A12 The BulleTin • Wednesday, June 16, 2021
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TODAY
THURSDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
75°
LOW
50°
Pleasant and warmer with
plenty of sun
Very warm with plenty of
sunshine
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
66°
72° 92° in 1917
52°
42° 24° in 1902
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
Trace
Record
1.35" in 1903
Month to date (normal)
0.37" (0.41")
Year to date (normal)
2.52" (5.43")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.25"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Thu.
Sun
5:22am/8:51pm 5:22am/8:51pm
Moon 11:20am/12:53am 12:30pm/1:19am
Mercury 5:11am/7:51pm 5:06am/7:45pm
Venus
6:56am/10:25pm 6:58am/10:25pm
Mars
8:18am/11:17pm 8:17am/11:15pm
Jupiter 12:25am/11:01am 12:22am/10:57am
Saturn 11:36pm/9:21am 11:32pm/9:17am
Uranus
3:03am/5:14pm 2:59am/5:10pm
First
Full
Last
New
Jun 17
Jun 24
Jul 1
Jul 9
Tonight's sky: Emerging from the east near
midnight is the great square of Pegasus the
Flying Horse.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
10
10
5
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
SUNDAY
87°
56°
Mostly sunny and very
warm
EAST: Plenty of
sunshine and warmer
Wednesday. Clear and
comfortable Wednes-
day night. Very warm
Thursday; sunny.
CENTRAL: Sunshine
Wednesday; pleasant.
Fair and comfortable
Wednesday night.
Sunny and very warm
Thursday.
WEST: Mostly sunny
Wednesday; a pleas-
ant afternoon. Fair and
cool Wednesday night.
Sunny and warmer
Thursday.
81°
48°
Sunny and remaining very
warm
Plenty of sunshine
Astoria
69/50
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47630
86%
Wickiup
50472
25%
Crescent Lake
24982
29%
Ochoco Reservoir
8621
19%
Prineville
73080
49%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
113
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1230
Deschutes R. below Bend
128
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1580
Little Deschutes near La Pine
87
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
17
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
1
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
202
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
57
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
11
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: USDA Forest Service
California
Continued from A11
The Democratic governor
pointed to the more than 40
million doses of vaccine ad-
ministered and the resulting
plunge in cases as the reason
for the reopening.
“Foundationally, that’s why
we’re here today,” Newsom
said.
Ready for summer
Just in time for summer,
California wants to send the
message that life is getting
much closer to normal. The
economy is fully reopen for
the first time in 15 months
and people can largely return
to pre-pandemic lifestyles.
Fans can cheer maskless at
Dodgers and Giants baseball
games. Disneyland is opening
to all tourists after allowing
just California residents since
April. People can pack indoor
bars and nightclubs from the
Sunset Strip in Los Angeles to
the Castro in San Francisco.
Tourism was among the
hardest-hit industries.
“In terms of our incredible
cities, our iconic attractions,
the industry is ready to roll
out the red carpet to visitors
in California, around the na-
tion and even the world,” said
Caroline Beteta, president and
CEO of Visit California.
Pandemic highs and lows
saw California go from being
a success story to the U.S. epi-
center of the virus. As the first
in the country to impose a
statewide lockdown in March
2020, California’s businesses
were just starting to reopen
last June when cases started
rising.
By summer’s end, a darker
reality set in as California
hurtled toward a deadly win-
ter surge. Shutdowns, curfews
and harrowing images from
overwhelmed hospitals be-
came the norm as the state set
records almost daily for infec-
tions and deaths.
More people tested posi-
tive for the virus in California
(3.8 million and counting)
and more people died (63,000
plus) than anywhere else in
the country, although the na-
tion’s most populous state had
a lower per capita death rate
than most others.
California now has one of
the lowest rates of infection in
the country, below 1%. That
dramatic drop in infections
combined with an increasing
number of vaccinated resi-
dents — over 70% of adults
have had at least one dose —
led Newsom to announce in
April that most COVID-19
restrictions would be lifted
June 15.
Oregon, meanwhile, is on
track to lift restrictions this
month if vaccinations hit the
70% mark.
Anticipation replaces anxiety
California’s reopening
doesn’t necessarily mean peo-
ple will immediately flock to
places and events they once
packed or that businesses will
opt to return to full capacity
immediately. But a palpable
feeling of anticipation has re-
placed the anxiety, frustration
and sadness that ushered in
summer 2020.
For Angie Barragan, who
was born in L.A. and visited
last week from Las Vegas, so
many things that were once
normal feel new, awkward
and amazing: strolling in pub-
lic without a mask, socializing
for the first time in ages.
“It’s kind of learning how to
be a human again,” she said as
Tax break
Continued from A11
“The only thing Burdick and I did
is fine tune some issues we’d raised
over those four months (writing the
tax law) in 2013,” Boquist said.
