A service of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, In rural Southern Oregon, Josephine County commissioners voted 2-1 to cut funding to Oregon State University’s Extension Program after more than a century of providing financial support, threatening the future of 4-H, gardening, and other programs. Commissioners pulled the funding because of what they see as a “woke” agenda…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center may soon follow the lead of their counterparts in Medford by voting to join a union. Providence Medford doctors voted in April to join the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, and a majority of Portland hospital physicians…
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, 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…