18 influential Oregonians we lost in 2024

Our 2024 obituaries this year hit the Portland Business Journal very close to our workplace home. Just before Christmas, we learned that Lee Clingman, an energetic sales representative who spent 13 years selling PBJ print ads, had left us. I worked with Lee for four years, crossing paths when my co-worker, a fellow musician, would swing over to our side of the office to get a take on mixes for his 2005 recording "Coffeehouse Blues." He also often popped over just to say hello, or to invite us…