Schnitzer Steel Industries News

Portland, Oregon--02/07/2012 -- The Swan Island Lagoon is central to the debate about the Environmental Protection Agency's assessment of risk from polychlorinated biphenyl contamination.

Laura Rosencrantz makes sure one of her clients, a cancer patient, lifts weights properly during an Inpower class at Mittleman Jewish Community Center.

He's the spitting image of Mark Twain. He's also been Abe Lincoln, the political operative Deep Throat in "All the President's Men," a Tony and Emmy winner, the runaway old circus vet in "Like Water for Elephants," an Oscar nominee in Sean Penn's "Into the Wild," and a slew of conspirators, military men and much more.

There are few opportunities left in Portland to take a flat, vacant 12-acre site and erect a cutting-edge building that will establish a new use for many decades and set a template for related development nearby.

   For a quarter-century, the Oregon Symphony has made an annual trek from its home venue, the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, to give a chartered performance in George Fox University's Bauman Auditorium.   The symphony's 25th annual performance at GFU will take place at 8 p.