NW Law FirmCan Business Lawyers Afford to Practice “Defensively”? Stoel Rives LLP by Kenneth Odza I appreciate why lawyers practice defensively. We are risk adverse as a profession. But is this what our clients want from us? After all, our clients are usually in a risk-taking position when they seek […]

Smaller Homes, Smaller Footprint, DEQ-commissioned Report Shows Oregon Department of Environmental Quality A recently completed report commissioned by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in collaboration with the Oregon Home Builders Association and Earth Advantage Institute concludes that constructing smaller homes is among the best ways to reduce greenhouse gas […]

Oregon, Washington increase minimum wage for 2011 by Curt Kipp Oregon Association of Nurseries Oregon’s minimum wage will increase by 10 cents per hour to $8.50, effective January 1, 2011. The 10-cent increase mirrors a 1.15 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index since August 2009, according to a press […]

Ag Groups Warn Senators on Overreaching Cardin Bay Bill National Association of Wheat Growers Forty major agricultural groups including NAWG wrote all Senators this week strongly urging them to oppose any effort to insert language from Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-Md.) Chesapeake Bay bill, S. 1816, into other legislation in the […]

ASA Thanks Sec. Vilsack for Biofuels Support, Urges Congress to Pass Biodiesel Tax Incentive During Lame Duck Session American Soybean Association October 21, 2010…Saint Louis, Missouri… The American Soybean Association (ASA) appreciates comments made today by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack on the importance of continuing to […]

By American Farm Bureau Federation, In the late 1970s, the American Farm Bureau Federation produced a television documentary called The Lost Sheep. It was about coyote predation of America’s sheep population. The producer of the film, the late Jack Angell, a former NBC newsman, hoped to change the public’s attitude […]

By Oregonians In Action Rural property owners in Washington, Clackamas, and Multnomah Counties recently received some disturbing news from the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC). If you are a rural property owners in one of these counties, pay attention. In 2007, the Oregon Legislature approved a bill directing Metro […]

New Oregon-BPA agreement protects Willamette habitat By Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife STATE OF OREGON – BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION PORTLAND – Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Steve Wright, administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration, today signed a landmark agreement to jointly protect nearly 20,000 acres of Willamette Basin wildlife […]

Obama Administration Announces New Gas Mileage Standards for Heavy-duty Vehicles “Proposed Standards Consistent with Proposal in Merkley Oil Independence Plan” By Oregon U.S. Jeff Merkley Portland, OR – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation today announced the first national gas mileage and greenhouse gas emissions […]

Oregon producers participate in many voluntary programs By Oregon Department of Agriculture If government rental payments to Oregon landowners currently enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program were an agricultural crop, its value of nearly $27 million would make it the state’s 25th ranked commodity. However, there is no crop […]