Linda Baker 
A year and half ago I was sitting in a cramped room in a downtown Portland office building listening to energy consultant John Morris talk about something I had never heard of before: the enormous amount of energy consumed by the cannabis industry. A few months later, Morris expounded …
Union Pacific, which operated the oil train that derailed this afternoon, announced two days ago it was planning to invest $34.6 million in 2016 to improve Oregon’s transportation infrastructure.
The New York Times recently published its coverage of the Equilar 200 Highest-Paid CEO Rankings, an analysis of the top paid CEOs at public U.S. companies with at least $1 billion in revenue.
The scandal around airborne pollutants has catalyzed changes in government policy and fomented fear among residents who live near the offending companies. Now another group of concerned citizens is starting to make its voice heard: glass artists from around the country who feel the local conversation has unfairly demonized companies like Bullseye Glass and fails to take into consideration rezoning and other solutions — in addition to more stringent regulations.
Portland mayor-elect Ted Wheeler made news this week calling for more diversity in corporate boardrooms. It was the latest salvo in the battle to create more diverse and inclusive communities and workplaces.
Businesses should pay attention to their impacts on people and community as much as the environment. That was the theme of the eighth annual Oregon Business 100 Best Green Workplaces awards luncheon held yesterday at the Nines Hotel in Portland.
Is trouble afoot at Icebreaker’s Portland headquarters?
The founder and owner of Provenance Hotels talks about new projects, Airbnb and the hotel as public space.
In a city full of entrepreneurs organizations and start up incubators, MESO (Microenterprise Services of Oregon) stands apart. Founded in 2005 as a program of the Black United Fund of Oregon, the program — which became its own nonprofit in 2001 — provides low income and minority residents with loans and technical assistance to start or expand their companies.
