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Sit down for a Q&A with local business leaders and news makers.
The Olympian profiles South Sound businesses in an effort to help readers get to know more about their community.
Doing Business In Washington
Bob Goodstein, a Tacoma attorney and well-known member of the local and state port communities, has died. He was 58.
Tacoma-based Columbia Banking System, Heritage Financial of Olympia and Seattle’s Washington Federal are all well positioned to prosper, while Heritage and Washington Federal remain hungry to acquire the assets of banks that might fail.
OLYMPIA - Janis Dean, the longtime owner of The Popinjay, is the Olympia Downtown Association's 2010 Person of the Year, the organization announced as part of its annual meeting Monday.
Gone is your top-seeded rancor for telecommunications agencies. Now, it's those pesky collection agencies you complain about the most.
If you're wondering whether your mortgage lender is licensed, the state Department of Financial Institutions has announced a new resource.
TOKYO – Toyota is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius “green” cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety problems at the world’s largest automaker.
NEW YORK – The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months Monday on nagging concerns about debt loads in Europe.
EVERETT - The Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter - the biggest plane the company has ever built - successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.
OLYMPIA - Downtown's Capital Footwear, a longtime shoe seller at Fourth Avenue and Capitol Way, has closed, and a new retailer is poised to take its place, the president of a commercial real estate company said Saturday.
DETROIT – Responding to two recalls and facing the prospect of another one, Toyota dealers across the country were repairing thousands of cars Saturday, the first weekend day that many drivers had a chance to take action.