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 […]

Newsweek’s $43 million print costs forced shut-down, move to net By Business News Note, One of the nation’s longest running and popular news magazines, Newsweek, is shutting down it’s print operation and moving to an all internet format coming January 2013. The editor, Tina Brown, explains this historic and seismic […]

Business News Note: NIKE and a collection of other supporters have dropped Lance Armstrong from being a sponsor after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued a report on several allegations of doping against Armstrong which included several former workers. Armstrong has been part of NIKE since 1996. Radio Shack, Anheuser-Busch InBev […]

Patrick Emerson PhD , OSU Economist Oregon Economics Blog Oregon’s unemployment rate fell slightly, from 8.9% to 8.7% but, as I have been saying all along, this is not the number that matters as it represents the supply and demand equilibrium. What matters are jobs and in September the state […]

Oregon Jobs in 2011: A wage data perspective by Barbara E Peniston Oregon Employment Department In 2011, all broad industries provided 2,449,826 jobs, a loss of 89,994 (3.5%) from the prior year. Between 2010 and 2011, five of 12 broad industries experienced a decrease in the number of jobs. Leisure […]

Facebook chooses Portland advertising firm as its agency of record By Business News Note, The Portland-based advertising agency of Widen+Kennedy was named as Facebook’s agency of record. One billion people are now actively using Facebook each month, and to celebrate, Facebook hired Widen+Kennedy to produce a brand campaign, a 90-second […]

by Jamie Kilberg Stoel Rives LLP, Oregon Law Firm World of Work Blog  The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) continues to closely scrutinize employers’ social media policies and practices. As employers struggle to craft policies that promote productivity while at the same time protect employees’ rights, both unionized and non-unionized employers […]

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce Organized labor’s current emphasis on preserving public-sector union power is likely a reaction to the near-steady, decades-long decline in private-sector unionization. Private sector union density has fallen from 35.5% in the 1950’s to a current low of 6.9%. One manifestation of this waning support is […]