2011 Archives

The tacky strip retail malls are dying, leaving behind a museum of failure.

This month’s Powerlist ranks utilities by annual megawatt-hour or therm sales in Oregon.

OSU professors want to harvest plastics from poplar trees. Success could potentially provide a more sustainable alternative to oil-based plastics.

Spring is finally here and hopeful green sprigs are sprouting in the economic landscape.

In late February, we asked readers about the impact of the governor’s education cuts and the effects of Measures 66 and 67.

Preston Pulliams, president of Portland Community College, is in love with what he does “because I know what it can do.”

Location-based mobile platform Geoloqi was born from a long-shared obsession by two people, Amber Case and Aaron Parecki.

In spite of the recent cancellation of Seaport’s mostly empty daily flights between Portland and Astoria, the Portland-based airline is growing rapidly — mostly outside of Oregon.

The demand for instant video and the explosion of the tablet market have propelled Elemental Technologies into rapid expansion mode.

Oregon’s film and television industry has never looked stronger. Vince Porter, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Film and Television, predicts that the state will pull in more than $90 million from television shows and films shot here in 2011. And that record windfall could be just the beginning.