Spokane-based nonprofit Inland Northwest Blood Center is endeavoring to maintain revenue while hospital demand for blood is decreasing and donations of blood are declining. INBC President and CEO Jeff Bryant says that as hospitals look to cut costs, buy

The Inland Northwest is resisting a national trend of lagging electric utility sales, utility companies here say, with sales near-and in some cases, exceeding-pre-recession levels. Electricity sales nationwide are looking slow for the seventh year i

Spokane County United Way is doing philanthropic work with the community, rather than on its behalf, asserts president and CEO Tim Henkel, and he wants community members to think of it that way. Both United Way and its donors look for ways to effect chan

The Washington Alliance of Teaching Physicians is stepping up its efforts to support a fully accredited medical school in Spokane, say Spokane physicians Jeremy Graham and Henry Mroch, spokesmen for the ad hoc group. Representatives of ATP, which is made

The so-called farm-to-table food movement seems to have taken hold across the country as well as here in Spokane. Plentiful fresh local produce and other food can be purchased from a number of neighborhood farmers' markets, and served the same night. Bu