Spokane’s office of the Housing and Urban Development department (HUD) will close in September, eliminating five jobs here. Federal officials are streamlining HUD as part of broad effort to provide services more efficiently. Spokane’s field office at the Thomas S. Foley Courthouse downtown is one…
For not the first time, the state unemployment report for Spokane left us dealing with mysteries. The story, appearing Wednesday, reported March's county unemployment rate went down from 9.8 percent to 9.1 percent. But, using different data from a different survey, the state also said…
