Windfall
The world's second-largest wind energy project yields costs and benefits for a sheep-farming family in Eastern Oregon.
- Published in Energy and Environment
Tinker, Tailor, Portland Maker
The artisan generation redefines manufacturing.
- Published in Manufacturing
Keep Pendleton Weird
Eastern Oregon marketers refocus rural assets through an urban lens.
- Published in Farms and Forests
Money Troubles
The state’s angel investing fund gets hammered in Salem.
- Published in Economy and Finance
Frothy Battle
BY ROBERT MULLIN
Latest development in Nestlé plant saga sparks debate about the value of water.
- Published in Energy and Environment
Power Players
BY ROBERT MULLIN
A new energy-sharing agreement sparks concerns about independence and collaboration in the region's utility industry.
- Published in Energy and Environment
Nuclear fingerprints
BY LINDA BAKER | OB EDITOR
At Oregon State University, a 21st century version of the bad dream — nuclear terrorism — is alive and well. This winter, the Department of Nuclear Physics and Radiation Health Physics created a new interdisciplinary graduate emphasis in nuclear forensics, a Sherlock Holmes-sounding program that aims to identify how and where confiscated nuclear and radiological materials were created.
- Published in Tech
Which Way to Chinatown?
BY AMY MILSHTEIN | PHOTOS BY JASON E. KAPLAN
The Jade International District, already Portland's center of Asian life, is poised for rejuvenation. Where does that leave the westside's historic Chinatown?
- Published in Real Estate