Oregon college savings board lifts barrier
Oregon’s college savings board decided to allow investors to set up accounts in both plans for the benefit of one person.
Year: 2013
Seniors keep Medford airport afloat
Rogue Valley-Medford International Airport’s sustained passenger traffic rebound can be attributed to the elderly.
Portland startup Meridian sold
Portland mapping startup Meridian was sold to Silicon Valley-based Aruba Networks.
5.1-magnitude quake hits eastern Canada
AP: Earthquakes Canada reports a 5.1-magnitude earthquake just west of Ottawa that was felt as far away as Toronto.
How a Seattle school launched Bill Gates career
Cbsnews.com: The mother’s club at Bill Gates’ high school set him on a path to change the world by holding a rummage sale to buy the school’s first teletype.
Windows Phone surpasses Blackberry
Fortune: Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS overtook Blackberry for the first time.
Kim Dotcom doesn’t want 3D gun plans on Mega’s servers
TechCrunch: File-sharing advocate Kim Dotcom doesn’t want the blueprints to 3D print a firearm hosted on Mega.
David Beckham retires from soccer
New York Times: David Beckham announced he will retire from soccer at season’s end.
Distillers seek to cash in on craft libations
In 2009, Brad Irwin formally launched what is now Central Oregon’s second craft distillery, Oregon Spirit Distillers, in a small warehouse building just a block or two from the Parkway on Bend’s eastside. Today, he’s part of a growing class of craft distillers who are catering to the public’s appetite for artisan spirits.
Oregon scientists make stem cells from cloned human embryos
OHSU researchers produced embryonic stem cells from a cloned human embryo.