Commonly called “probate,” the laws that dictate the handling of a person’s assets after their death usually depend on which state they live in.

However, when it comes to real property, the laws regarding its administration are determined by the state in which the property is located.

This distinction can...

Going into 2023, many people felt a U.S. recession and market decline was inevitable. However, despite interest rate increases, a flash in the pan regional banking crisis and debt ceiling standoff, the inevitable market decline has failed to materialize.

What gives? Well, to understand the market in 2023 you need to...

When I heard this story, I knew it provided a perfect example of a big personality taking over a situation. 

A colleague of mine participated in a teambuilding exercise.

It was a virtual reality escape room which took place in the middle ages and offered three challenges: escape your cage,...

When setting up a business, conventional wisdom dictates that the business be set up in a legal entity providing limited liability protection, like a limited liability company (LLC).

This is true too when a business wants additional capital by allowing investors to participate as equity owners in exchange for...

A big green bus with an image of a boy wearing a superhero cape rolled across the state the first week of August.

The boy, as well as a young girl leaping in the air on the other side of the bus, were certainly eye catchers. And that’s the...

Today, good works are often brushed aside or ignored, especially if done by one of the world’s largest mining companies. However Rio Tinto deserves kudos for its half-billion-dollar mine cleanup in Holden, a remote village in the picturesque North Cascade mountains just south of Lake Chelan.

Rio Tinto did...

Until President Joe Biden signed the Chips and Science Act (CSA) last year, companies such as Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) looked elsewhere to build plants costing well over $20 billion each.

Biden’s pitch to taxpayers was ultramodern manufacturers of miniature computer chips used in our sophisticated...

Nine middle school students stood on a stage and listened as Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs asked them a series of questions about the inner workings of our system of government.

With the clock ticking and spotlights shining, the students punched their answers into an electronic tablet and...

“We shouldn’t be having these discussions,” Jerome Powell, president of the Federal Reserve Board, is on record saying.

But we have. Thankfully, the consequences of a default by the U.S. government on its debt are now in the rearview mirror. But as long as there is significant federal debt...

By Mike McLean
Spokane Journal of Business

At the age of 75, Gary Norton, owner and founder of Silverwood Theme Park, continues to be its pilot, always attempting to steer it to new heights.

The north Idaho theme park, located about 180 miles northeast of the Tri-Cities, has overcome economic...