By Oregon Business & Industry, Oregon drops: Oregon fell from 40th in 2023 to 46th in 2024, according to the Common Sense Institute’s (CSI) 2026 Free Enterprise Report. The state’s competitiveness rank has fallen 10 places since 2017, when Oregon ranked 36th, and 15 places since 2011, when the inaugural […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Three more business organizations have joined a lawsuit challenging Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that forces companies to pay for recycling materials they sell. Oregon Business & Industry, the Northwest Grocery Association and Food Northwest filed paperwork to join the challenge to the Plastic Pollution and […]

By Oregon Faith News Note, Many members of the Abu-Baker Islamic Center in Northeast Portland remained shaken and afraid after a man in a hoodie with gloves and a mosque cap recently disrupted the end of morning prayers, shouting Allahu Akbar several times before saying, “If you stand up, you […]