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Rohinni's bright future: Products featuring company's LED tech to hit market

Cd'A tech company emphasizes JVs, receives its first strategic investments

August 15, 2019

A laptop featuring Rohinni technology could be waiting under the tree this Christmas. That's what Matthew Gerber, CEO of Coeur d'Alene-based tech engineering company Rohinni LLC, says the company's new joint venture Luumii hopes to accomplish

TDS Metrocom, CenturyLink install more fiber in the Inland Northwest

TDS Metrocom enters Cd'A market, to invest up to $117M in network

August 15, 2019

Virginia Thomas

More fiber-optic network activity has begun to crop up in Coeur d'Alene and Spokane. TDS Metrocom, a Madison, Wisconsin-based telecommunications company, is constructing a new fiber optic network in Coeur d'Alene, with the intention of offering

The Great PNW: After the amorous bears

Shockvertising pays off for Spokane apparel maker

August 15, 2019

Virginia Thomas

Mention The Great PNW bears to the majority of Spokanites, and one image immediately comes clearly to mind. That animated image, to innocent eyes, looks like one grown bear on his back haunches standing behind another that's resting on all four paws.

Seachange at Spokane's City Hall

CFO Cooley to retire around turn of the year

August 15, 2019

Kevin Blocker

City of Spokane officials and its chief financial officer, Gavin Cooley, have some things to consider in the coming months. Cooley, 61, will think about what to do after he retires at late this year or early in 2020

Guest Commentary: Schools budget discriminates against state's charter system

Barred from local funding..

August 1, 2019

Liv Finne

The Legislature approved and Gov. Jay Inslee signed a two-year budget to give most of Washington's 2,400 K-12 public schools $27.2 billion, an all-time high. That's a 20% increase over the last two years, up $4.4 billion.

The Journals View: Income tax ruling turning eyes to Prop 2 measure

Opinion

August 1, 2019

Staff Report

The recent state Court of Appeals ruling has thrown a new measure of uncertainty for workers and economic development recruiters statewide about the future of state and local income taxes.

Cd'A Wine, gift store pours in new space

Restaurants & Retail

August 1, 2019

LeAnn Bjerken

The Dinner Party, a longtime Coeur d'Alene wine and gift shop, has moved from its original space in the Costco Plaza to a larger space in the same retail center at 3500 N. Government Way.

Kleur Style House fills Monroe niche

Restaurants & Retail

August 1, 2019

LeAnn Bjerken

Kleur Style House, a new hair salon, has opened at 1604 N. Monroe. Owner Haley Hotchkiss says the business occupies a 1,900-square-foot recently remodeled leased space that previously was vacant.