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Startup involving Whitworth professor launches new app

TextMuse has preloaded content for messaging

July 16, 2015

Whitworth University professor Pete Tucker, who co-founded a software development startup a year ago, says its new text messaging app called TextMuse provides smartphone users with automatic content updated daily to share as quick communication with conta

Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill planned at NorthTown

Pair of restaurants to share kitchen space

July 16, 2015

Mike McLean

Evergreen Restaurant Group LLC, the Pacific Northwest franchisee for both the Outback Steakhouse and Bonefish Grill full-service restaurant chains, plans to open outlets in the renovated NorthTown Mall, and the two restaurants possibly would have a shared

Gonzaga graduates find good fit with menswear startup

Vincero Collective chooses products via crowdfunding

July 16, 2015

Kim Crompton

Three Gonzaga University alumni who earned business degrees at the Jesuit school here five years ago, and then spent four years in China, have gotten off to a promising start with an online premium menswear company called Vincero Collective that they co-f

$13.5 million mixed-used project slated near Gonzaga University

Developer plans to start construction this summer

July 16, 2015

Mike McLean

Spokane developer Kent Hull plans to begin construction this summer on a $13.5 million mixed-use project on the Hamilton Street corridor near the Gonzaga University campus. With a tentative address of 1002 N. Hamilton, the 2-acre project site would take

Rightsizing WorkSource in an improving economy

State agency shrinks, shifts as the job market improves

July 16, 2015

Linn Parish

Unemployment rate and total employment are two of WorkSource Spokane's common gauges of economic health, but another number also is telling: 43.

Pawnbrokers see no letup in demand despite improved economy

Managers report default rate at 15 percent

July 16, 2015

Double Eagle Pawn district manager Brian Wegner believes he's in an industry that is in demand regardless of the economic times around him. Larry Carlson, the owner of Axel's Pawnshop, agrees. 'People always need to borrow money, both in good tim

Spokane-area home construction, sales climb

Entry-level buyer market slower to gain momentum

July 16, 2015

Mike McLean

New home construction and existing home sales have continued to climb here for the first half of this year, and existing home sales also have risen at a brisk pace, continuing a multiyear rebound since the deep recession-triggered residential real estate

Former INHS CEO Tom Fritz drowns

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July 14, 2015

Kim Crompton

Tom Fritz, 63, who retired at the end of last year as CEO of Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services, drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene yesterday, apparently after falling off of his fishing boat near the south end of the lake while fishing alone.

Sacred Heart tabbed as regional treatment center

Hospital here one of nine nationally to garner grants

July 2, 2015

Staff Report

The Washington state Department of Health says a five-year federal grant announced last month will help prepare Spokane's Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital to better manage patients with Ebola and other severe, highly infect

WSU researchers hope to track preemie pain

New grant enables work after old award expired

July 2, 2015

Samantha Peone

Washington State University researchers are developing a device that can detect pain in premature infants and might be used in the future to help prevent disabilities, says assistant professor Martin Schiavenato, WSU College of Nursing.