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Magnuson to start online travel venture

Spokane company will run site as option to domains such as Expedia, Orbitz

October 6, 2011

Magnuson Hotels, the Spokane-based hotel reservation management company, plans to launch a separate company that it says will operate as an international online travel agency.Tom Magnuson, the company's CEO, says the new venture, called Global a

Resale threads get retail surge

Several stores here buy, sell trendy used clothes for cost savings

October 6, 2011

Treva Lind

A market for selling quality used clothes well below original retail prices has flourished both here and nationally.At least a dozen for-profit stores have opened in Spokane within the past five years, including some in recent months, from those

Lender takes part of Riverstone

Trustee sale is scheduled for December; $14 million owed

October 6, 2011

Mike McLean

Riverstone developers have surrendered to a Seattle-based lender their interest in a major portion of the initial phase of retail buildings in the big North Idaho development, including the structure housing the cinema complex and the multitenant a

In the News

October 6, 2011

Sept. 30 / DSP names new leaderThe Downtown Spokane Partnership selected Mike Tedesco as its new president. He is expected to start work at the DSP this month. Tedesco previously worked as the executive director of the Pueblo, Colo., Urban Marla

Calendar

October 6, 2011

Meetings & EventsSpokane Regional MarCom Association will hold a Harnessing the Power of PR meeting Friday, Oct. 7, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at Gonzaga University's McCarthey Athletic Center, 801 N. Cincinnati. Representatives from Communique PR, of

Pregnant smokers' kids prone to severe asthma

Prenatal exposure leads to more intense disease, ER visits, researchers say

September 22, 2011

News Wise

Children with severe asthma are 3.6 times more likely to have been exposed to tobacco smoking before birth—even without later exposure—than children with a mild form of the disease, according to a multicenter study led by researchers at a

GYN-oncologist joins Rockwood's cancer team

Physician uses leading-edge procedures to help women overcome serious diseases

September 22, 2011

Chey Scott

A new specialty physician who recently joined Rockwood Clinic PS, the big Spokane-based doctors group owned by Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems Inc., brings with him an extensive background in caring for women who have a form of that

WSU finds miscarriage contributor

Bioscientists say eggs with abnormalities prove to be prevalent in older women

September 22, 2011

Washington State University

Washington State University researchers say they have confirmed a critical step in cell division that results in age-related miscarriages and birth defects, including Down syndrome.Writing in the journal Current Biology, the researchers say they

Dried plums can help fend off osteoporosis, study finds

Women who ate prunes had higher bone density than those who ate apples

September 22, 2011

News Wise

When it comes to improving bone health in postmenopausal women—and people of all ages—a Florida State University researcher has found a simple, proactive solution to help prevent fractures and osteoporosis: eating dried plums."Over my

Every Woman Can nonprofit evolves from ad campaign

Organization forms to fund mammogram awareness, tests for low-income women

September 22, 2011

Linn Parish

Inland Imaging LLC started the Every Woman Can awareness campaign here two years ago in an attempt to increase the number of women who receive annual mammogram screenings. Now, the effort is raising more than awareness. Every Woman Can backers a