News Mayor-elect Charlie Hales is filling his cabinet at a steady clip. As previously reported, Hales hired Gail Shibley to be his chief of staff and    More

News A bitter lawsuit that pitted Jessica Schlesinger against her father and two uncles in one of Portland's leading real-estate families moved closer to final resolution last week.
At issue is the handling of the estate of the family matriarch, Bernice Schlesinger, who died in 2000, leaving an estate of just under $13 million. Jessica Schlesinger, a beneficiary of her grandmother's e...   More

News Mayor-elect Charlie Hales has made his second key hire.
Hales, who takes office in January, has hired Dana Haynes to be his spokesman. Haynes was a reporter and editor for 20 years at various Oregon newspapers, including The Oregonian and, most recently, the Salem Statesman Journal, where he covered the state legislature. He joins Gail Shibley, whom Hale...   More

News Rob Kremer, a political consultant and longtime charter school activist has been named the head of TeamCFA Foundation, which is putting together a national network of charter schools.
TeamCFA is the creation of John Bryan, a Lake Oswego investor. It currently operates eight schools in three states and plans to open another...   More

News The state’s most powerful business leaders—if they were listening closely—might have heard the clues from Gov. John Kitzhaber only two weeks ago about his secret talks to give Nike a sweethe   More

News The state of Oregon's business development agency entered into a nondisclosure agreement (PDF) with Nike on July 31, 2012, according to records Gov. John Kitzhaber's office provided WW this morning. That date is earlier than has previously been reported.
The agency, called Business Oregon, signed a f...   More

News Anybody who's following local coverage of the Clackamas Town Center shooting or national coverage of the Newtown, Conn. tragedy—or has followed any of the numerous other mass shootings in recent years—might find a piece posted today on The Economist's website worth a look.

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News As lawmakers meet today in special session to consider the so-called "Nike bill," the outcome is pretty predictable—the bill will pass in some form. But many lawmakers in both parties have concerns, ranging from tax fairness, to the speed and secrecy with which Gov. John Kitzhaber and Nike developed the concept to how other companies, including Intel, that also might want similar assuranc...   More

News When the Legislature meets in special session tomorrow, it will probably pass a bill that benefits Nike, Oregon's marquee home-grown company.
But the draft version of that legislation will make it difficult for Intel, the California-based tech giant that is Oregon's largest private employer, to get the same assurance.
Nike and Intel both already benefit from Oregon's current a...   More

News Multiple sources familiar with the deal Gov. John Kitzhaber and Nike announced earlier this week have indicated there may be a significant, undisclosed subplot to the deal—that Nike is considering a major investment in Portland.  Two sites mentioned as possible locations for expansion are South Waterfront, where big tracts of land exist adjacent to glitzy condos ...   More