1. House Speaker: Cap now, finish bill in 2019 2. Oregon lawmakers move toward repealing tax break  3. Ore. officials struggle on which pot sites are legal 4. Colleges Separating Into Winners & Losers 5. Jenner just wiped $1.7B off Snapchat  6. Chinese Casino Conquered a Piece of America 7. […]

Oregon’s Coffee Shops Continue to Perk Up Oregon Workforce and Economic Information According to the National Coffee Association of the U.S.A., which has tracked coffee consumption through annual surveys since 1950, 83 percent of Americans 18 years and older say they drink coffee and 62 percent drink it daily. With […]

Bullard Law By Jason W. Douthit By now, you have probably heard about the recent changes to tax rates for individuals and businesses, the personal exemption, and the cap on deductions for state, local and property taxes. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Act) changed several other […]

By Oregon NFIB, [Note: SB 1528 has hearing today] In response to the new federal tax laws, the Oregon Senate has proposed a state-level tax overhaul. According to the Oregonian, the proposed tax changes–contained in two bills–would ensure Oregon taxes multinational corporations’ offshore cash, help higher net worth taxpayers get […]

Oregon Economic and Revenue Forecast, March 2018 Oregon Office of Economic Analysis by Josh Lehner This morning the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis released the latest quarterly economic and revenue forecast. For the full document, slides and forecast data please see our main website. Below is the forecast’s Executive Summary.

Oregon’s Company Headquarters: Strong Growth Oregon Workforce and Economic Information While Oregon is home to just two Fortune 500 companies, that doesn’t mean headquarters don’t have an impact on our economy. Oregon’s 1,300 establishments in the ‘management of companies’ sector employ nearly 47,000 people and pay a whopping average wage […]

Is Seattle beverage tax a cautionary tale for Oregon? Business owners receive little to no guidance from City; shoppers shocked by expense By Oregon Small Business Association Seattle rolled out a beverage tax on Jan. 1 and so far, few positive stories on the implementation have surfaced.  But there has […]

Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader (OR-5) on FISA Bill (S. 139) Congressman Schrader voted against S. 139, FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017, which allows the federal government to continue to collect and store vast amounts of communications without including proper civil rights reforms to protect American citizens.

Marijuana: Falling Prices and Retailer Saturation? Oregon Office of Economic Analysis by Josh Lehner Recreational marijuana prices are falling and, in much of the state, retail options are plentiful. It appears to be a cannabis consumer’s dream, or at least what voters hoped for back in 2014 when Measure 91 […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Net neutrality is intended to insert government into internet broadband decisions by forbidding broadband providers from placing costs or controls on heavy-users of their own lines.    Net neutrality has been a free ride for internet intensive services like Netflix and Amazon at the expense of […]