Power Players
BY ROBERT MULLIN
A new energy-sharing agreement sparks concerns about independence and collaboration in the region’s utility industry.
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Nuclear fingerprints
BY LINDA BAKER | OB EDITOR
At Oregon State University, a 21st century version of the bad dream — nuclear terrorism — is alive and well. This winter, the Department of Nuclear Physics and Radiation Health Physics created a new interdisciplinary graduate emphasis in nuclear forensics, a Sherlock Holmes-sounding program that aims to identify how and where confiscated nuclear and radiological materials were created.
Which Way to Chinatown?
BY AMY MILSHTEIN | PHOTOS BY JASON E. KAPLAN
The Jade International District, already Portland’s center of Asian life, is poised for rejuvenation. Where does that leave the westside’s historic Chinatown?
Shipping News
BY JENNIFER MARGULIS
In 2012 The Dalles, a city of some 14,400 located 75 miles east of Portland and often seen as the poor cousin to adjacent Hood River, completed a massive project to revitalize its dock.