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Farm Credit net income takes dip

Allowance for loan losses climbs by $23.8 million in second quarter of '09

August 20, 2009

Northwest Farm Credit Services, of Spokane, has reported second-quarter net income of $18.5 million, down sharply from $31.2 million in the year-earlier quarter.For the year's first six months, the federally chartered ag-lending cooperative of a

Blue Water wins Plummer, Idaho, project

Hayden company to install its phosphorus-removal system at sewage plant

August 20, 2009

David Cole

Blue Water Technologies Inc., based in Hayden, Idaho, has been awarded a more than $400,000 subcontract to install its phosphorus-removal system in the wastewater treatment plant being built for the city of Plummer, Idaho.Tom Daugherty, Blue the

Aluminum concern plans facility here

Novelis says it will move 20-person R&D operation into $2.5 million structure

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

Novelis Inc., an Atlanta, Ga.-based aluminum rolled-products manufacturer and recycler that operates a research-and-development facility here called the Solatens Technology Center, says it plans to move that operation into a new $2.5 million it's &

Vanagon camper vamoosing

August 20, 2009

Kim Crompton

Scott Quinnett says his love affair with Volkswagen Vanagons began serendipitously when trouble he was getting into with faster, more powerful vehicles forced him to give them up for something at the other end of the performance spectrum.The a a

Cd'A sandwich chain expects big growth

San Francisco-Style Sourdough Eatery says new franchise pacts should bring 100 new outlets

August 20, 2009

David Cole

The Coeur d'Alene-based franchisor San Francisco-Style Sourdough Eatery Inc. plans to expand the sandwich-shop chain dramatically, with up to 100 new outlets within the next three years.The founder, Robert Lenhart, says he plans to move to an in

NAI Black, Greg Green form unit

New venture to blend owners' expertise, handle mergers, acquisitions

August 20, 2009

Mike McLean

Prominent Spokane-based real estate brokerage NAI Black and Spokane technology entrepreneur Greg Green have formed a merger-and-acquisition unit within the brokerage's commercial division, says NAI Black CEO Dave Black.The joint venture will in

Chores forged Spokane boy now at FERC

Commissioner Moeller, who once did lambing, oversees markets, dams

August 20, 2009

Richard Ripley

Expo '74 days When Philip Moeller pulled himself out of bed at 3 a.m. on sub-zero nights to check on lambing sheep or feeder cattle at the family ranch on Tower Mountain here, he couldn't have known that someday he would serve as the a

PBS station here feels cash pinch

Hit by loonie's decline, KSPS braces for funding cut from school district

August 20, 2009

Kim Crompton

KSPS-TV, the noncommercial educational station here owned and operated by Spokane Public Schools, has laid off employees, curbed programming expenditures, and dipped into reserve funds over the last 12 months to try to counter dwindling financial a

Used-car lots feel the squeeze

Tight lending climate, low inventories cause some to fold

August 20, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Editor's Note: The print edition of the Journal inaccurately said that Bill Thompson's Auto Sales is out of business. The Spokane dealership continues to do business at 3011 E. Sprague. The Journal regrets the error.If East Sprague Avenue is any

Big Cheney apartment project rises

192-unit first phase of planned 576-unit complex to cost $17 million

August 20, 2009

David Cole

Spokane developer Lanzce Douglass is constructing the $17 million first phase of a two-phase apartment complex in Cheney that city officials say is expected, when finished, to include 576 living units in 24 buildings spread across more than 30 be a