Education & Talent

2021 Rising Stars: Spokane Community College's Guillermo Espinosa

Director hopes to impact students' lives, community

September 9, 2021

What started as just a job after college has transformed into a personal mission for Guillermo Espinosa to provide students at Spokane Community College a path through their college education and into a career. Espinosa, 30, who was appointed director of

Stronger International spins off cybersecurity training company

Stratford-led Drip7 offers new 'gamified approach' to learning exercises

September 9, 2021

Virginia Thomas

Spokane-based cybersecurity expert Heather Stratford has created a subscription-based microlearning cybersecurity and compliance training software platform company called Drip7 Inc. Drip7 aims to train people on cybersecurity and regulatory compliance

Public charter school planned in Post Falls

Enrollment at Elevate to start in December

August 26, 2021

Natasha Nellis

A charter school specializing in career technical skills is on track to open in north Post Falls in time for the 2022-23 school year. Dubbed Elevate Academy North, the year-round career public charter school offers a variety of options for students and

Student housing portfolio acquired near Gonzaga

Group to keep focus on renting to GU students

August 26, 2021

Natasha Nellis

A California-based investment company has acquired five student rental homes near Gonzaga University. McGarry Strategic Enterprises LLC, an investment company based in San Diego, purchased five contiguous student rental homes located near the southwest

Spokane Realtor plans to launch Washington Real Estate School

Gwynn says new effort also to offer tech training

August 26, 2021

Kevin Blocker

Spokane-based real estate broker Bryan Gwynn is in the process of establishing a continuing education school that he says will have an emphasis on technology. Gwynn is the founder of the Washington Real Estate School, a business that he established at

Q&A about climate change with Gonzaga University's Brian Henning

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August 12, 2021

Virginia Thomas

Brian Henning is a professor of philosophy and professor of environmental studies at Gonzaga University, as well as founder and director of the university's Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment.

Production and Manufacturing Academy returns

More students experience work in industry in Spokane

August 12, 2021

Kevin Blocker

Though COVID-19 derailed the second Production & Manufacturing Academy class in 2020, it didn't dampen the spirits of a group of high school juniors and seniors who just graduated in the 2021 class.

Foundation here back to granting travel wishes

Nonprofit forced to cancel trips during pandemic; boosted other programs

July 29, 2021

Lonna Smith

March 2020 is a month that many will never forget. It was in March of 2020 that the World Health Organization declared that we were facing a pandemic outbreak called COVID-19. There were mask mandates, quarantines, and an immediate and radical change to

Journal's View: ARP funds provide regional transformative opportunity

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July 29, 2021

Journal of Business Staff

Government leaders here are faced with the enormous task of deciding what to do with more than $200 million in American Rescue Plan funding coming collectively to Spokane County, the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley, school districts, and other local

Communities in Schools serves through COVID-19

Organizational efforts picked up in pandemic

July 29, 2021

Kevin Blocker

Once housed in 400 square feet of diminutive office space in downtown Spokane, the nonprofit Communities in Schools of Spokane County in early 2020 moved to three times that amount of space in the Tapio Office Center. It hasn't even been 18 months