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Browse selected articles from the May 21, 2004 print edition and web-exclusive Daily News. Only a limited number of articles from the print edition are posted on Monday mornings. Certain features from the paper, such as the Top 25 List, record materials and special publications, are not available on the web.

• Seattle is among costliest cities
• Federal SBA hits policy potholes
• Seattle SBA office reels from changes
• Tasty market: Eateries eye expansion options
• I-895 picks up more business support
• Tasty sales at Kremeworks
• Fluke Venture Partners turns to outside investors
• Seattle GameWorks requests rent reduction

• Deal diary: Federal tenants drive office deal
• Behind the scenes: City of Seattle cable host parties with the glitterati

• Preferring gradual growth, consulting firm Point B is selective about its projects
• Small business bulletins: Web delivers seminars to individuals
• Business vigilance: Small businesses are more vulnerable to fraud

• Quiet vision: Despite high-profile McCaw Hall gift, most McCaw giving is behind the scenes
• Corporate commitment: The wisdom found in corporate citizenship
• Charity initiatives: Develop a strategy for community commitment
• Beyond the check
• In it for the long term
• A decade of Gates Foundation giving
• Companies seek new ways to give globally
• Struggle to deliver
• Executive Alliance supports nonprofits
• Roundtable gives public voice to shape policy
• Companies discover innovative ways to give
• Dollars for Scholars learns to avoid budget famine
• Assistance League services Eastside groups
• Museum without walls
• Feeling the squeeze
• Top-level temps help agencies avoid rush to hire
• Vivid reminders: Seattle artist Mary Larson tells the homeless story through her paintings
• Nonprofits notebook: Food Lifeline adopts Sarbanes-Oxley rules
• Charitable investment: Passion not enough to sustain nonprofits
• Foundation of support: Foundations relieve burdens of donors
• Power of technology: Networks will change nonprofit organizations
• Nonprofit business: Find a balance between mission and money
• Publisher's note: Good citizenship is good for business

• Editorial: Take-off time: With ruling in hand, port should build third runway
• Editor's notebook: In Olympia, POG trudges ahead
• Policy perspectives: America must find its way in post-9/11 world
• Letter to the editor: Anonymous donors
• Letter to the editor: Costco's values
• Letter to the editor: Monorail doubts

• Heard and overheard: Lights! Camera! Action! -- Monorail gets its close-up
• Coming up: Calendar of business events
• Top of the list:Largest Puget Sound area philanthropists

• Friday: Kenworth production lines rev up, company to hire 250
• Friday: Seattle Chamber endorses tunnel option for viaduct
• Friday: Travel agent pleads guilty in $400K fraud
• Friday: Spam Arrest files summary judgment motion in Hormel trademark action
• Friday: Study: Washington state low on economic freedom
• Friday: Washington WorkFirst remains effective after six years
• Friday: Windows XP update to fight malicious software
• Thursday: WaMu issues layoff notices to 170 in Seattle
• Thursday: Tommy Bahama parent predicts robust 2005 sales, profits
• Thursday: Survey: One in four private companies sued by employees
• Thursday: Costco beats Q3 profit estimates
• Thursday: King County's hybrid bus fleet arrives
• Thursday: Microvision wins $3.85M Army contract
• Thursday: REI plans return to Texas capital's downtown
• Wednesday: Washington Banking closing specialty mortgage unit
• Wednesday: Starbucks' May same store sales up 11 percent
• Wednesday: Local composites developer gets 7E7 work
• Wednesday: Tacoma Art Museum loses director
• Wednesday: Laird Norton combines trust, financial advice units
• Wednesday: Choe will join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Wednesday: 360networks agrees to sale of Canadian assets for $205M
• Wednesday: Aviation Technologies acquires Transicoil
• Wednesday: Quinton Cardiology raises $15.4M in secondary offering
• Wednesday: 767 tanker decision delayed six months
• Tuesday: Rodda Paint, Cloverdale announce merger
• Tuesday: Issaquah Bancshares shareholders approve sale to Cascade
• Tuesday: Briazz departs Chicago market
• Tuesday: Longview Fibre Q2 profit jumps on higher sales
• Tuesday: Insurance tops small-biz concern
• Tuesday: Cingular ends venture with T-Mobile
• Tuesday: Nordstrom to open first store in Boston
• Tuesday: SPEEA urges Boeing Wichita workers to reject contract
• Monday: HomeStreet Bank plans new branch in Kent
• Monday: Top Locke adviser lands post at Portland State
• Monday: Fuel prices continue steady climb
• Monday: Boeing Capital agrees to sell $2B commercial finance unit to GE
• Monday: Amazon.com sued by Toysrus.com
• Monday: Machinists agree to new 3-year contract with Boeing defense unit
• Monday: Pipeline incident limited to testing line
• Monday: Clark County joins distressed counties list
• Monday: Nastech acquires patent for obesity treatment
• Monday: Coinstar agrees to $235M purchase of American Coin Merchandising