Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate On Tuesday, February 9, the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources voted on party-lines to refer SB 1574 (cap and trade) to the Joint Ways and Means Committee. The importance of the referral is that the committee does not have the same […]

By Oregon House Democrat Office, The Oregon House today voted unanimously to clamp down on phony “notario businesses,” which purport to be legitimate immigration or legal consultants but in reality prey on vulnerable populations. House Bill 4128 came out of the Notario Fraud Task Force, which put together a comprehensive […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog This edition of the Graph of the Week continues our focus on migration into Oregon. Migration is very important to the state and one of the two main reasons Oregon outperforms the typical state during expansions. This also sets the stage […]

By Steve Buckstien, Cascade Policy Institute Picture two Oregon workers. One, a highly skilled and educated woman named Kate, earns well over $40 per hour based on a 40-hour work week. The other—a younger, less skilled, and less educated woman also named Kate—has a job that pays her Oregon’s minimum […]

Miller, Nash, Graham & Dunn LLP NW Law Firm Here’s an update to my comment on In re Tam published a couple of weeks ago. In a letter to a clerk for the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the pending Trademark Office appellate case In re Brunetti […]

Senator Ron Wyden Press Release, Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined with Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici to introduce a bill that would allow publications in Oregon and other states where marijuana is legal to mail their publications containing written advertising for the product. The Marijuana Advertising in […]

Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate by Mike Freese The short answer is no. Legislative leadership has made it clear that the lone transportation package (HB 4055) will not be heard this Session. However, the bill sponsor, Representative John Davis (R-Wilsonville), continues to pursue a short term funding package […]

University of Oregon Economic Indexes By Tim Duy Oregon Economic Forum University of  Oregon Oregon Economic Indicators: The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity retreated in December from a surge the previous month, but continues to signal above-average growth for state. Highlights of the report include: – The manufacturing sector made […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog This is part 2 of 2 this week on housing, see here for part 1. Given that housing and affordability are at the forefront of many people’s minds these days, I have been doing quite a bit of data work to […]

By NFIB According to comments during a conference call between the White House and union officials, President Obama’s FY 2017 budget, to be unveiled next week, will contain a pay raise for federal employees averaging 1.6 percent. This would be an increase from the average raise for FY 2016 of […]