Regional Business News

Naming Names is not about revenge or vindictiveness, it is about accountability.

That’s up nearly 2,500 visitors from June 2007, and marks only the second time ever that the park’s June visitation has topped the 600,000 mark.

The market for farmland is having its biggest revival in almost 30 years as Asian demand for corn and soybeans and the ethanol industry drive commodity prices to record highs.

The 20-best paid CEOs who were in place for both 2006 and 2007 saw their median compensation rise to $8 million from $6.1 million the year before.

Naming Names is a monthly release of the complaint handling activities of the BBB’s non-accredited businesses for the previous month.

Managing partner Chad Waite told me that the firm has five term sheets in various stages of negotiation, an extraordinarily high number, which he said speaks to the quality of the entrepreneurs who are emerging in the Northwest.

A locavore tries to only eat food grown or produced locally.

"What we’re seeing is that the biomedical device industry does stay put. They have more stability for their work force."

The region’s newcomers, who came for high-tech jobs and scenery, worry about ecological costs.

Naming Names is not about revenge or vindictiveness, it is about accountability. The BBB enforces Accredited Business standards and holds non-accredited businesses accountable by naming names in the top ten categories for the month.