Eugene Airport has record year
The Eugene Airport had its second record year in a row in 2012, due to new routes, the Fiesta Bowl and an improving economy.
Year: 2013
Racial disparity in Oregon unemployment
New data from the Oregon Employment Department indicates a major racial disparity in the state’s unemployment rates.
Housing supply still low
Portland-area home listings dropped by 29% in the first two weeks of 2013 compared to 2012.
Microsoft to open downtown Portland store
Microsoft has submitted plans to develop a downtown Portland site just one block away from Apple’s planned big new retail store.
Portland home to five of 100 best beer bars
Draft Magazine’s annual America’s 100 Best Beer Bars includes five Portland watering holes.
Corvallis man still working at 100
Chuck Wilson continues to work six days a week at his family’s Corvallis Ford dealership despite being 100 years old.
An oil town where men are many, and women are hounded
The New York Times: The rich shale oil formation deep below the rolling pastures in Williston, N.D., has attracted droves of young men to work the labor-intensive jobs that get the wells flowing and often generate six-figure salaries. What the oil boom has not brought, however, are enough single women. It has made for an unsafe environment for women.
Flu shot causes flu? Nonsense: 4 flu myths busted
ABC News: As the flu epidemic rages on in many parts of the country, experts say the best defense against the virus is getting a seasonal flu shot. That’s why it was particularly troubling that only about a third of people got vaccinated early in the season this year, according to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
New York enacts first gun control law since Newtown attack
Reuters: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation’s toughest gun-control measures.
Walmart plans to hire 100,000 veterans
NPR: Walmart launched a plan to hire over 100,000 recently discharged veterans in the next five years.