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North Spokane Corridor rises along Greene Street

Span over river will go out to bid in fall 2022

March 24, 2022

Recent progress on the North Spokane Corridor has been conspicuous as sections are completed along North Market Street and near the Spokane Community College campus. Washington state Department of Transportation design project engineer Bob Hilmes says

Guest Commentary: Forest health practices should include logging, planting

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March 24, 2022

Don Brunell

Washington's Board of Natural Resources is considering banning timber harvesting on state lands. That is extremely unwise. Instead, the board must ensure its healthy forest policies incorporate all management tools, including planting, thinning, and

The Journal's View: Lawmakers muffed opportunity to provide broad tax relief

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March 24, 2022

Journal of Business Staff

The recently completed legislative session will be remembered for missed opportunities for tax relief that could have benefited businesses and working families. While the supplemental budget approved during the 2022 legislative session contains no across

Plan B Forensics seeks answers in death cases

Marshall's medical past, personal experience illuminate investigations

March 24, 2022

Virginia Thomas

Dr. Suzan Marshall says she didn't expect death to become her work. In fact, she had spent years working as a surgeon, trying to save the living. Now, she applies both her medical background and her personal experience with traumatic death to her work as

Pacific Design Co. sees opportunities in change

New-business clients bring culture, personality

March 24, 2022

Karina Elias

Shaleesa Mize, owner and founder of Pacific Design Co., says what intrigues her the most about the commercial design landscape in Spokane is the number of new boutiques, quirky businesses, little restaurants, and coffee shops that she's noticed popping

City of Cheney ponders uses for land following acquisition

Potential property uses include wetland banking, new site for headworks

March 24, 2022

Mike McLean

Potential uses for 228 acres of land acquired last year by the city of Cheney include buffering some city operations from potential conflicting uses and moving some operations from leased land, says Mark Schuler, Cheney city administrator.

Northwest Farm Credit Services allocates $56.9 million dividend for 2021

Patronage checks share earnings with members

March 24, 2022

Karina Elias

Northwest Farm Credit Services' customer-members in Washington have received nearly $56.9 million in annual patronage dividends checks, the Spokane-based agricultural lending cooperative announced. The dividends were down $5.5 million from $62.4

Crash Champions acquires three Spokane auto body shops

Trio of purchases gives Illinois company total of five INW locations

March 24, 2022

Virginia Thomas

An auto repair company based in Illinois has acquired three auto body collision repair shops in Spokane. Matt Ebert, founder and CEO of Crash Champions LLC, says the Westmont, Illinois-based company has been focusing on expanding into markets in which

Sioux Steel acquires Scafco Grain System

Buyer Sioux Steel Co. to keep Scafco employees, operations in Spokane

March 24, 2022

Mike McLean

Longtime Spokane company Scafco Grain Systems Co. has been acquired by Sioux Steel Co., of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Scafco Grain Systems, which designs and manufactures grain storage bins, silos, handling equipment, and drying technology, has operated

Washington state, Russia share commerce history, uncertain future

Commerce relationship decades in the making deteriorates in wake of invasion of Ukraine

March 24, 2022

Mike Flynn

Watching Russia in an aggressor role in its unprovoked war on Ukraine likely has brought a mix of sadness and regret for those who recall the time in 1994 that Boris Yeltsin, first president of the Russian Federation, stood before a Seattle luncheon