Spokane-area voters should support an expansion of the Spokane County Board of Commissioners and reject state Initiative 1366, which at its essence is about requiring a supermajority vote for all new state taxes and tax increases. I-1366 might have gaine

When confronted with a $15 minimum wage becoming law, Seattle business owners said it would 'sink the economy.” One owner, Jeremy Hardy, said he 'wouldn't be opening another business in (his) beloved Seattle.” One year later, he has opened two m

Two Spokane-area businesses have teamed up with Phoenix-based moving equipment and storage rental company U-Haul International Inc. to become U-Haul dealers for their respective neighborhoods. The newly designated neighborhood dealers are North Point Min

Dentists Corey Plaster and Rudyard McKennon are in the process of combining their dental practices into one, which they plan to call Downtown Dental. The two dentists have spent the past 11 years working down the hall from one another on the eighth floo

PayneWest Insurance has consolidated its Spokane-area offices into 21,500 square feet of space in the Riverpoint One office building, at 501 N. Riverpoint Blvd., in Spokane's University District, says Dan Antonietti, its managing director for administra

The Washington state Court of Appeals has rejected a counterclaim filed by Shriners Hospitals for Children here after it was sued by a woman it fired for allegedly altering time cards. In a 3-0 ruling, the appellate court panel here affirmed a Spokane Co