May, Q & A

A Q&A with Janis Machala

Janis Machala is founder and managing partner of Paladin Partners, an executive search and business advisory firm that also connects entrepreneurs with investors. She previously was president and CEO of Pinnacle Publishing and...

May, Bookend

Bookend

Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head -- and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings

By Peter Sheahan

(William Morrow, $25.95)

Peter Sheahan is only 28 years old, so he shouldn't really have enough knowledge to...

May, Life & Style

Ceo Scene

Important Faces in the Crowd Around the State

May, Wine, Life & Style

A wash in Wine

Washington now ranks as a world player in the wine industry

May, Life & Style

Have Steak Will Sizzle

Even as the economy trends downward, restauranteurs bet our hunger for red meat will grow

May, Snapshots

Boats for All Seasons

From industry to the military to pleasure, Washington boat makers meet a variety of needs

May, Technology

The Big Bio Gamble

Dendreon's stock woes may have been unpredictable, but biotech firms often face steep odds.

May, Made in Washington

Win Place, or No-Show

Horse raising becomes less cost-effective in an economic downturn

May, Real Estate

Planned, Zoned & Ready

Industrial developers find the welcome mat out in Frederickson as urban land becomes scarcer

May, Cover

Building Bellevue

A young city thrives by working with business to create a good place to live and work.

May

The Landscape Artist

Cascade land conservancy's Gene Duvernoy focuses on practical solutions to preserve land

May, Cover

What's Old-School is New

How Randy Talbot saved Symetra and even enjoyed it.

May, Sports Biz

Courting China

A Washingtonian helps spread hoop dreams abroad

May, CEO Adviser

The Secret to Being "On"

How to present like a pro, even if it doesn't come naturally

Outspoken, May

Who's Sorry Now?

Where government and business mix, politics isn't far behind

May, Vital Signs

Washington Growth Still Outpaces the Nation

As of February, the Washington economy is holding up very well compared with the national economy. February brought news of a worsening situation in financial markets, along with moves by the Federal Reserve system to shore up...

May, OutFront

Recent Company Acquisitions

Demolition company becomes a national player.

May, OutFront

Spinning Sawdust into Oil

Will cars someday run on cardboard? How about sawdust? Weyerhaeuser and Chevron have formed a joint venture to convert cellulose and lignin -- two basic compounds found in plants -- into biofuels. Much early biofuel research has...

May, OutFront

Briefcase

BOTHELL -- Nastech Pharmaceuticals' plans to deliver drugs via nasal sprays could be snuffed out. Auditors at accounting firm KPMG warned investors they have serious doubts whether the biotech can survive. Nastech lost $52...

May, OutFront

Bridging -- -- -- -- the Divide

Rural communities around the state often balk at supporting Seattle-centric transportation projects. One big one might be a windfall for Grays Harbor County, however. The $4.4 billion project to replace the State Route 520...

May, OutFront

WSU Gets Into the Human Race

A new biotechnology company being launched out of Accelerator Corp., a business incubator in Seattle, is seeking to commercialize technology developed at Washington State University. Commercializing university research is not...

May, OutFront

Study of Gray Matter broadens

The nonprofit Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched a new major project to accelerate brain and spinal cord research and help scientists worldwide gain new insight into numerous diseases and disorders.

The Seattle-based...

May, OutFront

You're fired... Not!

Thinking you can put a fire under your employees by threatening to can 'em? Can layoffs create a leaner, meaner organization that reacts faster to change? A new Washington State University study suggests that while Donald Trump's...

May, OutFront

Executive Appointments

Alex Alben is named vice president of corporate strategy and Fred Tietze is named vice president of sales and business development for Seattlebased Pluggd.L & L Financial Holdings Inc., Seattle, names Gene M. Bennett...

May, OutFront

Going Dutch in Seattle

Seattle developer Bruce Blume, founder, chairman and CEO of The Blume Co., is spearheading a project inspired by the ideas of urban-planning critic and activist Jane Jacobs. Yale Campus, in Seattle's South Lake Union...

May, OutFront

Window Shopping

What $500,000 will get you around the state

May, OutFront

Increasing Profits by giving stuff away

The best way to make money on the Internet may be to give it away, a leading thinker on the online economy says.

"Every business, one way or another, is going to have to compete with free," says Chris Anderson, the editor of...

where we stand, May

Honoring the Best

Who should we look to for leadership in business and government?

Cover, Marketing, Media, Technology, May, June

Microsoft to buy Seattle’s aQuantive

In a bid to challenge Google for a bigger share of online advertising, Microsoft has agreed to pay $6 billion for a global ad agency that almost collapsed during the dot-com bust

May

From the Editor

The traffic congestion we face in the Puget Sound region cuts into the productivity of individuals and businesses, contributes to road rage and adds to our worsening air pollution.

Yet there is a refusal among state residents to...

