Fire insurance is included with a standard policy from Liberty Mutual.The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)reports that between 2015 and 2019 more than a quarter of reported fires took place in homes. It estimates that U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 346,800 home str...
Oregon’s land-use rules have been dysfunctional for decades. …strict limits on urban expansion…urban growth boundaries… Rising housing prices are the inevitable result of this government-imposed scarcity. …Portland has enforced an “inclusionary zoning” requirement on new residential buildings with...
host countries around the world.’’ The EU rulings “do make it clear that if we are not interested in protecting our corporate tax base, other countries will be more than happy to tax the income,’’ said Kimberly Clausing, a professor of economics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon....
Hawaii and New Jersey are the next worst states, followed by Oregon and Minnesota. Though it’s definitely worth noting that there’s a local income tax in New York City, which would put the residents of that unfortunate community (if NYC was a state) in second place after California. P...
Three years ago, …Oregon voters approved a pioneering plan to decriminalize hard drugs… Overdoses soared… And while many other downtowns emerged from the dark days of the pandemic, Portland continued to struggle, with scenes of drugs and despair. ...
it’s not the first time the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying has been overly aggressive…the state board investigated Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman in 2014 for publishing a campaign pamphlet that mentioned Saltzman’s background as an “environmental ...
A local politician in Portland, Oregon, squandered tax moneytaking her staff to a luxury spain Arizona for supposed diversity training. Commissioner Amanda Fritz says she will close her office next week to take her six staff members to a retreat in Arizona to learn about diversity at a cost ...
For those of us who don’t like the idea of a “massive redistribution of wealth,” let’s hope the normally left-wing voters of Oregon show a bit of common sense. For the year’s second-most important ballot initiative, let’s travel up the Pacific coast. In Washington, voters have ...