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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...

May, OutFront Briefcase

BOTHELL -- Nastech Pharmaceuticals' plans to deliver drugs via nasal sprays could be snuffed out....

May, OutFront Bridging -- -- -- -- the Divide

Rural communities around the state often balk at supporting Seattle-centric transportation...

May, OutFront WSU Gets Into the Human Race

A new biotechnology company being launched out of Accelerator Corp., a business incubator in...

May, OutFront Study of Gray Matter broadens

The nonprofit Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched a new major project to accelerate...

May, OutFront You're fired... Not!

Thinking you can put a fire under your employees by threatening to can 'em? Can layoffs create a...

May, OutFront Executive Appointments

Alex Alben is named vice president of corporate strategy and Fred Tietze is named vice president of...

May, OutFront Going Dutch in Seattle

Seattle developer Bruce Blume, founder, chairman and CEO of The Blume Co., is spearheading a...

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...

Sports Biz

Q&A with Golf Pro Dan Hill

Dan Hill, 49, is PGA Master Professional at Seattle's Broadmoor Golf Club, a position he has held for eight years


CEO Scene

Important faces in the crowd around the state.


Bookend

Executive Decision

LOUIS D. PETERSON

What book should every businessperson be reading right now?

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, $26.95). ?A Black Swan is an...


The Lure of the River

A novice discovers fly fishing in the Northwest


Refined Vintages

The Long Shadows consortium brings world-class winemakers to Walla Walla


Page Turners

Indie booksellers find new ways to stay in business


Reclaiming the Waterfront

Bellingham undertakes an ambitious plan at a former pulp mill site


Not the Average Joe

Starbucks' challenges lie within itself, not with any competitor


The Rise of the Exurbs

Seattle and Bellevue rule the office space market, but high prices drive interest outside the cities


Exit the Boomer

Industries are apprehensive as the workforce reaches retirement


No Room For a View

A lock of hotel rooms and meeting space is driving business from Seattle


Need a Financial Chief? Order Out

Increasing demand for outsourced financial help creates a booming niche


Storm Season

Last Summer, as the city dithered and fans worried over whether the SuperSonics would leave Seattle, and the state, Anne Levinson picked up the phone. It was the first in a series of calls to the Oklahoma City offices of Sonics...


Knowledge Made in China

Doing business in China ? lessons learned from Microsoft


The Gold in the Green

Washington can profit from the new sustainable economy


Manufacturing Falls

Washington's economy is slowing significantly, although it is not clear if the state will slip into a recession. At the national level, recessions are proclaimed after the fact by the National Bureau of Economic Research. So far,...


Executive Appointments

Dwight Babcock is appointed interim CEO and chairman for IsoRay Inc., Richland, following the resignation of Roger Girard.Sachin Chawla, vice president of product development at GoldenGate Software, is named chairman at...


Boeing's Delivery Not at all That Speedy

Boeing failure to deliver on recent defense contracts was a key reason the Air Force didn't pick it to fill a $40 billion contract for refueling tankers. Lexington Institute analyst Loren Thompson says the decision "was not a...


Microsoft Invades the City

Microsoft just loves Seattle as a place to set up new offices. Combined with employees who joined through the Redmond company's acquisition of aQuantive Inc., the company expects to have nearly 1,400 employees in seven locations...


Do or Die Time for Tacoma

With a resurgent downtown, a four-year University of Washington branch campus, more affordable housing than in Seattle and one of the top seaports in the nation, you'd think all is well in the City of Destiny, T-Town -- Tacoma....


Briefcase

FORKS -- Filming is nearly complete on the movie Twilight, based on the Stephanie Meyer novel. In the story, a teenage girl moves to this rainy Olympic Peninsula outpost, where she falls in love with a high school classmate --...


Tulalips Bet on Hotel Resort

The Tulalip tribes will open their new 12- story, 350-room Tulalip Casino Resort this summer at their Quil Ceda Creek development west of Marysville. The new resort will be Snohomish County's first destination hotel. The resort...


Trails to Rails in King County

Commuter rail could expand to the east side of Lake Washington under a proposal being considered by Sound Transit. Seattle's Cascadia Center has proposed spending $37 million to upgrade an existing 42-mile rail line between...


Leed's Future in Seattle

Seattle was home to 33 environmentally sustainable buildings in 2007. The city is projected to have more than 100 "green" buildings by 2020, according to Colliers International.   


Big Change at the Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Feb. 7 that CEO Patty Stonesifer would be leaving the organization by the end of the year. Stonesifer, a former Microsoft executive, has led the foundation since its inception in...


WTC Rewards Local Startups

The Washington Technology Center (WTC), a statewide economic development organization, has awarded $528,978 in funding to eight local technology firms and their two supporting research institutions, the University of Washington...


Bremerton's New Marina Implicated in Ferry Failures

One element of Bremerton's evolving downtown renaissance is proving problematic -- the new Harborside Marina has been involved in two recent collisions with state ferries attempting to land at the nearby ferry dock.

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Window Shopping

What a townhome or condominium costs around the state


Record Wheat

Drought scare sends prices even higher


Readers Voice

DON'T FORGET NORM DICKS

Bryan Corliss did a fine job in his article "Welcome To Boomerton" in your March 2008 issue. Bremerton (or is it Boomerton?) is experiencing a renaissance that many cities dream of and the article points...


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