April home sales in Spokane continued to outpace 2009 levels as buyers took advantage of their last opportunity to benefit from federal tax credits that expired April 30.
Two important partners last week joined the Sterling Financial Corp. recapitalization effort. When it comes to brands, it’s hard to top the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The long tug-of-war between those who favor taxation of income and those who support the taxing of consumption may soon require a thicker rope. Governments at every level are short of money. Citizens ask for more but pay for less. Almost one-half, for example, do not pay federal income tax but are defended by the same U.S. armed forces funded by those who do.
Greenstone Corp. on Thursday revived the Kendall Yards development on the north bank of the Spokane River. The first 18 units of the $25 million residential and commercial project should be ready by the end of summer, Greenstone founder Jim Frank told a crowd of more than 100 gathered on the site between Bridge and Ohio avenues.
Spokane International Airport and the parent of Spokane Airways have agreed to submit a three-year-old dispute to Seattle-based mediator Tom Harris. RMA Inc. sued the airport for improperly condemning six of its buildings, which blocked the new control tower’s line of sight to the main runway. The company prevailed in the litigation through Spokane County Superior Court and the Washington State Court of Appeals.
Spokane County hotels have sold substantially more rooms so far in 2010, and bookings for future business are up dramatically, the president of the Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau said Monday.
Kerry Killinger spent seven years in Spokane in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was an executive at Murphey Favre Inc., a small investment company that managed two small mutual funds and gave investment advice to individual and institutional investors. On the side, he bought and fixed up homes for resale at a profit. It was a cottage industry during that era, among the worst for local real estate.
Harris Mithoug said he had a simple solution to the challenges of life without health insurance: Don’t get hurt. The 31-year-old bartender at The Onion restaurant in Spokane did not for the five years he went uncovered – a lucky streak that ended with a hand fracture repaired on the dime of Premera Blue Cross, which insures his spouse.
Employment in Spokane County increased for the first time since last May, according to statistics released Tuesday by the Washington Employment Security Department. The gain of almost 2,400 jobs in March was enough to lower the unemployment rate to 10.5 percent from a revised level of 11.3 percent in February.
