Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘oregon’

Oregon Duck Football Players Plead Guilty, Coach Hands Down Suspensions

Oregon Duck Football Players Plead Guilty, Coach Hands Down Suspensions

Oregon running back LaMichael James plead guilty to reduced misdemeaner charges in court on Friday, as expected. Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli surprised onlookers when he plead guilty to reduced charges that also brought his crimes down to the misdemeanor level.
Shortly after Masoli left court, Oregon football coach Chip Kelly and athletic director Mike Bellotti spoke with the press [...]

State Officials, Business Leaders Outline Challenges Faced by Small and Mid Size Businesses

State Officials, Business Leaders Outline Challenges Faced by Small and Mid Size Businesses

State officials today testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission in Portland today on the challenges facing small- and medium-sized Oregon businesses that export goods and services.
Business Oregon Director Tim McCabe was joined by Katy Coba, director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture, and Gregg Borossay, a Senior Manager in Trade & Carrier Development with [...]

March of Dimes Oregon Honors 6 Local Women

March of Dimes Oregon Honors 6 Local Women

March of Dimes is pleased to announce this year’s honorees for the White Rose Award; which include for the first time one Youth Achievement Award. Five extraordinary women whose volunteerism and professional contributions in Oregon have had a positive and lasting impact on the state’s communities have been selected to receive the award during a [...]

City of Bend: You’re Doing it Wrong

City of Bend: You’re Doing it Wrong

Being a Portlander, one of my favorite places to get out of town to for a few days is Bend, Oregon. It is part ski town, part hippster scence and party retirement area. The weather is great, the scenery is beautiful and Mt. Bachelor is just down the road.
Despite all of these great attributes, Bend [...]

Mayor Adams Teams Up with US Census Bureau to Reach LGBT Community

Mayor Adams Teams Up with US Census Bureau to Reach LGBT Community

The City of Portland, in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, today released two locally produced Public Service Announcements to encourage Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) households to fill out their 2010 Census forms. Portland is the only city in the nation to produce a public service announcement in partnership with the U.S. Census [...]

Is Stumptown the New Starbucks?

Is Stumptown the New Starbucks?

From Time Magazine:
Coffee aficionados have been asking the question over and over again: Is Stumptown Coffee Roasters of Portland, Ore. — the most conspicuous exponent of coffee’s “third wave” — the new Starbucks?
Wait, you haven’t heard of the third wave? Get with the program! In cities across America, a fervid generation of caffeine evangelists are [...]

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