Americans celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month each year from September 15 – October 15. Initially proclaimed in the late 1960s by President Lyndon Johnson and then expanded to a full month by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, this is a time to celebrate the...
Business owners in Washington County spoke out at a recent public meeting expressing alarm about the creation of homeless shelters near their businesses. As reported by the Portland Tribune, Washington County government and Centro Cultural de Washington County have...
Source: Twitter, US Marines During the tense and chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan to end a 20-year war, 13 service members were among the 170 people brutally killed by an ISIS-K terrorist suicide bomber at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul...
By Oregon Small Business Association The U.S. Labor Department has ordered the owners of a Beaverton restaurant to pay more than $400,000 in back pay to its 39 employees. Buffet Palace paid a flat monthly wage to its employees, no matter how many hours they worked,...
The New York Times featured the victims of devastating wildfires that destroyed homes, businesses, and communities in Southern Oregon in the fall of 2020. Like entrepreneur Francisco Javier Torres, who saw wildfires last fall devour 14 mobile homes he had rescued from...
