I read that several political hacks predicted the economy would bottom out by late 2009. Please tell me this: How the heck do they know?What is "the bottom," and how long until we are at "the top?" The answer is, they have no idea! What you a

Red Diamond Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, has been awarded two city of Spokane contracts, worth a total of about $500,000, for work in northwest Spokane.One of those projects, which entails replacing the traffic signals at the of Avenue

Monte and Kelly Tareski, who own Innovative Landscape Design LLC here, have developed a structure in Airway Heights to house the company's specialty landscape business and a new retail store it is launching to sell garden stone dcor, home dcor,

Eller Corp., of Newman Lake, is the apparent low bidder, at $1.9 million, for a city of Spokane project to repave a deteriorated section of a busy South Hill commuter route.The project calls for repaving a 1.2-mile section of Southeast between a

Spokane Valley technology company ReliOn Inc. says it's developing a new, smaller version of its hydrogen fuel-cell system. Called the Eco-200 fuel-cell system, the new version should be available commercially in the fourth quarter of this year

Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, is erecting a $1.8 million structure in Hayden, Idaho, that will house a Walgreens pharmacy and retail outlet.The 14,500-square-foot building is going up at the southeast corner of U.S. 95 and a

A Phoenix, Ariz., shopping center developer plans to build a $1.4 million structure near the WinCo Foods Inc. supermarket on Spokane's North Side that would house retail shops.The developer, Kornwasser Shopping Center Properties LLC, has a to a

Spokane Valley-based Sterling Hospitality Management LLC plans to open SpringHill Suites by Marriott hotels in Coeur d'Alene and Wenatchee with a combined value of $23 million in the next two years, says Cal Clausen, Sterling's sister company, kVc

Avista Corp., which operates one of the nation's oldest and biggest wood-fired generating plants at Kettle Falls, Wash., says it would be interested in the results of a planned University of Idaho study of the use of a crop-drying trailer to dry an

Itron Inc., of Spokane, and Verizon Wireless, of Basking Ridge, N.J., have announced a joint marketing agreement under which they will work together to develop secure, two-way communications for utilities that want to employ Itron's advanced to as