Cabildo heads new coalition
Ben Cabildo, executive director of Spokane-based AHANA, has helped form a statewide coalition of minority business organizations.
The new coalition, called MEBA, for Multi-Ethnic Business Alliance, held its charter meeting in Tacoma on May 18, followed the next day by a trade fair for minority-owned businesses. The group will “aggressively pursue economic development issues, not the least of which is the paucity of state contracting with minority-owned firms,” MEBA said in a press release.
Cabildo was named chairman of the new organization.
AHANA provides services and support for minority- and women-owned businesses in Eastern Washington.
Spokane Valley
Italian restaurant to open at mall
A new Italian restaurant is going in next to Regal Cinemas at Spokane Valley Mall.
Mangia is expected to open in mid-to-late June and will offer pizza and other favorites, said Tim Mitchell, who owns the restaurant with his parents Jackson and Shawny Normington and Matt Barry, a partner in another business.
The partners have signed a one-year lease and are busy getting the restaurant ready to open. Mangia will seat about 200.
A lunch menu will provide fresh-baked never-ending pizza, where folks who are still hungry can order another 6-inch pizza without paying more. “I am a huge pizza fan and I eat it all the time,” the 21-year-old Mitchell said.
London
Times of London plans U.S. edition
Rupert Murdoch’s London-based Times newspaper said Friday it will launch a U.S. edition next month as part of a push to make the paper an international brand, entering a competitive New York market at a challenging time in the newspaper industry.
The 64-page U.S. edition will go on sale for a sample price of $1 in New York and New Jersey on June 6.
“We have seen a large increase in our Times Online readership in the U.S., and the appearance of the newspaper on the streets of New York marks the next stage in our print and Web expansion,” said Editor Robert Thomson, who helped orchestrate a major U.S. expansion of the Financial Times when he worked at the Pearson PLC-owned paper.
New York
Stewart to fight civil complaint
Martha Stewart continues to fight to clear her name.
Stewart, who completed a five-month prison sentence a year ago for lying about her sale of ImClone stock, has decided to fight rather than settle civil insider trading charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In a response to the SEC complaint filed late Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Stewart denied allegations that she sold 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems Inc. stock based on “material, nonpublic information.” Instead, she said she “acted in good faith.”
A judge ruled that evidence-gathering be completed by Nov. 20.