By Josh Lehner Oregon Office Economic Analysis Right now consumer spending is strong, COVID is keeping some workers home sick, and factories and warehouses are operating at or near capacity. These factors result in struggling supply chains, bare shelves and rising prices. Firms are indicating that these issues are likely […]

By US Senator Ron Wyden Release, U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-04), along with Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) today requested answers on alleged mistreatment of Oregon National Guard (ORNG) servicemembers deployed to assist with the state’s COVID […]

By National Federation of Independent Business The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) sent a letter to congressional leaders opposing the Biden Administration’s proposal to require annual reporting to the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) of gross inflows and outflows from all businesses to pay for spending provisions of the Build […]

By Dr. Eric Fruits Cascade Policy Institute Apparently, “COVID time” is a real thing. A week feels like a month, and last month might have been last year. Perhaps that’s why 2017 seems like it might have been in the last century. That was the year the Oregon legislature passed […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Oregon settled a second lawsuit filed against the state’s race-based pandemic aid that set aside $62 million in the Oregon Cares Fund solely for black Oregonians. Maria Garcia, owner of Revolución Coffee House, sued last year, contending that the state’s allocation of money only to […]

By Heather J. Van Meter Bullard Law, In the Jefferson County, Oregon case of Oregon Fraternal Order of Police v. Governor Kate Brown and State of Oregon, Case No. 21CV35125, thirty-three state police officers and two associations representing police and firefighters challenged the Governor’s Executive Order 21-29, requiring most executive […]

By US Congressman Peter DeFazio, Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR-4) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1), today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will purchase $16.5 million of Pacific seafood through its commodities purchasing program, with over 80 percent of the […]

By NFIB, NFIB President Brad Close wrote a new op-ed in USA Today explaining why the latest tax plan from lawmakers would be detrimental to small businesses. Close notes that small businesses aren’t looking at one or two tax hikes under the proposed plan – they’re looking at a slew […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Fred Meyer and QFC grocery stores violated federal labor laws when they banned Seattle area workers from wearing Black Lives Matter buttons, according to the Seattle Times. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 21 distributed BLM buttons to employees after a Minneapolis police […]

By Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, Air travel was always one of the last things expected to rebound. After all, why would one willingly enclose themselves in a tight space with hundreds of strangers for hours on end during a pandemic? The main reasons are traditionally because we have to […]