For more than an hour, the three answered questions on a range of issues, including taxation, workforce challenges, Oregon’s land use system, state agency leadership and the appropriate use of executive orders.
OBI President and CEO Angela Wilhelms urged planners and policymakers to maximize vehicle capacity in replacing the century-old bridge spanning Interstate 5.
It will be difficult for employers to offer incentives that will be enticing enough to convince many employees to abandon their vehicles in favor of public transit.
The heat and smoke rules are lengthy and complex, and complying with them will be difficult. We have distilled the requirements of each set of rules and produced a pair of high-level explainer documents.
At our June 7 annual meeting, OBI will hold a gubernatorial candidate forum. Participants will include the winners of the Democratic and Republican primaries as well as other candidates likely to run competitive races.
Oregon OSHA has proposed workplace heat and smoke rules that will cause employers to cancel shifts and employees to lose money. They also will force employers, once again, to become mask police.
Lawmakers in Washington are trying to impose a 6-cent-per-gallon tax on fuel exported to Oregon . Our elected leaders should push back.
Oregon’s March 2022 revenue forecast suggests that record tax collections will persist for years. OBI President and CEO Angela Wilhelms urged lawmakers to end consideration of any tax increases for the near future.
Oregon voters are frustrated. That is the overarching takeaway from a statewide voter survey conducted by DHM Research for the OBI Education & Research Foundation in October. Voters are worried about the economy and their own personal finances, are highly concerned about homelessness, see Portland as dysfunctional and harming the state overall, and believe that…
Due to recently passed new taxes and increases of existing taxes, at both the state and local levels, a stunning number of Oregon businesses are now giving serious consideration to leaving Oregon according to findings from a survey of nearly 500 business CPAs and local chamber of commerce leaders.
“Employment is rebounding, but is still short of pre-pandemic levels, which makes it clear we are not out of the woods in terms of the pandemic’s impact on individual Oregonians,” said OBI President & CEO Sandra McDonough. “On the other hand, the state of Oregon is hitting record highs in terms of tax collections.”
By The Oregonian Editorial Board
Even as the pandemic begins to wane, there are still plenty of ways to go wrong. Oregon can’t relent in its push to immunize nor neglect the needs of children not yet eligible for vaccines. But Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has chosen to make a different mistake: Not letting up enough.
