By Oregon Small Business Association Oregon’s federal lawmakers have taken a strong stand against China’s unfair and manipulative trade practices that have made its government-subsidized wood and paper products artificially cheap in the U.S. market. Chinese firms are also reaping huge profits from illegal logging. “American manufacturers can’t compete when […]

Fake Obama, Romney fundraisers being used by ID thieves By Oregon Better Business Bureau Crooks are charging credit cards without authorization under the guise of legitimate political campaign organizations and fundraisers. Better Business Bureau is recommending that voters monitor financial accounts and monthly statements for suspicious activity around election season. […]

by Brenda K. Baumgart Stoel Rives World of Employment Oregon law firm From the Presidential debates to lawn signs, and TV ads to the Voters’ Pamphlet in your mailbox, there’s no denying that election season is in full swing. For employers, the home stretch to November 6 means not only around-the-clock […]

Alliance board of directors endorses Charlie Hales for Portland mayor By Portland Business Alliance The Portland Business Alliance board of directors today announced its endorsement of Charlie Hales in the race for mayor of Portland. “The City of Portland needs a mayor with good, sound judgment and an even temperament […]

CNN took Windows 8 to the CEO of Microsoft and Dell and had them walk through how it works. See the video below.

Oregon Business News Note: From Forbes magazine on the U2 lead singer, Bono, when speaking this month at a philanthropy conference in Dublin, Ireland . The Irish singer and co-founder of ONE, a campaigning group that fights poverty and disease in Africa, said it had been “a humbling thing for […]

By Oregon Tax News California, once an epicenter of population growth and economic opportunity, is losing more residents to other states than it is taking in, according to a new study by the Manhattan Institute. Released in September 2012, “The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look” reports that California has […]

Congressman Greg Walden Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today joined other technology leaders in the U.S. House of Representative and U.S. Senate today in urging President Barack Obama to refrain from issuing an executive order regulating the Internet in the name of cybersecurity ( LETTER). The members expressed concern that using […]

Why Don’t TV Stations Pull More SuperPAC Ads? Is There Potential Liability for These Ads? by David Oxenford, Broadcast Blog Davis Dwight & Tremaine LLP Oregon business law firm We recently wrote about candidate ads, and the “no censorship” provision of Section 315 of the Communications Act. Broadcasters can’t censor […]

Checking in on Oregon Housing Starts By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog The good news in the housing market continues to come in. This morning’s U.S. housing starts data for September show that at the national level, starts are at their highest level since the summer of […]