Alliance board of directors endorses Sam Chase for Metro Council seat By Portland Business Alliance The Portland Business Alliance board of directors today announced its endorsement of Sam Chase in the race for Metro Council District 5 that represents Northeast Portland. “The Alliance has worked with Sam on a number […]

Oregon learns a key lesson in job creation with Facebook issue By Oregon Prosperity Project The Oregon Legislature just passed the “Facebook bill.”  We are celebrating its passage this week because it was one of the Oregon Prosperity Project’s job-creating priorities going into the 2012 legislative session. It’s an issue […]

Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics, Oregon economist I’ve updated my economic forecast, and it’s not as favorable as last quarter’s projection. I continue to see upward pressure on the economy this quarter and next from the lagged impacts of the Federal Reserve’s second round of quantitative easing. However, I’ve offset […]

Oden: We Hardly Knew Ye By Patrick Emerson’s Oregon Economics Blog Another sad chapter in the story of Greg Oden: “Although Blazers executives would not say this is the end of the Oden era, the chances Oden plays again in Portland, or anywhere in the NBA, are doubtful at best. […]

Oregon Legislature mostly silent on employment law issues in February By J.L. Wilson Associated Oregon Industries Employment law issues will take a back seat in February as the legislature grapples with higher profile budget, education and health care issues, but AOI is actively weighing in on at least three pieces […]

FCC Updates Automated/Prerecorded Telemarketing Rules to Mirror FTC Requirements for Prior Written, Signed Consent, Automated Opt-Outs, and Related Regulations — FCC Also Remedies Confusion in Its Rulemaking Proposal by Ensuring New Rules Do Not Affect Non-Telemarketing Prerecorded Calls and Text Messages, Such as for Debt Collection, Airline and School Notifications, […]

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce Enterprise magazine A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that wanted to use the 13th Amendment’s prohibition on slavery to force an aquatic park to set a group of whales free. The lawsuit, filed last […]

Business Video Pick of the Week: Starbucks recently launched a nationwide effort to raise money for local start-ups suffering in the recession. One grant went to Gelato Fiasco in Portland Maine which happens to be acorss the block from the nearest Starbucks. The owner expresses his gratefulness in the CNN […]

Business Video of the week. What if an online review posted on a popular website was false? This is the question before one local Portland-area small business and the popular City Search website. The video story is by KOIN-6 below.

AOI Endorses Job-Creation Platform for 2012 Session Article by J.L. Wilson Associated Oregon Industries On the eve of the February 2012 Legislative Session, the AOI Board of Directors endorsed a slate of job-creation bills that will cumulatively put 20,000 Oregonians back to work, create nearly $3.4 billion in personal income […]