Thomas Clouse

Current Position: deputy business editor

Thomas Clouse joined The Spokesman-Review in 1999. He s currently the deputy editor for the business section. He previously worked as an investigative reporter for the City Desk and covering federal, state and local courts for many years.

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News > Local business

Coeur d’Alene Resort adding another tower as part of its biggest upgrade ever, with new restaurant and more rooms planned

UPDATED: Fri., March 28, 2025

The Coeur d'Alene Resort this week held a ground breaking for what the company president called its biggest expansion of the facility since the existing resort tower opened 39 years ago.

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Pending bankruptcy exposes how genetic code has power to explore, exploit

Wed., March 26, 2025

The pending economic failure of a company built on customers retracing their genetic pasts could pose a future security nightmare for those who lose control over what happens to their genomes.

News > Local business

In Spokane business forum, South African diplomats say social media may have tanked effort to form democracy

UPDATED: Tue., March 25, 2025

While unspoken were the names of either political party, the deepening American political polarization became the focus of a Spokane business organization's annual meeting on Tuesday.

News > Local business

‘Who wants to go house shopping in a rainstorm?’: Spring weather helps fuel area markets

Sun., March 23, 2025

The phone started to ring earlier this month with home hunters looking for prospects. Then it snowed in Spokane.

News > Military

After Pentagon temporarily purges references to Native American Code Talkers’ contributions to World War II, here’s a look back at their impact

UPDATED: Mon., March 24, 2025

As part of what an aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly called a "digital content refresh," many references on the U.S. Department of Defense's website that celebrated Native Americans who used their language to help American forces in the Pacific Theater of World War II have been purged.

News > Local business

Spokane Valley builder of packaging equipment acquiring two others

UPDATED: Wed., March 19, 2025

A Spokane Valley based builder of paperboard-packaging equipment announced this week that it will acquire two similar companies, one in Indiana and another in Wisconsin, in what it said will create a one-stop location for customers who need packaging solutions.

News > Local business

Spokane pub that helped patrons adopt pets closing in April

UPDATED: Wed., March 19, 2025

A Spokane pub created to allow patrons to meet and adopt pets has announced its impending closure.

News > Washington

A Hanford contractor, and not its owner, was sentenced for COVID relief fraud. How an unusual legal strategy helped him skirt charges

Fri., March 14, 2025

When a wealthy businessman from Tennessee, who was operating as subcontractor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, got his first installment of COVID-19 relief funds after the pandemic hit in 2020, he immediately began using taxpayer money to pay off several of his credit cards. And his wife's, for $14,500.

News > Washington

Protesters gather again at Tesla dealership in Liberty Lake amid Musk’s DOGE controversy: ‘Every day I wake up and see terrible news’

UPDATED: Tue., March 11, 2025

Dressed in warm clothes, the overly polite agitators lined both sides East Mission Avenue in Liberty Lake on Tuesday afternoon waving homemade signs to send a message to the world's richest man.