A service of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, NIKE is cutting 2% of its worldwide workforce. At home, 740 employees at their headquarters are being laid off. As for Intel, they laid off 7,000 employees nationwide last year, and just announced a new round of layoffs this April. Intel is one of Oregon’s largest private employers. This…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, The ever-popular and ever-growing In-and-Out Burger still wants to build a restaurant in the Portland area, even after an independent hearings officer denied its application in 2022 to erect a drive-through at 10565 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway in unincorporated Washington County. The denial stemmed from the restaurant’s proposed location between…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Drug users gathering at the Multnomah County Central Library to use fentanyl face a crackdown by the Portland Police Bureau, which arrested 17 people and issued 36 drug citations. Those 17 were addition to 9 arrested a few days earlier. Police officers arrested 11 people on outstanding warrants and…
Chart: Oregon Office Economic Analysis By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Chart shows where Oregonians are moving from and where they are moving into by various regions. Oregonians are leaving the high taxed areas of Portland and residing in Central/Eastern Oregon and even Washington State.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, As KPTV reports, the downtown Portland Buffalo Wild Wings locations is closing after 17 years due to crime, vandalism and loss of traffic due to the multi-year riots in Portland. The owner begged the landlord, City of Portland, for more security but declined. Interesting, since the City of…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A few weeks ago the 2024 Legislature passed a budget bill that dedicates $2 million of tax dollars to “newcomer” services. In the past, this has meant spending $29 million for a welcome hotel near the Portland airport for illegal, unvetted migrants. Because this budget bill is now law,…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation We are not far away from having liberal groups issue at least one official lawsuit against every single favorite Oregon brand in our State. Oregon’s highest court will hear arguments in March on the appeal of a five-year-old lawsuit against the Tillamook County Creamery Association, which contends the large…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, If you’re wondering how Oregon’s drug users get the money to buy all that fentanyl, Willamette Week has an answer: the Bottle Bill. According to the article, it takes only 50 cans to get enough bottle deposit money to buy a daily dose of fentanyl. “Canners” root through garbage…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Again the Hillsboro Hops baseball team is asking the State Legislature, this February for an immediate $20 million (on top of $18 million already from lodging taxes) or it will be forced to leave Oregon. National league baseball standards demand the Hillsboro team update their ballpark which will cost…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, An audit indicates the Oregon Housing and Community Services Department erred nearly 30 percent of the time while distributing $426 million in emergency rental assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Oregon Secretary of State’s Office audit of 61 payments indicates the agency’s staff, in 17 of those cases, failed…