02/10/2012 - TCM Holdings Group, Inc. Establishes Small Business Lending Fund
TCM Holdings Group, Inc. (TCMH) announces a nationwide small business lending fund to provide financial support for entrepreneurs and small businesses.Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) February 10, 2012 TCM Holdings Group, Inc. (TCMH) announced that it has established a nationwide small business lending fund. TCMH’s new fund will lend $50,000 to $250,000 in financing to credit qualified small businesses ...
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02/10/2012 - Oregon Trails: History of Hospitals
By Ron Brown MEDFORD, Ore. -- From the time the first settlers began arriving in Southern Oregon, it was a battle for survival and most often the enemy was disease and injury. There were few doctors, much less anything like a hospital. When most of us think of a hospital, we probably have in mind something like Providence Medford Medical Center or Rogue Valley Medical Center, but the first ...
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02/10/2012 - Daily Deal Site Sharing Spree Partners with University of Oregon Alumni Association
The University of Oregon Alumni Association is partnering with daily deal website Sharing Spree to offer an exciting weekend-long deal for local residents and boost donation
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02/07/2012 - Oregon's Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 17th Annual National Awards Program
Alexander Stork, 18, of Klamath Falls and Chloe Staten, 14, of Medford today were named Oregon's top two youth volunteers for 2012 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.
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02/01/2012 - Tax appeals board behind schedule
OREGON – The newly appointed Ogle County Board of Review will begin annual property tax appeal hearings next week – several weeks behind schedule. Supervisor of Assessments Jim Harrison said Monday that hearings on the less complicated appeals are set for Feb. 9 and Feb. 16.
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01/31/2012 - Summa Real Estate opens show by artist Frank Moon on Feb. 7
Artist Frank Moon learned early that art made him feel alive. His work has been in collections at University of Oregon, UCLA, University of New Mexico, Santa Fe and in Las Cruces.
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01/30/2012 - Oregon falls out of top 10 LEED states
Problems with the numbers, LEED certification gaining momentum, listed as possible factors A new report by the U.S. Green Building Council recently listed the top 10 Leadership of Energy and Environmental Design states—Oregon was not one of them. Seven spots from where it finished last year, Oregon placed 12th on the list.
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01/27/2012 - David Fennell, Once Suspended Lawyer with Foreclosure Trustee, Now Accused of Over-Billing
?As if the foreclosure crisis hadn't generated enough distrust of the real estate industry, now comes another scandal. A complaint filed with the Oregon State Bar accuses an executive of Belle
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01/18/2012 - Oregon's jobless rate dips under 9%, but economists still wary
A broader measure of the state's joblessness finds that 17 percent of Oregon residents are unemployed or underemployed.
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01/17/2012 - C.O. Forecast Calls for Slow Growth
Central Oregon’s economy is expected to expand over the next eight quarters, but that growth is likely to be slow and steady.
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01/17/2012 - Agilyx Appoints 2 New Members to Board of Directors
BEAVERTON, OREGON-- - Agilyx Corporation , the first company to economically convert difficult to recycle waste plastic into synthetic crude oil, is pleased to announce the recent appointments of two new ...
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01/11/2012 - Pac-12 end SEC reign? Yes and no
The question from the the home office in Bristol: When will the SEC reign end? The short answer is next January when the winner of the Pac-12 championship -- USC or Oregon (or is is Oregon or USC?) -- stomps a bootprint on LSU's forehead in South Florida. The long answer is, well, it's not going to end. And there are specific, proven reasons for this. They are the same reasons the SEC became ...
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01/10/2012 - DEQ fines Pearl District real estate company for water violations
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has fined a local real estate developer $4,941 for water quality violations.
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12/31/2011 - Are Oregon home sellers really subject to a double tax? PolitiFact Oregon
PolitiFact Oregon looks into whether Oregon home sellers are getting taxed twice and what a proposed constitutional amendment could do to change that. See what we found.
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12/29/2011 - $15 million Lake Oswego island property still on market after 3 years, ongoing legal dispute
After three years on the housing market, A 13,500-square foot Lake Oswego island estate has yet to find a buyer. The estate, which has been at the center of a legal dispute between its owner, Avia footwear founder Jerry Stubblefield, and former Oregon gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley, was built on Oswego Lake in 1929.
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12/28/2011 - The Realtors’ Anti-Tax Power Play
We have nothing against realtors. Many of them are fine human beings and decent, upstanding citizens. As individuals, realtors are all right by us. When they band together, though, they sometimes have all the charm of a pack of ravenous piranhas. Current case in point: the Oregon Association of Realtors’ campaign to write a ban on real estate transfer taxes into the state constitution. A real ...
