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Ten years later, the Business Journal's projected young leaders are still making their marks What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, in its fifth anniversary issue, the Puget [...]

In Olympia, Sam Reed is quietly puffing his own stamp on the Office of Secretary of State, the elective office that became synonymous with its former occupant, Ralph Munro. Munro, [...]

Democrat Mike Kreidler was the winner in a close race for Washington state insurance commissioner. Kreidler's opponents were Republican Don Davidson and libertarian Mike Hihn. 'I'm particularly pleased with the [...]

Attorney Anna Blackburne-Rigsby recently was sworn in as a Washington, D.C., Superior Court judge, joining her mother in the judicial ranks to become a partner in the first mother-daughter judicial […]

PORTLAND - Washington State Treasurer Michael Murphy last week fired his top debt manager, just weeks before the man was set to retire, for failing to tell Murphy that the [...]

In late December, Joseph Dear announced his resignation as the head of OSHA. The resignation took effect Jan. 10, when Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Gregory Watchman assumed […]

Robert J. Malooly, a 30-year veteran of the insurance industry, was selected to run Washington state's industrial insurance system, which provides workers' compensation coverage to about 1.9 million workers and […]

Washington Gov. Gary Locke announced last month the appointment of Stuart M. McKee, the former vice president of Walt Disney Internet Group, as the state's CIO. McKee directed many Web […]

California Even though the master plan for an $8 to $12 billion expansion of Los Angeles International Airport is not expected to be released until December, advocates and opponents of [...]

OLYMPIA - The director of the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development is moving ahead with a plan for improving his agency even though some legislators want to [...]

California In a well-orchestrated event, complete with a marching band in a middle-class neighborhood of Temple City, Gov. Pete Wilson last week signed a nearly $1 billion tax cut. 'We [...]

Former Bellingham mayor will stress development Gov. Gary Locke's choice to head the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development speaks Russian, travels extensively and knows how to run [...]

Frustrated in efforts to stop the Department of Labor and Industries from imposing new safety rules on agriculture, state Sen. Eugene Prince has asked Gov. Mike Lowry to rein in [...]

Directors at Washington's two largest health insurers seem unrepentant in the face of charges by the state insurance commissioner that they pay their top executives too much. In a recently [...]

Back from two weeks of touring Asia, Gov. Mike Lowry is ebullient about Washington's trade prospects there. 'I felt very good about the tone and the definite step forward for [...]

Despite careers as a businessman, scholar, and politician, the former Governor of Washington W. Booth Gardner maintains a soft-spoken, boyish charm. Although his personal fortune is estimated at $50 million, [...]

Washington state bankers are pleased with the appointment of John L. Bley as director of the Department of Financial Institutions because he is a banker who plans to carefully watch problem banks and avoid overregulation of banks who comply with regulations. Bankers believe that Bley will not rule with a heavy hand and will not attempt to 'micro-manage' well-managed financial institutions. Bley has asked for regulatory input from Washington banks and has made it clear that he will allow flexibility in operations., Community bankers in Washington State breathed a sigh of relief when John L. Bley was named the state's new banking and thrift regulator. They were worried they would end up [...]

Mike Lowry never raised the issue of character in his campaign the way George Bush fruitlessly did in his bid for re-election. Yet the issue appeared pivotal in swinging some [...]