Hispanics own 55 banks and credit unions nationwide, but none yet in Oregon. The only state on the West Coast to make the list was California, where five financial institutions are owned by Hispanics. New Jersey has two, and Florida has eight financial institutions...

Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill that requires retailers in Oregon to accept cash. The measure, SB 1565, excluded transactions such as those at farmers markets, roadside stands, and aboard airplanes, and it allows businesses to refuse to take coins for purchases of...

Tamale Boy headquarters moves out of Portland over crimeTamale Boy owner Jaime Soltero, Jr. opened his first food truck in 2010 in Portland. Headquartered in North Portland, Tamale Boy also has a NE Portland location and a suburban Happy Valley location. Pre-pandemic...

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...

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...