By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, Higher inflation rates and economic uncertainty have prompted manufacturers to reevaluate their property needs, leading record-high leasing inventory and the highest industrial vacancy rate in 15 years at 6.1 percent in Portland.  As manufacturing jobs dropped 5.6 percent to 116,500, the number of transactions […]

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Press Release, To reduce the risk of humpback whale entanglements in commercial Dungeness crab gear, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is moving the May 1 “late-season” regulations to April 1 this year. These regulations require commercial crab fishermen to fish in waters […]

By The Protectors Oregon based non-profit We Must Lead the Charge Against Bullying Here’s How We Can Start By this time of year, school bullies have separated their prey from the herd – nice kids, shy ones, the kids whose parents tragically tell them to “turn the other cheek” – […]