By Oregon State Senator Daniel Bonham, A week ago, a small group of storefront business owners in The Dalles wanted to meet and discuss a Project Turnkey purchase happening in our town. Statewide, there are government-nonprofit efforts to buy up hotel properties and convert them into temporary housing facilities for […]

By Oregon Business & Industry On March 13, the House Committee on Business and Labor held a hearing on a bill that would address a unique workforce obstacle created by Oregon’s 2017 pay equity law. This obstacle is so severe to both private- and public-sector employers that the Legislature on […]

Oregon Attorney General Press Release, To kick off National Consumer Protection Week (March 5-11), Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today released the Oregon Department of Justice’s (DOJ) list of 2022’s top ten consumer complaints. For the third year in a row, auto sales and repairs, telecommunications and imposter scams took the top three […]

By William MacKenzie, “If you’re blue, and you don’t know where to go to Why don’t you go where fashion sits? Puttin’ on the ritz” Can you think of anything more incongruous than the Ritz and Stumptown? Like a diamond in the rough, The Ritz-Carlton Residences Portland at 550 S.W. […]

By NFIB, The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal: “The small business economy is still recovering, and business outlook is near historic lows. The expanding list of tax increases […]

Portland Business Alliance The Portland Business Alliance and Downtown Portland Clean & Safe released its State of the Economy and State of Downtown & Central City reports. These reports were produced in partnership with ECONorthwest and presented by Bank of America, along with the Value of Jobs coalition including Greater […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation According to the Oregon Office of Econoimic Analysis, 21 percent of Oregon renter households in the state were living in poverty, and 44 percent of rental households spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent. Fifty-four percent of renters do not have […]

US Attorney Office, Oregon District Press Release, PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal grand jury in the District of Oregon returned an indictment today charging four founders of Forsage, a purportedly decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency investment platform, for their roles in a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised approximately $340 million from […]

March 2, 2023 By Missy Oakley Barran Liebman LLP On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court found that an employee who earned more than $200,000 a year was entitled to recover overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, […]

By National Restaurant Association   The National Restaurant Association recently submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the proposed multi-year biofuel fuel volumes included in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program. The Association stressed the negative impact increasing biofuel volumes would have on the price and availability of […]