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Oregon Reports No New COVID Deaths Two Days in a Row

Stay at Home order pays off for Oregonians

(SALEM, Ore.) - The state of Oregon’s death toll from COVID-19 is unchanged from yesterday and remains at 109, the Oregon Health Authority reported this morning.

There are 45 new cases of COVID-19 as of 8 a.m. today bringing the current state total of cases to 2,680.

National Artist Completes Series of 100 Paintings Depicting Historic Homes in Portland

Portraits pay tribute to the cultural architectural legacy of Portland by artistically documenting the “grandeur of these homes.”

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Historic Portland homes are the subject of a series of original paintings by national architectural artist Leisa Collins.

The house portrait series by Collins spans seventeen of her favorite neighborhoods, including Alameda, Beaumont-Wilshire, Concordia, Grant Park, Irvington, Laurelhurst, Sabin, Sellwood-Mooreland, Eastmoreland and Westmoreland.

Business Tricks You Need to Know

“You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.” -Zig Ziglar

(SALEM, Ore.) - When starting a business there is so much you need to learn, take into consideration, and apply to your business idea. If you do some quick research you will find many emerging trends that claim amazing results.

Often, these types of "over-positive" statements create unrealistic expectations among small business owners that people end up quite disappointed.

New Stimulus Must Include Benefits for Immigrant Essential Workers

Tax-paying frontline workers have been excluded from the stimulus package and need to be included going forward.

(LONDON) - As soon as it passed, Congressional lawmakers realized the $2.2 trillion CARES stimulus package to help the country through the COVID-19 pandemic would not suffice.

Yes, U.S.-born workers would eventually get $1,200 checks and significantly expanded unemployment insurance. But some essential workers have been left out in the cold.

COVID-19 - Facts or Fears? Solutions or Shutdowns?

A successful infectious disease protocol is called "common sense thinking."

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - "Physical" distancing and limiting contact with others makes sense until this virus gives us some credible information and treatment. In the meantime, has fear taken over common sense? Now we are dealing with a virus that is taking over our country in lives and livelihoods and rationale and answers are badly skewed.

My question is -- who is calling the shots as far as how people are dying -- accurately?

Oregon`s COVID Death Toll Hits 75

Oregon’s 75th COVID-19 death is a 45-year-old man from Marion County

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - COVID-19 has claimed one more life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 75, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 8 a.m. Monday.

Oregon Health Authority also reported 47 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the state total to 1,956.

U.S. Gasoline Demand Plunges to 52-year Low

The Oregon average is 75 cents less than a year ago.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Gasoline demand in the U.S. is plummeting to levels not seen since the spring of 1968.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, every region in the country is seeing gasoline and crude oil inventories increasing which is driving down pump prices even more.

Brain Trauma Takes Longer to Recover than Doctors Initially Believed

1.5 million Americans experience a traumatic brain injury every year

(SALEM, Ore.) - Studies into traumatic brain injuries have revealed that it takes longer than initially thought to fully recover from them.

If the results of these studies are confirmed through cross-peer review, it would force the medical industry to revise its guidelines regarding treatments.

Don`t Privatize the United States Post Office!

If the US Post Office is privatized, rural communities would suffer the most.

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) - The U.S. Postal Service is the most popular government agency in the country, with a favorability rating of nearly 90 percent. But now, President Trump is bent on destroying it.

This week, a task force led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House budget director Mick Mulvaney, is expected to endorse the privatization of the US Postal Service.

Oregon Reports One New COVID-19 Death

STAY HOME. STAY HEALTHY. SAVE LIVES.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - COVID-19 has claimed one more life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 53, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 8 a.m. today.

Oregon Health Authority also reported 57 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the state total to 1,584.