Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• New education strategies endorsed

  September 15, 2011 in Business on Page A8 The challenge of preparing workers for jobs 20 to 40 years from now requires a “blended” approach combining technology and hands-on involvement by innovative teachers, says Mark David Milliron, an …

• Editorial: Foundation is a model of charitable competence

  February 3, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 We’re used to seeing “billions” in association with “Gates,” so the announcement that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is donating $10 billion for vaccines in developing countries might not …

• Grants offer relief to poor in region

  October 30, 2009 in City on Page A7 The region’s impoverished received help Thursday from public and private sources to ease the effects of the economic downturn. Spokane County received a $622,278 federal grant to help people on …

• ’Net assets up

  July 23, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Every branch in the Spokane Public Library system is getting one or more new computers funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with more coming next …

• Gates Foundation hurt by downturn

  June 9, 2009 in City SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation may be the world’s richest charitable foundation, but that hardly shields it from the economic downturn. Between January and April, the foundation …

• Gates contributes to polio effort

  January 22, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 In one of its largest grants ever, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $255 million Wednesday toward the push to eradicate polio, a goal that has eluded world health …