January 02, 2020 at 11:46 am
It is a fresh new year and we have 2020 vision — Edith Lovejoy Pierce wrote it perfectly when she said, “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first c...
January 02, 2020 at 11:46 am
In late September 2010, Jon Ness took the helm of Kootenai Health as its CEO, replacing longtime chief executive Joe Morris. Here’s a timeline showing some of the community hospital’s accomplishments and expansion efforts during the period ...
January 02, 2020 at 2:39 pm
The scent from the Northwest Boulevard refrigerator was somehow both mysterious and unmistakable, spiced in secrecy as well as comforting familiarity.“I can’t tell you what’s on the rub,” Carol Faber admitted with a sly smile, standing next...
January 02, 2020 at 2:39 pm
The windows of the Kootenai Health administration conference room along U.S. 95 opened up an afternoon view to the east, where the hum of traffic buzzed with intermittent roars of heavy trucks and speeding cars.“This is something that will ...
January 02, 2020 at 2:41 pm
Northwest Specialty Hospital CEO Rick Rasmussen envisions a future where providers in North Idaho can tend to all the region’s health care needs. He’s determined to participate in a future where people don’t go out of state for services. Li...
January 02, 2020 at 2:43 pm
It's no secret — people have discovered North Idaho.In Hayden, visitors love it so much, they're buying homes and moving there after falling in love with the area."We get requests for people who want to move here more than anything,&qu...
January 02, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Location, location, location.It’s the most important rule in real estate — and one that Anne Anderson lives by.In 2000, Anderson moved her fledgling real estate company, Lakeshore Realty, to a spot nestled against the east side of Tubbs Hil...
January 02, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Anybody inclined to look at Kootenai Health and wonder why the community hospital’s growth is both impressive and important could glance 35 miles west and get an answer.According to a Dec. 10 article in the Spokesman-Review, Providence Sacr...
January 02, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Bunker Hill miners could always tell where Norman Radford had been in the stopes. He smoked cherry flavored tobacco in his pipe and it permeated the humidity of the hard rock mine like lead dust.“My father knew when he was 10 years old that...
January 02, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Economist Dr. John Mitchell has been regaling packed Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce audiences every December for years, providing what prove to be not just entertaining economic forecasts, but pretty darn accurate ones, too.The good doct...
