edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
Chandra Brown of United Streetcar (a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works) is one of 100 business people who will be at President Obama's December jobs summit. Here's the press release from Congressman Blumenaur:
Blumenauer Announces United Streetcar President Chandra Brown to Join President Obama at Jobs Summit
Portland, OR -Congressman Blumenauer (D-Ore) [...]
The average Joe seems to know what completely escapes BO: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 62% believe tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment. BO, on the other hand, continues to mull the idea of yet another Porkulus plan.
And while [...]
Ouch, this will leave a mark as Democrats try to explain how Oregon's budget has been exploding, while taxpayers are losing jobs and earning less.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
[...] It simply amazes me that anyone could write an article on this topic and avoid the elephant in the room.
Officials [from the Oregon Employment Department] predict economic growth will add 160,300 jobs in the state from 2008 to 2018, plus about 85,000 jobs opening as Oregon digs out of [...]
One story that has been gaining more and more traction in the media lately is how the Obama administration is inflating their number of jobs "created or saved." In particular, the data on the recovery.gov site has shown things such as millions of dollars going to congressional districts that [...]
He's not throwing folks under the bus any longer. There's some good news!
But wait! There's more! The Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.
So the [...]
More than 417,000 New Jobs Needed in Oregon To Revive and Grow the Economy
U.S. Chamber’s Campaign for Free Enterprise Travels to the Northwest
PORTLAND, OR—Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s American Free Enterprise. Dream Big. campaign traveled to Oregon to engage local business leaders in an ongoing effort to [...]
Thanks to $25 million in recovery money, America's poorest city now has hippos.
Camden's residents were told the recovery would help to lift them out of poverty. The state's "strategic revitalization plan," the recovery's guide, even listed jobs as the No. 1 goal.
The law followed an old strategy of aiding [...]
It is worse than you suggest. What company will hire new employees if they don't know what their contingent liability for health care and carbon will be? These bills are enormous overhang on the economy that is freezing decisions for hiring' [...]
The US unemployment rate, as expected, rose to 10.2% in October. The economy lost an additional 190,000 jobs. It would not be surprising to see double digit unemployment persist until spring. [...] Of course NWR readers saw this coming. The fact that thousands of great paying jobs could be leaving the state of Washington and it was because of the antics of the Democratics and the Union...
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Church ministers to grieving community
By Sheila Allen
NW Baptist Convention
lRIDGEFIELD, Wash. — On August 10 several recent graduates of Ridgefield (Wash.) High School piled into vehicles for a trip to the beach before launching on their own journey to college, military assignments and jobs. [...]
Continuing in its quest to be the biggest propoganda mouthpiece for the Obama administration among all dinosaur media outlets, the Fish Wrapper (aka The Oregonian) published a story about how the Generational Theft Act of 2009 (also known as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) has "saved or created" [...]
GE has spent huge sums trying to position itself as smart and green. Few companies have lobbied harder for subsides and the proposed cap & trade system, from which it would profit greatly. It also lobbied hard for the law which set efficiency standards that will essentially outlaw incandescent light [...]
This came into the mailbox (produced and mailed by your tax dollars, of course).
Making Oregon a model for the nation?
"Congressman David Wu: Making Oregon a National Model for Green Homes, Offices, and Jobs"
Has this guy noticed the unemployment rate in the state? Oregon is currently number [...]
Two items in the news today: environmeddlists continue to obstruct solar power projects. What? Say it isn't so! Ah, but it is.
At stake is the creation of 48,000 jobs and more than 5,300 megawatts of new energy, enough to power almost 1.8 million homes, according to federal land managers.
The' [...]
Oregon has gotten $1 billion (of its $3.9 billion allotment) of stimulus funds. I can imagine outraged anti-big government types already doing the math on their bar napkins: That works out to roughly [...]
"Americans dominated the 2009 Nobel Prizes for the sciences. Eight of the nine winners were American citizens. What is even more striking is that five of those American winners are immigrants to the United States. Yet, in the immigration debate, the contribution of highly educated and" [...] 
For what its worth...
