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...Explanatory reporting: The Oregonian of Portland, for bringing the Asian financial crisis home in the person of a local french fries exporter...
...second time in about a month, Philip Morris was socked with a big jury verdict on Tuesday when an Oregon jury in Portland awarded a record $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades. The decision comes on top of the $51.5 million awarded against the company in February to a smoker with inoperable lung cancer. "This is not good news for tobacco," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The Oregon case is the kind of case that anyone could have brought." And that fact, perhaps more than...
...placed seven types of salmon and two types of trout on its list of threatened or endangered species. Never before has the regulatory machinery of the Endangered Species Act been turned on so large or heavily populated an area. Saving the fish from extinction will require sacrifices from Seattle, Portland, Ore., and the surrounding counties and could slow development in one of the fastest-growing regions of the U.S. For now, locals--who face restrictions on everything from how they generate electricity to how they wash their cars--are rallying to the cause, reacting with none of the fury that...
Within that circle, the Portland-area metro council, the only directly elected regional government in the U.S., controls all development. Inside, permits for new construction are granted readily, which helps account for the construction cranes all around a downtown that looked ready to die 20 years ago. Outside, where open land is strictly protected, there's mostly just the uninterrupted flight of greenery we call nature. Unspoiled stretches of the Willamette River Valley start 15 miles from city hall...
...from 13,000 sq. ft. to 6,700. Yet the median price of a single-family home has more than doubled in just 10 years, from $64,000 to $159,900. Once ranked by the National Association of Home Builders as among the most affordable U.S. cities for housing, Portland is now the third most expensive, just a bit cheaper than San Francisco. One reason is that the growth limits helped attract an influx of new residents, who bid up costs. But another is that developers can't build on cheaper acreage farther from town. And though the growth boundary...