2006 Archives

The drumbeat of green business is getting louder. Consider: Green building — suddenly a $7 billion per year national business — has gone mainstream.

A list of Oregon’s elected executive officials as well as U.S. and state legislative representatives.

The increasingly intense winter storms along the Oregon Coast are jacking up the severity of winter erosion.

Is there ever a good time to get the news that 29 jobs will leave your community, taking with them an important corporate citizen?

Like the start of the baseball season each spring, hope also seems to spring eternal at the opening of a new legislative session.

Physician training got a boost in Eugene last month with the gift of $1 million by the Oregon Community Credit Union to the Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation.

“By any standard, the creation of Pioneer Courthouse Square was a monumental insult to the memory of those who built the early foundations of the city.”

Oregon’s economy may be thriving — and according to at least one economist, food costs less today than it did 30 years ago — but there’s a ready market for the increasing number of discount grocers in the state.

Central Oregon could soon get a new resort-style hotel, condo and bungalow complex. If the plans are approved, southern California builder R.W. Hertel & Sons could break ground in the early months of 2007.

“It appears that some myths regarding the Columbia River Indians refuse to die.”