June 2005


From the editor: Keeping global promises

INPUT — the online reader survey

The rural/urban economic divide

Soldiering On

A returning guardsman battles competitors and promotes his business with stories from the front.
By Oakley Brooks

Pop Goes the Market?

Home prices from Portland to Bend to Brookings have been soaring. So is Oregon's real estate market a bubble waiting to burst?
By Christina Williams

Homegrown Inventions

Oregon inventors and product developers are making waves with cool tools for the 21st-century consumer.
By Mitchell Hartman, Libby Tucker and Christina Williams

In Character

A young entrepreneur imports drugs from India at the margins of the law.
By Leslie Guttman

Business Tools

Office Etiquette: What to wear? Tips on dress codes

Business Expansion: When it's time to hire
Recruitment: Applicant screening

CEO of the Month

Jonah Edelman, Stand for Children

Plus...

Oregon ripe for VC investment...The Oregon Garden digs out of its financial hole...The shape of the future...What a new Warm Springs casino means in Grande Ronde...Bringing more quilters to Sisters...Soap made from rain...A new laser-guided paintball gun...PowerList: Commercial real estate firms; Golf courses...Indicators: Bankruptcies; Timber harvests; Commercial fishing.

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