themed village Leavenworth hopes to open a passenger train station to further boost tourism and to enable visitors from western Washington to avoid driving through the Cascades.

The train stop,...

OutFront, March

Briefcase

BAINBRIDGE

Washington State Ferries has begun selling mural-sized advertisements on its boats. Backpack retailer JanSport was the first, paying $40,000 to mount floor-toceiling murals on two ferries on the Seattle-to-Bainbridge...

March, OutFront

Downtown Yakima is in Bloom

Yakima is poised for a major resurgence, boosters say. The city recorded more than $100 million in new construction in 2007 ? a record ? as developers poured new money into a number of downtown projects.

It's a sharp turnaround...

March, OutFront

Window Shopping

What a waterfront home costs around the state

March, OutFront

Plant a Supermall Outside Pullman

Boise-based Hawkins Companies has proposed building a 700,000-square-foot (more than 16 acres) shopping center in the currently undeveloped wheat fields between Pullman and Moscow, Idaho.

The shopping center would be built...

March, OutFront

Coffee Jitters

Starbucks, Tully's shake up management

OutFront, March

Executive Appointments

Neah Power Systems Inc. appoints Gerard C. (Chris) D?Couto president and CEO. Former President and CEO Paul Abramowitz is now chairman.PivotLink Corp., formerly SeaTab Software Inc., Seattle, appoints Frank Fulton CEO.Stephen...

March, OutFront

Sleepless Nights on the Delayed Dreamliner

Boeing workers in Everett continue to work round-the-clock to get the first 787 ready for its maiden flight.

The new all-composite airplane was supposed to take that first flight later this month. But the target?s been pushed...

where we stand, March

Workers, employers lose under bill

Organized labor is flexing its muscles in both Olympia and Washington, D.C., with concerted efforts to strip...

OutFront, March

Astronauts Who Enjoyed ?Space Shuttle? Also Enjoyed ...

KENT - It looks like a big steel gumdrop. Or the escape pod of a James Bond villain in Moonraker. You can't take your eyes off the cone-shaped, four-legged unmanned vehicle launching in a cloud of smoke, reaching an altitude of...

Cover, March

Washington Wine Tour

Use our interactive map of Washington wineries to plan your next winery tour and look at this year's Best of Washington Wines 2007.

March, Features, Women in Business

Blazing Trails

Women business owners pave their own road to success

March, Sports Biz

From Diamond to Boardroom

Former Mariners slugger Edgar Martinez swings for the fences with new business

March, Snapshots

Northern Exposure

Four high-tech (and high-latitude) firms are pushing the boundaries of technology in the northernmost state

March, Healthcare

Franchising the Human Heart

A big-name brand may transform cardiac care in the Northwest

March, Life & Style

Wings of Desire

A CEO continues a family tradition

March, Wine

Wine

"AND THE WINNER IS?"

I honestly don't know where to stand when it comes to wine competitions, and I am not alone - wineries struggle with whether to enter their wines in blind tastings, magazine and newspaper awards, wine...

March, Life & Style

Bookend

EXECUTIVE DECISION - PETER VAN STOLK

What book should every businessperson be reading right now? Kiss Theory Good Bye: Five Proven Ways to Get Extraordinary Results in Any Company, by Bob Prosen (Gold Pen, $21.95). "The reason I...

March, Life & Style

Out on the Town

BOOKS AND TALKS

Benaroya Hall

Mar 5 Art Spiegelman: The comic book creator and art editor of The New Yorker was one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people. Sometimes a fresh look can yield new insights from overpowering...

March, Q & A

Q&A - Walt Worthy

Walt Worthy bought Spokane's historical Davenport Hotel in 2000 and restored the crumbling edifice to its original 1914 grandeur. It reopened in 2002, and the new Davenport Tower opened in January this year. Worthy, a college...

OutFront, Finance, March

Recent mergers and acquisitions

Features, Education, March

A Tale of Two Colleges

The University of Washington Tacoma rises boldly from the restored downtown buildings of the hilly city's past. The campus claims Tacoma's identity and spurs efforts to rejuvenate the city's core.

The University of Washington...

Trade Winds, March

Maverick Alec Fisken Takes On The Port

Alec Fisken, Renegade Port Commissioner. Gadfly. Maverick. Somehow this reputation seems at odds with the man's unassuming comportment before his election to public office. His grandfather ran a Seattle shipping company, Burchard...

