By Oregon Small Business Association, Recently, Oregon Senate Bill 686 (SB 686) has made it out of committee and is heading to the floor for a vote. This bill would require online platforms, such as Google and Facebook, to pay online news providers like The Oregonian or donate to the […]

By Oregon Attorney General, Press Release States must fill enforcement vacuum being left by federal regulators who are abandoning these cases under Trump administration Attorney General Dan Rayfield filed a lawsuit against Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency trading platforms in the United States, for violating the Oregon Securities Law. […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Another business has abandoned downtown Portland, this time Hoffman Construction, the state’s largest privately owned company, which is relocating its headquarters on Jan. 25 to 5500 Meadow Road in Lake Oswego. Dan Drinkward, the company’s vice president, said Hoffman paid $34 million to occupy […]

Oregon Division of Financial regulation consumer advocates return over $2 million to Oregonians in first quarter of 2025 By Oregon Division of Financial Regulation Press Release, Salem – In the first quarter of 2025, the Oregon Division of Financial Regulation (DFR) recovered over $2 million through the work of its […]

By Oregon Business and Industry April 23, 2025 Sobering Hearing: During an April 22 informational hearing held by the Senate Committee on Labor and Business, multiple economists shared information about the struggling economy in the Portland metro area. The information echoed several of the findings in OBI’s 2024 report on […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, A failed attempt to create the nation’s largest conglomerate of supermarkets failed in December amid antitrust allegations by state and federal officials, but the effort to merge with Albertson’s cost Kroger Co. more than $1 billion, according to the Cincinnati Business Courier.   Cincinnati-based […]

By Oregon Business & Industry During an April 15 webinar, the OBI policy and political affairs team discussed the 2025 legislative session, which had reached its halfway point. The webinar covered some of the session’s highest profile legislation, OBI’s Oregon Competitiveness Agenda and what Oregon business could expect during the […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, Forbes’ list of billionaires includes three Oregonians who built their businesses but juggled places on the 2025 list.   Oregon’s richest man, Phil Knight, cofounder and retired chief executive officer of Nike, and his family ranked 49th on the list with a net worth […]

By Abby Fitts Barran Liebman Law, LLP, On April 11, 2025, Oregon’s Labor Commissioner Christina Stephenson announced Oregon’s new minimum wage rates based on a 2.4% Consumer Price Index increase from March 2024 through March 2025. The annual automatic increases to Oregon’s minimum wage are effective each July 1 and […]

By Vera Pool National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, representing Oregon and Washington As a law enforcement veteran serving our Oregon for fifty-four years and a representative for the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, I have seen firsthand how well-intentioned policies can backfire. The push to ban […]