By Oregon Small Business Association of Oregon, A 25-year-old Guatemalan man living in Woodburn, Ore., is challenging his detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who arrested four of seven workers during a raid on an Oregon blueberry farm. Before dawn on Aug. 7, ICE agents in unmarked SUVs stopped […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon The Trump administration has picked Republican Tootie Smith, former Clackamas County Commission chair, to serve as director of the Oregon Farm Service Agency in a move expected to advance the president’s less-regulation/more accountability agenda.  Democrat Craig Robers, former Clackamas County sheriff, defeated Smith, who served […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A 20-year-old man faces charges after an early August fire at the Zion Mennonite Church at 6124 S. Whiskey Hill Drive in Hubbard, Ore., according to KOIN. Malachi Samuel Kercher of Hubbard faces charges in Clackamas County of first-degree arson, second-degree burglary, and criminal […]