2006 Archives

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.”

After two year of gains, employment ads placed with Portland’s The Oregonian declined 8.1%, while ads at Eugene’s Register-Guard newspaper rose only 2.1% during the 12 months ended November 2006.

Southern Oregon’s newest grocery cooperative is taking steps toward an early fall opening date.

“Your FROM THE EDITOR column in November made me laugh out loud.”