Tactics: Christina Stephenson on Getting BOLI to Work
The commissioner-elect of the Bureau of Labor and Industries steps into her new role this month. In November we asked: What’s the plan?
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Forward to the Future
The chief technology officer of Intel on the future of tech and how Oregon drives innovation.
Solar projects power on in Wallawa County
A 500-kilowatt solar array that will power up to 100 homes opened up outside of Joseph.
Milwaukie tries to lure minor league baseball
Milwaukie city officials hope to acquire eight acres of industrial land for a proposed minor league baseball stadium.
PDX rated best airport
The Portland International Airport received top honors among U.S. airports for the second year in a row from the annual Zagat Airline Survey.
Budget cuts close museum exhibit
The Jacksonville Museum’s Peter Britt exhibit is being pulled due to budget cuts at the Southern Oregon Historical Society.
Jamboree sees strong sales
Although attendance didn’t reach the record of 36,000, sales were strong at the Oregon Jamboree in Sweet Home.
Customs targets employers
Rather than physically entering workplaces to catch illegal immigrants, federal customs agents are using “desktop raids.”
Hops farmers shift to specialty aroma hops
Large beer companies have reduced contracts with hops farmers due to a surplus, so to adapt, the farmers are catering to smaller craft breweries.
Lending mixed at Oregon’s TARP banks
Oregon’s slice of the Troubled Assets Relief Program has been meager. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, because the banks that got TARP money haven’t been moving it through the economy any more ambitiously than the banks who passed on it.