Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Small-business index improves

  September 24, 2011 in Business on Page A6 Small-business owners are slowly making progress, but job stagnation and consumer caution continue holding back a robust recovery, a manager of a small-business index says. Barry Sloane, CEO of New …

• Here’s the Dirt: Safeway updating regional center

  September 3, 2010 in Business on Page A12 It’s costing Safeway Corp. $1.9 million at its Spokane regional distribution center to move the large building’s refrigeration system onto the roof. The work started in July and is expected …

• Loan program burdened by success

  February 21, 2010 in Business on Page E1 With President Barack Obama refocusing on the plight of small business, how ironic that one of the administration’s most successful initiatives will expire this week for lack of funding. And …

• Charting a course to a new vocation

  November 29, 2009 in Business on Page E1 As companies continue to cut jobs, the result across the regional business landscape is predictable during a recession: Dozens of people in Washington and Idaho have taken the leap and …