Our whacky Friday contribution, to help you get into the weekend. The Texas legislature has had its share of tough topics to deal with. But they're one step from resolvingone of the state's longstanding battles between "anglers" and state regulators. The legislature in Texas this…
View Larger Map Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels Corp. announced Friday it's converted a Sacramento hotel into a Red Lion franchise. The change involves the 109-room Vagabond Inn Executive Sacramento-Rancho Cordova. It's now the more pleasingly named Red Lion Inn Rancho Cordova. The address is 10713…
Last week we spotted an item on First Quarter sales taxes for Spokane County. The item noted the county saw a very tiny uptick, of about 2.7% from the same period a year earlier. (Though listed as first quarter, that number is actually for November-January…
People who know Jon Eliassen say he's the busiest retired person they know. In Sunday's Business section of The Spokesman-Review, we take a look at how Eliassen, who retired in 2002 after 33 years at WWP and Avista, has become a very busy executive around…