Oregon cannabis regulators are pleading for understanding as they work to catch up on new license applications — an exercise expected to take more than a year. “The processing of applications may appear to be proceeding at a glacial pace, but I can tell you our team is operating at capacity,” Steven Marks, executive director of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, said Thursday in a letter to recreational marijuana licensees. Marks said the agency would seek more staff from the Legislature…

Mayor Jenny Durkan released a long-delayed report but has not yet announced whether she intends to kill the transit expansion.

The physician-staffing company was founded in 2001 by Dr. Robert Bessler.

An unexpected but long-awaited minus sign has emerged in the Bay Area housing market. No one knows yet if it will be around for a while, but real estate agents say the data is backed up by anecdotal evidence too.

Tableau and Wave have leases in the space, but Google could buy tenants out of their leases or let them lapse if it took control of the property.

The Portland TechCrawl is back on Sept. 6, with thousands of people expected to descend on the neighborhoods around downtown and the Pearl District for a series of open house and recruiting events. Since 2009, the annual event has grown and now features roughly 40 companies opening their doors to the community for networking. All the companies involved are in the tech industry and almost all are hiring. The first event had about 100 people attend. Last year, the event drew 3,000 people, who wandered…