Gonzaga University is hosting an all-day Family Owned Business Seminar, running 8 a.m.--5 p.m. on Oct. 18.It's at the Jepson Center on the GU campus. The session will focus on strategies and steps to follow for families needing to keep a business going and planning…
Foreclosure rates increased in Spokane and Kootenai counties during the third quarter of 2010, but filings fell in September compared with 2009, according to a national real estate research company.RealtyTrac said 727 Spokane properties received a notice of trustee sale, or were taken over by…
Gonzaga University associate electrical engineering professor Steve Schennum has received a $1.1 million federal grant to work on improving the reliability of wireless networks.The money, from the National Science Foundation, is the largest federal grant GU has received, the school noted.Part of Schennum's research will…
The new Huppin's Hi-Fi, Photo & Video location, on North Division, will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony the morning of Nov. 5. The store is an upgraded version of the company's downtown retail location. Interactive displays and demonstrations of digital products and home entertainment systems will…
Jeanette Hamilton has been named the new general manager of the downtown Spokane food co-op, Main Market Cooperative, at 44 W. Main.In May of this year the market's board made Hamilton its interim GM. The co-op launched in early 2010 and has revised its business…
Home sales in Spokane County last month fell to their lowest level since February, and pending sales were lower still, according to figures released today by the Spokane Association of Realtors.Buyers took title to 317 residential properties, down almost eight percent from August and more…
Sagle, Idaho couple Scott and Julie Brusaw are the first winners in the GE Ecomagination Challenge, and collected a $50,000 award for a breakthrough idea to use solar panels to build "smart roads."Their Web pages are: www.solarroadways.com and here on Facebook.They were the people's choice…
Doug Kelley of Spokane was the first person to answer our awesome, totally difficult Spokane Catalyst Awards trivia contest. We wanted the name of any group other than TechNet that was promoting tech and economic development, back in the mid-1990s, when the awards were launched.…
For those stumped (or annoyed) at yesterday's Trivia Challenge, I say: keep trying. Let's give you a hint.The organization that launched the Catalyst Awards is TechNet.Answer one more of the other three questions correctly, and you've earned a $5 coffee card. How hard is that?We…
Retail sales in Spokane County took a dip in the second quarter, while sales fared better in Western Washington metro areas.Taxable retail sales in the county totaled $1.7 billion for April through June, down 2.7 percent from the second quarter of 2009, the Washington State…
Seven area groups and business leaders won Catalyst Awards Wednesday during a ceremony at the Lincoln Center. They were:Innovator of the year — Kim Zentz.Company of the year — Hotstart.Green company of the year — McKinstry.Organization of the year — Goodwill Industries Empowerment Zone.Green organization…
The annual Spokane community Catalyst Awards take place this evening, starting at 4 p.m., at GU's McCarthey Athletic Center.We'll give a $5 coffee card to the first reader who can answer two of the following Catalyst Awards trivia questions correctly:In what year did the Catalyst…
We reached Josh Wade, the DrinkNectar blogger who we wrote about yesterday. Wade is opening a wine-tasting room in downtown Spokane in mid November. Our item yesterday didn't have two pieces of information. So, to help round out the story, here they are:The room will…
Wednesday evening is the annual Spokane Catalyst Awards ceremony. In honor of the event Office Hours on Wednesday will host a Catalyst Trivia Contest. Some nifty award will be given to the winner, nearly as good as (and perhaps more valuable than) a Catalyst.The nominees…
Josh Wade, a Spokane wine blogger, will open Nectar Tasting Room in November in downtown Spokane.At the corner of Stevens and Main, the room will house the operations of five Washington winery satellite tasting rooms, Wade said in a press release.The five wineries he's arranging…
The Washington Policy annual dinner happens Wednesday, starting at 7 p.m., in Bellevue. Through modern telecom magic, people in Spokane can watch the event from this side of the state. It will be presented, via HD videoconferencing, at the Lincoln Center, starting at 7 p.m.The…
View Larger MapSpokane business Wesslen Construction has won a $1 million contract with the National Park Service to uprade the ferry-landing faciliies at the Stehekin Landing on Lake Chelan.The contract came through a competitive bid process.Wesslen will provide universal access at the Stehekin Landing for…
As a struggling, underpaid journalist I feel some envy but a lot of sympathy for those folks who are pushing through the Gonzaga University law program.A recent post by National Jurist magazine came up with 60 "best value" law schools, based on the quality of…
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