Legislation to Reduce Oregon Auto Dealer Bond Is Not a Good Thing By Jose Mesa, Auto Wholesale, LLC Every auto dealer in the state of Oregon has to produce a $40K dealer bond in order to be an Oregon Auto Dealer. The average new vehicle today is around $25K while […]

Governor Kitzhaber Includes Oregon Production Investment Fund in Budget, Prioritizes Good Jobs By Oregon Media Production Association Governor Kitzhaber’s 2011-2013 budget includes job creation priorities that can help bring our state out of the recession. Included in these priorities is the extension and expansion of the Oregon Production Investment Fund […]

Legislature may raid Workers’ Comp fund By John Ledger Associated Oregon Industries Discussions are taking place in the capitol about how to drain millions of dollars from scores of dedicated fee accounts, paid for by Oregon business, and divert that money into the General Fund (GF). The GF is the […]

SCAM ALERT: FAKE DEBT COLLECTION SCAMS By Oregon Attorney General The Oregon Department of Justice has received several complaints regarding phony debt collection calls. Scam artists pose as debt collectors or law enforcement officers calling about an outstanding debt from an online payday loan. They frequently use fake phone numbers […]

By The Oregon Prosperity Project, The Oregon legislature is considering two bills right now to reconnect our state tax code to the federal tax code retroactive to 2010 – House Bill 2535 and Senate Bill 301. Why is this important? For tax year 2010, Oregon companies will be forced to […]

By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics I have updated my economic forecast, and it looks a little better than it did a few months ago. I have upgraded the first three quarters of 2011. The later quarters have about the same growth rates as before–they were already fairly good growth […]

Public Employee Pension Transparency Act gains support by Blair Latoff By U.S. Chamber, The U.S. Chamber expressed its support for the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act introduced by Representatives Devin Nunes (R-CA), Paul Ryan (R-WI), Darrell Issa (R-CA), and Lamar Smith (R-TX). The Act would require that state and local […]

NLRB Facebook Settlement Creates More Questions Than It Answers By Victor Kisch Stoel Rives — World of Employment, Oregon Law Firm On Monday, February 7, the NLRB issued a news release about a settlement in a case in which an employee criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page. In that […]

By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics The National Football League is happy that Super Bowl viewership set an all-time record with 111 million U.S. viewers. Even more people watched a portion of the game. That sounds good, and from the narrow perspective of the United States of America, it is […]

Reasons behind Oregon’s personal income rating compared to national average By Oregon Department of Employment Oregon’s per capita personal income, the annual sum of all resident income in the state divided by the number of residents, was $36,125 in 2009. That’s 8.8 percent less than the national figure of $39,626. […]