Strictly Business

Strictly Business: Tax policy behind widening wealth gap

Globalization. Technology. Globalization. Technology.

Strictly Business: Tolerance for GMO food tested

Farmers expect the unexpected when it comes to weather, prices, and even politics that affect international markets.

Strictly Business: Keep vets in mind when hiring

Memorial Day is a day to remember our war dead, and we do a good job of that in Vancouver with an annual service at the Vancouver Barracks and other remembrances. It's also a good time to consider the challenges facing veterans returning home from military service to face the challenge of finding a job.

Strictly Business: Asking the big questions

It's a reflection of the Port of Vancouver's desire to do the right thing that it held a public workshop last week to discuss how to handle crude oil safely, including how to clean up potential oil spills in the Columbia River.

Strictly Business: Taking the high road for Mom

If you are a mom and you're reading this column over breakfast in bed, happy Mother's Day.

Strictly Business: Benton lucky to be inside man

Many years ago I ran into an old high school buddy while on a camping trip with my family. We spent an evening over a campfire talking about where our lives had taken us in the years since we'd parted ways.

Strictly Business: On the austere road to ruin

You may have missed it, but a smart group of folks recently told us that our infrastructure — roads, bridges, mass transit, airports, and power and water lines — are in terrible shape.

Strictly Business: Technology vital, but not everything

At times, we need to let humanity break through the barrage of information, advertising saturation, and superficial interactions that are a product of digital technology that is reshaping our world in ways we can't yet begin to understand.

Strictly Business: Don't blink, or you'll miss it

With signs on I-5, Portland says goodbye, Vancouver barely musters hello

I'm guessing that by the time you've rolled northbound on Interstate 5 past Hayden Island, and by the time you've passed the "Leaving Oregon" sign while crossing the Columbia River, that you already know that you're leaving Portland.

Strictly Business: Extra! Extra! Newspapers not dead!

Here's a news flash — the newspaper business is not dead.

Strictly Business: Recovery might be in bloom

Spring arrived on Wednesday, and it felt all week like brighter economic times could finally be arriving in Clark County.

Union says don't fence me out

Surely it's not easy to stand outside your place of work, holding a picket sign and walking back and forth as someone else does your job on the other side of the fence.

Strictly Business: Light-rail fight isn't over yet

The current fight over light rail isn't the first in Clark County. Rail transit came to a vote in 1995, when TriMet and regional forces on the Oregon side had greased the wheels for a new bridge and a bistate line that would, they said, extend as far north as the Clark County Fairgrounds.

Strictly business: Charged up at the jewelry counter

OMG. That's text slang for "oh my . . . goodness," just in case you're a non-phone-texting reader.

Strictly Business: Innovation a risk worth taking

The television documentary "Silicon Valley," broadcast Tuesday on PBS, opens against a backdrop of the Santa Clara Valley in the 1950s, when apricot orchards dominated and the technology industry had barely taken root.