He said the bill now moving for-
ward does not address all of the prob-
lems leaders were aware of when they
drafted the law all those years ago.
“The concern then was OK, you’re
trying to create jobs and we know for
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
95/71/0.00
Akron
75/56/0.00
Albany
73/54/0.03
Albuquerque
98/74/0.05
Anchorage
64/51/0.00
Atlanta
90/71/0.00
Atlantic City
79/66/0.80
Austin
95/71/0.00
Baltimore
83/63/0.70
Billings
105/66/0.00
Birmingham
89/70/0.00
Bismarck
95/58/0.00
Boise
87/62/0.00
Boston
73/62/0.01
Bridgeport, CT 80/65/Tr
Buffalo
75/61/0.00
Burlington, VT
79/61/0.42
Caribou, ME
70/57/0.52
Charleston, SC 94/73/0.00
Charlotte
88/66/0.00
Chattanooga
88/71/0.00
Cheyenne
92/55/0.00
Chicago
77/62/0.00
Cincinnati
82/57/0.00
Cleveland
72/55/0.04
Colorado Springs 92/60/0.00
Columbia, MO
92/66/0.00
Columbia, SC
93/72/0.00
Columbus, GA
96/72/0.00
Columbus, OH
81/59/0.01
Concord, NH
77/61/0.47
Corpus Christi
95/73/0.00
Dallas
97/77/0.00
Dayton
82/57/0.00
Denver
101/65/0.00
Des Moines
91/60/0.00
Detroit
77/59/0.00
Duluth
72/53/0.00
El Paso
98/72/0.00
Fairbanks
84/55/0.00
Fargo
82/52/0.00
Flagstaff
94/49/0.00
Grand Rapids
79/58/0.00
Green Bay
78/57/0.00
Greensboro
83/68/0.00
Harrisburg
80/61/0.01
Hartford, CT
81/64/0.01
Helena
94/59/0.00
Honolulu
87/74/0.00
Houston
98/77/0.03
Huntsville
88/68/0.00
Indianapolis
81/57/0.00
Jackson, MS
96/72/0.00
Jacksonville
95/72/0.28
Today
Hi/Lo/W
95/70/s
72/48/s
71/46/s
98/70/c
60/52/pc
86/65/s
77/61/pc
94/72/pc
79/57/s
85/55/s
87/63/s
95/54/s
85/56/s
77/58/s
78/56/s
69/49/s
73/51/pc
68/46/c
87/68/sh
86/59/pc
87/63/s
93/59/pc
78/58/s
79/57/s
70/49/s
95/65/c
91/68/s
88/61/pc
89/64/s
77/51/s
75/45/s
92/75/s
98/76/s
78/56/s
100/66/pc
90/69/s
76/53/s
78/57/pc
101/73/s
83/56/pc
93/61/c
90/56/pc
78/49/s
78/56/s
82/56/pc
78/53/s
76/50/s
81/49/s
87/74/pc
97/76/pc
86/62/s
81/57/s
91/65/s
90/71/t
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
84/66/pc
84/66/pc
64/53/c
104/78/pc
90/80/t
78/66/pc
80/71/pc
81/65/s
63/48/t
83/60/pc
52/44/pc
89/75/s
91/68/s
69/44/s
85/76/t
63/47/c
61/48/c
88/64/pc
71/47/pc
91/84/t
70/64/r
74/70/s
65/45/s
70/63/s
71/62/pc
84/63/pc
88/62/t
93/82/s
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W
96/72/s
79/61/s
73/47/s
96/71/pc
64/53/c
88/66/s
75/63/s
95/72/s
79/57/s
87/55/s
89/66/s
89/55/pc
92/61/s
77/59/s
78/58/s
74/59/s
77/55/s
67/48/sh
88/68/pc
84/59/s
88/65/s
91/58/pc
89/69/pc
83/63/s
80/64/s
94/65/c
96/76/pc
86/61/s
91/65/s
82/61/s
77/46/s
92/74/s
98/77/s
83/64/s
97/64/pc
96/71/t
83/64/s
83/60/t
98/73/s
63/48/r
88/59/s
89/56/c
84/65/pc
87/65/c
80/57/s
79/54/s
78/50/s
84/51/s
87/74/sh
96/74/s
88/65/s
85/67/pc
92/67/pc
90/71/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
60/52/0.67
93/72/0.00
78/55/0.00
114/85/0.00
79/57/0.00
93/69/Tr
93/69/0.00
90/66/0.00
84/63/0.00
82/58/0.00
90/73/0.00
89/74/0.70
73/61/0.00
83/63/0.00
86/70/0.00
95/77/0.00
80/67/0.01
85/68/0.02
83/75/0.00
94/66/0.00
94/64/0.00
88/72/0.08
120/82/0.00
88/59/0.00
81/65/0.82
115/85/0.00
75/56/Tr
69/59/0.17
79/64/0.01
85/71/0.00
99/64/Tr
88/56/0.00
84/67/Tr
73/56/0.16
91/54/0.00
91/66/0.00
107/75/0.00
94/73/0.18
86/65/0.00
74/57/0.57
78/55/0.00
96/68/0.34
96/72/0.00
69/53/0.01
92/54/0.00
68/55/0.36
91/65/0.00
89/77/0.31
115/80/0.00
97/67/0.00
82/66/1.83
95/62/0.00
76/52/Tr
116/83/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
61/47/c
93/74/s
77/50/s
115/90/pc
77/55/s
99/73/pc
89/71/s
98/72/pc
84/61/pc
80/57/s
89/71/s
87/78/t
74/57/s
89/68/pc
87/62/pc
94/78/pc
77/58/s
80/57/s
82/66/t
94/70/s
97/75/pc
89/73/t
118/91/pc
84/60/s
78/57/s
116/91/s
72/45/s
76/52/s
78/55/s
85/59/pc
89/57/s
96/63/s
82/58/pc
69/47/s
100/64/s
90/68/s
97/69/pc
93/74/pc
75/65/pc
78/58/s
