Carbon tax bill would send $500-plus 'kicker' checks to Oregonians

Salem lawmakers on Tuesday will discuss three bills that would effectively set a price on carbon dioxide emissions in Oregon.

It’s unlikely the bills will leave the House Energy and Environment Committee for a full vote by the Legislature. The contentious passage of the Clean Fuels bill in March may have sapped the political will to pass another climate-related bill. State Republicans have said they won’t vote to pass a transportation funding bill if the Clean Fuels legislation is not repealed.

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Think your office is cool? Deadline approaching to see how your space stacks up

There’s a lot going on this week, what with tax day coming on Wednesday, but the deadline to apply to be in this year’s Coolest Office Spaces competition is this week, too, and we don’t want you to miss out.

In this year’s TBBJ Coolest Office Spaces we are adding new wrinkles to include more companies. We’ve split the 2015 contest up into three categories: new spaces companies have moved into during the past 18 months, newly renovated spaces during the past 18 months and older spaces with a coolness…

Finally — Hunt Midwest celebrates data center incentives

If at first you don’t succeed …

Representatives of Hunt Midwest Enterprises in Kansas City are celebrating Gov. Jax Nixon’s signing last week of legislation designed to attract new data center development and jobs to Missouri.

Hunt Midwest, which last year opened a new data center campus at SubTropolis, the world’s largest underground business complex, has been lobbying for six years for similar legislation, which has also been pushed by the Missouri Chamber and Missouri Coalition for Data Centers.

“We…

Real estate reality check: The startup shutdown you never see coming

San Diego dweller Felena Hanson had seen them in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles: the growing number of entrepreneurs, techies and startup cohorts working under the same roof — often in the same room — without the same boss.

They called them “co-working spaces,” and the milieu was hip: graffiti art on the walls, foosball tables in the communal areas, beer in the fridge, all-nighter hack-a-thons on the calendar.

The spaces didn’t explicitly target male 20-somethings hoping to build…

ASU wants to deploy army of artists across Phoenix for murals, public projects

Steven Tepper wants to deploy a cadre of artists and art students across the Phoenix region to work with property owners, businesses, nonprofits and others on public projects.

Tepper is dean of Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

He is working to team students, faculty and local artists with other stakeholders in the Valley to bolster public arts projects. It’s sort of a design and arts corps, said Tepper in an interview with the Phoenix Business Journal.

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