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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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New Deaconess CEO expects improvements

Leader at CHS-owned facility here aims to integrate specialty, primary medical services

December 10, 2009

Mike McLean

William Gilbert, the new CEO at Deaconess Medical Center, says he expects to follow up substantial quick fixes at Deaconess Medical Center with long-term improvements that will make consumers choose to come to Deaconess for hospital a Northern work

Real Estate Roundup

December 10, 2009

Mike McLean

Care-A-Lot Learning Center Inc., a Spokane day-care center, has leased a 6,900-square-foot, two-story building at 5122 N. Division and plans to move there from smaller quarters at 4417 W. Wellesley by March 1. James S. Black III, of NAI Black, and

Cd'A mental health clinic buys building

Move to former Ink Well planned for this month will double current space

December 10, 2009

Mike McLean

Aces Community Services Inc., a Coeur d'Alene-based mental health clinic with a satellite office in Wallace, Idaho, says it has bought a building and plans to move its main operation there this month. Its new home will be in the former Ink Well

Longtime bistro, music venue in C'dA reopens

Dispute over ownership, now resolved, had closed Wine Cellar for two months

December 10, 2009

Mike McLean

The Wine Cellar, a popular bistro and jazz and blues venue in downtown Coeur d'Alene, has reopened at its longtime location after having been closed for two months during a dispute over ownership of the business and the building it occupies, its at

Food-bank supplier leases warehouse space in Valley

Northwest Harvest opens fourth distribution center to serve state's food banks

December 10, 2009

Mike McLean

Northwest Harvest, a Seattle nonprofit food distributor to 300 food banks statewide, says it has leased 13,600 square feet of warehouse space at Spokane Business & Industrial Park, which will help it improve its services here.Shelley Rotondo, to

Toying with strong connections

December 10, 2009

Mike McLean

Mike Marzetta says he has a lot of hobbies. At Minds-i Inc., of Liberty Lake, he's developed a toy construction system that combines most of them."I was always interested in models, construction sets, RC (radio-controlled) cars, hobby trains, he

City OKs Indian Trail subdivision

Big housing developer to dedicate right of way, pay impact fees for roads

December 10, 2009

Mike McLean

City of Spokane Hearing Examiner Greg Smith has approved a preliminary plat request by Spokane developer Harlan Douglass for a 231-unit housing development in the Indian Trail neighborhood on the North Side.The development, called Hunt's is on

COHE leaders aim to make pilot project a state program

Efforts help injured workers return to jobs, cut employers' costs

November 25, 2009

Mike McLean

The Center of Occupational Health and Education, a pilot project launched in 2003 with a center here and one in Renton, Wash., has succeeded in cutting workers' compensation costs, and now its leaders are working on a plan to elevate it to a as as

Real Estate Roundup

November 25, 2009

Mike McLean

Wong Financial Services Inc., a Spokane Valley financial planning service, has leased 1,200 square feet of office space at 12704 E. Nora and has moved there from smaller quarters at 25 S. Blake Road. Tom Watson, of Re/Max of Spokane, and Mike King,

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VA starts work on addition to physical-therapy building

$1 million project to triple space at the hospital now devoted to rehabilitation

November 25, 2009

Mike McLean

The Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center says it has broken ground on a physical-therapy building addition that will triple the space the hospital currently has dedicated to physical therapy.The addition will cost about $1 million to build a

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