Spokane Journal of Business

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Relating to: Anniversary Issue

Of humble beginnings

And so it has now been 30 years since we launched the Journal. The thought makes me smile as I look across my office to a simple plaque on the wall celebrating my first five years at the paper, given to me a quarter century ago. I say that partly in apolo...

Sharing in the maturing of community we cover

I will have been at the Journal of Business for 27 years as of this spring, yet sometimes I still fe...

Spokane has invested well in human capital

I came to Spokane in the early 1980s, so I have seen firsthand how education has evolved in this com...

Benefits of leadership 30 years ago evident today

I have been a subscriber to the Journal of Business since my early days with Inland Imaging. In 1986...

Success requires ability to evolve, and that we have

Congratulations to the Journal of Business for 30 years of service to the Spokane business community...

Who would have imagined downtown’s woes, wins

In 1986, the Spokane economy was in the doldrums. The last two high-rise office buildings to be built downtown had just come on line five years earlier. The opening of the Seafirst (now Bank of America) and Farm Credit Banks (now Wells Fargo) buildings ha...

As our community evolves, our core values remain

Heading into the 1980s, Eastern Washington and North Idaho—renamed the Inland Northwest—were still heavily dependent on natural resources for our economic health. Then the national and regional economies went into a nosedive. A generation of leaders s...

Near Nature, Near Perfect, economically stable

As we reflect upon the last 30 years of the Journal of Business and the greater Spokane business climate, an old Tim McGraw song, “My Next Thirty Years,” comes to mind. The song begins: “I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age. The ending o...