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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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Contractor in line for big project

Williams Brothers is low bidder on $52 million facility in Montana
October 23, 2008
Mike McLean
Williams Brothers Construction LLC, of Spokane, is the apparent low bidder—with a $52 million bid—for a major improvement project at the wastewater-treatment plant that serves the city of Bozeman, Mont.The project, which will more than
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District plans $18 million skills project

Big addition would house health sciences programs, give others growing room
October 23, 2008
Mike McLean
Spokane Public Schools plans to develop an $18 million addition to its Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center, in the Hillyard neighborhood, says Gregory Brown, the district's director of capital projects.The district, which is asking
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Garco to build $3.5 million branch for equipment dealer

Project will double size of Modern Machinery outlet here
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, plans to build a $3.5 million structure for the Spokane branch of Modern Machinery Co. that will be more than double the size of the facility the Missoula-based heavy-equipment dealer occupies here.Modern of
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Builder files $2.4 million lien in CdÂ’A

Walker Construction seeks payment for work at project in Riverstone
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
A Spokane building contractor has filed a $2.4 million lien against one of Marshall Chesrowns Coeur dAlene-based development companies for alleged nonpayment for work done at the Bellerive residential waterfront condominiums in the mixed-use in
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Dave Smith now selling mortgages

Big Kellogg car dealership says lending unitÂ’s addition unrelated to auto slowdown
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
Dave Smith Motors, the high-volume motor-vehicle dealership based in Kellogg, Idaho, has added home mortgages to its product mix.The dealership has created a new department called Dave Smith Home Loans, which is operating in a 600-square-foot a
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Painting contractor doubles space with big shop building

ACI Coatings to offer woodwork pre-finishing after $1 million investment
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
ACI Coatings LLC plans to expand its services with a new 12,000-square-foot shop building that will be dedicated to pre-finishing woodwork and will double the Spokane Valley painting contractors current space, says Mike Kirschbaum, the companys
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Two biodiesel initiatives in works here

ExxonMobil to blend biodiesel; other concern to begin distribution here
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
The giant oil company ExxonMobil Corp. has obtained a permit to assemble a $3 million biodiesel blending project in Spokane Valley, and a young company based in Arlington, Wash., separately plans to extend to Eastern Washington the distribution for
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Affordable housing gap widens

Nonprofits work to add units for poor, but demand grows faster
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
Even as highly touted affordable-housing projects are set to be constructed here, groups that work to provide such housing are struggling to meet a growing demand for units.Projects under construction hereor soon to beinclude the Walnut The
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Cost-shifting levels off

Employers say theyÂ’re exploring other options to deal with rising health-care premiums
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
Medical costs are continuing to mount at a pace well above inflation, but the practice of cost shifting, or shifting bigger portions of health-care premiums from employers to employees, may be leveling off, health-plan providers here say.As
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Quarry expansion planned near Wandermere Estates

Central Pre-Mix requests zone change for 120 acres at mine on Perry Street
February 26, 1997
Mike McLean
Spokane Valley-based Central Pre-Mix Concrete Co. says it plans to expand a basalt quarry on a square mile of property it owns in the Wandermere area north of Spokane.The property is located east of the north end of Perry Street and north of of
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