In late July we noted that Spokane car-maker, Rick Woodbury, was eliminated from the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. His electric car, the Tango, was strong enough to reach the final 15, but failed to complete a key efficiency test in the finals.Today the awards…
Patty Murray, D-Wash., has added language to the 2011 defense appropriation bill that would benefit area businesses and organizations. Here are the key Eastern Washington items added to the bill, which is now being considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee.Washington State University's Applied Science Laboratory:…
AP - The Times of London says the University of Washington is the 23rd best university in the world. In the newspaper's higher education list, UW is the fourth-best American public college. The universities are ranked on 13 factors, divided into five categories of teaching,…
Clearwater Paper Corp. will buy Georgia-based competitor Cellu Tissue Holdings Inc. for $502 million, the two companies announced this morning.Spokane-based Clearwater will pay Cellu Tissue stockholders $12 per share, and assume $255 million in debt, in a deal a Clearwater statement said should increase earnings…
We'll be offering a $10 coffee card to whoever can come CLOSEST to the correct date for the opening of the downtown Spokane Apple retail store.This photo shows the front and part of the interior, shot on or about Sept. 13, on Main in downtown…
Employment in Spokane County jumped by more than 3,300 in August, dropping the unemployment rate to 8.6 percent from 8.8 pecent in July, and August 2009.The rate for Washington held steady at 8.9 percent seasonally adjusted, and 8.8 percent unadjusted.The rate for the United States,…
Counselor magazine’s 2010 list of best places to work in the ad-specialty business includes seven Washington firms.The annual list, which recognizes innovative and worker-friendly programs, this year had a total of 75 companies in the U.S. and Canada.The state list: Catalyst Marketing (Seattle), Sunrise Identity…
McKinstry Co. Executive Vice President David Allen is the next speaker in the Executive Connect Breakfast series, at the Spokane Club on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 a.m.The breakfast series promotes area business networking and sharing of ideas.Allen will discuss the work McKinstry is doing…
The fall meeting of Inland Northwest Partners, being held Thursday in Moscow, will pay full attention to how agribusiness provides numerous options for community job growth.The event runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Moscow Best Western University Inn.The day's theme, according to a…
Homeowners on Sunday can learn about techniques for going green, such as a custom-built straw bale home, a green kitchen remodel or an urban chicken coop designed with reclaimed materials.The projects are on display throughout Spokane County as part of the second annual Green +…
Tri-State Distributors has sold its Tri-State outdoor stores in Lewiston, Moscow, Coeur d’Alene and Moses Lake to Sportsman & Ski Haus, an employee-owned sporting goods retailer with locations in Kalispell and Whitefish, Mont.Sportsman & Ski Haus has no plans to close stores or alter the…
New Light Industries Ltd. will use access to a $2.5 million Washington Technology Center microfabrication laboratory to improve its new liquid-crystal technology, President Steve McGrew said.The center said it awarded Spokane-based New Light three months of free access to help move the company's patent-pending technology…
A Spokane County company has been awarded a $90,000 grant to continue developing a process that converts bluegrass straw into biofuels.Farm Power, based in Rockford, will use the U.S. Department of Agriculture money for further work on automating controls and feedstock systems, according to a…
Spokane-based Dry Fly Distilling scored another high rating on the Top 10 new American Gins ranking, posted this week on the DrinkSpirits.com blog.Dry Fly, which also makes whiskey and vodka, ranked seventh on the list, scoring a "solidly recommended" rating.Here's how DrinkSpirit described the gin:…
Washington State University regents Friday endorsed designation of the Spokane campus as the university's center for health sciences education, and backed that step by putting a $70.78 million Biomedical/Health Sciences building at the top of their capital request to the legislature.Supporters say the building would…
Two first-time winners, along with a previous winner, have been selected to receive Alfred P. Sloan Excellence in Workplace Flexibility awards for companies in the Spokane area.Associated Industries; CH2M Hill; and Humanix Staffing and Recruiting were the winners, a release from Greater Spokane Incorporated said.…
Those guys and gals in Mead, Cyan Worlds, are moving full-bore into iPhone and iPad apps. They're soon to see their original iOS game, Stoneship, become available in the iTunes store.Meanwhile they've posted a YouTube video of the trailer to their iOS version of the…
Office Hours readers may have noticed the pull-down Apture Bar that floats just below your browser header. if you don't see it, scroll your mouse toward the edge of the page and it should show up at the top of the page.This gives a number…
Come Sunday, Spokesman.com and our print version Spokesman-Review business section will have a story on TierPoint, in Liberty Lake, using aquifer water to cool its servers.The new project is called TierPoint 3, and is estimated to cost more than $8 million to put together. It…
Idaho's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8.9 percent in August, the one-tenth of a percent increase from July the first since a two-tenths rise in February, the state Department of Labor said today.Total employment fell to 688,700 from 690,100 in July. Unemployment rose to…
We wonder when workers downtown at the new Apple store will install the stainless steel plate and laminated Apple logo to the front of the two-story building.Until you see it, here are a few drawings from the city's building permits that show the basic plan…
Itron Inc. will license an Internet protocol developed by Cisco to create what the companies said today will be a more reliable and secure smart grid.Itron, the Liberty Lake-based company that has developed and sold automated metering systems for more than 30 years, will incorporate…
A while back Bert Caldwell discussed in a column the concerns among regional power producers if California adopts or doesn't adopt significant energy-generation measures.We think this item, about a San Diego Albertson's, is interesting and worth reading, for a few reasons. One, we do have…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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