Archive for April 2021
Oregon’s Leisure and Hospitality Industry
by Guy Tauer Regional Economist Coos, Curry, Jackson, and Josephine counties guy.r.tauer@oregon.gov Leisure and hospitality businesses employed an average 160,200 workers in 2020. Of those, roughly one out of eight were employed in accommodations, about the same as in arts, entertainment, and recreation. Just more than three-fourths of leisure and hospitality workers worked in food…
Read MoreCOVID-19 Impacts on Oregon’s Breweries and Pubs
by Damon Runberg Regional Economist Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath, and Lake counties damon.m.runberg@oregon.gov Last year was difficult for many types of businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically altered the way we engage the economy. Breweries and brewpubs had been posting slower rates of growth before the onset of the pandemic, but the closure of in-person dining…
Read MoreInterview with Moneeka Settles, Program Coordinator of the SOU Innovation & Leadership Program
By Chris Cook, Capiche, capiche.us President and CEO of Capiche & Capiche Wine, Chris Cook is a leadership coach focused on happiness, culture, living your brand, and winery marketing & PR. She brings decades of experience in marketing and a love of entrepreneurship. INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY MELISSA L. MICHAELS, CAPICHE CONTRIBUTOR/STRATEGIC PARTNER, MICHAELS & MICHAELS CREATIVE, LLC When Moneeka Settles…
Read MoreWho Benefits from the Housing Market?
By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis oregoneconomicanalysis.com One of the darker, underlying currents to the housing discussion is something along the lines that it’s the builders and developers who benefit the most, often described as exploiting or eroding our livability and quality of life. Usually this is couched in, shall we say, more…
Read MoreA few words from Jim – April 2021
The special report on Fire Victim Housing took me 2 days of interviews with 8 people that have been working very hard to find housing solutions for people that lost their homes in the fire. There is a lot going on and it’s a big story. I didn’t even get a chance to share with…
Read MoreFamily-Owned and Pacific Northwest-Founded Peninsula Truck Lines Celebrates 70th Anniversary
From day one in 1951 when three family members started trucking between Seattle and Port Angeles, Washington, to today, it has been quite a ride. Peninsula operated in a heavily regulated industry with both rates and routes controlled by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. Expansion of territory was mostly…
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