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12/24/2011 - Oregon economy: More jobs, but number of jobless stays high
On paper, 2011 looked fairly good for Oregon employment. On the ground, conditions were grim.
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12/22/2011 - Technology Centers Set the Stage for 2011 Construction Projects
Welcome once again to our annual profile of the Central Oregon commercial construction and real estate industries. We have selected 30 projects this year, based on construction cost permitted in 2010.
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12/06/2011 - 'Investigative blogger' doesn't get journalist's protection, Portland judge rules
A federal jury has ruled an "investigative blogger" defamed a central Oregon attorney in a case that raises questions about press protections and the nature of the press itself in the Internet age.
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11/21/2011 - LaneCo real estate: Good time to buy, good time to sell
While Oregon is still in a an economic downturn, home sales in Lane County are on the rise this fall.
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11/20/2011 - Crash of ultra wealthy a warning to us all
Tim Blixseth grew up poor in rural Oregon with a rusty spoon in his mouth. Edra was a single mom at 17 who worked the night shift at a diner. They met back in the 1970s at a restaurant Edra managed.
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11/18/2011 - Oregon City Commissioner Jim Nicita's fate in voters' hands
More than 1,800 Oregon City registered voters signed recall petitions to force the Dec. 6 election. The recall effort has raised $5,600 from Nicita's critis and $2,100 from his supporters.
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11/15/2011 - Oregon Cost Segregation Decision Could Vindicate Consultants
The decision by the Oregon Tax Court in the case of Ronald and Daryl Pearce??is a Happy Haloween gift to cost segregation cosultants. Cost recovery deductions for commercial real estate are very slow.?? A commercial building is deemed to have a 39 year life. This has led to a small army of consultants who engage ...
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11/12/2011 - Beavers' offense, run defense ineffective in 23-6 loss at Cal
SAN FRANCISCO – It’s not as if Oregon State is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Not when the Beavers are giving up chunks of real estate the size of Manhattan on the ground. It still felt that way after California’s 23-6 victory Saturday at AT&T Park, the latest ...
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10/20/2011 - Today’s Featured Listing: Bright and Spacious Oregon Home
Today’s featured listing, offered at $298,500, is located in Beaverton, Oregon, and is being listed by Real Estate Information Network® (RREIN) Member Prudential Northwest Properties. Set on a well maintained corner lot, this 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom home offers an open…
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10/31/2011 - Destination® Hotels & Resorts Selected to Manage the 257-room Valley River Inn in Eugene, Oregon
Just two hours south of Portland and only minutes from downtown Eugene and the University of Oregon, the Valley River Inn offers 257 guest rooms and suites and 15,000 square feet of meeting space, the most comprehensive meeting facilities in the area. The Valley River Inn also offers the local's favorite dining, SweetWaters restaurant, in addition to access to nearby recreation including 12 ...
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10/20/2011 - Karlin Buys Nearly 1M SF in Four Deals
LOS ANGELES- Karlin Real Estate has acquired a commercial office campus in Sacramento, a mixed use property in Oregon, a retail pad site in Las Vegas and a grocery-anchored retail center in Scottsdale, AZ, according to managing director Matthew Schwab of the Los Angeles-based company.
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10/19/2011 - Ogle County property values down – except farmland
OREGON – The values of many Ogle County properties are down this year thanks to the sluggish economy and declining real estate prices. “Commercial and residential is down – it varies from township to township,” Ogle County Supervisor of Assessments Jim Harrison said.
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10/19/2011 - Veteran Bend Real Estate Agent Retiring
His ads are well-known around Central Oregon, but now, a well-known real estate broker is stepping down. Steve Scott said Wednesday he will retire and his company, Steve Scott Realtors will close on Dec. 15.
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10/15/2011 - BYU report card: Nelson, Hoffman fuel Cougar offense
BYU defeated Oregon State, 38-28, Saturday in Corvallis, Ore. Here's how the Cougars (5-2) graded out in beating up the...
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10/13/2011 - Officer-Involved Fatal Shooting
By Bryan Navarro MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. -- A shooting and subsequent police standoff in Southern Oregon end in the death of the suspect by the hands of a Myrtle Creek police officer. Investigators are looking through the real estate office where the shooting took place, the car, and on the ground in the surrounding area, finding evidence to put together what happened Wednesday Morning. Those who ...
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10/13/2011 - UPDATE: Gunman who police shot in Myrtle Creek has died
Witnesses say a gunman charged into the office of a Southern Oregon real estate agent he blamed for breaking up his marriage, chased the man outside and shot him.
