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Apple says that today it will put protective plywood over the Black Lives Matter murals on its downtown Portland store to preserve the historic artwork “for future donation."
The company says it will have details on long-term plans for the murals early in 2021.
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Subscribe to your local newspapers. Tell them why you’re subscribing. Demand that the papers cover important, local news. Keep telling publishers, editors and reporters about news that matters. Insist they cover it.
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The Dalles sued The
@Oregonian
13 months ago to keep Google’s water use secret. The city gave up this week and handed over the records.
Here’s what they show about 10 years of data center water consumption – and what watchdogs and Google say about it.
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Elections are very exciting for journalists. Tonight, I have the most important job in the newsroom.
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Parents and students reported Coach
@KeanonLowe
, one of Oregon’s most prominent high school and college football players of the past decade, tackled the armed male suspect, who has since been taken into custody.
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Tesla Energy has agreed to pay back $13m to Oregon after
@tedsickinger
showed the company (formerly SolarCity) had vastly inflated its construction costs to quality for state tax credits.
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Intel’s CEO quits Trump’s manufacturing council. It’s a big switch for him — previously he’s insisted on staying engaged.
I stand with others for equality and improving US competitiveness. Both require
improving in todays environment.
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New Intel CEO
@PGelsinger
addressed employees today.
Among the challenges he listed — Intel needs to be better than Apple at making CPUs.
“We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino."
More to come.
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One thing about eliminating comments -- I'm getting far, far more calls and emails from readers about my articles.
Much better dialogue, much better tips.
(Very little trolling.)
We're eliminating comments on OregonLive as of Jan. 2:
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A remote eastern Oregon county of just 12,000 residents awarded Amazon data center tax breaks worth ~$50m annually.
Some officials who granted the tax breaks are now positioned to reap their own windfall through contracts with Amazon.
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"David says he has two fractures in his hand, and while it's currently in a splint, he is expecting to need surgery later this week."
Navy vet Chris David wanted to talk to police in Portland.
Instead, he was beaten. He hopes the feds still listen:
"That oath of office is essentially swearing loyalty to the Constitution," he says, "and what they're doing is not constitutional anymore"
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Nearly half of Oregonians who have sought jobless benefits during the coronavirus outbreak have yet to receive any payments, the state disclosed Wednesday.
They eye-popping number signnificantly ups the scale of Oregon's benefits crisis.
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"Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases.”
It’s a $1B deal, as had been reported.
Apple to acquire majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business:
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Could be Oregon’s largest IPO ever, and the state's first major public offering since 2004 (or longer, depending on what you consider major.)
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My sources at Intel confirm. They say
* Suspended merit increases, suspended quarterly profit bonus, 401k match cut by 1/2
* Base pay for Grade 7 employees and above by 5% (grades 7-11) to 25% (for CEO)
Intel is doing huge cuts to base wages/salary for ALL employees. Also pausing bonuses. Also cutting 401k match.
I got 3 different messages about this from Intel employees within 30 seconds.
This affects people from product to fab to design.
Oof.
$INTC
@intel
$AMD $TSM $NVDA
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WeWork is opening a WeWork Labs startup incubator in the custom house, to be run by Portland’s own
@PDXStephenG
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New Intel CEO
@PGelsinger
is in Hillsboro today. He says there’s room for more expansion in Hillsboro, and the company expects to build more manufacturing capacity here within the next few years.
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Here’s the story behind the decade of dysfunction that left tens of thousands of Oregonians without their jobless benefits through the heart of the pandemic.
And here’s why a long-delayed computer system upgrade is again in doubt.
With
@hborrud
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A reader laid-off March 18, still waiting for benefits from the state, sends along this screenshot of her phone.
On hold for *six-and-a-half* hours today.
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Women remain underrepresented in PDX tech, by a considerable measure.
Among the metro’s most prominent young tech firms, tho…
@Zapproved
,
@Nvoicepay
,
@ActOnSoftware
,
@AmpereComputing
,
@iotashome
and
@puppetize
now all run by women.
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Intel stock down 3% after Intel laid out its technical roadmap yesterday.
CEO
@PGelsinger
spoke to employees in a companywide meeting this morning, said he’s “pissed off” by the market reax. Said he believes the Street is actively looking for bad news, even when it’s not there.
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The Dalles has agreed to disclose how much of the Oregon city’s water Google’s data centers use, abandoning a 13-month legal fight to keep the information secret.
The Dalles settles lawsuit over Google’s data centers, will disclose water use
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Construction will start just as soon as Portland lands a major league baseball team, Amazon picks Portland for HQ2, and Carmelo Anthony signs with the Blazers.
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Oregon says it wants semiconductor factories but the chip industry ignores one of the state’s main incentive programs. Instead, data centers are cashing in on those tax breaks and tying up scarce industrial land – while providing very few jobs.
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Dutch Bros up another 20% this morning, market cap around $7B — more valuable now than Columbia Sportswear.
Here’s yesterday’s story on the southern Oregon company’s Wall Street debut:
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Intel employees notified this morning that an “individual with a gun has been reported” at Ronler Acres.
