2013 Archives
Workers’ comp rates to fall
Oregon’s total workers’ compensation insurance benefits declined 10.1% in 2011, more than any other state except Nevada.
Money talks
An investment manager speaks on behalf of the workers.
Oregon oyster farms rise
A shellfish farmer grows a sustainable fishery
Cover Oregon executive director Rocky King speaks out
When Gov. John Kitzhaber appointed Howard “Rocky” King to be Cover Oregon’s first executive director, no one was surprised.
CrowdStreet crowdfunds real estate
Founders of a Bend-based crowdfunding company are betting that the online masses will be as hungry to invest in old-school commercial real estate as they have been to back Spike Lee movies and premium hooded sweatshirts.
Readers have faith
Always trust the numbers guy. That’s the consensus from our poll on the trustworthiness of business and political organizations.
From the Editor: the other side
As writer Jonathan Frochtzwajg discovered, the convenience store sector is booming, with homegrown chain Plaid Pantry ranking as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the country last year.
Pass the salt
Sodium chloride has the potential to solve a major problem in the production of silicon nanostructures.