Recent stories by Bert

• Wwp Will Freeze Rates Until 2001 Deal With States Permits Adjustments In Some Cases

  May 24, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 The Washington Water Power Co. has agreed to freeze base rates until the year 2001 in proposed agreements with Idaho and Washington regulators who are reviewing a proposed merger with …

• Wanted: Skilled Mechanics Shops Scramble To Fill Slots For Trained Automotive Technicians

  May 21, 1995 in Business on Page D1 1. Shanni Burnette, right, and Jack Sackville-West work on diagnostic tests in an automotive technology course at Community Colleges of Spokane. Trained mechanics are in short supply. Photo by Christopher …

• Northland Loses Lease At Kaiser Plant

  May 17, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 Kaiser Aluminum Corp., acting in the wake of a bitter February strike, has canceled the lease of a Northland Federal Credit Union branch that has been on the grounds of …

• Prospective Renters Find Screens Block The Doorway

  May 14, 1995 in Business on Page D4 More and more would-be tenants in Spokane find their way blocked by screen doors. An eight-year-old business, Tenant Information Systems Inc., examines rental applications submitted to more than 80 percent …

• Olivetti Strikes Computer Deal With Citibank

  May 12, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A16 Olivetti North America will supply a new generation of branch-office computers to the nation’s largest bank. The Liberty Lake-based subsidiary of Ing. C. Olivetti S.p.A. will begin pilot installations at …

• Wwp Energized To Move Ahead With Marriage To Sierra Pacific Shareholders Told Approval Of Merger Likely By This Fall

  May 12, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A16 At what will likely be their last annual meeting, Washington Water Power Co. shareholders were given a vision for the future and a judgment of the recent past. Chairman Paul …

• Kaiser Seeks Ways To Cut Power Bill Aluminum Producer Weighs Whether To Stick With Bpa

  May 11, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 Kaiser Aluminum Corp. could chop $100 million off its electricity bill in the next five years if the company shut off the Bonneville Power Administration, regional Power Manager Pete Forsyth …

• U.S. Bank, West One To Merge Deal Creates One Of Nation’s Largest Bank Holding Companies

  May 9, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 U.S. Bancorp and West One Bancorp have agreed to merge in a transaction that will create one of the 30 largest bank holding companies in the country. It will also …

• Ldds To Close Operator Center About 90 Workers At Long-Distance Center Stand To Lose Jobs

  May 6, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A10 LDDS Communications will close its Spokane long-distance operator center less than one year after acquiring the operation. Employees received a memo this week indicating the closure will occur around October …

• Veto Shakes Long-Distance Market Lowry Action Enables Phone Giants To Simplify Dialing Within State

  May 5, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A14 A surprise veto by Gov. Mike Lowry is sitting around the capitol in Olympia like an unanswered, ringing telephone. Two weeks ago, Lowry rejected legislation that would have turned back …

• Itron, Partners Plan Joint Venture New Company Prepares To Sell Cost-Cutting Services To Utility Industry

  May 3, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A12 Itron Inc., Puget Sound Power & Light Co. and a California maker of wireless information systems have agreed to form a new company that would sell cost-cutting services to the …

• Spokane Firms Make Top 150 List

  May 2, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A6 Fourteen Spokane-area companies are among the 150 largest private enterprises in the state of Washington, according to the May issue of Washington CEO magazine. The list is prepared by the …

• Wwp Strikes Deal To Sell Power To Oregon Smelter Northwest Aluminum Snubs Bpa, Signs Contract With Spokane Utility

  April 28, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A16 Washington Water Power Co., in a precedent-setting transaction, will supply 70 megawatts of electricity to the Northwest Aluminum Co. in The Dalles, Ore. The deal represents the first break away …

• Truckers Help Fuel Up Area Tribes Refuse To Let Refinery Use Section Of Pipeline On Reservation

  April 25, 1995 in Idaho on Page B1 1. Yellowstone’s pipeline in the foreground has been blocked by removing a valve. In the background, a tanker truck unloads unleaded gasoline bound for the Spokane-North Idaho market. Photo by …

• Plans Proceeding For New Cellular System

  April 22, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 A second-generation cellular telephone system could be operating in Spokane by early next year, according to officials with one of two groups that will provide the service. Jerry Brantley, executive …

• Companies Driving Rush To Globalize Weidenbaum Says Trade Pacts Aren’t Nearly As Big A Factor

  April 21, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A12 Consumers and corporations, not governments, are driving economic globalization, noted economist Murray Weidenbaum told a Spokane audience Thursday. Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, said …

• Sba Downsizing Casts Cloud Over District Office In Spokane Closure Is Considered A ‘Last Resort’ In Efforts To Economize

  April 13, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A10 Efforts to make the U.S. Small Business Administration smaller could cost Spokane its district office, but Deputy Director Larry Billin said Wednesday closure would be a “last resort.” The Clinton …

• Wwp Suggests Regulatory Changes

  April 12, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A13 Regulators should set rate caps, then allow utilities to earn whatever profits they can without sacrificing customer service, Washington Water Power Co. officials say in recently filed documents. Such a …

• Oppenheimer Manager Favors Bonds, Growth Stocks Moscow Native John Wallace Expects Stock Market To Remain Erratic, But Head Higher

  April 9, 1995 in Business on Page D4 John Wallace is something of a weight lifter. But the Moscow native doesn’t pump iron, his burdens are $2 billion portfolios of stocks and bonds that he tosses daily in …

• Acquisition Boosts Size Of Lemaster & Daniels Accounting Firm Acquires Spokane Valley Competitor

  April 5, 1995 in Nation/World on Page A8 The LeMaster & Daniels accounting firm has doubled the size of its Spokane Valley operations with the acquisition of Schroeder, Simmons and Lochmiller, P.S., Managing Partner Robert Burton said Tuesday. …

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