Food card demand rises
The number of people receiving Oregon’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is growing, and businesses are responding.
Intel embraces solar
Intel has installed two new solar arrays in Hillsboro, which together generate roughly the power used by 80 homes, about 800 kilowatts of electricity.
Illegal downloads rise
Illegal downloading of music and movies is on the rise in Ashland, despite the threat of huge fines.
Emmert set for huge shipments through Idaho
Clackamas-based Emmert International will begin trucking oil refinery drums holding replacement parts for a ConocoPhillips refinery in Montana through Idaho.
Compressed wood technology opens new markets
OSU professor Fred Kamke has partnered with Corvallis Tool Company for years to develop his Viscoelastic Thermal Compression technology.
Barge pollutes Columbia
A converted Liberty Ship from WWII has split open and is leaking oil into the Columbia River.
Clueless in the C-Suite
CEOs — and others in the C-Suite — can find themselves in a bubble, an alternate reality, detached from what’s really happening in the business. Here is how you can figure out whether you are in a bubble like that, and how you can get out.
Site unmasks telecom prices
A nonprofit has created a website to demystify the price differences between phone and internet service providers.
From the Editor: Stories of success bring springtime to February
As I look at the sum of all the parts of this issue, I’m more than a little surprised at how the unintentional theme is success. Big and small, urban and rural. We didn’t plan it that way, but there it is.
Input: Time to overhaul state’s tax system
As the tax debate rages in the halls of Congress and Salem, we asked readers for their opinions on a variety of state and federal tax issues.