Oregon Prosperity Project, The Coalition for Healthy Kids and Education, a PAC organized to support a tax of 1.5 cents to each ounce of soda in Multnomah County announced in February the coalition would not put the tax on the November ballot. This delay follows an announcement in November of […]

Congressman Peter Defazio Press Release, Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) applauded the decision by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to award a $300,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to mAbDx Inc., a Eugene-based immunodiagnostics company.The company, a University of Oregon spin-off, was founded in 2011 by former UO researcher […]

Gov. Brown Should Veto Mom & Pop Tax Hike State Representative Knute Buehler Press Release, It’s a common refrain among politicians from both political parties that they all support small business with a recognition that it’s the “back-bone” of Oregon’s economy. Unfortunately, too often this rhetoric isn’t matched with policy […]

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Business Oregon Announces Awards to Six Oregon Startups to Bring Concepts Closer to Market Business Oregon announced an investment of $400,000 to help six Oregon small businesses scale up their bioscience and advanced manufacturing concepts into revenue-generating products. The concepts range from simple low-cost malaria testing kits, to a microwave-absorbing […]

Oregon Economic Forum The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity declined modestly to a still strong 1.43, down from a revised 1.69 the previous month. •The moving average measure, which smooths out the volatility, is 1.34, well above average. (“zero” indicates average growth over the 1990–present period). All sectors covered contributed […]

Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis  As our office documented a year ago, housing affordability truly is a statewide challenge. It is a major concern in our fast-growing urban areas, and throughout rural Oregon as well. In fact, rural Oregonian incomes are on par with rural American incomes, however […]

Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation The State recently gained an ally in President Trump, who cited Oregon’s per mile charge as an innovative way to achieve revenues needed to realize his plans for updating and improving the country’s infrastructure. Trump’s plan seeks to mix federal funding with State and local […]

Top business news stories in the nation ending the week of March 9, 2018 1. Tax Reform Ends Need for Credit Union Favoritism 2. Mortgage Rates 4-Year High Threaten to Roil Housing 3. The perfect jobs report for the stock market 4. The retail resurgence this year is deceptive, warns […]

Oregon Attorney General  In honor of National Consumer Protection week (March 4—10, 2018), Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today released the annual Oregon Department of Justice’s 2017 Top Ten Consumer Complaints list. For the first time, a new category of consumer complaints “Travel Accommodations” made the list. This new category […]