Ruffwear Dog Days Gallery
Your dog is the best. You know it. Here are a few of our favorite photos from our Ruffwear Dog Days contest.
Business
Liquid Natural Gas on the Coast
Sound Off: Liquid Natural Gas on the Coast
Dr. Brett Sheppard: Stalking Pancreatic Cancer
A look at an Oregon doctor locked in the battle against pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer in America, killing 95 percent of its victims. Dr. Brett Sheppard, professor and clinical vice-chairman of surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, gave 1859 access to ground zero in his war on cancer—the operating room, his research labs and wherever he finds an audience.
Two Pancreatic Survivors’ Stories
Oregon Health & Science University’s Dr. Brett Sheppard is on the front lines of the war against deadly pancreatic cancer. He described his determination in this fight, bringing 1859 into his operating room and research labs. In these separate online-only interviews, two of his patients with different health backgrounds offer a compelling look at what it is like to be among the rare five percent who survive the disease.
Sound Off: Suction Mining in Oregon Rivers
Suction mining is essentially the mining of gold from river bottoms using a floating craft and a motorized vacuum to suck sediment from the river floor. Proponents of the practice point to longstanding federal mining laws in their defense and beneficial studies from various sources. Opponents of suction mining say that vacuuming river bottoms upsets aquatic habitat and stirs up toxic mercury particles that eventually become part of the human food source.
Oregon Homeless Youths Learning to Thrive
A Portland nonprofit empowers homeless youth to reshape their lives with education, art and outdoor recreation.
Extended Interview: Mike Rosenberg of SEMpdx
SEMpdx president Mike Rosenberg talks social media with 1859.
Habitat for Humanity
Oregon’s Habitat for Humanity soldiers on, in spite of the bad economy.
Heather Straw: Jewelry designer
Jewelry designer, mom and business woman extraordinaire, designer Heather Straw was selling about $1,000 a month in handmade jewelry when she attended a trade show in Las Vegas in 2005. In two days, she sold $43,000 and knew that her life was about to change. “I was a young mom, I’d just lost my shop in downtown Bend, and I was terrified about the future,” she says. “I gave my boyfriend, now my husband, the stack of orders, and we started filling them in our home.” Nashelle Jewelry soon had five employees working in her living room. In 2006, she leased an industrial-sized bay on Bend’s east side to house a showroom and work area. The business grew at warp speed, today encompassing six industrial bays and twenty to thirty employees, depending on the season. More than 400 boutiques worldwide carry the Nashelle and Nash (for men) lines. Nashelle rings,…
