Dueling designs
Two competing fashion show producers aim to shine in the Portland market.
Year: 2013
Vestas to fill huge order
Vestas Wind Systems landed a 400 megawatt order from Duke Energy Renewables.
Nike reports 8 percent sales increase
Nike announced an 8% sales increase to $7 billion, despite slowing revenue in China.
NSA workers spied on significant others
Reuters: At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have abused secret surveillance programs in the past decade, most often to spy on their significant others.
Google data center expansion will cost $600M
Google is starting work right away on a $600 million expansion of its The Dalles data center.
Yelp says quarter of reviews are fake
BBC: The online directory and consumer review site, says a quarter of the reviews it receives could be fake.
Union members call ‘grand bargain’ a ‘grand theft’
Gov. Kitzhaber’s ‘grand bargain’ was hit by union members and environmentalists in its first public hearing.
OSU researcher gets onion grant
An Oregon State University professor landed a high-stakes food safety grant to study onions.
Online school grows in popularity in Oregon
Many Oregon students are turning to virtual public charter schools as an alternative.
Retirees testify against PERS cuts
Oregon’s special session hearings started with two hours of testimony on pensions.