Oregon Manufacturing & Tech: Intel’s Oregon chip plant is enforcing extreme contamination rules—banning items like deodorant, makeup, hairspray, Velcro and even Bluetooth devices—because a single speck can ruin a $500,000 silicon wafer, with automation and heavy air filtration doing much of the work. Energy & Construction Policy: A federal court restored the 5% solar “safe harbor” tied to the start-of-construction date, reversing an IRS move that threatened key clean-energy tax credits ahead of the July 4 deadline. Local Infrastructure: Lane County Parks is upgrading the final half-mile of Summit Trail at Mount Pisgah, adding drainage, removing obstacles, and improving gravel and accessibility, with periodic closures through July 1. Oregon Community & Industry: Oregon’s 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team welcomed home more than 200 Soldiers from a Horn of Africa deployment, highlighting the logistics and infrastructure work done overseas. Sustainable Farming Idea: Agrivoltaics is getting renewed attention as a way to pair solar generation with crop protection and water savings. Business/Market Watch: New reports project big growth in in-app purchases, robotic process automation, supply chain analytics, hardware encryption, heat pumps, and robot software.