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Millennial Money: Does ESG actually do any good?

June 6, 2023, 7:50am Business

ESG, or environmental, social and corporate governance criteria, has become a lightning rod for contention. The right says it’s woke hogwash, and the left says it can save the planet. But few can say what ESG has actually done. Read story

Seattle-area home prices tumble from last year’s highs

June 6, 2023, 7:50am Business

In a typical spring boost, Seattle-area home prices ticked up slightly from April to May. But compared with a year ago, home prices took another dive across the region as high mortgage rates and economic concerns continued to weigh down the market. Read story

FILE - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, speaks from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, April 11, 2022. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report Tuesday where the bureau lays out a number concerns about the growing use of chatbots by banks to handle routine customer service requests by customers.

Banks’ growing reliance on chatbots to handle customer service tasks worries consumer watchdog

FILE - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, speaks from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, April 11, 2022. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report Tuesday where the bureau lays out a number concerns about the growing use of chatbots by banks to handle routine customer service requests by customers.

June 6, 2023, 7:50am Business

Can you trust Erica, or Sandi or Amy to increasingly control parts of your financial life without giving you inaccurate information or sending money to the wrong place? Read story

Podcasting giant Spotify cuts 200 more jobs amid industry struggles

June 6, 2023, 7:49am Business

Spotify is reducing its staff by 200 people, or about 2% of its workforce, as the company restructures its podcast division, the Swedish streaming audio giant said Monday. Read story

Editorial members of the Austin American-Statesman's Austin NewsGuild picket along the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Texas, Monday, June 5, 2023. The mostly one-day strike aims to protest the company's leadership and cost-cutting measures imposed since its 2019 merger with GateHouse Media.

Hundreds of journalists strike to demand leadership change at biggest U.S. newspaper chain

Editorial members of the Austin American-Statesman's Austin NewsGuild picket along the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Texas, Monday, June 5, 2023. The mostly one-day strike aims to protest the company's leadership and cost-cutting measures imposed since its 2019 merger with GateHouse Media.

June 6, 2023, 7:49am Business

Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the U.S. walked off the job Monday to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain. Read story

Clark Public Utilities journeymen linemen Eric Mills, left, and Tyler Hendrickson work to replace a fuse on Potter Road in Battle Ground. The utility saw its winter energy usage hit a 23-year high this year.

Winter power usage hit 23-year high, Clark Public Utilities says

Clark Public Utilities journeymen linemen Eric Mills, left, and Tyler Hendrickson work to replace a fuse on Potter Road in Battle Ground. The utility saw its winter energy usage hit a 23-year high this year.

June 6, 2023, 6:07am Business

As summer starts to set in, folks begin relying more and more on their air conditioners. But just a few months ago, those same folks were relying on their heaters. So much so that this winter, energy usage reached a 23-year high. Read story

The Interstate 5 Bridge crosses the Columbia River on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.

New I-5 bridge would ‘unlock workforce potential’, says Port of Vancouver economic development director

The Interstate 5 Bridge crosses the Columbia River on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.

June 6, 2023, 6:02am Business

You might say that Vancouver’s biggest export is labor. Although it borders on cliché, there is a grain of truth to it. Read story

2/19/03 - Photo by Dave Olson - The Red Lion Hotel at the Quay as seen from the Interstate Bridge.

Crossing the Columbia River a constant in a developing Vancouver

2/19/03 - Photo by Dave Olson - The Red Lion Hotel at the Quay as seen from the Interstate Bridge.

June 6, 2023, 6:02am Business

When Vancouver’s city manager began his career in Clark County in the ’90s, Portland’s bedroom community to the north was perhaps best known for its strip malls, downtown cardrooms and the abandoned Lucky Lager brewery building — aptly located across from the beer can-shaped Smith Tower. Read story