2012 Archives

Oregon’s nonprofit sector is a significant economic force.

Software startup EdCaliber helps track students’ learning.

Surgeons sometimes leave things inside patients — needles, scissors, even scalpels. Those items easily show up on X-rays, allowing doctors to find and remove them. But not surgical sponges.

Charles Wilhoite joined Willamette Management Associates in 1990 as a senior associate analyst. Today he is the firm’s managing director and the national director of its health care practice.

This month’s Powerlist ranks credit unions by shares and deposits.

Business confidence that sustainable practices will attract new jobs, help with global competition or provide a competitive advantage has slipped over the past six years.

Bigger, greener, cleaner, brighter ideas that will change the world.

The word green — and sustainable, its equally overexposed synonym — is used so frequently, so broadly and so indiscriminately, that it teeters on losing all meaning.

The earth-friendly wisdom of Tony and Michelle Soter has created Planet Oregon, a pinot that blends quality with ecology.

The eco-district concept is slow to start with the Lloyd District in Portland out in front.