Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co.s recent disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service might disallow a $28 million tax benefit it had claimed didnt stem from an IRS probe of the big Spokane-based financial-services provider.It rather,

By Kim CromptonOf the Journal of BusinessImagine being able to get broadband access to stock-market quotes, breaking news, and office work systems and e-mail from your handheld or laptop computer while relaxing on a bench in Riverfront

Inland Imaging Associates PS, of Spokane, says it has won a five-year contract, beginning July 1, to provide radiology services to Polyclinic, an 85-physician, multispecialty health-care practice in Seattle.The contract is the Spokane first the

Six Robblees Inc., a Seattle-based distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts that operates a Spokane branch, has bought the assets of Interstate Parts & Equipment, a longtime Spokane company, and plans to construct a new building here to

Luigi Lou Reillo arguably enjoyed an advantage because of his heritage when he journeyed to Italy, where some of the worlds finest tile is made, on several occasions before starting an imported-tile wholesale business here about 17 months the

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., the big Spokane-based financial-services company, is being challenged by the Internal Revenue Service over a $28 million tax benefit it claimed on an investment loss.The company disclosed in its most in a

Many Spokane-area businesses are seeing their health-plan costs rise this year by at least the same double-digit percentage rate as last year and in some cases are being hit with even larger hikes. Representatives of several of the Inland plans

The additional hires will equate to roughly a 10 percent staffing increase here for Honeywell, whichwith the equivalent of about 600 full-time employees at two locationsis one of Spokane Countys largest manufacturers. The anticipated hires a

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Inc., the big Spokane-based financial-services company, has reported net income of $3.9 million for its 2002 fiscal year ended Sept. 30, which marks a significant rebound after enduring two years of losses about a