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Minimum-wage hike isn't answer

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February 13, 2014

The governor and president have spoken quite a bit about income inequality within our state and nationwide. How do we broaden the middle class and increase wealth for all? Some in our state Legislature propose increasing the minimum wage. Many business

Using software to treat rheumatoid arthritis

Company, practice here join to invent, market app

February 13, 2014

Katie Ross

Discus Analytics LLC, which launched in Spokane in May 2011, has collaborated with doctors here to invent and begin marketing a software application designed to help better treat rheumatoid arthritis and its progression. The company worked with physici

Catholic Charities opens retail furnishings store

Business located in former Stewart's hardware space

February 13, 2014

Katie Ross

Catholic Charities of Spokane, a 100-year-old nonprofit that offers social services through Eastern Washington, has opened a retail store called Furnishings for Hope in the historic Stewart's True Value Hardware building, located at 1905 N. Monroe. Th

Quest Aircraft selects contractor here for Kodiak airplane training

Spokane Turbine affiliate serves commercial buyers

February 13, 2014

Mike McLean

Quest Aircraft Co., the Sandpoint, Idaho-based manufacturer of the Kodiak light airplane, says it has selected Parkwater Aviation, of Spokane, to provide flight-training services for commercial buyers of the Kodiak. Parkwater Aviation, which has four emp

WSU Spokane starts work on master-plan update

College looks to address future needs at Riverpoint

February 13, 2014

Mike McLean

Following the opening of its $79 million Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Building on the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown late last year, Washington State University Spokane has started its next master-plan update. The focus of the master plan

PAML partners to launch cancer diagnostic tool

Product includes precise genetic sequence testing

February 13, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane-based national reference laboratory Pathology Associates Medical Laboratory LLC is launching with its partner, Seattle-based lab CellNetix Pathology & Laboratories, a new cancer diagnostic product, which will be marketed under the name Symbiodx.

Legislative bills propose new port district options

Spokane, Kittitas counties could benefit from change

February 13, 2014

Treva Lind

Two bills introduced recently in the Washington state Legislature and sponsored partly by Spokane-area legislators would give Spokane County more options for creating a port district to help promote economic development here. One or the other of them, h

One Good Thread LLC: Pretty threads for the Web

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February 13, 2014

Mike McLean

Working in the office of a converted service station downtown, Chi Walters, co-founder of One Good Thread LLC, opens a cardboard box as if it's a treasure chest. She gasps and sighs with delight as she examines the pretty contents, one dainty little ite

County-city revenue share proposal still in the works

City administrator hopes to have plan by summer

February 13, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane County and two cities that lie within it still are in the process of negotiating a possible revenue-sharing agreement for industrial-zoned land on the West Plains, says Al French, Spokane County commissioner. The talks are moving forward, but no

Up to $100 million sewer project takes step forward

City solicits engineers to submit qualifications

February 13, 2014

Treva Lind

The city of Spokane is seeking proposals from engineering firms for design and construction management of an estimated $80 million to $100 million upgrade at the city's Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility sewage-treatment plant. Marlene Feist, th