Articles for tag: Best Places to Live, Places to Live, Portland Or, Washington County

Karla News

Best Places to Live in Oregon (2011)

This article, the twenty-fourth in a 50-state series, ranks the best places to live in Oregon based on three criteria: (1) median household income (adjusted for cost of living); (2) educational attainment (% of residents 25 years and over who have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher); and (3) property crime rates per 1,000 residents ...

Construction Starts on $2.9 Billion Southern Illinois Power Plant

Construction has officially started for the $2.9 billion Prairie State Energy Campus in Southern Illinois. The Peabody Energy complex is the largest private capital project in the region. The 16-hundred megawatt supercritical power plant is what is called a mine-mouth power plant, designed to burn coal mined from an adjacent coal mine using the most ...

Karla News

Downeast Maine Scenic Bicycle Tour

The East Coast Greenway Trail Scenic Bicycle Route is over 2,600 miles from Key West, Florida to Calais, Maine. The last stretch of this scenic bicycle route is from Ellsworth to Calais. This 138 mile downeast bicycle route will allow you to tour breathtaking coastal scenery, travel through historical villages, and wind through the blueberry ...

Karla News

Greenwood, Washington – Seattle’s Top Neighborhood

Check out Greenwood Washington, one of Seattle’s top neighborhoods… In the late 1800’s, Greenwood was actually a cemetery, and was called Woodland until 1907. In 1907 the bodies were removed and the neighborhood was platted for housing instead. The oversized lots are 5,663 square feet, but some are now being divided for newer construction. The ...