Revenue growth headlines our annual list of privately held Oregon-based companies.

Entrepreneur Anthony Veliz ignites a pro basketball stampede in Salem.

When an Oregon company says it plans to create 500 jobs, and those jobs are in a tiny but important part of the creative-class economy — film editors, writers, producers, photographers, artists, animators — that’s pretty good news.

“If you want to pay European prices for gas, take your ‘own hypocritically low-mileage pickup’ and move over there.”

Consuming medicated plants isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a far cry from avoiding as many additives as possible. Each time we eat plants grown with pesticides we consume a little of their ‘medicine.’

“Eighty percent of employment litigation is caused by the untrained supervisor. Unfortunately, some employers ‘don’t know what they don’t know’…”