Employees instructed to “Take action to ensure your safety.”
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Here's a breakdown of Intel's 2016 layoffs, by age group. Workers over 60 were eight times more likely to lose their jobs than those under 30.
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@tedsickinger
To be absolutely clear, Ted’s reporting saved the state $13 *million*.
Here’s his original article, from 2015.
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@Super70sSports
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
(Bonus points: Two cities!)
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Intel said last month it will expand Oregon manufacturing this year. Here’s what it’s planning.
It’s kind of a big deal.
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A central figure in American technology and a cornerstone of the semiconductor industry.
Gordon Moore was also responsible for Intel's decision to expand into Oregon.
Intel renamed its Ronler Acres research campus in Hillsboro for Gordon Moore last year.
Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder who set the course for the future of the semiconductor industry, has passed away at the age of 94.
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Oregon isn’t a flyover state. We are a holding pattern state.
A lot of people saw planes circling PDX today. The airport says it's because of fog at SeaTac, so planes in holding patterns. Pics thanks to Charles Stephens in Happy Valley.
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The coldest place in Oregon isn't at the bottom of Crater Lake or on a windswept peak atop Mount Jefferson.
It's inside a windowless room in Hillsboro, deep within an Intel research lab.
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In 2015 Oregon lawmakers voted unanimously to create a tax break for Google Fiber.
This year, the vote to repeal it was nearly unanimous. In between it cost taxpayers millions — even though Google Fiber never came to Oregon.
Here’s what went wrong.
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Who is paying for the litigation to keep Google’s water use secret?
Is it the taxpayers in The Dalles?
Is it Google?
The city won’t say.
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Today is the last day for
@MatEllis
at
@cloudability
. He leaves less than two months after selling the Portland startup to
@Apptio
.
“I plan to pursue the hobbies that I no longer had time for when I was CEO – like sleeping and eating well.”
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Portland-based
@edifyonboard
, led by
@kristenmaeve
, says it has raised $1.6m in initial funding.
Backers include Portland entrepreneurs
@MatEllis
and
@lkanies
, Seattle’s Flying Fish Vendors, and others.
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Working from the office tonight. It feels like old times, watching (and hearing!) the crows descend on the fall skyline downtown at the end of the day.
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First email in the inbox this morning — a “no comment” from a federal agency, responding to an inquiry from December 27.
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The CARES Act provides funding for states to waive the one-week waiting period for new jobless claims.
Many states are doing that — Oregon won’t. It says that would require “thousands of hours reprogramming,” further delaying claims.
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Intel says it’s operating "on a relatively normal basis” in Oregon and around the world.
It’s now recommending employees work from home, “if their roles allow.”
Intel says it will “pay in full�� hourly workers — and those employed by Intel service partners.
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AWS Elemental CEO Sam Blackman, one of the leading voices in Portland’s tech scene, died suddenly over the weekend:
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The Oregon Legislature will again consider a right-to-repair bill during the upcoming session.
Here’s the bill:
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Guillermo del Toro’s next film will be a fresh take on Pinocchio. It’ll be the Oscar winner’s first foray into stop-motion animation…and the film will shoot in Portland.
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The is obviously a huge deal for the city.
Notably, Portland's mayor and other city officials don't appear to have been part of the announcement (which took place at Nike's HQ near Beaverton, not in Portland.)
That's surely not inadvertent.
Phil and Penny Knight pledge $400 million for Portland’s historically Black Albina neighborhood
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Sources inside Intel say the company is planning a modest number of layoffs as it repositions its data center group.
@CDemerjian
and
@IanCutress
have reported on this previously.
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Intel’s CEO told employees the company cannot support Trump’s immigration order. Read his complete message here.
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Oregon economic development officials expect $40B in new semiconductor investment in Oregon in the next few years.
They're describing the projects in a legislative hearing now, and unveiling how they allocated $240m in state incentives.
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A federal age-discrimination investigation into Intel’s 2015 & 2016 layoffs has dragged on for years.
Lax enforcement and an unusually high bar to prove age discrimination makes older workers uniquely vulnerable in the workplace.
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Portland’s flurry of startup activity continues with $33m for Twistlock, which quietly moved its HQ here last winter. It’s in Puppet’s old office on the North Park Blocks.
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Even with
@googlefiber
, some things are still done the old fashioned way.
http://t.co/XQtgrsxD7Q
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A Senate committee of the Oregon Legislature is about to begin three days of hearings on the crisis at the Oregon Employment Department.
Today and tomorrow are with the department. Thursday they hear from the public.
You can tune in here today:
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“In order for us to get back to any kind of a normal business and life experience, people have to get vaccinated,” said Columbia Sportswear Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tim Boyle, who is attending the meeting.
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“These men aren’t firefighters.
They’re heavy equipment operators, loggers, farmers and neighbors who refused to let their town burn.”
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Alaska Airlines is shutting down *all* flights out of Portland because of wildfire smoke.
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Chloe Eudaly and Mingus Mapps are a pair of delightfully lyrical names.
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This really is good news for Oregon journalism.
@tbottomly
is an ardent advocate for the press, for journalists and for our state.
