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Sound Off: Vaping
Vaping, or e-cigarettes are battery-powered personal aerosol units that deliver nicotine, flavorings and other elements to their users. Since there is no tobacco involved, smoking laws generally don’t apply to the new smoking technology.
How Your Local IPA is Quietly Becoming a Leading Economic Drive in Oregon
Headquartered in Belgium, Anheuser-Busch InBev is the world’s largest brewing company, thanks to well-known brands including Budweiser and Corona. The company has annual revenues of more than $43 billion, sells 200 brands of beer, brews more than 500 million barrels of beer and operates in twenty-four countries. Hop farmers in Oregon once were part of the massive conglomerate’s supply chain.
The Cure for Common Traffic
Craig Black spent his early marketing career days driving from one mall to the next on U.S. freeways. Simultaneously, he was experiencing what he describes as a personal renaissance, voraciously devouring books while he sat in traffic. After three minor car accidents, a friend gave him an audiobook, and Black’s life changed.
Startup: The Future of Driving
Mark Frohnmayer always loved driving, but the pleasure came with a cost—the guilt of burning fossil fuels. In 2007, he founded Arcimoto with the goal of creating a three-wheeled electric vehicle with a smug factor as impressive as its fun factor. The Eugene-based company will roll out its pilot fleet this year.
Carlton Winemakers Studio
At age 60, Ned and Kirsten Lumpkin were set to live out their retirement as ski bums. After owning a construction business, recreation was just what they thought they needed. In the end, a life built solely on powder turns was not enough. In 2000, they threw themselves into a new career, planting a vineyard on a south-facing slope in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA.
Instrument’s Innovative Workspace
As is apparent by the innovative meeting spaces, funky art, ping pong table, digital wall and the connecting thread of personal stylistic expression by the staff, this is not your typical workplace.
PlayWrite Brings Theatrical Opportunity to Youth
Most seats are filled in the Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro. A 15-year-old gets on stage. Fidgeting with his notes, he shakily tells the audience, in Spanish and then in English, about the play he wrote.
Rick Spinrad
Our nation’s top environmental scientist will never forget his first glimpse of Oregon. “I never saw so much green!” recalled Dr. Rick Spinrad.
