Kim Crompton

Holy Family is designated primary stroke care center

North Side hospital introduced specialized program four years ago

December 2, 2010

Providence Holy Family Hospital says it has been certified as a primary stroke center following an exhaustive evaluation of its four-year-old stroke-care program by The Joint Commission, the nation's largest health-care accrediting body. "This a

Heracles launches iPhone clip

Green product is latest marketed by Spokane entrepreneur's company

December 2, 2010

Kim Crompton

Heracles Research Corp., owned by Spokane entrepreneur John Adrain, says it has launched a new iPhone belt clip, called the AppKlip, that it's having manufactured here from recycled plastics.The clip uses a simple design that consists of three a

Ormet stays mum on Kaiser Mead

Ohio company plans, though, to restart idled potlines at its smelter

December 2, 2010

Kim Crompton

Ormet Corp., a Hannibal, Ohio-based aluminum producer, still hasn't said—after three extensions of a tentative purchase agreement— whether it will buy the shuttered former Kaiser Aluminum Corp. Mead Works smelter property north of company

Cheney skips recession angst

Infrastructure upgrades in place, college town targets development

December 2, 2010

Kim Crompton

The city of Cheney quietly has strengthened its infrastructure over the last couple of years and used conservative budgeting to avoid the recession-related financial woes that many local jurisdictions are experiencing.Now, it's taking steps to a

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Groundwork laid for tribe to negotiate Bosch lot lease

Park Board authorized staff to begin talks over proposed cultural center

November 18, 2010

Kim Crompton

The Spokane Tribe of Indians has cleared an initial hurdle that it needed to leap to begin negotiating the lease of city-owned land along the Spokane River just west of Riverfront Park where it wants to develop a large cultural center costing of $6

Parking rates here still rank among lowest in big survey

Weekday, monthly fees downtown found mostly below continent averages

November 18, 2010

Kim Crompton

Spokane's daily parking rates continue to rank among the lowest on the continent, based on results from a new survey by the Washington, D.C.-based National Parking Association that examined parking rates in 146 markets throughout the U.S. and and a

AmericanWest pares loss as it readies to sell bank

Bank-holding company boosts liquidity, trims nonperforming assets

November 4, 2010

Kim Crompton

AmericanWest Bancorp., of Spokane, which announced last week a tentative agreement to sell and recapitalize its wholly owned subsidiary, AmericanWest Bank, says it posted a net loss of $5.9 million, or 35 cents a share, in the third quarter.That

Beefing up angel aid

Delta successor grows to 75-plus members; six deals done so far

November 4, 2010

Kim Crompton

The Spokane Angel Alliance, a nonprofit entity set up to help fund promising companies here and a bulked-up successor to the Delta Angel Group, has gotten off to an encouraging start in its first year, says Tom Simpson, who spearheaded its already

Sandpoint's Litehouse plans large plant in southern Utah

Growing salad dressing maker to spend $10 million-plus

November 4, 2010

Kim Crompton

Litehouse Inc., the Sandpoint-based salad dressing maker, says it plans to spend more than $10 million to open a plant in the southern Utah rural community of Hurricane, and expects that the facility eventually will employ 162 full-time Frank, says

Marketing Mighty Mustard

November 4, 2010

Kim Crompton

Siblings Kim and Matt Davidson didn't anticipate when they left other careers to take over family-owned Davidson Commodities Inc., of Spokane, that changing market conditions would spur them to revamp the 20-year-old grain-trading business almost a