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...
Within two to three hours, flames from Oregon wildfires swept through the communities of Phoenix and Talent, destroying much of the towns and leaving many of its primarily Latino residents homeless. Jairo Gomez urged his wife and three children to leave their mobile...
Some events in life are a catalyst for ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Back in 1975, 6-year old Virginia Garcia, the daughter of migrant farmworkers, died from a foot infected by an untreated cut. Virginia and her parents weren’t able to access healthcare...
A popular local taco shop in Redmond Oregon announced plans to expand to Bend. Less than a month later, the new location was robbed. In June 2020, KTVZ announced that Lucy’s Taco Shop would expand their popular menu to a new location in Bend. Equipped with the brands...
The CDC has said that Latinos are hospitalized four times more often than whites when contracting COVID-19. In an interview with NPR, OSU professor Daniel Lopez-Cevallo said, “I think it’s a mix of factors that come into play to these – show these...
