2021 Economic Forecast addresses pandemic’s disruptions, path to recovery in Clark County By Will Campbell, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: February 2, 2021, 6:07pm
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4 Photos Will Campbell, assistant metro editor at The Columbian, makes preparations before hosting the annual Economic Forecast virtually at Wager Audio on Tuesday morning. The event, like all other events, has had to adapt to an all-virtual setting. (Photos by Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
The 2021 Economic Forecast had a vastly different feel to it on Tuesday compared with the last 35 years it’s been around.
It all started when The Columbian’s business reporter Julia Anderson scraped together some sources for a beginning-of-the-year article about what was to come in the local economy. She gathered them during a breakfast at The Crossing restaurant for an interview and note-taking, which turned into a stor
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The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has donated nearly $700,000 to a number of community foundations and relief organizations, as they continue responding to what’s considered the worst wildfire season in recorded history.
Jeff Pyle receives a meal from American Red Cross volunteers Roger Brubaker and Eliza Roaring Springs, at a hotel used by the American Red Cross as a shelter for evacuees from the Oregon wildfires in Eugene, OR, on September 14, 2020.
Credit Scott Dalton / American Red Cross
Carisa Hettich is executive director of the Southwest Oregon Chapter of the Red Cross. She says they received $50,000 from the trust, which they’ve used to provide hotel rooms, meals, and money to 16-hundred families affected by wildfires.