Planner blames obesity on sidewalk shortage

Published: October 15, 2009
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Tyler Graf
Dolan Media Newswires

Portland, OR - Sometimes, a neighborhood’s street layout can be harmful to public health.
That’s why the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is undertaking the Southeast 122nd Avenue pilot project, a study of the land-use, transportation and connectivity problems in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood and how they affect residents’ health.
Planners and public health [...]

Line drive

Published: September 14, 2009
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Stimulus job count depends on spin

Published: July 28, 2009
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Ryan Kost
AP Writer
Portland, OR — Politicians are straining to convince people the government is stimulating the economy.
In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.
But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, [...]

Researcher stress tests materials

Published: July 27, 2009
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Tyler Graf
Daily Journal of Commerce
Oregon State University associate professor of engineering Jamie Kruzic spends his days breaking things. If he doesn’t, then planes fall out of the sky, hips shatter and bridges collapse.
Or, at the very least, they operate less efficiently.
Computer modeling and basic pen-and-paper equation techniques have long been used to predict the structural [...]

WHEDA projects await federal answers

Published: April 23, 2009
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Dustin Block and Sean Ryan
dustin.block@dailyreporter.com, sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Dan O’Connell held back his celebration after learning Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp. received $2.57 million in state tax credits Thursday.
Getting the credits clears the first hurdle, said the vice president of Astar Capital Management Inc., which manages WHPC. The second, and significantly higher, hurdle is finding investors to [...]

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Roald Gundersen’s ideas are as big as the trees he shinnies up like a man half his age. The Stoddard-based “tree architect” wants to take wood construction far beyond the rustic cottages with which people associate him, but first he has to convince builders and architects of trees’ potential. Caley Clinton heads to western Wisconsin to see what future the forest holds.

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