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Plugging stricter parking enforcement

City looks to add to coffers with more, smarter meters

August 28, 2014

With the addition of 350 parking meters on Spokane city streets outside the downtown core, a high-tech tool to find people with unpaid parking tickets, and steel boots that put teeth into previously unenforceable meter violations, the city of Spokane esti

Logan group's plans for Hamilton Street

Proposed land-use code would encourage multistory developments

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

The city of Spokane is airing proposed new land use regulations designed to encourage a pedestrian-friendly, higher-density mix of residential and commercial uses within a stretch of the Hamilton Street corridor near Gonzaga University. The area affected

Legacy Ridge addition planned in Liberty Lake

Subdivision would include 281 homes

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

A Vancouver, Wash.-based real estate investment group says it plans to develop up to 281 residential lots in a subdivision in the western part of the Legacy Ridge development. The proposed Legacy Ridge West subdivision would be the largest single subdivi

Key Tronic's net income declines

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August 19, 2014

Staff Report

Key Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based electronic services manufacturer, reported this afternoon net income of $1.4 million, or 12 cents a diluted share, for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year ended June 28. That's down from $2.4 million, or 21 c

Washington Trust gives core a boost

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August 14, 2014

Staff Report

Washington Trust Bank has given downtown Spokane a welcome boost by recently purchasing the vacant Executive Court building that once was part of the Ridpath Hotel complex, with plans to convert the mostly four-story structure into office space to accommo

Avista settles on rate hike

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August 14, 2014

Kim Crompton

Avista Corp., of Spokane, would be able to raise electric and natural gas rates in Washington on Jan. 1, but not as much as it originally had proposed, if a settlement agreement is approved by the Washington Utilities and Transportation.

Small Business Watch

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August 14, 2014

Staff Report

Ensuring 'green' works as promised

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August 14, 2014

Don Brunell

Reducing mankind's carbon footprint has become the defining issue of our time and rightly so. Virtually every level of government has policies to reduce greenhouse gases by regulating everything from industrial CO2 emissions to cow flatulence. But as

Skils'kin buys building, moves division

Payee services now occupy larger quarters

August 14, 2014

Katie Ross

Skils'kin Inc., the Spokane-based nonprofit that offers services to people with disabilities, has bought a building at 606 W. Sharp for $230,000 and has moved its payee services division there, says Kym Grime, the division's director. The one-story b