Today's busiest online story was the account of the battle going on between Denny Ryerson and Dana Martin, both of whom are connected to a sprawling lake home on Mica Bay. Today's tale is about the struggle over who owns many of the items and…
Anthony’s Restaurants will open a second Spokane location on the city’s South Hill this fall, near a new Target store. The Kirkland-based company said the new location will be called Anthony’s Beach Cafe. It will take the pad building in the development near the new…
Redmond-based Microsoft is working on a beta version of Skype that gives real-time translations of conversations between people speaking different languages. CEO Satya Nadella, who showed off the app at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., said the service has been in the…
Two Greater Spokane Incorporated deals coming in the next week. To make reservations, go to the GSI events page. Tomorrow (May 29)is the next GSI sponsored Executive Breakfast. It will feature Buck Somes and Darby McLean of Spokane company GenPrime. It starts at 7:30 a.m.…
So Delta Airlines in Novermber is adding four daily flights from Spokane to Seattle. Here's the story version: Delta Air Lines will add four daily flights to Seattle from Spokane starting Nov. 3. At present only Alaska Airlines flies to and from Seattle from Spokane.…
We pause this weekend to celebrate .... great American beer and beer pubs. Two notes are called for. First, the switch in ownership at the Hop Shop, on Spokane's South Hill. Spokane resident Mel Kathryn Wood took over the shop on April 15, from previous…
Spokane accounting firm McDirmid, Mikkelsen & Secrest PS has agreed to a merger with North Dakota-based Eide Bailly, the company announced Thursday. The local firm will change its name to Eide Bailly in June, when the deal becomes effective. Company officials say the deal will…
Spokane County got itself closer to the 6.0 percent unemployment rate, based on preliminary April numbers released Tuesday by the state. Today's SR story tried to cover the bases. Here's one piece of data not listed in that story. Just measuring the nursing and retirement…
Jim Sheehan has already created a major upgrade to the east side of downtown Spokane. He helped launch the Main Market Co-op, runs the Community Building and its neighbor, the Saranac Public House. We featured Sheehan's latest project, the Saranac Commons, on today's SR front…
Let's keep rolling on the topic of rideshare services, which just arrived in these parts. See last's week's story here. The issue is going to be tossed into the laps of local officials who need to study the issue and decide if regulation is needed,…
Last week's story on the arrival of rideshare companies Lyft and Uber to the Spokane area generated more than 85 comments. They covered both sides of the street and identified the chief concerns: should they be regulated, are they well-run businesses, and what good they're…
Today's little tech story, on A1, featured Providence Health and its growing use of remote video interpreting. In the course of reporting we found out the difference between translation and interpretation, as applied to language conversions. The distinction is new to us; Interpretation involves converting…
Is it just us, but is there a run on out-of-area companies buying out local firms? Seems to be an active trend. The latest: Barnhart Crane & Rigging has acquired longtime Spokane company Hite Crane and Rigging. Terms of the deal were not announced. The…
What are the biggest areas of the Spokane economy in terms of retail spending? Let's take a look, compliments of the city's chief financial officer, Gavin Cooley. Today's news story, about how much area cities and counties rebounded in retail sales last year, noted that…
Since last Friday, a lot of people are suddenly aware of SGL, the German company that has a large carbon-fiber production site in Moses Lake. That's when state officials and company execs gathered in Moses Lake to announce a major expansion of one of Eastern…
Today's tech story on Spokesman.com is about the Pullman-based company 3D-4U, developing a form of interactive viewing that its inventors hope catches on. This technology has been used during two seasons of Cougar games at Martin Stadium on the Washington State University campus. What happens…
Every once in a while Office Hours will call attention to the passing of someone whose significance goes way above-average. That is why we're posting a short note on the recent death of economist-sociologist Gary Becker, 83, who died this week in Chicago. He won…
Ron Reed's ongoing effort to change the way the economic game is played resumes this week. The owner of Spokane firm PacifiCAD is bringing to town Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer to be the keynoter at a symposium running fromn 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at…
To register for the Re:Source workshops, visit www.sustaininw.org/ programs/resource-synergy-network Great idea for area manufacturers: a materials exchange network. Here's today's business section story: A coalition of sustainable industry advocates and manufacturers are forming the area’s first materials exchange network. The effort is labeled RE:Source, the…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
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