Session might end today

With the final budgets advanced to votes of the House and Senate, including an agreement on the two-year budget for the state prison system, Oregon lawmakers were headed toward ending their 2011 session today.

W&K launches tech incubator

Advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy is launching a technology-oriented business incubator at its Pearl District offices, joining some of its most prominent clients and some of the city’s best-known technologists.

Oregon jobless claims drop

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was mostly unchanged last week, evidence that the struggling economy isn’t generating many jobs. But Oregon saw claims drop by 1,050, one of 10 states to record a drop of more than 1,000.