Oregon Farm Bureau Farm Bureau recognizes Rep. McLane and Sen. Ferrioli Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli and House Republican Leader Mike McLane were honored with special awards by OFB President Barry Bushue and OFB Executive Vice President Dave Dillon during the 81st Oregon Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Bend, Dec. […]

By Rick Sohn, p.H.D Umpqua Coquille LLC Near-record-breaking prices are being paid for winter logs, and its only December. Both housing starts and building permits surpassed 1million in the same month! Zillow made an anomalous multi-year upward adjustment in median US home values. Seven-year span of manufacturing, home construction, and […]

Oregon Cascade Policy Institute A new report released by Cascade Policy Institute concludes that the public-private partnership Oregon Wave Energy Trust has failed to achieve a return on public investment. The Oregon Wave Energy Trust (OWET) is a nonprofit, public-private partnership established by the Oregon State Legislature that works to […]

Robert Nelson, environmental policy professor at the University of Maryland Wildfires destroyed an estimated 6,500 square miles of U.S. forest lands in 2013, an area larger than the state of Connecticut. One reason fires blaze through so much land is poor wildfire management from the U.S. Forest Service. But instead […]