Features, Trade Winds, March

Finding Safe Harbor

The port?s new pilot confronts a legacy of inefficiency and pollution

Cover, Wine, March

Value Wines

WASHINGTON WINES are getting a reputation for offering good value. Of the 44 "Great Values of 2006" (priced at $15 and below) wines from around the world listed in the January issue of Wine Spectator, four are from...

Cover, Wine, March

New Wineries Grab Notice

WITH AN average of two new wineries opening every month in Washington, it isn't easy for consumers to keep up. Granted, not every new winery hits the ball out of the park on the first bottling. But after working a couple of...

Cover, Wine, March

Uncovered Treasures: Wineries That Struck Gold

BLIND TASTING wine can level the playing field, especially for lesser known wineries struggling to get a little publicity in a crowded field. If you don't know the brand, the winemaker or the winery, the only thing left to judge...

Cover, Wine, March

Washington Vintage: A wine for all seasons

LIKE THE actor who has toiled for 20 years to become an overnight success, the Washington state wine industry is finally taking its bows, emerging as a world-class leader of premium and value wines and growing like crazy,...

Environment, March, Agriculture

Pay Dirt

Farmers see growing opportunities in cultivating seed crops for biofuels

Technology, March

W(h)ither Biotech?

Icos? arc from rising to fallen star is sadly typical for local biotech firms

Outspoken, March

The Transportation Mess

Is there a way to navigate through it?

Forum, Environment, March

Facts are Scarce in Energy Debate

Cost and practicality deserve greater attention in the energy debate

OutFront, March

Transit Breaks Record

SEATTLE - King County Metro Transit set a new record for ridership in 2006 with 103.2 million passengers, up 4.3% from 2005. Higher gas prices and more people working contributed to the record.

OutFront, March

Juice Up

KENNEWICK - J. Lieb Foods Inc. of Forest Grove, Ore., has closed a $3.5 million deal to purchase the Welch's plant operations in Kennewick. The manufacturing plant encompasses 210,000 square feet on 7.5 acres and includes four...

OutFront, March

Down with Trans Fats

Now you can buy that pastry at Starbucks with less guilt. The Seattle coffee conglomerate has eliminated artery-clogging trans fats in the pastries, doughnuts and other food sold at company- owned stores in Seattle and nine other...

OutFront, March

aQuantive Grabs Stake in Japan

SEATTLE - Cracking the Japanese market, Seattle-based aQuantive Inc., the largest U.S. online advertising agency, has purchased a 19 percent stake in a Web design agency controlled by Tokyo-based conglomerate Dentsu...

OutFront, March

Sprucing Up Main Street

WALLA WALLA - A mixed use development is in the works for a full city block on East Main Street in Walla Walla following its purchase by Seattle-based Gibraltar LLC, a $300 million commercial properties asset manager.

The...

OutFront, March

Low Lumber

PORTLAND - Demand for lumber nationwide will continue to decline this year because of slowing home construction and remodeling, according to Portland, Ore.-based Western Wood Products Association. The association expects demand...

OutFront, March

Whitehorse Rising

EVERETT - Everett Community College got bigger this year, and more growth is in the pipeline.

In January, the campus opened Whitehorse Hall, a $27 million, three-story building that brings arts and sciences under one roof by...

OutFront, March

Paging Carrie Bradshaw

SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. has launched a separate website tailored to handbag and shoe-lovers, marking the first time the Internet shopping juggernaut has started a new online brand.

Endless.com features 250 brands and 15,000...

OutFront, March

Pyramid Sells Off Thomas Kemper

SEATTLE - Pyramid Breweries of Seattle has sold its Thomas Kemper soda brand to an investment fund in Portland for $3.1 million. The sale to Adventure Funds means Pyramid will focus exclusively on brewing and selling beer,...

OutFront, March

Tacoma Shopping Center Purchased

TACOMA - Dallas-based investment company Crow Holdings has bought Tacoma's Westgate North shopping center. The company says it plans to add another building to the six-building, 62,577-squarefoot center. The new 14,000-...

OutFront, March

The Universal Kind

OLYMPIA - Every Washington resident should get access to affordable and high-quality health care in five years if state lawmakers act now, a panel appointed by Gov. Chris Gregoire says.

A report by the Blue Ribbon Commission on...

OutFront, March

Rack It Up

TUKWILA - Nordstrom Inc. will open a new Nordstrom Rack discount store this fall. The 35,000-square-foot store will open in Southcenter Square, a 231,000-square-foot shopping center on Southcenter Parkway.

The Seattle-based...

Flashbacks, March

Technology Transfer

PNNL is one of only nine national labs and Lura Powell, it new director, is making sure its technological advances transfer into everyday life.