Man, this must suck.
Harvard researchers may have discovered a way to regenerated lost inner ear hair cells, and help the hard-of-hearing regain some hearing acuity.
The wrong kind of tech buisness. I bet that Hillsboro wanted to live up to their Silicon Forest name, and was ready to back anything that was tech-related. But with data centers locking up property, there will only be server farms, with little need for people, and no influx of engineers and executives that drive interesting businesses to open up and serve the influx of wealth. Hillsboro ain't going to be another Bellevue or Redmond, or even Woodinville.
Just learned about Internet-in-a-Box, which brings a curated subset of the Internet to third world countries without access to the regular Internet. I've not heard of Hesperian Health Guides, which appear to be a third-world oriented set of healthcare resources.