A service of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation.
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 Portland’s Lloyd District, home to…
By Jason Williams Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Ukraine Series Background: Jason Williams first went to Ukraine in 2017 to do humanitarian work. He returned again in May 2023 to provide food, clothing, and medicine to war victims. This trip was not related to politics or foreign policy but a private charity trip. His observations…
By Jason Williams Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Ukraine Series Background: Jason Williams first went to Ukraine in 2017 to do humanitarian work. He returned again in May 2023 to provide food, clothing, and medicine to war victims. This trip was not related to politics or foreign policy but a private charity trip. His observations…
By Jason Williams Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Ukraine Series Background: Jason Williams first went to Ukraine in 2017 to do humanitarian work. He returned again in May 2023 to provide food, clothing, and medicine to war victims. This trip was not related to politics or foreign policy but a private charity trip. His observations…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation The Wall Street Journal blames a “tech downtown” for falling wages on the West Coast. The paper notes that average weekly wages have sunk the most in areas where high-paying tech jobs are concentrated, like Washington County, Ore., with a drop of 4.3%. But, even less tech-heavy Clackamas County saw wages decline…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation The Portland Bureau of Transportation received a $2 million grant to establish the nation’s first zero-emissions delivery zone downtown where no gas- or diesel-powered delivery trucks or vans can travel in a 16-block area, according to the Portland Business Journal. The bureau hasn’t yet determined the boundaries for the pilot…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A Portland Democrat in Congress wants the federal government to reform laws so legal cannabis businesses such as those in Oregon can tap into tax deductions as well as banking and financial services offered to other businesses, according to the Portland Business Journal. To that end, Rep. Earl Blumenauer introduced…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation According to a National Association of Realtors study using USPS change-of-address data, Oregon was one of the top states people moved out of. Oregon’s net migration loss for 2022 was 17,331 people, or .4% of its population.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A Brookings Episcopal Church faces fines of up to $720 a day for feeding homeless people at its church in a residential area at the same time Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has promised to look into providing more shelters in rural areas for people without roofs over their heads,…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation The double-digit percentage growth in cannabis harvested in Oregon for recreational marijuana since legalization in 2015 has slowed to a trickle as the state saw its first-ever decline in sales in 2022, according to the latest Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission report. A huge cannabis harvest in 2021 created…