One click, sick fix
Zoom+ remade urgent care for the on-demand generation. Now the startup is setting its sights on new applications, including retail insurance and specialty care. The catch? Medicaid and Medicare patients need not apply.
Morning Roundup: Another health insurer shutters; Freight trumps Amtrak
Another insurer bites the dust, while freight trains may push ahead of Amtrak Cascades.
Big Baby: Launch, Startup Tip and Where They are Now
Babies are a miracle of nature. They are also a budding market for entrepreneurs in the smart-tech market. And BabyBit, a sensor that attaches to an infant’s clothes, takes child care to its logical, connected-future extreme.
Gubernatorial race tightens
Kate Brown still leads, but Oregon’s gubernatorial race is closer than expected.
Morning Roundup: Another shot at a carbon tax; Evergreen museum sold
Legislature may consider carbon tax, Evergreen Space Museum has a brighter future.
Blue Zones Project Oregon invites communities to join the movement
Well-being improvement initiative applies secrets of longevity at community level
Morning Roundup: Eugene’s Olympic economy; New gas plant in future
Athletic companies partner with local businesses at Olympic Trials, while PGE’s new gas power plant is up and running.
Opinion: TPP will enhance intellectual property protections
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would strengthen intellectual property protections and reduce other barriers to trade.