The Spokane business community long has needed a predictable, sustainable source of funding for economic development. The Point 09 proposal is the best mechanism currently under consideration for providing a steady flow to enable development
The Spokane City Council was wise to delay action on its residential tenancies code, a sweeping proposed measure intended to provide more protections for renters while hoisting new fees and obligations onto landlords.
Bend, Oregon-based SFP-E LLC has purchased as an investment the 5,000-square-foot retail center at 817 W. Third, formerly occupied by Troy's Tires. Taylor Gibbons, of SVN Cornerstone, handled the transaction.
Regardless of how state constitutional challenges to the recently passed Initiative 976 play out in court, state and local entities will have to ask their constituents hard questions as they try to interpret voters' message and potentially reset
Since Washington state doesn't have a dedicated tourism promotion office, the state Legislature should be supportive of efforts to add flexibility to a public tourism-promotion funding tool afforded to the industry.
It's time that governments shed daylight on negotiations for public employee wages, salaries and benefits, and voter approval of Proposition 1 will do that for the city of Spokane, at least.
On Oct. 9, 2019 some of the top employers in our region gathered at the Spokane Convention Center to celebrate their employees and what it means to have an engaged workplace culture. In the months preceding, many area companies participated in a program i
The Spokane business community is reaping the benefits now of years of persistent diligence in its pursuit of more medical education, and Washington State University, the University of Washington, and Gonzaga University should be applauded for fully
Initiative I-976, also known as the Bring Back Our $30 Car Tabs measure, should be rejected by voters in November.
The statewide measure, put forth by antitax activist Tim Eyman's organization Permanent Offense, aims primarily to reduce or repeal
