Second Porch, out of Portland, OR has raised $1M in Series A funding led by the Oregon Angel Fund. Second Porch competes with Home Away in the vacation home rental and home exchange markets. Second Porch seeks to set itself apart by...

To all those who think being a scientist is not very exciting, Paul Steinhardt today at the American Physical Society meeting in Portland, OR, gave some reasons to think again. Steinhardt has done lots of work leading to the discov...

Maybe Portland will wind up looking like this. Sanyo has built a series of solar-powered e-Bike charging stations around Tokyo. Locally, they've donated an e-Bike to the Mayor and have suggested piloting a solar charging station. ...

To all those who think being a scientist is not very exciting, Paul Steinhardt today at the American Physical Society meeting in Portland, OR, gave some reasons to think again. Steinhardt has done lots of work leading to the discove...

"The men were wearing their Sounders scarves over their faces as they approached him." A Portland Timbers fan who thought he got into "friendly rivalry banter with several Sounders fans" after a preseason game last week was beaten b...

Rocketboom’s Humanwire correspondent Tim Brown reports on Bee Beard from Portland, Oregon....

As reported by Jason Quick : Tom Penn, the right-hand man of general manager Kevin Pritchard, has been fired by the Trail Blazers, The Oregonian has learned. Tuesday's decision comes nearly 10 months after Penn was promoted to Vice ...

The Portland Trail Blazers have dismissed Tom Penn as vice president of basketball operations.

It’s been a three years since the Zach Braff-approved, indie-darlings The Shins put out their third full-length album Wincing the Night Away. Since its release and support tour, the Portland via New Mexico-based act have switched la...

If you believed the Portland-area housing market was in recovery mode, February 2010's results won't bolster your confid

Attending PLA?  Drop by our program on Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:15 am for Nonfiction Readers’ Advisory: Titles , Tips and Techniques. Please stop by and say hello.  No awful books, but plenty of fun. PLA Conference General Infor...

It's been a little while since I posted to this forum. The main reason has been my involvement with scheduling a regional gaming convention held in Vancouver, WA (part of the greater Portland, OR area). I have been serving on the Bo...

‘OKC, take heed to what’s happened to Portland…’

Great fight all year has Portland in the mix.

Two days ago, Andrew Zubko's illustration of Jedi Batman battling a shark blew up the internet. Here are more aesthetic oddities from the Portland artist. Andrew, thank you for real...

If you're struggling to keep your home, you may want to take advantage of an upcoming workshop and free counseling put o

By Alan Moore of Portland, Oregon. Alan describes himself as "an unemployed union organizer who spends his days applying for jobs, doing home remodeling and wondering if the right wing really does want to return to the middle ages."...

Second-generation prototype to debut at the Public Library Association conference in Portland, OR, March 23-27

The team just announced it here's the release: BRANDON ROY NAMED NBA'S WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Trail Blazers go 4-0 last week, improve record to 41-28 PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy was named...

I first met bead artist, Teresa Sullivan, a year ago during my trip to Portland for the screening of Handmade Nation. She was wearing one of her amazing beaded pieces (to call it a "necklace" just seems ... wrong. It was an art pi...