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Percentage of businesses e-filing tax returns grows

Big partnerships showed greatest rate of increase

October 23, 2014

Business tax return e-filing rose nearly 10 percent this year, continuing the growth that has seen the number of corporate and partnership returns filed electronically double in just four years, the Internal Revenue Service says in a news release issued e

Operation Healthy Family expands services

Nonprofit helps youth on three fronts

October 23, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane faith-based nonprofit Operation Healthy Family is offering a unique blend of programs to try to help strengthen at-risk families and youth, says founder Tommy Williams Jr.

Focusing on hungry kids

Bite 2 Go program gives food to youth for weekends

October 23, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Every Thursday, a volunteer from the Spokane office of Seattle-based accounting firm Moss Adams LLP delivers a car full of food to Cooper Elementary School in Hillyard, providing enough food packages to go in the backpacks of 60 students who have been ide

Tax planners expecting final tweaks after election

Some final rules for 2014 might be written next year

October 23, 2014

Mike McLean

Some tax preparers here say they're expecting a compressed tax season as Congress likely won't consider renewing expired tax breaks until after the Nov. 4 midterm election.

Bloom's birth resource

Organization also offering Birth Options class online

October 9, 2014

Katie Ross

Bloom Spokane, the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene area nonprofit chapter of BirthNetwork National, has released its first Hospital Maternity Guide that shows childbirth options offered by area hospitals, says Bloom founder Tine Reese and Birth Options progra

Women veteran in Spokane seeking aid for depression, PTSD

Military sexual trauma also common in female vets

October 9, 2014

Judith Spitzer

In 2008, when Cindy Jayne, 52, retired after serving 22 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, she was angry, depressed, drinking heavily, and had threatened suicide more than once. She wasn't technically homeless, she says, but she spent the better part of a

Kutak Rock LLP looks to expand quickly in Spokane

National firm anticipates adding 10 to 15 attorneys

September 25, 2014

Linn Parish

Having joined large national law firm Kutak Rock LLP and begun the process of winding down their 9-year-old practice, veteran Spokane bond attorneys Roy Koegen and Mary Edwards have their sights set on building a large branch with a broader range of legal

Founded in Spokane, veterans estate planning clinic expands

Free event will be held in five cities this year

September 25, 2014

Katie Ross

The Washington Veterans Will Clinic, happening in October, has grown to include more cities around the state in this, its third, year. The first clinic took place in October 2012 in Spokane. Last year, a clinic was held in Wenatchee, Wash. as well as Sp

Business and divorce in Washington state

Spokane attorney writes about marriage dissolution in state

September 25, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Most couples don't enter into a marriage or a business anticipating that either may be torn apart by divorce. But with about 50 percent of marriages in the United States ending in divorce, that possibility exists, notes David Crouse, a Spokane divo

Environmental law pioneer moves toward sunset of career

Cd'A attorney Scott Reed ending 58-year practice

September 25, 2014

Mike McLean

At the age of 86, longtime Coeur d'Alene attorney Scott Reed finally decided earlier this year to retire, although he admits he's not very good at it yet. Though he's not taking new cases, the sole practitioner known even by friends as an environme