A service of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation A survey of Taxpayers Association of Oregon and Foundation supporters drew over 420 responses to the question on whether Congress should ban Tik Tok if the company does not divest itself from China ownership. Roughly 87% approved the ban, 9% disproved, and 4% said undecided. While the issue was…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of killing almost 18,000 young Chinook salmon by pouring bleach into a rearing pond at a fish hatchery in Reedsport, Ore., according to The Washington Times. The fish raised in the Salmon Trout Enhancement Program would have been released into the…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, The Biden administration and the media have been repeating the claim that net-worth for Americans have been rising. At the same time, they also talk about how publci polls show that average Americans are not favoring current economic conditions. This has led some to speculate that the publci is…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, hoping for a Major League Baseball stadium inside the city, encouraged backers of the Portland Diamond Project to consider the 144-acre Rose City Golf Course. But Craig Cheek of the Portland Diamond Project said backers of the MLB team still prefer the 164-acre RedTail Golf…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation A federal judge ruled that the southern Oregon city of Brookings has no legal right to limit the number of meals offered by a local church, according to ABC News. An ordinance approved by the City Council in 2021 in response to citizen complaints limited the meal services to…
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…