89/61/s
95/61/t
91/69/pc
71/51/pc
98/69/c
72/49/s
90/70/s
90/79/t
112/81/s
97/74/s
79/59/s
97/72/s
79/52/s
111/79/s
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W
66/51/pc
99/77/c
86/64/pc
114/90/pc
80/61/pc
102/69/pc
92/72/s
92/69/s
87/68/s
88/66/c
91/72/s
88/81/t
87/69/pc
86/67/t
89/67/s
92/79/pc
77/62/s
80/60/s
80/62/pc
96/70/s
101/70/pc
89/73/t
118/90/s
90/75/pc
78/59/s
117/91/pc
76/56/s
77/52/s
78/54/s
82/58/s
85/58/s
102/68/pc
80/55/pc
76/55/s
108/65/s
95/79/pc
98/73/s
94/73/s
76/66/s
81/58/s
93/62/s
95/62/c
90/71/s
76/53/s
90/63/t
81/54/s
93/73/pc
89/78/c
111/81/pc
98/76/s
79/59/s
100/75/pc
88/57/s
117/83/s
107/85/0.00
71/55/0.24
73/63/0.11
81/61/0.01
75/55/0.00
90/77/0.02
99/82/0.00
86/72/0.67
68/48/0.00
73/61/0.15
86/64/0.00
75/63/0.00
79/66/0.00
55/43/0.00
73/54/0.00
69/56/0.07
79/70/0.18
91/79/0.12
87/79/0.09
66/54/0.00
61/51/0.00
94/82/0.00
80/71/0.00
82/68/0.21
72/61/0.17
68/55/0.11
81/46/0.00
75/50/0.00
105/80/c
70/54/t
72/52/pc
75/55/pc
72/54/t
89/79/t
93/79/pc
74/68/t
67/51/pc
71/47/pc
92/69/pc
73/66/pc
80/64/s
63/41/pc
65/55/pc
76/57/pc
85/65/pc
86/76/c
88/79/t
70/52/s
66/51/s
99/85/pc
79/69/s
75/69/r
69/49/s
66/52/pc
85/58/pc
77/54/s
107/81/s
70/55/t
76/58/s
74/54/s
71/55/c
88/79/t
92/79/s
84/70/sh
71/60/c
78/55/pc
87/66/t
71/67/t
82/62/pc
63/40/pc
64/56/c
76/56/s
77/66/c
84/76/t
88/78/t
75/57/pc
64/51/s
102/84/c
79/71/s
75/65/sh
78/61/pc
67/54/s
87/64/s
83/58/s
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 124°
at Death Valley, CA
National low: 33°
at Gothic, CO
Precipitation: 3.07"
at Fort Lauderdale, FL
FIRE INDEX
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Mostly sunny, a shower
possible; warm
Sunshine and very warm
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
65/52/Tr
69/50/s 68/52/s
La Grande
66/53/0.15 77/48/s 85/51/s
Portland
70/56/0.03 79/55/s 83/55/s
Baker City
74/49/0.12 76/42/s 84/46/s
La Pine
61/45/0.09 78/43/s 84/48/s
Prineville
66/52/0.12 79/48/s 84/55/s
Brookings
64/52/Tr
68/53/s 71/55/s
Medford
75/56/0.00 88/55/s 91/58/pc
Redmond
69/51/0.03 78/46/s 86/49/s
Burns
78/51/0.02 81/45/s 90/51/s
Newport
61/54/0.03 62/49/s 63/50/s
Roseburg
70/52/0.01 83/53/s 86/56/s
Eugene
71/51/Tr
79/49/s 84/51/s
North Bend
67/51/0.00 67/53/s 66/52/s
Salem
68/53/0.09 80/52/s 85/51/s
Klamath Falls
69/40/Tr
85/46/s 91/50/s
Ontario
89/64/0.00 86/55/s 94/59/s
Sisters
62/48/0.12 76/49/s 84/54/s
Lakeview
73/39/0.00 85/48/s 91/52/pc
Pendleton
71/57/0.14 76/50/s 86/53/s
The Dalles
77/58/Tr
84/55/s 92/57/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
88°
56°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
81/50
Rufus
Hermiston
81/53
81/50
83/56
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
83/54
78/50 79/55
75/44
Wasco
77/46 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
75/46
79/52
76/50
Sandy
84/55
McMinnville
70/49
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
77/53
Maupin
Government
79/49
77/48
75/49
Camp
78/51 Condon 74/51
Union
Lincoln City
73/50
70/46
78/46
Salem
65/51
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
80/52
Madras
80/48
Albany
73/45
Newport
Baker City
76/49
78/47
Mitchell
62/49
76/49
76/42
Camp Sherman
76/49
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
76/49
78/46
76/50
Day
Prineville
63/50
78/44
Ontario
Sisters
79/48
Paulina
79/49
86/55
Florence
Eugene 76/49
Bend Brothers 78/44
Vale
67/52
79/49
75/50
76/43
Sunriver
87/55
Nyssa
75/46
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
87/55
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
78/43
78/43
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
84/49
81/50
79/50
Fort
Rock
68/52
81/45
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
79/44
81/44
