Bright Lights

Terry Hackney

Banking, Bailouts, and Business: the New Financial Landscape - Globally and Locally 

At no time since the Great Depression has the banking business been so volatile. But under the direction of CEO Ray Davis, Umpqua Bank — Oregon’s largest local bank — fueled up on $214.2 million from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), took over the operations of two failed banks, issued $1.7 billion in new loans to stimulate Oregon’s economy and then repaid the TARP loans.

Arguably no single person has had a greater effect on the Portland metropolitan region's landscape as Mike Houck. Under the self-appointed title of “urban naturalist,” he has tackled conservation issues large and larger, from developing the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in the 1980s, to pushing the Metro government into managing the region’s open spaces, to developing two major trail systems—the 40-Mile Loop and, now, the Intertwine.

Terry Hackney

Chandra Brown, the President of United Streetcar, talks about Oregon’s future of streetcars, wave energy, nuclear reactors and how taxes can help or hurt.

For three decades, Dan Wieden has seeded a series of revolutions, some small, some large. Best known for guiding his advertising firm, Wieden+Kennedy to being one of the nation's top creative firms in the ad business (and one of the largest remaining independent ones), Wieden founded Caldera, a Cascade Mountains arts/environmental retreat for both under-served youth and the region's top professional artists.

Since taking the helm at PSU in 2008, Portland State University President Wim Wiewel has begun reshaping and expanding PSU through a series of far-reaching community partnerships with business and government.

City Club's Agora committee and Portland Spaces magazine present the Bright Lights city design discussion series.

Monday, Nov 9, 6 p.m.
Charles Rose Crafts a School