Government

Guest Commentary: Forest health practices should include logging, planting

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March 24, 2022

Washington's Board of Natural Resources is considering banning timber harvesting on state lands. That is extremely unwise. Instead, the board must ensure its healthy forest policies incorporate all management tools, including planting, thinning, and

The Journal's View: Lawmakers muffed opportunity to provide broad tax relief

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March 24, 2022

Journal of Business Staff

The recently completed legislative session will be remembered for missed opportunities for tax relief that could have benefited businesses and working families. While the supplemental budget approved during the 2022 legislative session contains no across

Plan B Forensics seeks answers in death cases

Marshall's medical past, personal experience illuminate investigations

March 24, 2022

Virginia Thomas

Dr. Suzan Marshall says she didn't expect death to become her work. In fact, she had spent years working as a surgeon, trying to save the living. Now, she applies both her medical background and her personal experience with traumatic death to her work as

City of Cheney ponders uses for land following acquisition

Potential property uses include wetland banking, new site for headworks

March 24, 2022

Mike McLean

Potential uses for 228 acres of land acquired last year by the city of Cheney include buffering some city operations from potential conflicting uses and moving some operations from leased land, says Mark Schuler, Cheney city administrator.

Washington state, Russia share commerce history, uncertain future

Commerce relationship decades in the making deteriorates in wake of invasion of Ukraine

March 24, 2022

Mike Flynn

Watching Russia in an aggressor role in its unprovoked war on Ukraine likely has brought a mix of sadness and regret for those who recall the time in 1994 that Boris Yeltsin, first president of the Russian Federation, stood before a Seattle luncheon

VK Mathisen Law serves growing refugee community

Mathisen currently has 60 active cases

March 24, 2022

Karina Elias

The immigration landscape in Spokane is larger than it seems, and there really aren't many immigration lawyers here, says Vanessa K. Mathisen, owner of VK Mathisen Law PLLC. A common misconception is there isn't diversity in Spokane, she says.

Transportation priorities shift

Focus has shifted away from roads to a degree, some say

March 24, 2022

Erica Bullock

The state's transportation priorities have shifted noticeably in the recently approved 16-year, $17 billion transportation bill, some local leaders and state transportation representatives say. While some traditional roadway preservation and

Property crimes rise in Spokane core

Some say numbers would be worse if more businesses reported vandalism, break-ins

March 24, 2022

Virginia Thomas

Commercial property crime is up in the downtown core, and property owners say they're increasing protection measures. According to data from the Spokane Police Department's crime report statistics, commercial burglary reports increased nearly 127%

New organizations form to serve business interests

Resources provide info to track policy issues

March 10, 2022

Dann Mead Smith

As business owners and employees at businesses in the Spokane area, you are busy balancing your work and family life while at the same time trying to keep an eye on the issues that impact you. There are so many issues coming out of local governments and

AG files consumer protection lawsuit against Providence

Health care organization says claims are 'inaccurate, unfair'

February 24, 2022

Mike McLean

The Washington state Attorney General's Office has filed a consumer protection lawsuit that claims that 14 hospitals, including the two Providence hospitals in Spokane, sought to collect payments from Washington residents who were eligible for charity c