Meetings & Events Greater Spokane Incorporated will hold a breakfast meeting, featuring Spokane Mayor Mary Verner's State of the City Address, on Friday, Feb. 12, from 7:15 to 9 a.m., at the Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane a
Less than one-fourth said they're saving more than they were year ago
January 28, 2010
When it comes to their retirement, America's 50-somethings seem to be in a state of denial. Although the economic downturn has forced pre-retirees ages 50 to 59 to consider working years longer than they had hoped, their current rate of savings is
The Waterford on South Hill retirement community has launched a multimillion-dollar facelift of its main building on its campus, but also is experiencing the effects of a difficult economy, with higher-than-normal vacancies. Meanwhile its cottage
As millions of baby boomers prepare to retire, "the inevitable talent drain threatens to alter the national economy," says Ithaca College sociologist Stephen Sweet, referring to a recent report he coauthored, released by the Sloan Center on Aging &
The name of the game is defense for advocates of the the long-term care industry as they do battle during Washington's legislative session this year.As the Legislature tackles a supplemental budget for the remainder of the current biennium, to a
Senior-living projects here are faltering or changing direction or timing at least partly due to continuing recession-related uncertainties.In status changes to three of them, plans for a $14 million skilled-nursing center on the South Hill have
As the housing industry goes, so goes the title insurance industry, and with the big slump in home sales both here and nationally, companies here that provide title insurance have had to weather a difficult storm along with the sector they home to
Wheatland Bank, skirting the turbulent waters that have wreaked havoc with many financial institutions around the country, says it recorded net income of more than $1 million last year, added to its record loan growth of the prior year, and had
One of 2009's biggest personal finance stories was the capture of Bernard Madoff, creator of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. If you read the headlines and told yourself it didn't affect you because you weren't rich enough to be snared by such
Credit unions here say they've been finding ways to absorb hefty new assessments last year to help replenish a national deposit insurance fund that was tapped to help out two big institutions in distress. They fear this year's assessments could be