Recently added articles from ORian:
Shadow falls on condo market in Portland, Ore.
Oct 09, 2007 ... Byline: Ryan Frank and Jeff Manning Oct. 9--In the hot real estate summer of 2005, the futuristic John Ross tower generated a buzz never seen before in Portland. Within a week, 222 potential buyers plunked down $5,000 or more to reserve their condos in the 31-story ...
Asics chief, who gave Knight big break, dies.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Brent Hunsberger Oct. 2--Asics Corp. Chairman Kihachiro Onitsuka, the man who helped launch Phil Knight and what was to become Nike, died Saturday in Kobe, Japan, of heart failure, the company confirmed Monday. He was 89. Just after Thanksgiving 1962, Onitsuka ...
Sellwood Bridge options narrowed down to three.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Arthur Gregg Sulzberger Oct. 2--A group of policymakers whittled options for a new Sellwood Bridge on Monday to three routes that force fewer people from their homes. Neighborhood residents, including a number of condo owners from the two complexes directly ...
The Oregonian, Portland, Ore., Steve Duin column.(Column)
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Steve Duin Oct. 2--With apologies to north-side light rail, the campaign to rename Interstate Avenue in honor of labor organizer Cesar E. Chavez is an absolute train wreck. In this well-intentioned but clumsy effort to raise the profile of Portland's Latino ...
Making a plug for meters.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Ted Sickinger Oct. 2--The light bulb went on for Ben Kaiser about six years ago, when the North Portland developer was laying in gas and electrical lines to a home he was building. The energy-saving idea seemed so profoundly obvious that he wondered why it ...
Trillium cuts care for children.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Michelle Cole Oct. 2--SALEM -- Oregon's largest provider of children's mental health care has laid off 20 percent of its staff and is scaling back on the number of kids it will serve. Trillium Family Services, which provided residential and community-based ...
Stimson Lumber donates $200,000 to fight Measure 49.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Eric Mortenson Oct. 2--Portland-based Stimson Lumber Co., which has filed the state's largest Measure 37 development claims, has contributed $200,000 to a campaign to defeat Measure 49, which would limit development allowed under the 2004 property rights initiative. ...
Portland offers plenty for older adults.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Gabrielle Glaser Oct. 2--Portland's reputation as a draw for the young, the creative, the pierced and the civic-minded extends worldwide. But now, the city is drawing worldwide attention for its compatibility with another population: older residents. ...
Portland educator gets top district job.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Kimberly Melton Oct. 2--Portland's surprise choice for its next school superintendent doesn't have experience at the top job, but supporters say her city roots, leadership style and past role as an innovator in alternative education make her the right choice. ...
Booster adds little juice to free Wi-Fi.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mike Rogoway Oct. 1--Portland's free Wi-Fi network has frustrated many would-be Web surfers who flip open their laptops, try to connect and draw a blank. A big problem is that accessing the service indoors generally requires a signal booster. So MetroFi Inc., ...
Land-use fight is Oregonians' fight.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Eric Mortenson and Dave Hogan Oct. 1--Those who passionately disagree whether Measure 49 would steal property rights from Oregonians passionately agree on one thing: The look and feel of Oregon as we know it is at stake. And that's why they're spending big ...
The Oregonian, Portland, Ore., Andy Parker column.(Column)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Andy Parker Oct. 1--The striped awning outside the Black Point Inn reaches over the curb, inviting passers-by to drop in for a porcini crusted ribeye or maybe just a Mighty Mojito at the restaurant envisioned as the centerpiece of Oregon City's Seventh Street corridor ...
Loose change won't buy a stamp anymore.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Edward Walsh Oct. 1--The rise of the "cashless society," in which more and more people use debit and credit cards for even small transactions, is claiming another victim -- cash vending machines that dispense stamps at Portland-area post offices. A ...
OIT president was 'strategic thinker'.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brent Walth Oct. 1--Martha Anne Dow, during the last six months of her life, often asked the medical technicians treating her cancer where they had received their training. Many told her the Oregon Institute of Technology, in programs Dow helped to expand as its ...
Domanico leaves Legacy helm after short tenure.
Sep 29, 2007 ... Byline: Joe Rojas-Burke Sep. 29--Less than two years after taking over as president and chief executive for Legacy Health System, Lee Domanico has moved on, the Portland-based nonprofit hospital corporation said Friday. Domanico arrived in January 2006 to replace ...
The Oregonian Top 50 sees declines, improvements.
Sep 29, 2007 ... Byline: Julie Tripp Sep. 29--Happy days were here again for a handful of perennial performers, but three out of four Northwest stocks on The Oregonian 50 lost ground in the tumultuous third quarter that ended Friday. Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. rode strong markets ...
Opponent calls 49 'a bill of goods'.
Sep 28, 2007 ... Byline: Eric Mortenson Sep. 28--The president of the property rights group Oregonians in Action takes issue with a report saying Measure 49 would resolve many of the contentious development claims touched off by voter approval of Measure 37 in 2004. Dave Hunnicutt ...
Black health-education effort's dollars dry up.
Sep 28, 2007 ... Byline: Erin Hoover Barnett Sep. 28--Andrew Anderson didn't have a regular exercise routine when he had a heart attack three years ago. So when a colleague told him about the African American Health Coalition's exercise program, Anderson, 66, signed up. He ...
Metro Council sidetracks hotel proposal.
Sep 28, 2007 ... Byline: Ryan Frank Sep. 28--The Metro Council had a chance Thursday to propel the convention center hotel to its final planning stages after 18 years of talk. Instead, it spun the hotel back into more political chatter over how to pay for the thing. The ...
Montessori schools throw 100-year party.
Sep 28, 2007 ... Byline: Melissa Navas Sep. 28--A whale of a job lies before four boys. They crane their necks upward at the massive math problem snaking across the dusty chalkboard. These 10- and 11-year-olds don't flinch as they attempt to conquer 15 divided by 8,091,021,324. It's ...