Oregon Senate passes wine growler bill
The Oregon senate voted unanimously to let wineries, restaurants, grocery stores and wine shops dispense wine in growlers of up to two gallons.
Gun debate coming to Oregon
Oregon legislators will hear four bills next week to tighten the state’s gun laws.
Oregon lawmakers protest federal cuts to rural counties
Oregon lawmakers are protesting federal demands that financially distressed counties must return $3.6 million in federal payments.
Multnomah County Sheriff to begin releasing undocumented immigrants
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton plans to change his detention policy to release undocumented immigrants that are jailed for nonviolent misdemeanor crimes.
PremierWest shareholders approve acquisition
Medford-based PremierWest Bank branches will fold into AmericanWest Bank in April.
Oregon timber company paying $130K for air violations
An Oregon timber company is paying $130,925 to a wood stove replacement program as part of a settlement about air pollution violations alleged by Montana regulators.
Farmers plan record corn acreage
Farmers will plant 97.3 million acres of corn this year, the most since 1936.
Why your employee is always right
I learned a lot about humans from studying pigeons. It was 1985 and I worked at Professor Israel Goldiamond’s behaviorism lab at the University of Chicago. (And yes, pigeons are a lot different from people.) The biggest thing Professor G. taught me was, “the organism is always right.”
U.S. flies Stealth bombers over South Korea
Reuters: The U.S. flew two STealth bombers over South Korea in a second show of foce to North Korea after the B52 bomber run earlier this week.
Oregon’s personal income growth in top 10 in U.S.
Oregon’s personal income growth was among the top 10 in the U.S. in 2012, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.