Akadi returns with new market, House of Flavor; relocated restaurant opens May 8 – oregonlive.com

“People were very supportive of Akadi during the pandemic, so we did get more traffic,” chef Fatou Ouattara said in a phone interview last week. She studied dishes from her own Bambara tribe, as well as the Baoulé and Bété, and those from neighboring Ghana and Burkina Faso, where her mother was born. Now Akadi, […]

Here’s how many billions of dollars Mark Zuckerberg lost in the stock market in one day – Oregon Live

Shares of the company dropped after the social media giant reported a rare profit decline due to a sharp rise in expenses, shaky ad revenue growth, competition from TikTok and fewer daily U.S. Zuckerberg had reportedly sold Meta shares worth $4.47 billion last year, before the tech rout. Musk continues to top the list of […]

Jim Belushi on ‘Growing Belushi,’ his Oregon cannabis farm, and marijuana as ‘spiritual medicine’

“I love waking up in Oregon,” Jim Belushi says, on a recent morning. Belushi is fresh off an interview with the “Today” show, which required him to be up early to accommodate the program’s Eastern Time zone schedule. Since beginning to grow marijuana plants in 2015, Belushi has expanded the size of his property, located […]

Portland area housing market even more cutthroat for buyers as new listings drop – oregonlive.com

New numbers from the regional listing service RMLS show that homes are staying on the market for a shorter time, with fewer sellers entering the market even as the demand for homes goes up. For the month of October, RMLS reported a 0.9-month supply of homes, meaning that if sales continued at the current pace, […]

Legal cannabis growers frustrated by illegal operations in Oregon – oregonlive.com

There aren’t enough inspectors to test for THC content at each site to determine which ones are legal and which are not, officials have said. “First and foremost, we need to allocate significant funding to support law enforcement and code compliance operations,” Marsh told the committee. “We are already facing challenges finding enough workers to […]