The news just keeps on happening: North Dakota truly is the new Seattle (hemp, peace, and Microsoft). Las Vegans figure out an alternative to a monorail. And a bear avoids becoming King County roadkill – though others aren't so lucky.
Want a stadium? More arts funding? Pork for bio-tech? Just turn to the new boom business journalists can't resist: the economic-impact industry.
If you believe these studies, and some of us do, the arts contribute almost as much to the Portland economy as they do in much-bigger Seattle.
A writer for the paper got herself hired at Fresh Del Monte Produce and then wrote about it last month.
Tay Yoshitani shows a worrisome desire to not air "our dirty laundry," but he's also showing smarts in early moves as CEO of the Port of Seattle.
