California companies announce plans to expand in Portland area
Genentech will invest $125M to expand Hillsboro facility; InDinero will hire 50 and establish Portland as its “primary office.”
Oregon Business expands events portfolio
BY OB STAFF
New events series brings magazine to life.
Courtside
BY JACOB PALMER
Power lunching at the Court Street Dairy Lunch in Salem.
Downtime with the executive director of Greater Portland Inc.
Janet LaBar, Executive director, Greater Portland Inc.
Bike Chic: 7 stylish options for cyclists
Cycling to work is all the rage. But not everyone wants to arrive at the office messy, sweaty — and unfashionable.
Banking Perspective
BY KIM MOORE
A conversation with Craig Wanichek, president and CEO of Summit Bank.
Car Talk
BY LINDA BAKER
Everyone knows cell phones and driving are a lethal combination. The risk is especially high for teenage drivers, whose delusions of immortality pose such a threat to us all. Enforcement alas, remains feeble; more promising are pedagogical approaches aimed at getting people to focus on the road, not their devices.
Norwegian Air tweaks cockpit rules after Germanwings crash
REUTERS: After French prosecutors accuse copilot of locking pilot out of cockpit and then intentionally crashing plane, Norwegian Air is requiring two pilots to be at the controls at all time.
Federal Consumer Agency addresses payday loans
TIME: New regulations would require companies to check if debtors can afford to pay back loans.
Deschutes Co. growing at one of the fastest rates in the country
Bend metro area grew to an estimated 170,388 people from July 2013-14.