Oregon Drops to 35th in State Tax Competitiveness Index By Oregon Business & Industry What happened: Oregon has fallen two places in the nonpartisan Tax Foundation’s State Tax Competitiveness Index, dropping from 33rd to 35th, the state’s lowest ranking in the widely followed index in at least 20 years. Oregon […]

Ag Regulatory Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, This week, the natural resource organizations serving on Oregon’s Pesticide Stewardship Partnership Advisory Group since the Advisory Group’s inception, including OFS, Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon Association of Nurseries, and Oregon Forest Industries Council, submitted a resignation letter and withdrew our support […]

BY PAUL COUGHLIN The Protectors, The U.S. Secret Service interviewed more than 35 school shooters and discovered a frightening connection between a student bringing a gun to school and what motivated them to murder classmates and faculty. While there are a number of motivations, bullying is one. The agency concluded […]