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Small-business owners who fail to establish key ties put their firms at risk

March 25, 2010

Many small-business owners have been disappointed recently to learn that their bank has tightened lending standards or raised interest rates and fees, making it more difficult to get credit. In today's turbulent economic environment, the for be

Dahlstrom says national board takes on credit union issues

Industry faces critical changes in investments, new disclosure rules

March 25, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

Can a credit union go up against Wal-Mart in a battle in Congress over credit-card fees? Likely not, but the Credit Union National Association has a much better chance of doing so.Steve Dahlstrom, president and CEO of Spokane Teachers Credit who

Depressed overseas stocks offer bargains for investors

Main risk, pundits believe, is a deepening downturn that could spread globally

March 25, 2010

Andrew Leckey

Europe's ongoing fiscal trauma may present opportunities for U.S. investors.There could, for example, be possibilities in European stocks that are depressed in price or in stocks of the U.S. multinational companies most likely to gain from risk

Bank's life after NASDAQ

AmericanWest says it doesn't expect exit from stock exchange to hinder capital pursuit

March 25, 2010

Kim Crompton

The recent decision by AmericanWest Bancorp., Spokane-based parent of AmericanWest Bank, to pull its common stock off of the Nasdaq exchange shuts off its access to a large potential source of capital at a time when the company is hungry for a he

Small businesses, homes buoy Mountain West

Cd'A-based bank's SBA-backed loans grew 13 percent in 2009; commercial real estate loans surge

March 25, 2010

Mike McLean

Coeur d'Alene-based Mountain West Bank is relying on its strengths in small-business, commercial real estate, and residential lending to remain profitable through the recent recession and the recovery from it, says Russ Porter, the bank's president

Small Business Watch: March 25, 2010

March 25, 2010

Counseling office opens on South Hill Cheryl Osler, a clinical nurse specialist, licensed mental health counselor, and child mental health specialist, has opened South Hill Counseling in 350 square feet of leased space in the at 703

Real Estate Roundup

March 25, 2010

Mike McLean

Reno, Nev.-based Dinter Engineering Co. has leased 950 square feet of office space in the Lakeland Square commercial center, at 1556 state Route 41, in Rathdrum, Idaho, and has moved an office there from 17562 W. Liree Drive, in Hauser Lake, Idaho.

Spokane contractor to handle $540,000 in city paving projects

March 25, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

The city of Spokane has awarded contracts for two road projects, worth a combined $540,000, to MJM Grand Inc., of Spokane. The projects, located in northeast Spokane and Peaceful Valley, involve paving unpaved streets and adding sidewalks, says a

Interstate Concrete wins $830,000 in repaving work in Dalton Gardens

March 25, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

Interstate Concrete & Asphalt Co., of Coeur d'Alene, has won two contracts, worth a combined about $830,000, to repave portions of Hanley Avenue in Dalton Gardens, Idaho.The work constitutes the final two phases of a three-phase project to just

Cornerstone lands second tenant for redeveloped office building

March 25, 2010

Jeanne Gustafson

Cornerstone Property Advisors LLC, of Spokane, says it has secured a second tenant for a building it redeveloped last year, and also plans to move its own offices to the building, at 1311 N. Washington, in April. The Spokane office of the state