Tweet Road construction season is a sign of progress – even when it’s not your car that’s progressing down the street. It’s progress because we need improved streets to improve traffic flow and better access for people to frequent your business. Everybody knows there’s no way around road construction – the city can’t do it […]
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Tweet The Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. is in full swing. What better time than now to take a trip to our nation’s capital? That’s what we’re doing here at Greater Spokane Incorporated. But we’re not going for the festival (although it’s a nice perk). We’re headed over to D.C. to advocate on behalf
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Tweet Updated: Corrected Link – 4/1/11 It’s often been said that teachers are the most important people in a child’s life, besides parents. Teachers contribute to the shape of our workforce. Here at Greater Spokane Incorporated, we’re constantly working to create a better, more skilled workforce. One way to do that is to put careers
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Tweet The last time we highlighted some good tidings around Spokane, we put a lot of people and businesses in the spotlight. It’s been about a month since that blog, so why not highlight some other accomplishments that were reached since then?
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Tweet Member Since: 2010 www.mlkspokane.org Family – it’s the center of life and community, where kids feel safe and develop character and learn skills to become healthy, productive adults. But what happens to these components when families live below poverty level? What are the challenges they face to prepare their children to dream and reach
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Tweet By now, you’ve heard about Boeing’s big win last week. The airplane maker won a $35 billion – that’s billion – contract with the United States Air Force to build the next generation of Air Refueling Tankers – the KC-46A. Boeing beat the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) for the contract. One
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Tweet Downtown Spokane: it’s the place you take your family when they come to visit, where you go out to dinner, a movie and enjoy a drink afterwards. It’s the place where you can truly experience the authentic nightlife of Spokane. But downtown wasn’t always the exciting, vibrant and diverse shopping experience it is today.
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The future need for increased numbers of physicians has been clearly demonstrated and the gap between demand and supply is growing. This gap is the largest, and is growing the fastest, in primary care specialties and in rural communities. To meet the need for physician workforce in our region we need to begin producing more
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It’s a good time to give kudos where kudos are due. Actually, it’s always a good time. Anyway, there’s a lot happening in Spokane worth recognizing. We thought we’d take a moment and highlight a handful of individuals and businesses.
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Member Since: 2010 Web Site: www.davidsoncommodities.com Providing local, affordable, healthy grains is the core of Davidson Commodities, Inc. How did this home-grown, family-operated grain-trading company succeed while other trading companies closed their doors? Not only did they survive but are on the verge of expansion as they seek to go national with Mighty Mustard, a
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