100-year-old Eugene company thrives during recession
Commercial Dehydrator Systems of Eugene has been around since 1911 and is currently growing.
Obama pushes extension of middle-class tax cuts
President Barack Obama proposed a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 a year.
Powerlist: architecture, engineering and design firms
This month’s Powerlist ranks architecture, engineering and design firms by number of licensed professionals in Oregon.
Oregon’s Private 150
Revenue and Oregon jobs increase for the state’s biggest private companies.
The Divide
Mike Green wants black America in the 21st-century tech economy. He plans to start the revolution in one of the country’s whitest cities.
Burger built
Good burger joints aren’t rare, but Little Big Burger in Portland stands out for its big profits and rapid expansion.
Chill factor
Strawberries and low-cost energy, two abundant Oregon resources, prompted Oregon Freeze Dry to set up shop in Albany in 1963.
The man in the middle
Rudy Crew takes on education reform.
At 26, “my businesses are my life”
He runs a successful business growing and selling exotic coral from around the world. He gets fabric from China and has it sewn into cloth flowerpots at a factory in the Philippines, which he then imports and sells nationwide. And yet 26-year-old Ian McMenamin failed his international distribution class at the University of Oregon three times.
Climbing the startup ladder
Ron Gandy and his son, Justin, were well into the development of their ladder-safety device, Ladder-Tite, in 2011 when Justin unexpectedly passed away at age 21. The loss nearly derailed the entire endeavor.