Mike Flynn and Associates

03/27/2024

Having spent my first two decades in journalism working in the intensely competitive environment of a news service, it stirs concern as much as sadness to read that major newspaper chains are basically halting their use of...

Having spent my first two decades in journalism working in the intensely competitive environment of a news service, it stirs concern as much as sadness to read that major newspaper chains are basically halting their use of the Associated Press (AP). What’s now the world’s largest news service se...

02/09/2024

Katrina Eileen Romatowski's ReSpace is attracting attention for its fractional ownership key to "affordable luxury" homeownership.

A Seattle company has quickly attracted attention to its concept of affordable luxury homeownership through fractional shares, launching with a two-suite property in Ballard and a promise to “create a whole new world of homeownership,”The Ballard launch, for which 100 prospective buyers toured t...

01/24/2024

No one shaped the world of more than Bill Payne

A Celebration of life was held a few days ago for the man known as the Father of Angel Investing. But given the decades over which William (Bill) Payne nurtured both entrepreneurs and angel investors across the West, including this state, and even in foreign countries, it would be more appropriate t...

10/12/2023

“No child should be left to sleep outside,” Hartman repeats in an interview as she shares her thoughts on her years of guiding the organization from which she is retiring as executive director on December 1.

As Marty Hartman reflects on her 24 years guiding the growth of Mary’s Place from its birth in 1999 as a drop-in center for homeless women in downtown Seattle to a $30 million non-profit that aims to guide families out of homelessness, she makes in clear “we’re about the children.”“No chil...

09/07/2023

Hood envisions a future and his book details the path, with his mapping the way...

The Human Genome Project (HGP), the blueprint that represented a vital global contribution to the advancement of human health, marked its 20th anniversary this year with little notice or reflection.Except, perhaps, for the publication by Leroy Hood, one of the key architects of that landmark project...

04/27/2023

Local media in little-known places like , and , , are being tested for and even .

In a divided nation where some openly suggest civil war lies ahead, leaders and some elected officials in various communities across the land seem to be intent on producing a script that would bring that about. And thus local media in little-known places like Cottonwood, CA, and McCurtain County, OK...

04/27/2023

“This is the largest improvement in wins, with 19, and points, with 40, for any team from its first to second season in NHL history,” ,
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04/17/2023

As the two men emerged from court the morning the judge pronounced them free to go, they wore gray hoodies emblazoned with the initials O.I,P., standing for...

A “Declaration of Innocence” document presented by the CEO and founder of Seattle-based Judges for Justice to two men at a dinner on the evening of their release from Ohio prisons was a fitting closure to their 24 years behind bars for a crime they had nothing to do with.Michael Heavey, former W...

03/30/2023

Bobbie Ulrich fulfilled a mentor role in building journalistic skills in a nurturing way.

Before this year's Women's History Month ends, I want to offer a recollection of two women who are key parts of my history. And who paved the way for a third woman.It's a legitimate journalistic journey because Women's History Month is not only about celebrating women's accomplishments but also the....

03/24/2023

“(Mark) Few has a special talent of being able every year to build a new team-oriented to a ‘we first’ bond and attitude from a new group of disparate, strong individuals, each with his own personal career hopes and goals,”

Now that coach Mark Few's Gonzaga Bulldogs have made it to the NCAA basketball tournament's Sweet 16 for the eighth consecutive time, the hoop dynasty that he has created will logically dominate much of the media attention at the tournament. But what has begun to attract similar media attention is t...

03/07/2023

"Hi, my name is and I'm running for President", didn't sell well.

Awaiting the next word on Jimmy Carter, the 98-year-old former president now in hospice care at his Georgia home, may stir some reflection on his 1976 campaign when voters in western states’ primaries all wanted someone else to be the Democratic standard bearer.And Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washing...