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Startup involving Whitworth professor launches new app

TextMuse has preloaded content for messaging
Treva Lind
Whitworth University professor Pete Tucker, who co-founded a software development startup a year ago, says its new text messaging app called TextMuse provides smartphone users with automatic content updated daily to share as quick communication with conta
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Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill planned at NorthTown

Pair of restaurants to share kitchen space
Mike McLean
Evergreen Restaurant Group LLC, the Pacific Northwest franchisee for both the Outback Steakhouse and Bonefish Grill full-service restaurant chains, plans to open outlets in the renovated NorthTown Mall, and the two restaurants possibly would have a shared
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—Vincero Collective

Gonzaga graduates find good fit with menswear startup

Vincero Collective chooses products via crowdfunding
Kim Crompton
Three Gonzaga University alumni who earned business degrees at the Jesuit school here five years ago, and then spent four years in China, have gotten off to a promising start with an online premium menswear company called Vincero Collective that they co-f
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—Kevin Blocker

Pawnbrokers see no letup in demand despite improved economy

Managers report default rate at 15 percent
Double Eagle Pawn district manager Brian Wegner believes he's in an industry that is in demand regardless of the economic times around him. Larry Carlson, the owner of Axel's Pawnshop, agrees. 'People always need to borrow money, both in good tim
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—Mike McLean

Spokane-area home construction, sales climb

Entry-level buyer market slower to gain momentum
Mike McLean
New home construction and existing home sales have continued to climb here for the first half of this year, and existing home sales also have risen at a brisk pace, continuing a multiyear rebound since the deep recession-triggered residential real estate
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Former INHS CEO Tom Fritz drowns

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Kim Crompton
Tom Fritz, 63, who retired at the end of last year as CEO of Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services, drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene yesterday, apparently after falling off of his fishing boat near the south end of the lake while fishing alone.
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Sacred Heart tabbed as regional treatment center

Hospital here one of nine nationally to garner grants
Staff Report
The Washington state Department of Health says a five-year federal grant announced last month will help prepare Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital to better manage patients with Ebola and other severe, highly infect
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—Samantha Howard

WSU researchers hope to track preemie pain

New grant enables work after old award expired
Samantha Peone
Washington State University researchers are developing a device that can detect pain in premature infants and might be used in the future to help prevent disabilities, says assistant professor Martin Schiavenato, WSU College of Nursing.
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