Business Editor Mike Benbow writes regular columns about business issues and trends in Snohomish County.
What business owners need to know about ID theft As part of my job, I look at hundreds of wire service stories each day to grab the handful of business stories that will wind up in the newspaper and on Heraldnet. [More] August 25 State is measuring up for business A recent edition of Forbes Inc. magazine rated Washington state third in its annual "Best States for Business" competition, pushing it up two notches from the previous year's contest. [More] August 11 In my hometown in Ohio, it's the same problem: costly gas You can go home again. You just need more gas money and an extra dollop of patience these days. That was the lesson I learned last week while visiting my hometown in the Cleveland area for the first time in 20 years or so. [More] August 4 What could the Anheuser-Busch buyout mean? Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. [More] July 21 Value of life isn't what it used to be I had a lot of ideas about what to write about today, but none of them seemed like a complete column. So here's a little bit of this and a little bit of that: Life is cheaper[More] July 14
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Pilchuck Books closes its Wetmore Avenue store Some people are people people. Others are TV people. I don't have any problem with either one, although I don't have a television set right now and sometimes other people bug me. What I am is a book person. [More] June 30 Air Force has to say what it wants in a tanker The decision by government investigators last week that the Air Force bungled the latest effort to secure a tanker contract provides columnists like me with a lot to write about. [More] June 23
How Everett's fishing history is kept alive History can be awfully boring, especially as it's taught in most school systems. Ditto for a lot of books. And the History channel isn't much better. [More] June 9