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With the Sonics trading Seattle rain for Oklahoma tornadoes, a question is posed: How will Seattle...
With most of the regulatory roadblocks removed in the sale of Puget Energy to private investors, it...
William Neukom's legacy as outgoing president of the American Bar Association will be his...
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Nice article (August issue: "Failure to Compute"). It does, however, seem like this...
Shadows of the 2005 28-day Machinists' strike against Boeing may be emerging as negotiations...
Washington businesses, special interest groups and the University of Washington aren't shy when it...
Washington's largest home-based hotel chain, Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels Corp., is exploring...
Glen H. Bogner is named president of Molina Healthcare Inc., Bothell.
Seattle-based VLST Corp....
Microsoft, Nintendo and a specialty college make Washington a capital for video games
A "clustering of talent" is driving Puget Sound to the top of the U.S. video-game development industry, generating nearly $5 billion in revenues and more than 15,000 jobs, and elevating the average salary of a local game...
While China is hot, Microsoft makes a lot more money in Japan. Over half of Microsoft's Asian revenues come from Japan. Maybe that's why the company is putting a renewed focus on the country, plowing money into developing markets...
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was in Seattle Thursday (Sept 27) to receive the 2007 Columbia Award from the Washington Policy Center. Bush also gave the keynote speech before the Seattle-based think tank's annual dinner, which...
·Aegis Living, Redmond, promotes Jerry Meyer from chief operating officer to president.
·Lindal Cedar Homes, Seattle, names Michael Harris president and COO.
·QL2 Software, Seattle, appoints Glenn Hasen president...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has garnered three of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards this year, including for a technology that allows researchers to test water for virtually every...
Prices for soft white wheat are at their highest levels in decades, the result of falling global production and increased demand for grain. That's got retailers east of the Cascades hoping for a surge in buying this fall, Greater...
The pressure is on for a dozen property owners in the way of the Port of Tacoma's plans for a new $300 million, 168-acre shipping container terminal on the Blair Waterway. The port recently filed condemnation actions against...
A Bush administration plan for combating illegal immigration will exacerbate a shortage of farm workers in the Northwest, agricultural groups are complaining.
"Right now, there's an immense level of fear – panic – in...
In hopes of boosting present-day tourism, Washington has updated a 1941 guidebook, A Guide to the Evergreen State, one of 48 produced by the Works Project Administration during the war years to employ writers, promote tourism and...
The Blue Mountain Mall in Walla Walla is headed for a massive renovation.
California-based Western Development Partners is expected to close a deal this month to buy the mall and spend $60 million redeveloping it.
The purchase...
Buoyed by increasing consumer interest in fresh local foods, farmers markets are sprouting across Washington state, doubling from 60 in 1998 to 120 in operation today, according to state and local agricultural...
Seattle's Foster Foundation has given $36.5 million to the University of Washington business school, which has changed its name to the Michael G. Foster School of Business.
Foster, who died in 2003, was a one-time UW student who...
A growing hunger in developing nations for Western-style cuisine is supersizing farm exports from the state of Washington.
The state's farmers and food processors sold more than $2.2 billion worth of fruit, vegetables, wheat and...
To Vidiator Technology Inc., text messaging is so five minutes ago. And it's testimony to the Bellevue software company's good business sense that it initially decided to carry that attitude to just about everywhere in the world...
Back in the late 1950s, dairy farmers in Grays Harbor would haul their malfunctioning pumps from their fields to Jim Vaughan's welding shop. The pumps typically would clog with twine and straw, and word soon spread that Jim could...
If you know about student loans, credit cards, microfinance or crop insurance, you might give Liu Mingkang a call. Liu is former chairman of the stateowned Bank of China. Now, as the man in charge of China's Banking...
In this epoch of globalization, when so much depends on successful trading strategies – and with so many cities, states and provinces marketing themselves as international business centers, just how secure is Washington's...
Ideal weather and an explosion of talent are leading to a good year for Washington wine.The state's grape harvest is in full swing this month, with a flurry of trucks gently transporting plastic bins filled to the brim with inky...
Urban renewal is under way in South Lake Union, and it's not the highway-building, neighborhoodclearing kind you remember from the 1960s and '70s. Pay a visit to the Westlake/Terry Building, and you'll find the embodiment of New...
A strong global economy is turbochargingWashington state business. In the first half of 2007,Washington state?s exports climbed to more than $30 billion, a 20.3 percent increase over the first six months of 2006. That rapid pace...
FOR ARCHITECT and home builder Michelle Kaufmann, choosing to purchase a factory in the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood might not seem like an obvious decision; after all, her design firm ? and the office where all the marketing and...
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