Need a Job? This Oregon Town Is Dripping With Opportunity
Agriculture and federal spending allowed the Mid Columbia to weather the recession nicely, but one Oregon town fared even better than its neighbors and just keeps winning new development.
Boardman, Oregon, home to one of the "ports" along the Columbia River, is seeing new development after another. During the recession it was the only northeast Oregon community to actually see job growth.
1) It was recently chosen as the site of a new biofuel refinery to turn dairy waste into electricity!