By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Under President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, Oregon received more than $688 million to expand broadband into rural communities lacking affordable, high-speed internet. Business Oregon’s Broadband Office wants residents to share suggestions for expanding high-speed internet over the next five years under the federal Internet […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center may soon follow the lead of their counterparts in Medford by voting to join a union. Providence Medford doctors voted in April to join the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, and a […]

By Oregon Attorney General Press Release, With the conclusion of the 2023 Oregon Legislative session, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum commends the efforts of our legislators, their staff, and her DOJ policy team that yielded significant successes in an historically challenging session. Going into the legislative session, Rosenblum proposed legislation on several of […]

Colleagues Lead New Manufactured Housing Tenant’s Bill of Rights U.S. Congresswoman, Suzanne Bonamici, Legislation would protect mobile homeowners and renters by setting minimum standards for tenants in Manufactured Housing This week, U.S. Representatives Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) introduced legislation alongside U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Richard Blumenthal […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Baseball fans could flock to a re-envisioned Lloyd Center under a proposal to put a Major League Baseball stadium in the mall that opened in 1960, but owners of the landmark shopping center haven’t decided yet what its future holds. The fledgling mall in […]

By Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association Be Smart and Prepare for Power Outages – Oregon is experiencing longer and more intense wildfire seasons than ever before. Which is why businesses need to be prepared for potential wildfire and weather-related events as well as the power outages they may cause. ORLA […]

By US Attorney, Oregon District Press Release, A Las Vegas man was sentenced to federal prison Thursday for impersonating an employee of a coin-cashing company to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in change from coin-cashing machines in multiple states. Richard Anthony Pena, 34, was sentenced to 48 months in […]

Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer Press Release Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05) joined Reps. Darren Soto (FL-09), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-At Large), and Andrew Garbarino (NY-02) to introduce the bipartisan Jobs of the Future Act. The proposal authorizes the Department of Labor and the National Science Foundation to work with private and public […]

By Christine M. Zinter Bullard Law, Summer in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. We can’t wait for it to quit raining, and then we all complain about the heat! With the mercury rising, OSHA just put out an FAQ (linked here) to remind employers about their heat illness prevention rules that […]

By Marley Masser Barran Liebman LLC, June 28, 2023 Effective June 27, 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) now requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless the employer can demonstrate that providing an […]