By Cascade Policy Institute, So-called smart growth policies are advocated as a means of avoiding sprawl. These policies have at their heart a policy of reducing the availability of land for housing in urban areas. In Oregon and some other states, anti-sprawl policy is implemented by regulations that impose urban […]

US Congressman, Oregon, Peter DeFazio Shutdown impacts over 41,000 active duty Coast Guard members performing missions and protecting the coastal borders Oregon lawmakers applauded legislation introduced by Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) that would provide funding for the Coast Guard and ensure that […]

By Oregon Employment Department, Roughly 9,600 jobs in Oregon are at federal agencies that are not currently funded and are affected by the partial federal government shutdown. Some of these workers have already been furloughed. Others have funding to cover operations for a few more days. Excepted personnel are still […]

By Wilson Jarrell, By Barran Liebman LLP Oregon law firm As you are undoubtedly aware, we are currently in the midst of a partial federal government shut down, effecting approximately a quarter of government functions. Amongst these is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) E-Verify Program, which ran out of […]

By Oregon US Attorney, Oregon Restaurant Owner Sentenced to Prison in Connection with Immigration-Related Forced Labor Scheme. Defendant used debts, fraud, threats of financial and reputational harm, and other means to compel victims to work long hours for minimal pay at restaurants in Oregon and Washington Paul Jumroon, also known […]

Oregon Hospitals May Lose Their Property Tax Exemption By Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation, Oregon hospitals just got hit with a $320 million revenue tax last year with House Bill 2161 (also known as Measure 101). Now Oregon lawmakers are coming back to tax them again by stripping away their […]

By NFIB, NFIB, the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, issued the following statement on behalf of President and CEO Juanita D. Duggan marking tomorrow’s one-year anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act being signed into law, which has driven record levels of sustained optimism among small businesses: “Small […]

US Senator Ron Wyden, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for Congress to pass strong privacy legislation in response to the latest privacy scandal at Facebook, revealed in the New York Times. “Mark Zuckerberg had a lot of chutzpah telling Congress that Americans could control their data, when seemingly every […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Oregon’s Equal Pay Act is fully implemented in 2019. The new law outlaws businesses from fixing pay inequities by lowering wages and from hiring based on an employee’s salary history. Oregon minimum wage will increase later in the year on July 1st, the standard rate […]

By Josh Lehner, Office of Economic Analysis, 2018 was another banner year for the economy. Jobs in Oregon are on pace to increase 2.1% which is good growth for the ninth year of an economic expansion. More importantly these gains are still strong enough to accommodate the influx of new […]