By Ken Niezgoda, Biz Reporter The “Recession-Proof” label is typically attached to the health care industry, yet the industry that experienced Oregon’s largest percentage growth in employment last year was Food Manufacturing. With 1800 new jobs added in the past year, Food Manufacturing increased its workforce 7.9 percent, according to […]

By Dr. Eric Fruits, Econinternational Tomorrow morning, Oregon’s House Revenue Committee will be taking public input on a bill to limit the state’s business energy tax credits.  Oregon’s Business Energy Tax Credit program (BETC) gives a tax credit to businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations to spend money on projects intended […]

By J.L. Wilson Associated Oregon Industries, A package of unemployment bills introduced in the past week may substantially add to employers’ tax liability concerns, according to numbers furnished by the Oregon Employment Department.  SB 461, SB 462, and SB 463 were introduced and assigned to the Senate Commerce & Workforce […]

By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC I’ve lowered my economic forecast for 2009 based on inventory data which I’ve recently studied.  Here’s the long-run picture:

Bullard, Smith, Jernstedt & Wilson Law Firm EAlert 2/16/09 STIMULUS BILL MANDATES COBRA CHANGES Tomorrow President Obama is expected to sign the much-debated stimulus bill (officially the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) that the House and Senate passed last week. The ARRA changes certain rules relating to continuation […]

By Oregon Society of CPAs, In the 1990s Oregon adopted legislation to provide that the Oregon definition of taxable income would automatically tie to changes in the federal definition of taxable income.  As the 2009 Legislature convened, they became very concerned about the newest stimulus package that was moving through […]

By Chris Benson Owner of GeeksAKnockin’ LLC, Imagine if you came in to your office tomorrow and found that your laptop/desktop/server had been stolen.  How long could your business continue to operate without access to the information on those computers?  How much would it cost to recreate all the company records, […]

Hewlett-Packard recently announced a 13% drop in quarterly profit.  Here is where they are decline and where they are rising; PCs -19% Printer -19% Servers -18% Software -7% Services +116% * * = Service increase due to acquisition

The Oregon Brewers Guild has been spreading the alert on  House Bill 2461 which increases the barrel tax on beer by more than 1,800% (from $2.60to $49.61).  This could add to the cost of a six-pack as much as $2.   The Guild has been highlighting these three viewer polls […]

By Ken Neizgoda, Biz Reporter Health care jobs in Oregon are on the rise as other industries experience growing unemployment, according to a news report issued in January from the state of Oregon.  Health services, which is grouped together with educational services in the report, added jobs in Oregon in […]