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Hunter Biden going off on X, Micron CEO sold $38M of shares, job openings surge to two year high, Scott Bessent torches Oregon Senator Ron Wyden over alleged Epstein ties, Senate drops $1B budget for ballroom, House passes resolution to halt Military action in Iran.
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PNW Market Look
As of market close 6.3.26
SpaceX targets $135 IPO price at valuation of $1.77 trillion (CNBC)
Headline Roundup
OSU-Cascades opens new Energy Innovation Center for entrepreneurs and researchers (COD)
$3.5M sage grouse project set to fund juniper removal in Central Oregon (BB)
Scott Bessent goes scorched earth against Sen. Ron Wyden over Epstein claims (NYP)
Job openings in April surged to 7.6 million, the highest in nearly two years (CNBC)
In Renton, former Boeing buildings are being reduced to rubble (DJC)
(WA) Soup plant sells for $65M (DJC)
Boise Airport's continued growth bolstered by $9 million in grants (IDP)
Metro bought a 120-acre former farm near Canby. What are they going to do with it? (ORL)
Idaho owner of condemned Boise building brings legal fight back from the dead (IDS)
More Idaho farmers, ranchers can now get federal funds to help migrating wildlife (IDS)
New HUD rules put $26M of King County’s homelessness funding at risk (ST)
PSU taps Portland development firm for hotel, conference center development (PBJ)
Senate GOP drops $1 billion for White House ballroom from budget package (Ground)
House for the first time passes resolution to halt military action against Iran in rebuke of Trump's war (Ground)
Millworkers at site of Longview tank implosion to be paid until early August (WSS)
An old T-Mobile data center in Bothell is now a fully leased life sciences building. Here's how a California investor pull off the contrarian flip (PBJ)
Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers (CNBC)
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Community Highlight
A New Book Revisits the Oregon Saboteurs Who Set Fires to Save the Planet (WW)
“The Earth Liberation Front, ELF for short, was a cell of radical environmentalists who at the turn of the millennium waged a campaign of arson across the American West in the name of saving animals and trees. They torched a horse rendering plant in Redmond in 1997, then a ski resort in Colorado 14 months later. But many of their “BBQs,” as the group spoke of them in code, set fire to targets (Forest Service ranger stations, an SUV dealership) a few hours of night driving from ELF’s home base: Eugene”
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