Portland digital agency The Good grows
Portland digital agency The Good improves websites and streamlines online shopping. It has grown rapidly since its founding four years ago.
Portland foreclosure rate up
The foreclosure rate in Portland was up slightly in December compared to a year earlier.
Hillsboro in online contest
Hillsboro is one of 20 cities in a Huffington Post contest as part of the $5 million Bloomberg Mayors Challenge that seeks to drive innovation in local government.
Lane County officials to lease downtown Eugene land
The Lane County Board of Commissioners voted to seek a deal to lease downtown land to Fifth Street Public Market owner Brian Obie as part of a major downtown redevelopment project.
Breathable nail polish a hit with Muslims
AP: For many observant Muslim women, manicures have been a problem as it prevents water from making contact with nails in pre-prayer hand and arm washing five times a day.
Corporations urge court to support gay marriage
Reuters: More than 200 businesses will urge the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a federal law that restricts the definition of marriage to heterosexual union.
Jumbo mortgages return
Reuters: A luxury real estate revival is being fueled, in part, by another resurgence: so-called jumbo mortgages – those loans, typically over $417,000, that are too big to qualify for purchase by federal agencies.
J.P. Morgan Chase to cut 17,000 jobs
Wall Street Journal: Hoping to trim more than $1 billion in expenses annually the banking giant plans to cut costs and 17,000 positions by next year.
European horse meat causes unease in American consumers
New York Times: Horse meat has been found in more than a dozen European countries, worrying American consumers.
Unemployed outnumber job openings 5-to-1 in Oregon
Oregon’s unemployed outnumber private-sector job openings five-to-one, a new report says.