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August, OutFront Briefcase

BOTHELL -- Nastech Pharmaceuticals has changed its name to MDRNA and has a new CEO, Michael French....

August, OutFront Cold Spring Cools Expectations For Cherries, Slurpees

Washington state's cherry crop was smaller than expected, due to colder-than-Siberia weather in May...

August, OutFront Seattle Organizations Earn Green Cred

Three Seattle-based entities -- the Cascade Land Conservancy, Vulcan Inc. and real estate...

August, OutFront New Microsoft Casino Computers Come With Flirt Function

New Microsoft Surface tabletop computers in a Las Vegas casino have been installed with software...

August, OutFront Smaller Airlines Targeting Washington

Three Portland investors have launched a new airline that connects the Rose City with Seattle. On...

August, OutFront Window Shopping

Historic properties around the state

August, OutFront Cargo Volumes Peak

The Port of Everett is scaling back an expansion after a report from a consultant suggested that...

August, OutFront Moses Lake is Like the Moon

Turns out, Moses Lake makes a fine stand-in for the moon.

Preparing to send astronauts to the moon...

August, OutFront Some Good Housing News - Sort of

Perhaps the only upside to declining home prices is that our property taxes might go down. And then...

August, OutFront Community Papers Scooped Up

Sound Publishing Inc. has purchased the Enumclaw Courier-Herald and Bonney Lake Courier-Herald...

August, OutFront Washington CEO Magazine Named One of the Top Regional Business Magazines

Washington CEO Magazine received a gold and two silver awards in the 2008 Editorial Excellence...

August, OutFront Columbia, Covey Run Sold

A brand-new California wine company has acquired one of Washington's oldest wineries, along with...

Non-Profits

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...


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...


Ceo Scene

Important Faces in the Crowd Around the State


A wash in Wine

Washington now ranks as a world player in the wine industry


Have Steak Will Sizzle

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


Boats for All Seasons

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


The Big Bio Gamble

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


Win Place, or No-Show

Horse raising becomes less cost-effective in an economic downturn


Planned, Zoned & Ready

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


Building Bellevue

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


The Landscape Artist

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


What's Old-School is New

How Randy Talbot saved Symetra and even enjoyed it.


Courting China

A Washingtonian helps spread hoop dreams abroad


The Secret to Being "On"

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


Who's Sorry Now?

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


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...


Recent Company Acquisitions

Demolition company becomes a national player.


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


Window Shopping

What $500,000 will get you around the state


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...


Honoring the Best

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


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


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...



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