Kim Crompton

2025 Icon: Kevin Twohig

Eventful career hallmarked by making space for events

May 8, 2025

Kevin Twohig’s career arguably could be viewed as a string of serendipitous events that ultimately led to his lauded 16-year tenure as CEO of the Spokane Public Facilities District.

2024 Icons: Haase Landscape Inc.'s Clyde Haase

Landscaping authority keeps physically active, still owns House to Home

May 9, 2024

Kim Crompton

Though retired from the prominent Spokane Valley-based landscaping business he co-founded, Clyde Haase remains active and keeps his eye the ball.

2023 Business Icon: Tomlinson Family of Companies' Bob Tomlinson

Third-generation broker expanded real estate firm to national prominence

May 11, 2023

Kim Crompton

Bob Tomlinson, who recently turned 76, winters six months a year in Arizona and no longer is actively involved in managing the Tomlinson Family of Companies real estate brokerage he helped develop into a major enterprise here over five decades.

The closing chapter on the Metropolitan Mortgage saga

Metropolitan bankruptcy saga likely has concluded

January 28, 2021

Kim Crompton

U.S. Bankruptcy Court trusts have issued what might be the final payments to investors who lost hundreds of millions of dollars when Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. and affiliate Summit Securities Inc. shut down nearly two decades ago

End of Metropolitan Mortgage saga is in sight

Final distribution likely by late September

April 9, 2020

Kim Crompton

Investors who lost huge sums when Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. and affiliate Summit Securities Inc. shut down about a decade and a half ago should recoup a final, small portion of their money by this fall.

Health care consultant Eleven8 grows from humble start

Eleven8 helps improve operational efficiencies

July 3, 2019

Kim Crompton

For many professionals, being notified that their jobs are to be eliminated would cause alarm and stressful uncertainty. For Lori Gibson and Jennifer Offereins, it provided the impetus to launch an entrepreneurial venture.

Spokane County Assessor's Office whittles backlog

New hires help county keep up with appraisals, avert missing deadlines

March 14, 2019

Kim Crompton

A big surge in new construction last year left the Spokane County Assessor's Office feeling alarmingly under water in its efforts to process a huge backlog of projects so they could be added to the county's property tax rolls.

Icons Dave Clack: An accidental but beneficial career in banking

Former Old National Bank exec played role in creation of U District

February 28, 2019

Kim Crompton

Looking back on the high points from a career spanning more than four decades that has earned him broad praise in business and civic leadership circles here, Spokane's David A. Clack seems uneasy dwelling on personal achievements.

Next step taken in protracted Metropolitan Mortgage saga

Investors receive another $10.9M; next distribution could be final payment

December 6, 2018

Kim Crompton

Investors who lost millions of dollars when Spokane-based Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. shut down 14 years ago have recouped another small portion of their money.

A dynamic approach to fitness

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August 2, 2018

Kim Crompton

A long line of parents, siblings, and friends of aspiring young gymnasts waited outside the Dynamic Athletic Center in mid-May to enter the facility and watch a season-ending gymnastics show featuring more than 800 young people of all ages. The crowd