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Mike McLean

Mike McLean

Deputy Editor Mike McLean has worked his entire journalism career in the Inland Northwest. Mike, who also lives to reel in fish and crank up music, has worked for the Journal since 2006.

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WinCo grocery chain revises plan for Coeur d' Alene store

Discount grocery chain brings smaller store idea to city for design review
December 20, 2012
Mike McLean
Boise-based discount grocery chain WinCo Foods LLC is putting its long planned Coeur d'Alene store back on the front burner, says Mike Read, a spokesman for the company.The company is scheduled to meet today, Dec. 20, with the city's design for
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Big Spokane Convention Center addition draws flurry of inquiries

Convention center addition expected to attract at least six design-build candidates
December 20, 2012
Mike McLean
The Spokane Public Facilities District has seen a flurry of early interest in its planned $60 million-plus convention center expansion and expects to whittle down a short list of design-build candidates early next month, says Kevin Twohig, director
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—Staff photo by Mike McLean

Signature Genomics co-founder starts new venture

Ex-Signature Genomics CEO Shaffer launches Paw Print to test dogs
December 20, 2012
Mike McLean
Signature Genomics co-founder Lisa Shaffer and her husband, Jeff, are starting a new genetic testing venture—this time for testing people's pooches. The company, Paw Print Genetics, aims to help dog breeders nationwide avoid unhealthy in is
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—Staff photo by Mike McLean

Medication Review hits stride in hospital telepharmacy

Spokane concern offers remote service, oversight for small, rural facilities
December 6, 2012
Mike McLean
Medication Review Inc., a Spokane-based provider of pharmacy services and oversight to rural community hospitals, has expanded its foothold throughout the West, and K. Douglas Crafton, the company's president and CEO, says he expects growth to at a
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Kootenai Health acquires gastroenterology practice

Coeur d'Alene hospital district also plans to buy related endoscopy center
December 6, 2012
Mike McLean
Kootenai Health, the Coeur d'Alene-based hospital district that operates Kootenai Medical Center, has agreed to acquire a gastroenterology practice over the next year and a related endoscopy practice in 2014.North Idaho Gastroenterology will its
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El Katif Shriners develop West Plains event center

Baker Construction is well under way on $2.1 million facility on old winery site
December 6, 2012
Mike McLean
El Katif Shrine Center, the Spokane-based chapter of the international fraternal organization that supports Shriner's Hospitals for Children, is constructing a $2.1 million event center at the former Worden's Washington Winery property on the West
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Triple Play adds slide, rink attractions to its fun center

Amusement park invests $500,000 in large slide, synthetic-ice skating rink
December 6, 2012
Mike McLean
Triple Play Family Fun Park, the amusement center attached to the Holiday Inn Express, in Hayden, Idaho, recently added a 350-foot water slide to its Raptor Reef indoor water park and a synthetic-ice rink in an outdoor section of the center, says a
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Ernest Health, Kootenai Health joint venture to develop Post Falls rehab hospital

KMC parent combines resources with Ernest Health for rehab facility
December 6, 2012
Mike McLean
Ernest Health Inc., the Albuquerque, N.M.-based health care provider that operates an acute-care hospital in Post Falls, says it's partnering with Coeur d'Alene-based Kootenai Health, to construct a 30-bed rehabilitation hospital there that it will
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—Staff photo by Mike McLean

Carving a niche in keystones

December 6, 2012
Mike McLean
After selling their Rathdrum-based, high-end wood-molding manufacturing company a few years ago, it didn't take long for Clint and Cheryl Bower to discover they weren't ready to retire. So they started over again, though on a smaller scale.About
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Developer adjusts plans for old Burgans Furniture block

$6.8 million renovation includes residential suites, commercial tenant space
December 6, 2012
Mike McLean
A Spokane development company has updated its plans to convert the Burgans Fine Furniture block north of downtown into a mixed-used use complex following a proposed $6.8 million renovation of two existing buildings there, records on file with the a
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