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Big Cheney apartment project rises

192-unit first phase of planned 576-unit complex to cost $17 million

August 20, 2009

Spokane developer Lanzce Douglass is constructing the $17 million first phase of a two-phase apartment complex in Cheney that city officials say is expected, when finished, to include 576 living units in 24 buildings spread across more than 30 be a

Mulling whether to initiate an inflation-fighting strategy

Experts aren't in unison on whether, when price surge might commence

August 20, 2009

Personal Investing

Inflation is a lot like the weather. There inevitably will be storms at some point, but no one can predict very far in advance exactly when or how severe.Some experts are convinced that a rise in prices will be the end product of stimulus bank a

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August 20, 2009

Aug. 18 / Employment here falls Nonagricultural wage and salary employment in the Spokane metropolitan area fell to 205,200 in July, down 12,100 jobs from the July 2008 level, according to preliminary Washington state Employment from /

Calendar: August 20, 2009

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August 20, 2009

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Peterson Investment weathers storm with conservative tack

Father-son adviser team personally researches stocks for wealthy base

July 30, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

There's no question that right now is a difficult time to be in the wealth-management business, says longtime Spokane investment adviser John Peterson."We are reliant on new business, and we're not seeing that," says Peterson, who launched Inc. a

Independent investment advisory firm launches venture on South Hill

July 30, 2009

Mike McLean

Financial adviser Steve Listzwan has formed Goldenview Financial LLC and has opened an office on Spokane's South Hill.The single-person operation occupies about 450 square feet of floor space on the second floor of the Ben Burr Building, at 4915

Wheatland starts work on remodel in Yakima

Spokane bank to make offer on Wenatchee site, still looks for spots here

July 30, 2009

Richard Ripley

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, last week began limited demolition work for an extensive remodeling of the building in Yakima, Wash., where it has operated its18-month-old bank branch there. It also planned to make an offer last week for a site for a a

Maker of credit union software plans call center here

Enhanced Software wants to field telephone inquiries from customers' members

July 30, 2009

Paul Read

Enhanced Software Products Inc., a 13-year-old Spokane Valley developer of software for credit unions, says it plans to open a call center here that would handle, on behalf of the credit unions it serves, customer-service calls from their the also

Young adults worried about their finances

Study participants ranked it ahead of environmental protection, personal health

July 30, 2009

A slight majority—52 percent—of young adults between the ages of 23 and 28 who participated in a recent survey said they consider "making better choices about managing money" the single most important issue for individual Americans to act

Hecla mines equity markets to pay down debt

Clearwater Paper seizes opportunity to refinance early, pay off Potlatch

July 30, 2009

David Cole

Two Spokane-area companies bit by the historic squeeze in capital markets each separately has been able to take actions in recent months that might signal a modest easing in the nation's financial crisis.Though their circumstances were different,