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Anderson Perry and City of Prineville Win Project of the Year
The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Oregon announced the winners of the 2018 Engineering Excellence Awards, and for the first time since the program’s inception more than 50 years ago, an eastern Oregon firm’s project was selected for Project of the Year. In total, 31 projects were honored…
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Forecast of Aviation Demand
Forecasts of aviation activity are used to identify expected activity levels and based aircraft at individual airports in the system. A statewide perspective on aviation activity also affords the opportunity to examine the context for changes at Oregon airports. Where individual master plans or Airport Layout Plans (ALPs) look in…
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Cascade Health Alliance Invests in Children with Expansion Grant to Oregon Tech Behavior Improvement Clinic
CONTACT: Ashley Van Essen, Public Relations Representative ashley.vanessen@oit.edu KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Oregon Institute of Technology, “Oregon Tech,” has announced a generous community investment of $150,000 from Cascade Health Alliance (CHA), for the critical expansion of Oregon Tech’s Behavior Improvement Group Applied Behavior Analysis (BIG ABA) clinic. Focusing primarily on…
Read MoreConsuming the city: Ranking restaurants per capita
By Joe Cortright The number of eating places per capita is a key measure of a city’s livability. Cities are great places for consumers. They provide an abundance and variety of choices, especially in the form of experiences. While our conventional economic indicators don’t fully capture the nature and depth…
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Break Down Workplace Silos to Build Engagement, Collaboration, and Productivity
By Refresh Leadership in Workplace Does your workplace have a silo culture? It’s a common phenomenon that can affect any business, but is especially prevalent in larger companies with many different departments and more employees. Silos typically form in workplaces when communication between different people, teams, or departments consistently fails.…
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Economic Outlook: On the QT … But QT may not be so quiet this time
Commentary by Robert Whelan, ECONorthwest DECEMBER 2018 “On the QT,” a quintessentially American phrase. It means to keep something confidential. Basically, QT is an abbreviation for “quiet.” But there is a new meaning and you will be hearing it more and more in the coming months. This time it will…
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“It was so awesome”
“At one time, I had volunteered for hospice care and I remembered how deeply moved I was by a patient’s failure to thrive. I also remembered attending a lighting conference in 2008 where I learned about lighting used in neonatal intensive care that greatly improved the infants’ ability to thrive.…
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Asymmetrical Pricing
By: Adam Cuppy Starting a business is hard enough; setting your price is like calling the shot blindfolded. You might have heard of “asymmetrical risk and reward,” but if you haven’t, let me bring you up to speed… Asymmetrical risk and reward is when you position yourself so that the…
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Oregon’s Per Capita Personal Income 2017
by Christopher Rich Oregon’s total personal income ranked 26th in the nation in 2017, one spot below the 2016 rank. Data on personal income comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. State personal income captures total income within a state and is…
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Daniels accepts Executive Director position at the Prineville Chamber of Commerce
Kim Daniels has accepted the Executive Director position at the Prineville Chamber of Commerce after serving in an interim role since June of 2018. Kim follows Casey Kaiser in the executive position who served in that capacity from 2014 – 2018 before accepting a position in the Planning Department of…
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Oregon’s Child Care Industry
by Jessica Nelson Social and economic trends over the past 60 years have made child care a workforce issue and turned child care into an industry. The share of women participating in the labor force nearly doubled between 1950 and 2000, before reaching a plateau in recent years. Labor force…
Read More‘World Class’ Research Is Answering Questions About Fish Habitat, Hatcheries, and Genetics
By: John Harrison Fish and wildlife research sponsored through the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program into the effects of the ocean, estuary, hatcheries, and habitat on salmon and steelhead survival not only is producing interesting and useful results but is some of the best of its kind…
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