The Oregonian’s restructuring leaves real questions about the future of critical local coverage, but it will also push readers and journalists to address new ways of getting and using news — whether we like it or not.
The Oregonian will reduce print delivery to four days a week as the paper shifts to a digitally focused news enterprise.
Walmart aims to expand its footprint in the Columbia Gorge, where small-town main street businesses and restrictive land use planning have ruled for decades.
We asked Thomas Thurston, the Portland data scientist featured in our May issue, to comment on PRISM, the code name for the NSA’s massive data-collection program recently exposed in documents leaked by federal contractor Edward Snowden.
Oregon’s Secretary of State weighs in on “a pile of small business bills,” the advantages of helming an administerial rather than enforcement agency and the state’s business-friendly ranking.
Today, we have the best chance in over a decade to enact improvements that will strengthen border security, clarify employable status, and provide the kind of process Oregon farm families need to legally employ the capable people they depend on.
It’s better to be consistent than to be fair. Especially if “fair” means some agonizing custom decision that’s decided at laboriously and at great length from first principles every time.
Unemployment is down but so is the labor force as discouraged workers desert, baby boomers retire and the economy sputters along. In the year ending in April, Portland’s labor force fell 1.7% and statewide it dropped 1.9%. Has Portlandia‘s “Dream of the ’90s” evaporated?
When it comes to cars, it’s a man’s world, and it has been for more than a century. But when it comes to household purchases, modern women hold the purse strings. Heels and Wheels, an annual women’s automotive conference held in Bend this past week, spotlights industry trends for female consumers.
A new green practices survey examines the impact of a sustainable workplace on a company’s bottom line.