BusinessWire - Despite a slow economy, Dutch Bros. Coffee ended 2009 on a high note that included a nearly six percent sales increase over last year and a rise in company giving.
Founded by two Southern Oregon dairy farming brothers in 1992, the fun-loving and spirited private coffee company opened 13 new stores in 2009. There [...]

Jack Giesey is an accomplished large-animal veterinarian. Among his patients are the animals at the Clark County Fair, the horses that march in Portland’s annual Rose Parade, and the cows that produce milk for some regional dairies.
But for much of his illustrious career, Giesey was also a chronic abuser of alcohol and pain pills. At [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. - Providence St. Vincent Medical Center is opening a new drop-in child care soon called ‘My Little Waiting Room.’
Two moms came up with the idea after one of them, Amy Paterson, went through a battle with breast cancer. She went to 144 medical appointments in a year and had to arrange for child [...]

NEW YORK CITY and PORTLAND, Ore. (Jan. 19, 2010) – LANE PR, an independently owned, national public relations agency, recently expanded its New York team and has moved to larger offices on Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan to accommodate the growth. The newest member of the LANE PR New York team is account supervisor, Heather [...]

A massive online movement has taken place over the past 24 hours via Facebook, Twitter and other social forums where people shared their opinions on the Leno vs. Conan vs. NBC controversy.  The media is reporting that tens of thousands of people took part in this online movement yesterday afternoon alone.
Just as the volume of [...]

The IACP conference in Portland this April has caused me to reminisce about the last time the IACP came to Portland:  1998.
Portland was a different food town then.  We were just beginning to talk about the amazing products that the Willamette Valley and the Pacific Ocean provides as well as the growing authentic food culture.
As [...]