Winds of change sweeping through Portland’s Brooklyn neighborhood
The neighborhood south of the Ross Island Bridge and north of Sellwood should be greatly altered by the opening of a MAX orange line next fall.
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Fred Meyer, Daimler team with 40 natural-gas trucks
The Portland arm of the Kroger Corp., said it aims to run a more eco-friendly business.
Intel says it will pay $1.6B for Chinese facility
The move represents another success the company has had investing in the exclusive market.
Lame duck Congress includes Oregon land bill to ‘must-pass’ legislation
The National Defense Authorization Act is one of the last bills Congress will pass in 2014.
Portland to allow Airbnb-style rentals in multifamily units
City leaders are optimistically expecting the move to not further damage the affordable-housing market.
Oregon’s child-care affordability deemed low
Parents in need of child care pay a higher percentage of their income than anywhere else in the country.
Final vote on Portland Street Fund tentatively planned for Dec. 17
A proposed tax that aims to improve infrastructure will be decided later this month.
CenturyLink 911 failure could cost company $2.9M
Utility regulators in the state of Washington want the company to pay a fine for a 911 outage in April.
Fees from special salmon license plates misallocated
An investigation by the Oregonian finds that a Salem bureaucrat is directly benefiting from a program that was originally intended to aid the fish’s migration.
Intel, Ray-Ban team up to create computerized glasses
Not long after coming to an agreement with Google to power its Glass project, Intel agreed with the company that owns Ray-Ban, Oakley and Persol to create technology for eye-glasses.