Among the vast array of strange and surprising mascots for the city of Portland, perhaps the most unlikely is an old carpet. That carpet is the “iconic” Portland International Airport carpet, originally installed in 1988. It is a heady ‘80s design, teal with blue, purple and red lines and dots, meant to represent what air traffic controllers see on the screen. The carpet has been mostly gone ...
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A contractor who worked inside Intel’s D1X factory in Hillsboro sued the company last week, alleging he was injured by exposure to toxic chemicals in April 2022. Ivan Higgs was working for Charter Construction, which contracted with Intel for welding and other services inside D1X, Intel’s main research factory. The lawsuit alleges Higgs was exposed to chemicals used to service and clean ...
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Apr. 19—The Biden administration on Friday moved to block a proposed 200-mile road to valuable mineral deposits in Alaska and said it would increase protections to halt oil and gas development in much of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. President Joe Biden said in a statement that Alaska's "natural wonders" support subsistence hunting and fishing for Alaska Native communities and should ...
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The Biden administration is restricting drilling on millions of acres of government-owned lands in Alaska — and taking the penultimate step toward blocking a mining access road in the same state. The administration announced on Friday that it would block off oil and gas drilling on 13 million acres in the Western Arctic that are part of an area known as the National Petroleum Reserve in ...
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Picture a typical huge Costco store, with aisles and aisles of products stacked to the ceiling as far as you can see. Now arrange four more Costcos of the same size around it. And now, take that enormous array of five Costcos – and stack four more on top. That’s the size of Amazon’s colossal new warehouse on the west side of Interstate 5 in Woodburn. Five stories tall, 105 feet high, it’s the ...
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Apr. 10—The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday voted to override two vetoes by Mayor Dave Bronson, including reaffirming a resolution to give the Assembly chair subpoena powers. Assembly leaders are seeking a document that could govern the city's rights and access to drinking water from Eklutna Lake for the next quarter-century, and which has been kept confidential from the public. The Bronson ...
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Portland officials now project costs of a new water filtration plant — already the most expensive municipal project in city history —will rise an additional $300 million, running the total to $2.13 billion. That price increase for the Bull Run water treatment plant comes on top of a $350 million cost hike city leaders revealed last June. The latest estimate is more than a four-fold increase ...
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Just nine construction cranes were at work on Portland buildings last winter, the fewest in at least nine years. That’s according to the latest RLB Crane Index, a semiannual tally that gauges major construction activity in cities across North America. RLB, a consulting firm, has been counting cranes in Portland since 2015. Portland had upward of 30 cranes on the skyline in the boom years from ...
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Apr. 5—The release of a draft supplemental environmental impact statement, a critical milestone for the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program, has been delayed from this spring to sometime later this year. "With technical review still underway, we no longer expect that time frame to be feasible and are working with our federal partners to identify the anticipated timing of the publication ...
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Not long after Brian Ferriso moved to Portland in 2006, he was riding the streetcar to his new job as executive director and chief curator of the Portland Art Museum. He was near the museum when he caught part of a conversation about the very building where he was now in the top position. “I overheard some PSU students say, ‘What is that place there?’” Ferriso said in his office at the museum ...
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