Oregon Live

7 hours ago | oregonlive.com | Erika Ettin

The other day, a 60-something female, widowed client of mine received a message on Match.com from an accomplished, seemingly nice man. In her first response back to him, she asked – point blank – “Why have you never been married?” He replied very politely, saying that it was a combination of things, some work-related and some more personal. But do I think he owed her a response to her extremely terse, invasive and premature question? No, I don’t.

19 hours ago | oregonlive.com | Bill Oram

CORVALLIS — All sports love their cliches and their poetically romantic metaphors for life, but none more than baseball. No sir. Here’s an example: Until the final out, you’ve got a chance. As long as there’s a strike left, there’s hope. Sure. Right. How often does that really work out? Then here come the big, swinging Oregon State Beavers to remind you how these chestnuts catch on in the first place.

1 day ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

Nike won’t release a corporate responsibility report this year, breaking its practice for the last six years. Since 2019, the company has published an annual report, typically in March, which provides information about its efforts to leave a lighter footprint on the planet, diversify its ranks and improve working conditions, including in overseas factories. Before then, going back to 2001, Nike typically produced a report every other year.

1 day ago | oregonlive.com | Jonathan Bach

The fault line between Prosper Portland’s board of commissioners and City Hall widened Friday, as commissioners for the economic development agency apologized to a departing leader who had upset a crop of newly elected City Council members. Shea Flaherty Betin, Prosper’s interim executive director since September, last month blasted a proposal by Councilors Mitch Green and Jamie Dunphy to cut all $11 million of Prosper’s general fund dollars from the upcoming fiscal year budget.

1 day ago | oregonlive.com | Jonathan Bach

The Portland City Council on Thursday voted to increase by millions of dollars a settlement with dozens of Black descendants of families whose Albina district homes were destroyed decades ago in a government urban renewal push. In a unanimous vote, the 12-member council agreed to pay the plaintiffs in a 2023 lawsuit a total of $8.5 million.