Therese Bottomly named editor of The Oregonian/OregonLive
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Portland's share of residents who work from home, at 7.7 percent, ranks No. 4 among the top 50 metros, according to the Census and
@enjus
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“It’s absolutely terrifying. We’ve never experienced this as a state, as a city, as country. This is unprecedented, the entire thing.”
A look back at Oregon’s calamitous week — and a look ahead toward a resilient future.
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Oregon’s struggles to pay jobless benefits during the pandemic are notorious.
But how has Oregon measured up compared to other states?
@davidcansler
and I tallied federal data for all 50 states over 7 months.
Here’s what we found:
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A fuller remembrance of Sam Blackman, for tomorrow’s front page:
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The governor’s office now says
@OregonGovBrown
*will* make the waiting week waiver retroactive.
That’s very significant for the 300k Oregonians who have already lost their jobs.
Unclear why the governor didn’t say that in her letter to the delegation
This is a reversal of the state’s policy, announced in a letter to the state’s congressional delegation. All seven members had called on the governor to change the policy.
It’s still not clear whether
@OregonGovBrown
will make the waiver retroactive.
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Oregon Sen.
@RonWyden
and three of his Democratic colleagues are introducing a bill today that will create a unified system across all states for applying for unemployment benefits.
The goal is a national system less vulnerable to failures and hacks than the current hodgepodge.
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@maccoinnich
Historically it’s because headlines were dictated by space constraints in print. Page designers knew what the layout would be but reporters wouldn’t. (We would sometimes suggest heds.)
In the online era, we at The Oregonian usually *do* write our own headlines.
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—>
@RonWyden
calls on the head of the
@ORemployment
to step down over the agency’s dysfunction in paying jobless claims.
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An extraordinary saga, by
@JeffmanningOre
"In other words, the city has been outmaneuvered and outsmarted. Bowen has employed an unprecedented and perfectly legal strategy to defer the payment and keep the city at bay.”
Meanwhile, Portland goes without the housing money.
Portland Ritz-Carlton developer waffles on affordable housing pledges
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Portland-based Vacasa says it's laying off 1300 employees, 17% of the workforce.
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McAfee spent eight memorable months living in Portland back in 2013.
It ended with him being evicted from his apartment on SE Hawthorne, and the building’s manager taking out a protective order against him.
Antivirus software creator John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after court approves extradition
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Oregon’s net neutrality bill, HB 4155, just passed the House 40-17. It still needs a vote by the Senate before going to the governor for her signature.
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“France will be home to a research and design center, and Italy will be the location of a test and assembly factory…The main wafer fabrication plant, or fab, will likely be built in Germany”
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"I realized just how isolated I felt in the spaces I occupied in Portland. I had not come across any mentors who I could identify with or who could provide a blueprint for how to navigate the waters I found myself in.” —
@blackwell_gab
, via
@PDXWiIT
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Shares are now up 70% at $39.20, giving Dutch Bros a market cap roughly equal to Columbia Sportswear.
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Amid a steep decline in sales and zero capacity constraints, Intel is showing no enthusiasm for building its German fab absent some truly enormous subsidies.
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New Relic shares jump 40% following this morning's IPO:
http://t.co/sJOdCJ6MfO
http://t.co/kOE4eCFexm
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The insider deal is an extreme example of how Oregon tax giveaways warp the dynamics in a small town.
The nonprofit sold the fiber business without competing bids, using an analysis with disputed assumptions & unusual features that reduced the purchase price.
More next week.
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Single mom testifies. She made $44k last year.
“This year I couldn’t afford a birthday gift for my son. If it wasn’t for EBT he probably wouldn’t have had a cake.”
Claim denied, she says, no path to appeal.
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Why did Concordia close?
@mollykyoung
and
@JeffmanningOre
have the answer in a damning investigation.
Concordia bet its future on an online education firm called HotChalk, a bet that plunged the school into the financial morass that destroyed it.
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"Tektronix was a Camelot. Camelots don’t last forever. They have their natural lifespans. But we should remember that it existed, and it was in Portland.”
William Walker, who held top jobs at Tektronix, ESI and Planar, dies at 90
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David Gerstenfeld, director of
@ORemployment
Department, says he’s “pretty confident” waiting week payments will come before Thanksgiving.
That’s ~8 months after Congress authorized the payments.
Oregon’s the only state that hasn’t paid the waiting week money.
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More details here.
Gelsinger delivered the message in a somber, companywide address this evening. He sought to rally employees by referencing hard times Intel endured during the 1980s.
But it's far from clear that Intel can engineer another comeback.
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ICYMI: Here's what happens when one of the world's wealthiest tech companies comes to one of Oregon's smallest communities in search of big tax breaks.
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No one said it was gonna be easy. Or cheap.
Still, new Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger caught Wall Street off guard Thursday when he laid out the cost of his turnaround plan.
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—>
@RepBonamici
to the new head of the
@ORemployment
Department:
"You must act quickly to do everything in your power to address this backlog immediately, and to clearly and transparently communicate your progress to the public."
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“Powell’s will be here,” said CEO Emily Powell. “It may look different. It may feel different for a while. But it will be here.”
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