College of Business and Economics

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Advocates renew call for living wages on Bellingham waterfront	Environmentalists and labor leaders say they expect to keep on pressing for specific language in waterfront development plans to ensure that the estimated thousands of new jobs there are "living wage." At a Thursday, March 28, public hearing before the…	2013-04-02
Chamber names new director	Nathan Perea was named as the executive director for the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce, and starts April 1. The position has been open since early January, when former director Kevin Dwyer left for a job in Oregon.	2013-03-29
�� marketing students take second in international competition	Three marketing students from Western Washington University have placed second in the Intercollegiate Marketing Competition, which took place Feb. 22-24 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The team included Shannon Gnagey of Edmonds, Kyle Sonntag of Kirkland and Selena Maisonpierre of Seattle…	2013-03-14
Students place second at Vancouver, B.C., marketing competition		2013-03-14
Granite Falls schools retiree a volunteer at start, end of career	If all goes according to plan, Barbara Belshee's career in finance will begin and end as a volunteer in an elementary school library. Belshee was a young mother with a son at Hillcrest Elementary in Lake Stevens when she first inquired about helping out.&#…	2013-03-12
CBE to honor students at leadership luncheon		2013-03-06
Scratch and Peck Feeds: A blue chip in a niche market	It turns out, chickens are particular about what they eat—or at least that’s what Diana Ambauen-Meade said she believes and is one of the motivations behind her feed mill in Irongate. Scratch and Peck Feeds is a small-scale feed mill, located at 3883 Hammer Drive in Bellingham, that uses…	2013-02-28
Kombucha Town brewery opens downtown in Herald Building	There’s irony in Chris McCoy selling his kombucha “beer” as an alcoholic beverage, since as he sees it, kombucha might actually sober you up quicker than it will get you drunk. McCoy recently opened a microbrewery called Kombucha Town on the sixth floor of the Herald Building in downtown…	2013-02-21
Western offering entrepreneurship workshop	Western Washington University will offer an entrepreneurship class for the general public this spring quarter. In Lean Startup & Entrepreneurship Methods, students will learn how to use a business model, brainstorm each part of a company and customer development and get out of the…	2013-02-19
Peace Health's Dale Zender and Chris Phillips to speak Feb. 8		2013-02-07

Advocates renew call for living wages on Bellingham waterfront

Environmentalists and labor leaders say they expect to keep on pressing for specific language in waterfront development plans to ensure that the estimated thousands of new jobs there are "living wage."

At a Thursday, March 28, public hearing before the…

2013-04-02

Chamber names new director

Nathan Perea was named as the executive director for the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce, and starts April 1.
The position has been open since early January, when former director Kevin Dwyer left for a job in Oregon.

2013-03-29

�� marketing students take second in international competition

Three marketing students from Western Washington University have placed second in the Intercollegiate Marketing Competition, which took place Feb. 22-24 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The team included Shannon Gnagey of Edmonds, Kyle Sonntag of Kirkland and Selena Maisonpierre of Seattle…

2013-03-14

Students place second at Vancouver, B.C., marketing competition

2013-03-14

Granite Falls schools retiree a volunteer at start, end of career

If all goes according to plan, Barbara Belshee's career in finance will begin and end as a volunteer in an elementary school library.

Belshee was a young mother with a son at Hillcrest Elementary in Lake Stevens when she first inquired about helping out.&#…

2013-03-12

CBE to honor students at leadership luncheon

2013-03-06

Scratch and Peck Feeds: A blue chip in a niche market

It turns out, chickens are particular about what they eat—or at least that’s what Diana Ambauen-Meade said she believes and is one of the motivations behind her feed mill in Irongate.
Scratch and Peck Feeds is a small-scale feed mill, located at 3883 Hammer Drive in Bellingham, that uses…

2013-02-28

Kombucha Town brewery opens downtown in Herald Building

There’s irony in Chris McCoy selling his kombucha “beer” as an alcoholic beverage, since as he sees it, kombucha might actually sober you up quicker than it will get you drunk.

McCoy recently opened a microbrewery called Kombucha Town on the sixth floor of the Herald Building in downtown…

2013-02-21

Western offering entrepreneurship workshop

Western Washington University will offer an entrepreneurship class for the general public this spring quarter. In Lean Startup & Entrepreneurship Methods, students will learn how to use a business model, brainstorm each part of a company and customer development and get out of the…

2013-02-19

Peace Health's Dale Zender and Chris Phillips to speak Feb. 8

2013-02-07

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