Company already has had half-dozen job fairs this year
May 21, 2015
Pitney Bowes has brought in 200 new hires to its Spokane operation in the last year, but it says not about to stop there.
'We have 18 job fairs scheduled for 2015,†says Thomas Roberts, vice president of inside and Web sales for the company. 'Weï¿
New business accelerator to consult, offer classes
May 21, 2015
Billing itself as business accelerator, Ignite Northwest recently formed in Spokane with the goal of helping young tech companies overcome early startup challenges.
Bill Savitz, CEO of the nonprofit organization, says accelerator businesses help companie
Russell C. Page Architects PS, a small but prolific Spokane design firm, has been enjoying a strong upturn in business over the last two years, says Russ Page, the firm's principal architect.
You know that downtown Spokane area west of Division that doesn't have a name?
It's called everything from the East End to the Community Block to the east end of West Main-depending on who's talking.
Businesses on West Main seem to be ground ze
Omak Wood Products LLC has ramped up production and increased its workforce a year and a half after upgrading and reopening a long-closed plywood mill about 140 miles northwest of Spokane, says Dick Baldwin, the mill's president.
The mill is located in
A coalition that has been working for several years to reduce preventable emergency room visits in Washington state claims it has improved utilization and quality of care, and created savings, while also drawing national attention for its efforts.
Dr. Randall Riggs, a psychiatrist, and Kimberly Stankovich, a veteran chemical dependency counselor, have opened an outpatient clinic east of downtown Spokane that they say is using an empathetic and healing approach to treat opiate-dependent patients.
A Washington State University Spokane pharmaceutical sciences student has received a national award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation to fund research into slowing or eradicating osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Whooping cough (pertussis) is on the rise in Washington state, and people are being urged to get vaccinated against the disease, especially pregnant women, as infants are very susceptible to severe illness and even death from pertussis, the Spokane Region