By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, Job seekers beware. Scammers are after your money and your personal information. The Better Business Bureau has reported an increase in employment scams as the holiday season approaches and more people seek temporary jobs to bring in extra cash. Since January, North Americans have […]

US Attorney, Oregon district, Release Pamela S. Hediger, 55, of Corvallis, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count each of attempting to evade or defeat taxes and engaging in monetary transactions with property derived from specified unlawful activity. “Pamela Hediger used her position of trust to steal large sums of money […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, An academic hit job by researchers from Denmark and the University of California at Berkeley suggest that companies such as Nike (Facebook, Apple, Google also cited) are taking advantage of so-called “tax havens” to cause billions of dollars of income go “missing.” Their conclusions […]

By Oregon Employment Department, In 2017, the unemployment rate for veterans in Oregon was 4.3 percent, according to the Current Population Survey. This was the lowest unemployment rate for veterans since 2007, when the unemployment rate was 3.5 percent. Overall, Oregon’s unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in 2017. Across the […]

by Jason D. Norris, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Ferguson Wellman Capital Management, NW based investment advisory firm It was a busy week in Washington with a highly anticipated midterm election followed by the Federal Reserve meeting. The results of both came in as expected although it seems the […]

By Bullard Law NW Law firm Life After Janus v. AFSCME: A Field Report on Union Security in the Public Sector Join Chris Duckworth and Dan Rowan for a brief review of the changes to union security provisions required by Janus and a summary of developments since the decision was […]

Josh Lehner Oregon Economic Analysis A friend of the office recently noted that we haven’t been discussing beer nearly enough lately. And it turns out she was right. After our office’s first, real recreational marijuana forecast last year and the Oregon Vice research and presentation I did, our office has […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Measure 103 Groceries – Measure 103 which would have banned taxes on groceries was defeated. 57% opposed the tax ban. The measure was in response to growing pressure for sales taxes like 2016’s Measure 97 and 2018’s local sales tax measure proposal in Hood River […]

By Justus Armstrong, Cascade Policy Institute Last June, former Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick was hired by the Oregon Department of Justice as a Special Assistant Attorney General (SAAG). What many Oregonians may not know is that his entire salary is being paid by an out-of-state private source.

By Brad Houle, CFA Ferguson Wellman, Oregon Capital Management firm As we expected at the beginning of the year, S&P 500 valuations have contracted year-to-date. Typically during an economic expansion, we see stocks move higher with earnings. Investors are willing to pay more for those earnings with the assumption that […]