The discussion of public-policy matters here should get a welcome boost with the Washington Policy Center adding its well-researched opinions to the mix more frequently, following its recent opening of an Eastern Washington office here.The says

This holiday season, I'm thankful for the work that business, medical, and university leaders here, in Pullman, and in Seattle have done in evaluating whether it's feasible to develop a four-year medical school in Spokane—and for concluding it

Hospitalists—the relatively new breed of physicians who work full time inside hospitals—infuse the coldly clinical environment they inhabit with a nicely counterbalancing mix of compassion, care management, and personal communication at I

Fred Dickson has learned to watch for telling, if unofficial, economic indicators during his 38 years in the securities industry.Eighteen months ago, Dickson, who's a market strategist and director of retail research for D.A. Davidson & Co., a a

If the movement toward hybrid gas-electric and all-electric cars becomes truly mainstream, as appears to be on the verge of happening within a few years, it will be due partly to the proselytizing fervor of people like Roger Imes, who along with &

M. Duane Nellis, the recently appointed 17th president for the University of Idaho, in Moscow, told us during a get-acquainted visit to Spokane last month that, "One of the things that's most important to me is creating a more entrepreneurial says