If there’s one thing that Bellingham can proud of, it’s our downtown. A walkable, shoppable, center of commerce seems like the perfect place to host a conference about downtown revitalization, historic preservation, architecture and economic development. That was likely in the minds of the organizers of RevitalizeWA when they chose …

Small Business Saturday embodies a special kind of irony in American business: a holiday promoting shopping at small local businesses, invented by one of the largest corporations in the country, American Express. Despite the contradiction, however, the positive impact the new holiday has had upon small businesses is undeniable. In …