Foreclosure prevention program helps families
Nearly 6,000 Oregon families are awaiting word that they’ve qualified for aid from the Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative.
Oregon Business Team
Farmers begin planting Monsanto beets
Farmers in Eastern Oregon have begun USDA-mandated training in order to grow Monsanto-made Roundup Ready beets.
The Freshwater Trust to launch conservation market
A local environmental group is developing a market-based approach to the enduring challenge of conserving freshwater habitat.
Shooting revs up for Oregon’s best TV and film year ever
Oregon’s film and television industry has never looked stronger. Vince Porter, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Film and Television, predicts that the state will pull in more than $90 million from television shows and films shot here in 2011. And that record windfall could be just the beginning.
E-waste industry helps boost jobs
After an uncertain start, the state law that bans trashing electronic waste has kept heaps of toxic material out of landfills and created jobs. But just how many jobs is unknown, and as the Legislature considers expanding the program it is also looking to tweak the rules with job creation in mind.
Unpaid taxes burn a hole in the budget
It’s tax time again, unless you happen to be one of the thousands of Oregonians who don’t pay taxes.
Boeing, First & Main top April 2011’s Dealwatch list
Big deals of the month.
Trucking industry copes with rising costs
A new gas tax and soaring crude prices are prompting Oregon truckers to innovate to protect their bottom lines while passing on as much cost as they can to consumers.
Oregon’s sin taxes vs. our neighbors
Oregon’s taxes on products deemed “sinful,” such as alcohol, cigarettes and perhaps gasoline given its pollution, vary widely compared to neighboring states.
Help wanted ads plummet
Total help-wanted ads placed in The Oregonian during 2010 represent only 7% of the total placed five years ago in 2006.