In March of 2016, the Citizens Utility Board led efforts to pass the nation’s first coal phase-out bill, known as the Clean Energy and Coal Transition Act, thereby eliminating the state’s use of the contested power source by 2035.
Oregon State Treasurer and Portland mayor-elect Ted Wheeler discusses the Oregon Retirement Savings Plan.
Amidst an overflow of boxes and shipping materials crowding the Bee Local and Jacobsen Salt Co. retail space, Damian Magista didn’t appear rushed or scattered.
Portland Razor Co. finds itself in an artisan niche boom.
Two shoemakers open their workshop to anyone with a design idea and readiness to learn shoes.
In 2009, Maria and Amen Fisher entered the bird real estate business in Florence.
It was no surprise to anyone when in 2009, Skyler Veek found a baby bull left for dead in a ditch, and took it home.
It takes a village to raise a child. In Tanzania—an African country roughly three times the size of Oregon— people in remote villages, hobbled by poverty and AIDS, take the sentiment literally.
At the end of the first day of legalized marijuana for recreational use, sales exceeded $3 million statewide, and by the end of the week, Oregonians had bought more product than Colorado’s and Washington’s first weeks combined.
