ORblogs Topic: decisions

Personal finance is filled with tough decisions. Prepay the mortgage or invest the money? Pay down high interest debt first or use a debt snowball to tackle the small balances? Roth IRA or traditional IRA? Sara wrote recently with another dilemma I think many of us have faced: is it better to pay down debt or to begin investing for the future? I'm 28. I work at a job with no...

I called HP on Friday to ask about the rumors coming out of its Corvallis site. The company tried to send me a statement before the weekend, but we had a mixup over my impossibly long e-mail address, so I...

Reader David Seifert sent in this photo. Ballots are out and some Portlanders are already casting their votes in a landmark election that will remake Portland City Hall. I've been lacking a bit in political coverage but I hope to rectify that in the next few days (hold on to those ballots!). In the past days/weeks/months...

Oregon's mail-in ballots are starting to arrive in mailboxes around the state. Mine came today. While I'm still pondering some major decisions (e.g. for whom should I vote in the presidential lottery), I've definitely settled on a candidate for Oregon's Attorney General and for Oregon Secretary of State. In the former race, it's a no brainer. John Kroger is the man of the hour. He's...

Prior to say, 1997, when such programs came into existence, scientists may have been on their own finding themselves rising a corporate or non-profit ladder and making all kinds of business-type decisions. Similarly, business-minded folks may have felt out of their element working in a science-oriented industry. OSU has a solution to this conundrum in the The OSU Professional Science Masters...