For our annual Building the Inland Northwest magazine, the Journal has written a collection of stories about the largest Spokane-area construction projects envisioned to start this year or in various stages of completion. Read updates on the North Bank
Seven professionals from the real estate, education, and professional fields will be honored in the Journal's class of 2023 Icons.
This year's Icons are:
• Cher and Jim Desautel, founders of what's now the DH public relations firm.
A recent event in downtown Spokane showed just how far Spokane's entrepreneurial ecosystem has come-and provided a glimpse into its promising potential for the future.
Literally standing room only, a crowd of investors, entrepreneurs, and others
Spokane's elected leaders are right to study the city's facilities and determine the best uses for public spaces, but such efforts must factor the importance of a municipal presence in the downtown core.
Washington state legislators need to take steps to increase access to construction-trade apprenticeships.
The interest in construction careers is greater than the availability of apprenticeship opportunities, trade executives say, and that bottleneck
Washington state legislators should make a priority of repealing the WA Cares Act during the current Legislative session.
Short of abolishment, legislators should put the long-term care program on a statewide ballot and let voters determine its fate.
The North Spokane Corridor project should be funded fully on its present timeline. Any alternative plan for the $1.49 billion project is unacceptable.
Advocates for the project thought funding was a done deal-or as close to a done deal there can be
If you read the Journal's Economic Outlook, it doesn't sound like 2023 is going to include much in the way of glad tidings of comfort and joy. Forecasts in the late 2000s and early 2010s certainly were worse, but pre-pandemic prognostications were a
The other day a customer was leaving my vintage store and said how much they enjoyed the store and what a great job I had done decorating. I smiled, thanked them, and thought about how it will never get old to hear comments like that.