Oregon DFR joins NASAA, other states, in multimillion dollar settlement with investment institutions The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation, Press release Salem –  The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation has joined the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) in a multimillion dollar settlement with five investment institutions. The settlement resulted […]

Legislation would stop a massive new OSHA regulation from burdening small businesses nationwide By NFIB, WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 21, 2025) – The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, sent a letter to Rep. Mark Messmer in support of his legislation, the Heat Workforce Standards […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, The highest-paid business executive in Oregon is Ford Tamer, who oversees Lattice Semiconductor in Hillsboro, whose $215,385 salary and $68.94 million in stock awards tops the list of 88 highest-paid executives in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The second-highest paid executive was former Kindercare CEO […]

By Oregon Attorney General, Press Release Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced a settlement with Grocery Delivery E-Service USA, Inc., doing business as HelloFresh, after an Oregon Department of Justice investigation found the company misled consumers with deceptive “free meal,” “free shipping,” and “free gift” offers. “HelloFresh built its brand […]

By Dr. Eric Fruits, Economist Guest submission for Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Two years ago, my wife went on her morning walk past the school across the street, when she saw the school’s custodian—dead on the sidewalk of what we later learned was a heart attack. If she’d been […]

By Oregon Attorney General, • Posted in Homepage, Media Release Attorney General Dan Rayfield and a bipartisan coalition of nine states filed a proposed $7 million settlement to resolve claims against Greystar Management Services LLC, as part of the coalition’s ongoing enforcement efforts targeting price fixing involving housing rental prices […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, When the government shut down threatened funding for SNAP, local businesses in the Portland metro area stepped up to make sure people in their communities didn’t go hungry. When 750,000 Oregonians lost benefits Nov. 1 under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, businesses offered free […]

By Oregon Business & Industry, Oregon’s freefall: On Oct. 30, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation released its annual State Tax Competitiveness Index, which dropped Oregon’s ranking to 35th nationally. As recently as 2019, Oregon’s overall ranking was 7th, indicating a 28-place plunge in only seven years. Check out our blog post […]

Small businesses call for legislative solutions to address the growing health coverage affordability crisis By NFIB, WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 19, 2025) – The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, submitted testimony for the record to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance ahead of its […]

November 17, 2025 By Abby Fitts and Winslow Robinson Barran Liebman Law, On October 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced an interim final rule ending the practice of automatically extending employment authorization documents (“EADs”) for employees who file timely renewal applications. Under this new rule, employees […]