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NSA advises any site using PHP be updated or shut down, Whitefish votes against small lot development, AirBnb bans requirements for dishes, NuScale hits 2 year low, Micron employees strike in Taiwan, Coos Bay get s$200M for port development, Pacific Sources cuts 134 more jobs.

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PNW Market Look

As of market close 10.21.26

The AI industry’s gigantic debts are making investors nervous (Economist)

No more doing dishes or laundry. Airbnb eases cleaning load for guests (USAT)

NuScale Stock Closed at Its Lowest Level Since May 2024. Is It Finally a Buy? (MF)

Headline Roundup

Micron faces strike from one Taiwan union after deal with another (Reuters)
Tualatin startup says Nasdaq on course despite SPAC delisting (PBJ)
(MT) Council votes no on micro lot zoning (WP)
Seasonal workers seek 38% higher pay as holiday demand rises (IBR)
Idaho ranks 38th for affordable social life among lower 48 states (IBR)
$44.4 million renovation for PCC in Portland building permits (DJC)
State approves Oregon’s first rural hospital network (OPB)
Coos Bay gets $200 million piece to port development puzzle (OPB)
Seattle invests $4.6M in healthier buildings (DJC)
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties as part of a data privacy case (KOMO)
(WA) Governor urges voters to reject I-645 over impacts on child care (KOMO)
Costs and permitting are barriers to nuclear-powered electricity in Idaho, utilities say (IDC)
With more K-12 schools in financial crisis, candidates want state funding to change (CDN)
Missoula County to prohibit sale of kratom in retail food businesses (MTFP)
Closing schools could save about $1 million per building, Portland Public Schools superintendent says (ORL)
PacificSource to lay off 134 more Oregon workers as insurer continues to shrink (ORL)
Carmel's in Anaconda reopens 4 months after bar owner's killing (MTS)
Aviation robotics startup with $1 billion valuation to open Seattle-area office (PBJ)
A concrete vision: Saint-Gobain and Microsoft Discovery build for the future (MS)
Montana Schools Get Nearly $1 Million in New Revenue (KGVO)

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Community Highlight

Portland community solar project shines new light on former 82nd Avenue dumpsite (OPB)

“The 82nd Ave Community Solar Project will generate enough energy to help 140 low-income residents save money on their energy bills.

On a small, hilly south-end section of a lot on Portland’s Northeast 82nd Avenue, next to a pickleball court, construction crews have begun clearing blackberry bushes and moving mounds of dirt. They’re working to bring new life to a fenced-off vacant landfill across the street from a bustling McDaniel High School.

This lot is being transformed into a nature sanctuary for wildlife and community members, as part of a larger effort to revitalize 82nd Avenue into a safer, more climate-resilient corridor. But the site will also house another benefit — community solar.

Community solar gives renters and other people who can’t put solar panels on their rooftops a way to join together to benefit from the lower electricity bills solar energy can bring.

The 82nd Ave Community Solar project will have seven arrays of hundreds of solar panels that could generate enough energy to lower the bills of 140 low-income East Portland households that are customers of Pacific Power or Portland General Electric.

At a time when the federal government has rescinded billions of dollars toward climate action and government shutdowns have impacted funding to help low-income families pay for their energy bills, this project is using money from Portland’s climate action fund to keep renewable energy investments flowing.

It’s also providing jobs in the renewable energy industry, while helping low-income Portlanders access the benefits of solar

This is all part of a multi-phase plan for the next decade, when tens of millions of dollars will continue to pour into the corridor, including a boost in public transit.

The Bird Alliance’s site purchase created a new opportunity to combine Portland’s broader climate resilience goals with the avenue’s transformation. The site was previously used as a rock quarry and later filled with rubble from the construction of Interstate 205.

Duncan Hwang, the community development director of the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, known as APANO, lives a few blocks away.

When the billion-dollar Portland Clean Energy Fund opened a round of grant opportunities for climate investments, APANO was quick to apply. It joined other nonprofits that have been working together to be part of the revitalization with the goal of making the avenue the “most transit-rich, affordable, and climate-resilient part of town,” Hwang said.”

Rip’s Spotlight

9 states, including Oregon, shed jobs in the past year (OCC)

“Nine states and the District of Columbia lost jobs in the year ending in September, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Hit hard by the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce, the District of Columbia suffered the largest percentage job loss, down 3.5% or 25,800 jobs. Montana, which lost jobs for the first time since 2020, shed 1% of its total workforce, or 5,300 jobs. Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia all experienced declines of less than 1%.”