The educational tech company joins a rising trend of companies transitioning to employee ownership models. 

Experts say the Columbia-Umpqua union isn’t as strange as it seems, and gives Oregon companies, and smaller Oregon banks, new opportunities.  

"The future's all yours, ya lousy bicycles." Thus spoke the late, great Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a film set when horses ruled the road.

“Do you lift weights?” Before I can answer, Sky has handed me something large, metallic, and, I am guessing, heavy.