More than 90% of these jobs will be in the private sector - jobs rebuilding our roads and Bridges; constructing wind turbines and solar panels; laying broadband and expanding mass transit.
Portland has expanded mass transit and boasts sizeable electronics and activewear companies, several wind - and solar-energy firms, and many green-building projects.
On Oct. 7, 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, observed its first lunar transit when the new moon passed directly between the spacecraft (in its geosynchronous orbit) and the sun.