Oregon taxpayers will save $60.8 million thanks to Treasury refinancing of state bonds By Oregon State Treasurer, Oregon taxpayers will save millions thanks to a successful initiative to refinance state bonds to lower rates, State Treasurer Ted Wheeler announced today. The series of refinancing efforts in the first half of […]

Two in Five New Dads Didn’t Take Any Paternity Leave, Finds CareerBuilder’s Annual Father’s Day Survey -More working dads (36 percent) bringing work home since beginning of recession – By Career Builders, Is work keeping new dads from maximizing their paternity leave? Two-in-five working dads (43 percent) who had a […]

Merkley Applauds Passage of Bill to Speed Medical Innovations to Market “Includes two Merkley provisions to improve medical device safety” By U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley The United States Senate passed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safety and Innovation Act, a bill to give the FDA the tools needed to […]

By Oregon Small Business Association A smart phone App called MailStop and a new Dish Network DVR dubbed “The Hopper” give consumers the power to eliminate junk mail and commercials. Consumers are happy. Advertisers, not so much. Junk Mail-Blocking Apps The United States Postal Service, plagued by financial woes, now […]

Net Migration and Natural Increase in Oregon’s Population by Gail Krumenauer Oregon Employment Department Each year, the Population Research Center at Portland State University publishes the population counts for Oregon and its counties as of July 1. These population estimates show the reasons why the population changed from the previous […]

What is a Broadcaster to Do When Approached by an Ad Agency Buying Time for an Undisclosed Political Candidate? By Davis, Wright & Tremaine LLP Oregon law firm Does a broadcast station need to book a political ad buy for an agency purporting to be representing a candidate, but refusing […]

by Sean Hackbarth Free Enterprise U.S> Chamber of Commerce If you didn’t catch the Wall Street Journal editorial on the Sierra Club’s war on natural gas. It covers much of the same ground as my post a few weeks ago, but repetition allows the environmental group’s flip-flop to sink into […]

Oregon Supreme Court on apparent agency liability for personal injuries By Ater Wynne LLP Oregon law firm The Oregon Supreme Court held that an LLC that leased office space to a physician could not be held liable on an apparent agency theory for physical injuries suffered by the physician’s patient. […]

Patrick Emerson, PhD OSU Economics Professor Oregon Economics We got into an impromptu discussion in class yesterday about gas prices – I think they are starting to hit undergrads wallets very hard. There was a lot of questioning of whether some market manipulation is going on since the NW is […]

By Oregon Small Business Association American teenagers are leaving the auto market and instead spending more on fashion, food, wine and beauty products. Less on cars Research shows that the number of teens owning a used car has dropped from seven million to four million in only five years. Fewer […]