The Portland recipe
Affordable homes, good schools, cheap liquor licenses and funky neighborhoods are the ingredients for the city’s booming restaurant industry.
2012 Archives
On the road
Traffic-choked Newberg and Dundee are seizing on new possibilities for their futures as a hard-won bypass finally becomes a reality.
Staying alive
Post recession, Oregon’s construction and building industry is a tentative mix of highs and lows.
The connection
Feeney Wireless is one of the fastest-growing companies in the booming wireless mobile and “machine-to-machine” market.
American-made plan in the bag
If Doug Hoschek can’t get REI to consider carrying a line of sleeping bags, then probably no one can.
The party line
Oregonians who don’t want to join either the Democratic or Republican party have increased dramatically since the last presidential election.
100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon 2012
Our 4th annual 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon project celebrates great workplaces in the nonprofit sector. Nearly 5,000 employees and volunteers from 169 nonprofits statewide participated in this year’s survey.
Building trend lines
This year marks the fourth annual survey to determine the 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon. With four years and the responses of 22,000 nonprofit worker surveys under our belt, we can now see trend lines taking shape.
The flight of Hummingbird
After years spent laying the groundwork, pioneering natural foods companies in Eugene are experiencing a surge in growth, including Hummingbird Wholesale.
Lawn-chair balloonist’s day job
Kent Couch’s aerial exploits have been chronicled for the world to dissect and ponder. Known as the lawn-chair balloonist, Couch has pursued for the past decade an esoteric hobby. He attaches huge helium-filled balloons to a Bi-Mart lawn chair and ascends into the stratosphere to see where the winds will carry him.