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10/13/2011 - Police kill S. Ore. gunman who wounded agent
MYRTLE CREEK, Ore. -- Witnesses say a gunman charged into the office of a Southern Oregon real estate agent he blamed for breaking up his marriage, chased the man outside and shot him. Then, the witnesses tell the Roseburg News-Review the gunman told police in Myrtle Creek to "just shoot me. Kill me." When it was over Wednesday, 58-year-old John Bocock of Myrtle Creek was dead. A witness says ...
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10/12/2011 - Oregon Historical Society expected to name Kerry Tymchuk as its permanent executive director
Kerry Tymchuk expected to be name permanent director of Oregon Historical Society.
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10/11/2011 - State Land Board to Sell 9 C. Oregon Parcels
The State Land Board voted Tuesday to sell nine state-owned parcels in Central Oregon, totaling about 500 acres, part of holdings across Oregon that the state maintains to raise money for schools.
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10/08/2011 - Residents struggle on in Crook County, with Oregon's highest unemployment rate
Signs of distress are everywhere in central Oregon's Prineville. Consignment stores dot downtown. Homes, some pasted with foreclosure notices, sit empty. Grocery stores see lots of food stamps, from former mill hands, onetime construction workers and many others.
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10/03/2011 - Oregon's probability of recession: 40 percent or more, economists say
Tim Duy, a University of Oregon economist who called the last recession, went further Monday, saying the state faces better than even odds of another one.
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10/03/2011 - What Motivated Oregon Voters To Raise Taxes?
When Oregonians voted last fall to increase income taxes on people making more than $125,000 a year, the campaign's success caught the attention of the White House. How did they do it? The campaign says its key message was "up-down," not "left-right." But a Portland real estate developer says the measures hurt the area.
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09/30/2011 - Regional food bank reports record demand
For the first time ever, distribution of emergency food boxes in Oregon and Southwest Washington topped 1 million as growing levels of long-term unemployment forced more and more people to fall into poverty and to seek emergency food.
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09/26/2011 - Monday biz roundup: Solyndra bankruptcy raises questions about Oregon's taxpayer-backed solar push; new I-5 bridge ...
Also: The ongoing revival in Oregon tech entrepreneurship has been accompanied by a leap in new resources.
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09/25/2011 - Biologists say Oregon down to a dozen wolves
Oregon's largest wolf pack has moved deep into the state and into Washington.
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09/22/2011 - Tonkon Torp Attorney Pens Timely New Book on Oregon Water Law
One of the Pacific Northwest’s foremost water policy experts has written a new book detailing water law and water rights in Oregon.
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09/21/2011 - Powin Energy Receives Significant Order for Lithium Rechargeable Battery Products
Powin Corporation , an Oregon-based OEM and direct manufacturer of outdoor cookware products, gun safes, fitness and recreational equipment, truck parts, plastic products, renewable energy products and furniture for some of America's most well known retailers, today announced that Powin Energy, its wholly-owned subsidiary, has received an initial Purchase Order from LiteSolar for approximately ...
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09/20/2011 - Metro mulls Blue Heron bankrupt property bid
In the same breath that she confirmed the regional government's interest in buying the 22 acres of former Blue Heron paper mill real estate in Oregon City, Metro Councilor Carlotta Collette acknowledged the numerous hurdles to pulling off such a public purchase. The bankruptcy trustee is accepting ...
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09/19/2011 - One Third of Oregon Home Sales Now Foreclosures
Foreclosures continue to flood Oregon's housing market and accounted for one-third of all home sales this spring. At 33 percent, Oregon's housing market is in the top 10 in terms of foreclosed homes as a percentage of all home sales.
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09/19/2011 - Powin Corporation Subsidiary Receives Another Substantial Order From LiteSolar
Powin Corporation , an Oregon-based OEM and direct manufacturer of outdoor cookware products, gun safes, fitness and recreational equipment, truck parts, plastic products, renewable energy products and furniture for some of America's most well known retailers, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Quality Bending & Fabrication , has received another substantial Purchase Order from ...
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09/17/2011 - Oregon hopes to mimic success of grass exports
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is on a trip through Asia hoping to create potential trade agreements.
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09/15/2011 - Oregon's Blue Heron Paper Mill Heading to Auction
Sept. 15, 2011 (Press Release) - Next week marks a new beginning for Oregon City. The machinery and all contents of the 23-acre industrial complex that was Blue Heron Paper Company will be auctioned off to the public.
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09/14/2011 - Historic Blue Heron Paper Mill Goes to Auction
Next week marks a new beginning for Oregon City. The machinery and all contents of the 23 acre industrial complex that was Blue Heron Paper Company will be auctioned off to the public.
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09/12/2011 - Court rulings complicate evictions for lenders in Oregon
Another Oregon judge has halted an eviction, ruling that the bank could not prove it held title to the home.
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