May, OutFront

BRIEFcase

AGRICULTURE -Washington is among 13 states hoping to capitalize on Japan's decision to reopen its market to U.S. potatoes for making potato chips. The U.S. potato industry estimates that chipping potato exports to Japan could...

May, OutFront

Free Factory Checkups

Small and medium-size manufacturing plants in the Pacific Northwest will be able to get an assessment from the University of Washington on how to reduce electricity use. The program, sponsored by the federal Department of Energy,...

May, OutFront

Paul Allen: Major Philanthropist

SEATTLE - Lest Bill Gates get all the credit, there are other charitable foundations founded on Microsoft wealth, far from least of which is the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the philanthropic organization set up by the...

May, OutFront

Eastside, Westside Going Up

SEATTLE and BELLEVUE - On both sides of Lake Washington, plans are afoot to add more development to already crowded downtown cores. In Seattle, the block-size hole in the ground across from City Hall is going to be filled with a...

May, OutFront

Freeways No More

A report prepared at the direction of King County Executive Ron Sims advocates turning all major freeways from Everett to Lakewood, near Fort Lewis, into payas- you-go roadways. According to the draft report, dated March 5, 2007,...

May, OutFront, Agriculture

What the hay?

The number of organic dairies is growing at such a rapid clip in Washington and Oregon that farmers are struggling to find enough local suppliers of organic feed and hay to support nearly 30,000 organic milk cows in the two...

May, OutFront

IPO Brewing

SEATTLE - When you think "publicly traded Seattle coffee company," you wouldn't normally jump up and say "Tully's." Unless you're one of the 6,000 or so investors holding company stock who have been waiting for the 15-year-old...

May, OutFront

Western governors seek limits on carbon

The independent-minded West is going it alone in the battle to curb greenhouse gas emissions. While the federal government has been notoriously lax in setting targets for reductions (outside of the socalled "voluntary" measures...

May, OutFront

2BR charmer, vineyard view

YAKIMA - Upscale retirement communities often offer golf courses, tennis courts and indoor community centers. Now add Washington's burgeoning wine industry to the list of amenities. The Vineyards, a $70 million, 500-acre project...

May, Finance

Construction Rebounds

Keep a close eye on construction. Growth in the industry has slowed - from a 9 percent annual pace in October 2006 to just under 6 percent in February 2007. Construction permits fell from a 20 percent drop to nearly a 50 percent...

May, Forum

Empowered and educated

Corporate boards strengthen their leadership role

May, Outspoken

Transforming the Union

A labor leader gets results working with business

May, Technology

Hollywood?s Helping Hand

Medical device makers turn to popular TV shows for publicity

May, Cover

Coffee Diplomacy

The Starbucks Experience Gets a Warm Welcome Around the World

May, Features

Leading From the Board

New laws help; personal character matters, too

May, Features

Gary Reed Lifetime Achievement Award

Gary Reed was never far from the family business, even when he actually was.

As a Marine Corps officer in Taiwan in the 1960s, Reed regularly received what could be considered unusual mail: financial reports from his father...

May, Features

Director of the Year Awards

JUDY RUNSTAD Public Corporation Governance

Growing up in the small town of Fruitland, Idaho, Judy Runstad remembers discovering that "If you wanted to make things happen, you had to make them happen yourself." But with that...

May, Features

Gambling on the Future

A tribe and a community face off over a casino that may benefit both

May, Snapshots

Cyberspace Connections

Three local companies push the social networking envelope

May, Life & Style

Test Drive Your Dream Boat

The first time I took a private yacht charter, it was aboard a 60-foot sailing catamaran. After a week of being pampered in complete comfort, I thought, "If I were to buy a yacht, this is exactly the kind I'd get."

Not too long...

May, Life & Style

An Eye to the Future

With a third-generation CEO, John L. Scott is carving out a new way forward

May, Life & Style, Wine

Wine

A VALUE WINE GAINS NEW RESPECT

For 25 years, Hogue Cellars has been comfortable in the value wines niche market, making pretty good wines under the $10 and $20 price points. If Hogue wasn't the first winery to come to mind, it...

May, Life & Style

Bookend

FOR YOUR DESK

Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace

By Gene Pressman and Noah Kerner (Atria Books, $24)

"Cool," says Los Angeles writer and social commentator Donnell Alexander, "is all about trying to...

May, Life & Style

Out on the Town

ART

Henry Art Gallery

May 12-June 17 Master of Fine Arts 2007: The University of Washington School of Art's annual exhibition of graduate students' work. The North Galleries will showcase the work of 24 artists, with an...

May, Q & A

Q&A - Randy Talbot

Symetra Financial

May

Interview With Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz

Feb. 15, 2007

Q: Are you spending most of your time on international now?

HS: Yes, most of my travel is international.

Q: Is that a reflection of the increase in stores?

HS: We'll open 2400 stores this year. About 50%, 40% of...

Environment, May

Energy Bonanza

A political newcomer tackles a monumental gas project