Portland electric car showroom planned for April
A permanent downtown Portland storefront to showcase electric vehicles and charging equipment is expected to open in April 2017.
Must Reads
Ebb and Flow: Blue Star to open fifth Portland location
A weekly list of business openings and closings as well as new hires, fires and promotions.
Portland welcomes world-touring electric motorcycle
The possibilities of e-mobility were on show in Portland this week as developers of the world’s first electric touring motorcycle stopped off in the city to demonstrate their technology.
Sneak peek: Q & A with Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics
In this interview excerpt, the 23-year veteran of Oregon’s largest software maker talks about activist investors and Measure 97.
Q & A with the vice president of the new OSU-Cascades campus
Becky Johnson discusses business and education partnerships, the university’s economic impact and Oregon’s de facto eighth public university.
Hot Topics: Higher education, disrupted
The boundaries between business and academia are becoming increasingly permeable.
Finance pulse: Are the Dog Days Over?
We believe the Fed will increase rates once before the end of the year.
News release: Consano launches new medical research crowdfunding platform
Consano, a nonprofit we featured in July 2014 as part of an awardingwinning story on privately-funded medical research, is launching a new crowdfunding website. Read the release here.
News release: Crook County produces video tour of county jail
Crook County has hired a local media company to put together a video tour of the county jail, which has 4 cells and 16 beds and suffers from perennial overcrowding.
Reader Forum
Readers respond to Editor Linda Baker’s reflections on the South and columnist Matt Alford’s call for new sources of ODFW funding.