Paul Read

Wind turbine maker starts up here

Owner of former RAHCO operation to build unit a day

July 1, 2010

Mark Folsom, who bought the contract manufacturing operations of the former RAHCO International Inc. here two years ago, now has launched a separate company that is manufacturing small-scale wind turbines targeted primarily at farms and rural MC is

Executive pay growth here tepid

Overall compensation up slightly; incentive pay falls with economy

June 17, 2010

Paul Read

Executive compensation at publicly traded companies here grew a modest 1.9 percent on average last year amid the troubled economy, as drops in long-term incentive awards were offset by sharp growth in annual salary and bonus pay.The relatively in

InCyte Pathology seeks to grow amid stiffer competition

Longtime Valley lab adds equipment, taps broader market to boost its volume

May 6, 2010

Paul Read

Spurred by tightening margins and heightened competition, longtime Spokane Valley laboratory InCyte Pathology PS says it's getting more aggressive about both the services it provides and the markets in which it seeks new customers.InCyte, which

EWU institute creates data site to measure three counties

Economic indicator project focuses on Stevens, Ferry, and Pend Oreille counties

May 6, 2010

Paul Read

An Eastern Washington University institute that developed Web-based data banks to track indicators about the Spokane, Walla Walla, and Wenatchee areas now has created such a site for three counties in the northeast corner of Washington. EWU's to

St. Joseph adds hospitalist care at its facility

Nursing home has full-time nurse practitioner, backed by Sacred Heart physicians

April 22, 2010

Paul Read

ansitional Care Unit, of Spokane, says it has taken the unusual step of providing full-time, on-site medical oversight during the weekdays, as well as 24-hour access to hospitalists from the adjacent Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Joseph

Spokane holds own compared with peers

GSI's Spokane Vitals report shows progress on some measures, more to do on others

April 22, 2010

Paul Read

Spokane has held its own compared with peer metropolitan areas when it comes to criteria that measure such things as business growth, education, prosperity, quality of life, and basic needs, a new report issued by Greater Spokane Incorporated 20 in

Gold Reserve adjusts to life without Venezuelan mine

Company seeks arbitration from international tribunal after Brisas project seized

April 8, 2010

Paul Read and Paul Read

Gold Reserve Inc., a Spokane-based mining exploration company that has spent nearly $300 million on a mining project in Venezuela, says now that the Venezuelan government has seized its property there, its focus will be on fighting to get whatever

tw telecom gets WashTrust's branch data link

March 25, 2010

Paul Read

Washington Trust Bank, of Spokane, has selected the Spokane office of Littleton, Colo.-based tw telecom inc. to provide a secure data network to connect the bank's technology support centers to its 41 bank branches in four states.Tw telecom, as

Blue Water taps green idea

Hayden concern hopes to generate power by burning sewage

March 25, 2010

Paul Read and Paul Read

Blue Water Technologies Inc., a Hayden-based concern known for its technology that removes phosphorus from wastewater, quietly has been adding to its resume the elimination of other contaminants, and now hopes to perfect a way to produce from the

IT-Lifeline, Red Lion eye disaster plan

Hotel would be makeshift call center for customers that lose data operations

February 25, 2010

Paul Read and Paul Read

Liberty Lake high-tech concern IT-Lifeline Inc. is working with Spokane-based hotelier Red Lion Hotels Corp. to offer call-center operators the space and equipment needed to get up to hundreds of workers back on line within 48 hours if their a an a