Author: Maggi White

In an effort to keep start-up science companies in the area, the Portland Development Commission is giving Portland State $800,000 to convert space at the university’s Business Accelerator office into laboratory space.

The state Board of Higher Education formed a committee to better manage cooperation among the seven public colleges in the Oregon University System over forthcoming sustainability initiatives Friday at a meeting in Portland. The Sustainability Initiatives Committee was created to develop a state initiative to drive sustainability issues that they see as critical and to further the reputation of Oregon’s public universities as a leader in sustainability.

A California-based online research company stopped in Milwaukie Tuesday night to educate truckers, mechanics, educators, experimenters and others about converting their vehicle engines to run partially on water.

His friends laugh at him and tell him he’s wasting his time, but Ryan Mulkey believes in Ralph Nader and he’s vowed to keep organizing students to support the three-time presidential candidate’s platforms, even after the election. Disheartened, yes. Ready to give up, no.

If the standing-room-only crowd at the Bagdad Theater was any indication, the American people have not heard the last of Ralph Nader. Although he predicts Oregon will go for Barack Obama, the presidential candidate said he intends to carry the torch for a world of peace and justice. From the audience’s robust responses, it seems the movement Nader wants to create may have begun.

If the standing-room-only crowd at the Bagdad Theater was any indication, the American people have not heard the last of Ralph Nader. Although he predicts Oregon will go for Barack Obama, the presidential candidate said he intends to carry the torch for a world of peace and justice. From the audience’s robust responses, it seems the movement Nader wants to create may have begun.

His friends laugh at him and tell him he’s wasting his time, but Ryan Mulkey believes in Ralph Nader and he’s vowed to keep organizing students to support the three-time presidential candidate’s platforms, even after the election. Disheartened, yes. Ready to give up, no.