One of our items below looks at general trends in Washington and in Spokane County for the number of patents issued to companies or inventors. At the time, we didn't have the comparable numbers for Idaho. Here they are: in 2005 the U.S. Patent Office…
Andrew Schultheis has been appointed executive vice president and general counsel at Sterling Financial Corp. Schultheis, 40, has been outside counsel to Sterling, the parent of Sterling Savings Bank, while with Witherspoon Kelley. Before joining the Spokane law firm in 2005, Schultheis practiced with a…
The Washington Employment Security Department wants $1,400 back from a bride who said she applied for work on her way to the altar. The unidentified woman was collecting unemployment benefits while in Texas for her wedding, according to a department news release. She claimed she…
The Eastern Washington University-sponsored Community Indicators Initiative recently posted a summary of how Spokane and the area are doing in numbers of patents awarded. The partents-awarded indicator shows Spokane is doing less well than the rest of the state (forget comparing Spokane with Seattle, as…
Can this really be the 26th year for the annual Agora Awards? That long, really? This year's winners will be announced Wednesday by Greater Spokane Inc. in a ceremony starting at 7 a.m. at the Davenport Hotel. Agora Awards are annual recognitions of business excellence…