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Horizon offers online financial software

June 4, 2009

Horizon Credit Union, of Spokane, says it has teamed up with Digital Insight, a unit of big software maker Intuit Inc., to provide customers with online financial management software.Called FinanceWorks, the Quicken-based software helps manage a

Watchful eye can deter, derail fraud

Financial crimes against businesses are more rampant during recession, but relatively easy to spot

June 4, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Fraud against businesses is costly and grows more rampant during a recession, national research reports say. Still, though the signs usually are easy to spot, oftentimes the crime isn't caught until significant financial damage has been done, fraud

Credit unions facing next wave of crisis

State's biggest institution reports largest loss ever; capital-level fears emerge

June 4, 2009

Kirsten Grind

Washington credit unions, once seemingly sheltered from the financial crisis, now are facing one of the biggest challenges to their health since they were formed in the wake of the Great Depression.As a result of a trio of problems, stemming the

Refinance surge kept lenders hopping

Golf Savings hired more than 100 employees, though swell might now ebb

June 4, 2009

David Cole

A home-mortgage refinancing surge that began in December has caused banks and credit unions here to scramble to meet demand from consumers who want to take advantage of historically low interest rates, though there are signs now that the surge be a

Small Business Watch: June 4, 2009

June 4, 2009

Lounge expands into former Prago space The Lion's Lair bar, located in an about 1,400-square-foot space at 205 W. Riverside, has leased the similarly-sized adjacent space that formerly housed Prago Argentine Caf, and is using it to

Using public speaking to deliver messages that resonate

For maximum impact in these hard times, focus on 'transferable concepts'

June 4, 2009

Sales & Marketing

Jeffrey, I'm a reporter with the Peoria Journal Star in Peoria, Ill. I'm working on a story on how the down economy is affecting motivational speakers. More business? Less? Do the times dictate a change in tone or approach? Here is my of my tell

Real Estate Roundup

June 4, 2009

Mike McLean

BHW1 LLC, a Spokane advertising agency, has leased 4,500 square feet of floor space in the Fidelity Building, at 522 W. Riverside, and has moved there from 19 W. Pacific. Earl Engle, of NAI Black, handled the transaction.KMS Inc., doing as a

Spokane concern submits low bid for South Hill street rehab project

June 4, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Shamrock Paving Inc., of Spokane, is the apparent low bidder, with a bid of $798,000, for a city of Spokane project to rehabilitate a small cluster of aging streets in the Altamont Boulevard area of the South Hill this summer.A contract for the

Spokane's Kiemle & Hagood Co. sells its parking-services division

June 4, 2009

Kim Crompton

Kiemle & Hagood Co., the big Spokane-based commercial real estate and property management company, says it has sold its Friendly Parking Services division, which it formed about six years ago, to Seattle-based Republic Parking Northwest for an & of

WSDOT to repair U.S. 395 north of Spokane County

Work to cost $7.2 million, cause lane restrictions throughout 20-week job

June 4, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

The Washington state Department of Transportation expects two projects worth a combined $7.2 million to get under way soon on busy U.S. 395 between the Spokane County line and Immel Road, near Chewelah, Wash. The work is being paid for with says