Polaris offers lab services to battery startups
A new Beaverton-based manufacturing and testing lab might even the playing field for U.S. battery companies.
Year: 2013
Liquor surcharge would boost state budget
Oregon liquor authorities will vote Wednesday morning on whether to add a 25-cent-a-bottle surcharge to the price of spirits.
Portland collects more than $7M in arts tax
The deadline to pay Portland’s Arts Tax on time has passed.
EV driving costs 96 cents per gallon, DOE website says
A new U.S. government tool shows a typical EV in Oregon could go as far on 96 cents worth of electricity as a similar vehicle could on a gallon of unleaded gasoline.
Pacific Seafood to relocate at Tongue Point
The Pacific Coast Seafood employees will be temporarily relocating to the Del Mar Seafoods facility at North Tongue Point by the end of the week.
Hands-free texting while driving more dangerous
CBsnews: Using voice commands to send text messages and emails from behind the wheel, which is marketed as a safer alternative for drivers, actually is more distracting and dangerous.
Is your dog OCD?
NationalGeogrpahic.com: Dogs and people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have similar brain abnormalities.
Russian legislation bans “gay propaganda”
BBC: The Russian Duma passed a law against giving minors information about homosexuality punishable by heavy fines.
Klamath Tribes put out call for historic water rights
The move will likely cut off irrigation water to hundreds of cattle ranchers and farmers in the upper basin this summer.
Logging protest legislation advances
Two bills designed to curb protests by environmental activists who interfere with logging in state forests appear headed to opposite fates this legislative session.