By National Federation of Independent Business, Forty-eight business groups joined in strong opposition to Title IV of S. 2563, the Improving Laundering Laws and Increasing Comprehensive Information Tracking of Criminal Activity in Shell Holdings Act. The so-called ILLICIT CASH Act would impose duplicative, burdensome regulations on America’s smallest businesses and […]

Tim Duy, University of Oregon Economic Indicators This is the University of Oregon State of Oregon Economic Indicators for September 2019. The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity rose to o.o4 in September, up from a downwardly revised -0.27 in August. Highlights of this month’s report include: – The moving average […]

By State Senator Alan Olsen Senate Committee On Environment and Natural Resources Excerpts from “The Reality of Cap & Trade” I would first like to state that climate change is happening, has happened in the past, back to the beginning of the earth, and will happen in the future. The […]

State Representative Gary Leif Release, Rep. Gary Leif Awarded ‘Legislator of the Year’ from the Associated Liquor Stores of Oregon Salem, ORE – Over the weekend the Associated Liquor Stores of Oregon presented Representative Gary Leif (R-Roseburg) with the 2019 ‘Legislator of the Year Award”. “As a Legislator, it is […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Nike shoes and other products won’t be available at Amazon.com after the sports apparel company severed its two-year relationship with the giant online retailer. Customers will be able to buy Nike products directly from the company’s website, app, and outlet stores or at brick-and-mortar retailers […]

By U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Chamber of Commerce Chief Policy Officer, Neil Bradley, released the following statement in regards to the Supreme Court hearing on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): “It is extremely disappointing that we’ve reached a point where Congress has left the future of hundreds of […]

US Attorney, Oregon District Release, Quan Jiang, 30, a Chinese national and former engineering student at Linn Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon, was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for trafficking fake and altered Apple iPhones. According to court documents, between January […]

By Josh Lehner, Oregon Economic Analysis, One forecasting challenge is we do not know what the 11th or 12th year of an economic expansion looks like. We’ve never been here before. Our baseline forecast calls for ongoing, but slowing growth as we run into supply side constraints. However, that is […]

Q&A created by Oregon Transformation Newsletter, Third Century Solutions, Q and A with Cheri Helt, Oregon State Representative, House District 54-Bend According to your website you grew up in a working class family in Michigan in the 1980s. Why did you and your husband Steve choose Bend as home? Steve […]

By Oregon Employment Department, In 2018, the unemployment rate for veterans in Oregon was 4.8 percent, according to the Current Population Survey. Overall, Oregon’s unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in 2018. Across the U.S., veterans had a lower unemployment rate of 3.5 percent. About 296,000 veterans lived in Oregon in […]