| | Check out a sampling of Jennifer's 2,000-plus clips generated as a business journalist and contract managing editor: | Magazine Reporting |  Online Travel Takes Off Affiliates in the travel game are in for a wild ride as consumers grow more savvy.Schlepping his burgundy leather briefcase and navy canvas travel bag through the Portland airport, George Bragg doesn’t care as much about how he gets his ticket as how soon he’ll get home to Dallas. He’d happily buy tickets from affiliates, discounters, travel agents or airlines. With travel representing the single largest source of Internet commerce, travelers like Bragg have so many options “it’s hard to keep up with them any more,” drawled the weary business traveler with five frequent flyer cards in his wallet... Read this entire article here  In one year, Jack Hardy doubled his high-tech client base at Niche Public Relations, a four-year-old firm in Vancouver, Wash. It was an amazing jump in a flailing market. How’d Hardy do it? “Legal spying,” he says. “I started doing intensive research on the Internet.” Read this entire article here  Entry Management Training for New Leaders: A sophisticated program of organizational assimilation is key to retaining managers. Managers joining most small companies face a daunting task: seamlessly fill a vacant position, make friends with the right people, and lead boldly without ruffling too many feathers... Read this entire article here | | Newspaper Reporting |  Casino Dealer 101Theresa Detuncq is two days into training at Blackjack Academy. At 21, she's affectionately known as the "baby" of the 25-member class. She's hoping to use her casino-dealer training to leave her waitressing job, pay for an accounting degree and support her 2 1/2-year-old twin sons.
"Having twins is very expensive, and I just know this could be a good part-time job," Detuncq said. Her mother is a card dealer; so are her mother's friends. For Detuncq and other students, casino schools promise a quick ticket to high incomes, flexible hours, good benefits and "a job I actually enjoy," said the Auburn resident.
A cottage industry of dealer schools is growing in the Puget Sound region in the wake of state legislation passed three years ago... Read the entire article here  Mailers Seek Ways to Ease Pain of Postal Rate Increases Ken Kudrna is in a jam. Usually the jam is with a mailing or sorting machine, but today it's with the future of his business. Kudrna runs Tualatin's AKA Direct, a company that sorts, labels and mails advertising circulars and other direct-mail pieces for more than 500 businesses in the region. On June 30, when the U.S. Postal Service launches its latest price increase... Read the entire article here | | Contract Editing |  fast forward Portland's Olympic soccer star kicks it up a notch.Now 29, Portland's Tiffeny Milbrett is at the top of her game. She's Hillsboro High School's homegrown star: two-time Parade magazine All-American, starting player for soccer's U.S. National Team, two-time Olympian and winner of the 1999 Women's World Cup. But this soccer dynamo isn't your ordinary sports star. Sure, she's a hard-nosed competitor always on the go (a coffee addiction doesn't hurt). But it's her freshness that strikes people. She's one of those rare ones who hasn't been quieted by the media focus, who isn't worried about her image, who can tell it like it is — whether in AOL chatrooms or on the ABC nightly news. Click here to view the accompanying photo Click here to read the first page Click here to finish this article | | Cover Profiles |  Always a Winner  Peter Jacobsen graced the Jay Leno Show, the PGA Tour and Oregon's Fred Meyer Challenge charity fundraiser. He even has a video game named after him. Here, golf legend and on-the-course jokester Peter Jacobsen tells how growing up in Oregon made him who he is. Fresh from winning his seventh PGA Tour title, Portland-native Peter "Jake" Jacobsen — the unofficial ambassador of golf — isn't ready to relax. Bigger and better things are to come... Read the entire article here | Home/Architecture Features |  
JELLY-BEAN PURPLE, school-bus yellow, apple green. This is the paint-box-colored condo of Jordan Passon, a Microsoft marketing manager by day and child-at-heart by night. "I'm drawn to fun and whimsical (colors), because in my day-to-day life I don't have that chance," says Passon, who spends her days in a starched-shirt office. "My home is my castle, and it's a reflection of how I want to be." PHOTO BY GREG GILBERT Read the entire article here.  Collected Inspiration: This loft is a temple to a packrat-artist's passions
There's no denying this Seattle artist is a packrat. What David Huchthausen doesn't have in his 4,000-square-foot loft, he has in storage. Packrats aren't a Northwest rarity, so what makes Huchthausen unique is how he displays his horde of vintage knickknacks. They're all over the place: on bookshelves and glass-topped coffee tables, salvaged store shelves and curio cabinets. They take residence on walls, side tables, counter tops, even the floor. "People are just blown away," he says... Read this article here. |
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