No one said socially responsible investing was perfect.Just as a number of funds with ethical goals made the mistake of holding Enron stock a few years back, many this year owned BP Plc stock when the company's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as

October 19 / Sterling reports big quarterly swing Sterling Financial Corp., Spokane-based parent of Sterling Savings Bank, reported third-quarter net income attributable to common shareholders of $33.6 million, or 2 cents a share, up a

Meetings & Events Greater Spokane Incorporated will host a Business to Business Trade Show, titled Betting On Your Business, on Tuesday, Oct. 26, from 3 to 7 p.m., at Northern Quest Resort & Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd., in Airway The of

With technology making it easier than ever for people to operate a business out of their house, many taxpayers, entrepreneurs, and small-business people may be able to take a home-office deduction when filing their federal tax returnHere are the

The Internal Revenue Service has released a draft version of the form that small businesses and tax-exempt organizations will use to calculate the small-business health-care tax credit when they file income tax returns next year.The IRS has the

Snapshots of charitable support in 2009 have produced two very different pictures for nonprofit health-care institutions in the U.S. and Canada, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP). The association's annual Report on $944