On March 16, my teenage son was among the hundreds of Oregonians who traveled north to watch the Portland Timbers play the Seattle Sounders. This game is a big deal, he informed me, well aware that my knowledge of things athletic is limited to kinder, gentler recreational activities such as bike commuting, camping and power walking around the neighborhood.
ABC: The Tulsa Health Department is warning 7,000 patients of a local dentist’s office that they may have contracted HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C from poor sterilization.
Bloomberg: Payrolls grew in 42 states in February, and the unemployment rate fell in 22.
Sun Times: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told a group of students that it’s OK to be uncool in high school.
The Oregon senate voted unanimously to let wineries, restaurants, grocery stores and wine shops dispense wine in growlers of up to two gallons.
Oregon legislators will hear four bills next week to tighten the state’s gun laws.
Oregon lawmakers are protesting federal demands that financially distressed counties must return $3.6 million in federal payments.
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton plans to change his detention policy to release undocumented immigrants that are jailed for nonviolent misdemeanor crimes.
Medford-based PremierWest Bank branches will fold into AmericanWest Bank in April.
An Oregon timber company is paying $130,925 to a wood stove replacement program as part of a settlement about air pollution violations alleged by Montana regulators.