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Spokane event planner grows, evolves with business

May 20, 2012 on Page E1 By her own admission, Jaime Johnson was a bossy kid. “I was always organizing something,” said the former Post Falls Junior Miss. “A neighborhood parade or backyard concert.”
Don’t let finances be source of marital strife

May 20, 2012 on Page E1 Newlyweds and couples moving toward marriage, take note. Love, as it turns out, is not all you need. Not if your goal is to avoid the No. 1 reason marriages …
Motley Fool: Corning appears poised to ride Gorilla Glass wave

May 20, 2012 on Page E2 Glass and ceramics giant Corning (NYSE: GLW) is poised to profit. In Corning’s first-quarter earnings report, its display technologies division (its largest segment by sales) saw revenue fall 11 percent …
BBB Tip of the Week: The truth about grants

May 20, 2012 on Page E2 • The truth about grants: One of my best friends just won a grant. Did that sentence make you do a double-take? It should have. That tiny word “won” is …
Home staging tips apply to anyone who hopes to sell

May 20, 2012 on Page E2 I mentioned “home staging” to a single dad who asked about selling his home this spring. The rest of the men in the group looked at me as if I …
Business Beat

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Week Ahead

May 20, 2012 on Page E2 Monday ASWA Meeting – Reservations due by noon today for Thursday’s meeting of the American Society of Women Accountants Spokane Chapter 4. Event will feature Jill Arnold, a certified Eden …
Be smart – and eat your veggies for less

May 20, 2012 on Page E5 NEW YORK – We hear it time and time again: “Eat your veggies!” From the grocery aisle to the farmers market, vegetables are plentiful. But it is all too easy …
Holiday bringing fuel relief

May 19, 2012 on Page A6 If you’re lucky enough to live in some parts of the United States, you may see gas pump prices fall to around $3.25 a gallon or less in the next … 1
Spanish company to abandon Cuban oil well

May 19, 2012 on Page A6 HAVANA – An exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday, a disappointment for … 1
Construction hiring helps Idaho workers

May 19, 2012 on Page A6 Idaho employers maintained hiring at seasonal levels in April, while the state’s labor force remained unchanged, driving the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate down for the ninth straight month to 7.7 …
Minor status update

May 19, 2012 on Page A6 SAN JOSE, Calif. – After opening at a price of $42.05, shares of Facebook’s wildly anticipated initial public offering closed at $38.37, near its preset price of $38. But while …
Northwest wheat

May 19, 2012 on Page A7 Soft white Cash bid Change May 6.90-7.10 up .10 June 6.90-7.10 up .10 Hard red winter (ordinary percent protein) Cash bid Change May 7.15-7.30 up .33 Hard red winter (11.5 …
Facebook fails to buoy market

May 19, 2012 on Page F1 NEW YORK – U.S. stocks chalked up another weekly loss, with Facebook Inc.’s debut on Wall Street on Friday failing to live up to the hype and on concerns about …
Idaho jobless rate drops for 9th straight month

May 18, 2012 Idaho employers maintained hiring at seasonal levels in April, while the state’s labor force remained unchanged, driving the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate down for the ninth straight month to 7.7 … 11
Stores beefing up security for liquor

May 18, 2012 on Page A12 Many grocery stores getting ready to sell liquor starting June 1 are spending thousands of dollars to prevent theft and secure their new inventory from walking out the door. Rosauers … 4
In brief: HP set to eliminate up to 30,000 jobs

May 18, 2012 on Page A12 SAN FRANCISCO – Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones …
Facebook shares put at $38

May 18, 2012 on Page A12 Facebook Inc. priced its shares in its initial public stock offering at $38 late Thursday, setting the stage for its historic market debut today. The IPO values Facebook at $104 …
JPMorgan CEO called to testify about losses

May 18, 2012 on Page A12 WASHINGTON – The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday summoned JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to testify under oath about the huge losses his company suffered on an investment strategy that … 1
Northwest wheat

May 18, 2012 on Page A13 Soft white Cash bid Change May 6.80-7.00 up .10-.05 June 6.80-7.00 up .20-.05 Hard red winter (ordinary percent protein) Cash bid Change May 6.82-6.97 up .16 Hard red winter (11.5 …
Facebook’s $16 billion IPO 1 of world’s largest

May 17, 2012 Facebook’s initial public offering of stock is shaping up to be one of the largest ever. The world’s definitive online social network is raising at least $16 billion, a big … 8
Comcast drops 250 gigabyte limit, tests new options

May 17, 2012 Uncertain when tests will be conducted in Washington 15
Eighteen liquor stores are for sale by state

May 17, 2012 on Page A10 ELLENSBURG – Washington state is giving people another opportunity to own a liquor store. The Washington state Liquor Control Board will hold a live auction May 24 in Seattle for …
J.C. Penney stock price plunge biggest in four decades

May 17, 2012 on Page A10 NEW YORK – Wall Street doesn’t seem to like J.C. Penney’s new everyday low pricing any better than Main Street does. The department store chain’s stock plunged nearly 20 percent … 2
Healthy eats on the cheap

May 17, 2012 on Page A10 WASHINGTON – Is it really more expensive to eat healthy? An Agriculture Department study released Wednesday found that most fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods cost less than foods high … 1
Ads on Facebook not for everyone

May 17, 2012 on Page A10 NEW YORK – Responding to extraordinary demand, Facebook said Wednesday that it would sell more stock in the company’s initial public offering. But ahead of the IPO, a debate emerged …
Washington jobless rate declines

May 17, 2012 on Page A10 SEATTLE – Washington state’s unemployment rate fell in April to 8.1 percent, despite a loss of 300 jobs last month, officials said Wednesday. Dave Wallace, senior economist at Washington’s Employment … 1
Northwest wheat

May 17, 2012 on Page A11 Soft white Cash bid Change May 6.70-6.95 up .09-.04 June 6.60-6.95 down .01-up .04 Hard red winter (ordinary percent protein) Cash bid Change May 6.66-6.81 up .28 Hard red winter …
Wash. unemployment rate falls despite job losses

May 16, 2012 SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s unemployment rate fell in April to 8.1 percent, despite a loss of 300 jobs last month, officials said Wednesday. 10
Move over, Alaska, North Dakota No. 2

May 16, 2012 on Page A10 BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota has passed Alaska to become the second-leading oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas, state officials said Tuesday. North Dakota oil drillers pumped 17.8 …