ach year, the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) publishes a list of the best to worst state tax systems for entrepreneurship and small business.
Valley Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies Valley has reached an aggressive goal of treating heart failure patients with 85 percent compliance for at least 24 months to core standard levels of care as outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines for heart failure patients.
Manfred Tempelmayr, the president of Sound Publishing since 2000 has decided to retire while he’s still young enough to enjoy it. Tempelmayr, 60, will trade in his full-time slot for a part-time consulting position for the next two years. After that, the world and the future are wide open, he said.
As legislators and others comb through the massive health-care reform law, they are finding little-known provisions that will have a big impact on the American people and our economy.
What’s one thing you can do to restrain your health care costs, decrease your chances of experiencing a medical injury and put yourself in control of your medical care? The correct answer is close to home: review and confirm your prescription medications.
Much of the modern practice of medicine comes down to you and your doctor choosing the right prescription drug.
Could Washington and Oregon’s growing fleet of wind turbines become too much of a good thing? Perhaps.
Seattle-based publishers of the Northwest’s premier golf magazine, Cascade Golfer, announced details of a six-event series of golf tournaments for amateur golfers in 2010 that will feature more than $100,000 in prizes, including rounds of golf at some of the West Coast’s premier venues, travel packages to Bandon Dunes, Hawaii, Palm Springs and more, a trip to the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, and tickets to the 2010 U.S. Amateur and 2010 U.S. Senior Open, and more.
Chris Pinchiff, Kentlake High graduate and Western Washington University freshman is the branch manager for Student Edge Paintings.
Pinchiff has began organizing and promoting his Maple Valley branch threw networking, posting flyers,and handing out house to house flyers each weekend.
Ever since the generators at the Grand Coulee dam started spinning in 1942, low-cost hydropower has been the key to our economic strength and way of life.
Few people know that tucked into the massive new federal health reform law was a federal takeover of the student loan program.
Begun in 1965, the Federal Family Education Loan program was a public-private partnership in which banks provided federally guaranteed student loans. In the early 1990s, the federal government created a “government option” of direct federal loans as an alternative.
A large crowd enjoyed the Chamber of Commerce Vegas Night dinner auction and gala at the Meridian Valley Country Club Saturday.
A shot in the dark suggestion turned out to be the perfect solution for the Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce.
When the chamber was in search of new office space to call home, board member Jim Flynn suggested the organization move to some space in a building he manages then make the most of it by developing a business incubator.
Stone Canyon Design will be moving from its location at Four Corners to the home of owner Mary Weiler April 1.
Stone Canyon is a home design and remodeling business, which had been located at the Four Corner site for five years.
For information or to schedule a design consultation contact Weiler at 425-413-2200 or by e-mail at stonecanyondesign@msn.com.
The Greater Maple Valley/Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce | Upcoming event
When Idaho Gov. Butch Otter published his “Love Letter to Our Neighbors,” he touched off a political firestorm asserting his state is better for business
The Covington Rotary scheduled a food drive 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 27 in front of Fred Meyer in Covington, 16735 Se 272nd St.
The drive benefits the Maple Valley Food Bank, which services the local communities.
Businesses interested in contracting with King County should find the process easier to navigate and more efficient under a new executive order signed today by King County Executive Dow Constantine to reform the county’s procurement and business processes.
It is estimated that one in every three scams in the United States is aimed at a small business owner. Among the variety of scams they use are directory scams and vendor scams.
Small businesses are a principal target for scam artists of all types.
The Greater Maple Valley/Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce Hooked on Fishing opening day trout derby event is scheduled Saturday, April 24 at Lake Wilderness.
Covington Lions Club plans beer tasting 6 p.m. Mondays at the Cedar Grill in Maple Valley to raise money for the Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond Relay for Life team.
