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Berry Fowler: Compelled to coach

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Berry Fowler's ability to grow businesses over the last four decades contrasts sharply with his early academic years. Fowler founded the Sylvan Learning Centers in the late 1970s. Born out of his own academic challenges, he created an educational tutor
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Former Spokane banking executive joins PacWest Bancorp

Rusnak to become CFO at $16 billion institution
Staff Report
Former Spokane banking executive Patrick J. Rusnak, who was credited here with helping to bring AmericanWest Bank back from the brink of collapse, has been named to take over as chief financial officer at Los Angeles-based PacWest Bancorp this fall.
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North Bank sportsplex research to move forward

PFD will inspect, test site across from park
Judith Spitzer
Research into a proposed $27 million sports field house is moving forward following an agreement giving the Spokane Public Facilities District the go-ahead to inspect the mostly city-owned property north of the Spokane River, near Riverfront Park, says Ke
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General aviation flight center planned at Felts Field

Museum to lease space at west end of structure
Kim Crompton
A Spokane investor group named EFT LLC plans to develop a 40,000-square-foot, $2.8 million general aviation flight center at Felts Field municipal airport in East Spokane, says Tim Gump, managing member and part owner of EFT. Western Aviation Inc., a fix
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UW says WWAMI program growth is in jeopardy

Senate budget proposal amounts to funding cut
Mike McLean
The Washington state Senate budget proposal would put the Spokane-based portion of the five-state medical education program known as WWAMI in peril if it wins out over the House version of the budget, says Dr. Paul Ramsey, the CEO of University of Washing
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—Judith Spitzer

Spokane's sick leave rules gain ground

Opinions on proposed citywide policy vary widely
Judith Spitzer
Spokane City Council members on Monday evening voted to assign a work group to study the possible implementation of a mandatory sick and safe leave policy that would require businesses in the city to give their workers the opportunity to earn sick leave h
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UTC Aerospace mulls expansion

Parts maker now employs 170 people on West Plains
UTC Aerospace Systems is considering an expansion at its big West Plains manufacturing facility, a company spokeswoman says. The company currently occupies a 135,400-square-foot building at 11135 W. Westbow Blvd. and employs 170 full-time workers there,
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