Tag: Business

Statewide “freeze”

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Unhappy Friday,  For your second Oregon Roundup of the week, we’re temporarily returning to Friday. It’s Friday the 13th, the weather in Oregon is miserable even by usual November standards, and Governor Kate Brown just announced a two-week statewide “freeze” in an attempt to blunt a surge of Covid-19 cases and related hospitalizations. Apparently there…

The dream of the ’70s is alive in Portland

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The dream of the ’70s is alive in Portland If I were to ask you to describe the Portland City Council in relation to an historical figure, “Nixonian” probably wouldn’t leap immediately to mind, but it should. In the early 1970s, Nixon instituted price and wage controls throughout the economy in an effort to combat…