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Karina Elias

Reporter Karina Elias covers the banking and finance industry. A California native, she attended the University of California at Santa Barbara. Karina loves salsa dancing, traveling, baking, cuddling with her dog, and writing creative fiction and non-fiction.

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Parting Thoughts with Community-Minded Enterprises' Lee Williams

December 2, 2021

Karina Elias

Community-Minded Enterprises' CEO Lee Williams has announced she will be retiring from her position effective Dec. 10. Named CEO in 2018, Williams previously served as the organization's early learning initiative director.

Work starts on Elevate Academy in Post Falls

Charter school to open to students in fall 2022

November 18, 2021

Karina Elias

Work has begun on Elevate Academy North, a planned, new charter school in Post Falls that will specialize in teaching technical skills to middle and high school students, in grades six through 12. The city recently issued a building permit for construct

EWU expands its online degree offerings further

School now has 36 digitally accessible programs available

November 18, 2021

Karina Elias

Eastern Washington University, in partnership with Academic Partnerships LLC, is expanding its online master's and certificate degrees to 36 programs within education, business, accounting, and public health.

Brumback family realizes high-rising aspirations

Father-son team says Spokane seeing shift in multifamily market

November 18, 2021

Karina Elias

Donald G. Brumback, who goes by Gib, remembers when his son Nicholas Brumback was 10 years old and would ask, 'Dad! Why don't you build a skyscraper?â€ Gib says he would respond, 'Son, that's just not where we're at,â€ referring to the lack

Q&A with Maplewood Software's Nancy Janzen

November 18, 2021

Karina Elias

Nancy Janzen currently serves as the CEO and vice president of operations at Spokane-based Maplewood Software Inc., which focuses on developing and delivering cloud-based products for the health care industry.

Not your father's law firm: How the legal field is facing a culture shift

Firms here, nationwide said to struggle to recruit experienced attorneys

November 18, 2021

Karina Elias

In Spokane and across the U.S., law firms are struggling to recruit experienced attorneys to join their firms. An industrywide cultural shift in younger attorneys that many older attorneys haven't experienced likely is coming into play.

Proposed IRS reporting threshold increased; Bankers still don't like it

Supporters in Congress raise amount required to trigger IRS notification after industry blowback

November 4, 2021

Karina Elias

Weeks after proposing a plan to require banks to report on accounts with inflows and outflows of $600 a year over reported income to the Internal Revenue Service, Congress has raised the proposed reporting threshold to $10,000 and added several exceptions

New leadership emerges at Womer & Associates

Founder William Womer, longtime principal Robert Smith retire

November 4, 2021

Karina Elias

Womer & Associates Inc., a full-service architecture and engineering company based in downtown Spokane, has changed leadership this year with three new principals and a new president.