Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Consumers coming closer to home

  December 9, 2011 in Business on Page A1 When Spokane resident Rob Higgins thinks of buying a book online, he stops and reconsiders. “Then I go down to Auntie’s Bookstore and buy it there,” said Higgins, a former … 7

• Banner year for approved patents

  June 1, 2011 in Business on Page A7 For the first time in more than a decade, Spokane County inventors landed more than 100 patents in a single year last year. At the same time, the past decade …

• Pay raises lag in public sector

  January 16, 2011 in City on Page A1 An analysis of recent wage increases shows that the pay of many local government workers is rising slightly slower than the rate of workers in the private sector. From 2002 … 30

• Numbers can add up to action

  April 19, 2007 in Business on Page A8 Collecting and interpreting clean, defensible data is one of the best ways to drive public policy decisions, experts from around the nation told some 260 Inland Northwest decision-makers at a …