Kyra Buckley
Business Reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting
Business reporter @OPB; Past: @HoustonChron, @HoustonPubMedia, @KUNC, @KLCCOregon; University of Oregon alum; WNBA fan; Jazzercise instructor. She/her.
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10 hours ago |
klcc.org | Kyra Buckley
The city of Portland will pay $8.5 million in settlement funds to 26 descendants of Black Portlanders driven from homes and businesses for development projects from the late 1950s through the ’70s. The group of descendants filed a federal lawsuit in late 2022 arguing that the city of Portland, Emanuel Legacy Medical Center and Prosper Portland conspired to destroy a previously thriving Black neighborhood.
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3 days ago |
klcc.org | Kyra Buckley
Newport’s Local Ocean restaurant is the kind of place where you might have lunch next to the fisherman who caught it. That’s according to Laura Anderson, co-founder of the more than 20-year-old restaurant. “Creating market opportunity for fishers and showcasing local species were really what drove the founding of the restaurant,” Anderson said over a tuna wrap with fries on a recent Friday afternoon. The tuna in her wrap comes directly from Oregon fishers, Anderson said.
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1 week ago |
opb.org | Kyra Buckley
FILE - Portland, Ore., as seen from Pittock Mansion on June 8, 2021. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPBPortland’s population decline appears to be reversing. Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and Portland State University show the city’s population increased last year. It comes after shedding more than 10,000 people in the years immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2 weeks ago |
opb.org | Kyra Buckley
Wheat, coffee, computer chips: How Trump’s tariffs could affect Oregon’s key exports and importsTariffs are making imports more expensive, and retaliatory moves from other countries are causing international buyers to skip Oregon. International trade helps fuel Oregon’s $265 billion economy. Businesses and manufacturers in the state rely on imported goods and parts to run companies ranging from furniture shops to computer chip factories.
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2 weeks ago |
opb.org | Kyra Buckley
From left, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Lisa Bhathal Merage, Alex Bhathal and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler at the announcement of Portland receiving a WNBA team at the Moda Center on Sept. 18, 2024. The Portland Thorns. Oregon’s incoming WNBA team. And — the Portland Trail Blazers? It’s a question the Bhathal family, owners of Portland’s NWSL and new WNBA teams, may be asking themselves since the Rose City’s NBA franchise was put up for sale last week.
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