Startups Collaborate to Recruit Engineers By Oregon Small Business Association Businessweek wrote about Portland’s innovative idea to attract new talent. The CEOs of 11 of Portland’s startup tech companies have launched a novel and promising venture: joining forces to recruit new talent into the city instead of poaching software engineers […]

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, Oregon is surrounded by the nations top worst car theft cities.   Below is a list of Oregon’s own car theft cities ranked within the state followed by their national rank when compared to other metro cities.

By Oregon Small Business Association, According to Rootmetrics AT&T’s average download speeds are 30% faster than Verizon. At&T may be winnign the speed war, but Verizon has winning the volume contest as they have 93 million subscribers, compared to AT&T’s 71 million. Below is a chart comparing the average download […]

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden was mentioned highly in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal Editorial for his bi-aprtisan work with Republican John Thune. See below. Wall Street Editorial Board, 8/3/13 Bipartisanship isn’t dead in Washington, at least when it comes to taxing the Internet. On Thursday Senators Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog Yet another month with good-but-not-great job growth figures.  How long has this been now, five years?  We  find out that the US economy added 162,000 jobs and that unemployment fell to 7.4%. I think it is pretty clear that folks that […]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Eli Lehrer runs the R Street Institute. It’s a Washington, DC think tank and also a small employer. He writes about a little-known requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that defies common sense, and that other small firms will deal with: Among […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Microsoft Opened a new store in Portland this summer with a big splash and broader agenda. Microsoft is planning to roll-out 500 stores across the county — many specifically targeted near Best Buy stores according to Reuters News Service. The grand opening of the Microsoft […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog. Two important events occurred in recent weeks. There was the great new research on economic mobility that examined different cities and regions across the country (official website here, good NYT summary here) and there was also the Detroit bankruptcy. Given the […]

Treasurer Wheeler helps to mark centennial of Wheeler, the coastal town founded by his great-grandfather By Oregon State Treasurer A century ago, lumberman Coleman H. Wheeler founded a town alongside the Nehalem Bay on the northern Oregon Coast. The city of Wheeler was then home to the Wheeler Lumber Company […]

By Fred Thompson: Oregon Economics Blog Oregon’s State Highway Trust Fund is broke. Options addressed by the Oregon Transportation Commission, the Governor’s Office, and the Legislature aimed at fixing this state of affairs include raising DMV fees to recover the full cost of the products/services it delivers to Oregonians. By state […]