Summer jobs elude teenagers
The summertime job for teens is becoming a thing of the past. Teenagers are less employed now than any other time in the past 70 years.
Portland’s Elemental Technologies to live stream Olympics
Portland startup Elemental Technologies’ systems will power live streams for the Olympics all over the world.
Lane County jobless rate rises slightly
Lane County unemployment ticked up to 8.5% in June, still well below last year’s rate which was 9.6% at this time.
Attorney General makes mortgage standards permanent
Oregon is making a set of temporary mortgage servicing rules permanent.
Portland area home values turned a corner
Home values in the U.S. and Portland reached a low point in the year’s first quarter and are now rebounding.
State’s art collection hits 2,500
Oregon spends more than $1 million buying artwork each year as part of the Percent for Art program.
Farmers Conservation Alliance raising $1.5M
Hood River-based Farmers Conservation Alliance is raising $1.5 million in mezzanine financing, to make the nonprofit self-sufficient.
WSI expands in Portland, Corvallis
Watershed Sciences Inc. has grown to 126 employees thanks to demand for its light detection and ranging technology.
Food stamp enrollment jumps
With Congress struggling to pass the farm bill, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is under scrutiny.
Study finds caffeinated coastal waters
A new PSU study has found elevated levels of caffeine in waters off the coast of Oregon.