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 […]

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 […]