High: 89°
78/42
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Ontario
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
66/53
83/53
80/43
80/48
Low: 39°
Marsh
Lake
82/50
Port Orford
80/44
81/42
at Crater Lake
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
68/53
Pass
85/52
Chiloquin
85/46
88/54
Rome
Medford
84/49
Gold Beach
88/55
86/50
65/55
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
85/52
84/55
85/46
87/51
68/53
85/48
Seaside
69/50
Cannon Beach
68/51
TUESDAY
90°
58°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
MONDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
High
SATURDAY
87°
56°
83°
55°
Clear
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
FRIDAY
Jobs
Continued from A11
Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP
Silvia Guillen, 19, and Joseph
Alvarez, 22, both from El Paso,
Texas, kiss at Universal Studios
on Tuesday during California’s
“grand reopening.”
she shopped and strolled on
LA’s historic Olvera Street, a
restored Mexican marketplace
once clogged with tourists.
“But it’s great to be among
people.” People attending in-
door concerts, sporting events
or other large gatherings of
more than 5,000 people will
have to show proof they are
vaccinated or have a recent
negative COVID-19 test.
While fully vaccinated peo-
ple will no longer be required
to wear masks in most places,
those who are unvaccinated
are expected to, but it won’t
be enforced. Businesses have
three choices: operate on an
honor system, require cus-
tomers to show proof of vac-
cination or require everyone
to cover their faces.
Many question if the honor
system will work, including
the California Nurses Asso-
ciation, which said the new
rules essentially call on busi-
nesses and essential workers
to be the vaccination police.
For now, masks are still re-
quired in places like public
transit, airports, health care
settings and indoor school
classes.
the most part closely held doctor’s of-
fices don’t create jobs,” Boquist said.
He said it has proved challenging to
find a way to restrict the break to cer-
tain sectors of business without draw-
ing a legal challenge.
A large share of the state’s top 1% of
earners receive income from the types
of businesses that can take advantage
of the tax break: nearly 70%, accord-
ing to the Legislative Revenue Office.
Construction represented the largest
sector of pass-through businesses in
Restaurant owners, retail
stores and other service-sector
employers have complained for
months that enhanced jobless
benefits are giving prospective
hires an incentive to stay home.
Many national chains, from
Costco to Amazon to Chipotle,
have offered bonuses or raised
their starting wages in an effort
to lure workers off the sidelines.
Acknowledging the labor
squeeze, the employment de-
partment is beginning to nudge
benefits recipients back to the
job market. Beginning Satur-
day, some unemployed Orego-
nians will have to register with
the state’s iMatchSkills program
in order continue receiving
benefits. The rest must register
within the next few weeks.
And by the end of July, Or-
egonians collecting unem-
ployment benefits will have to
demonstrate they are actively
looking for work to remain eli-
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Assistance in covering fu-
ture rent could be particularly
important for renters who are
continuing to struggle amid
the pandemic. Renters who are
unable to pay their July rent on
time could face eviction.
However, renters who
missed rent payments between
April 2020 and June 2021 will
have until Feb. 28, 2022 to re-
pay that debt under a new state
law. That means renters should
prioritize paying their July rent
on time before trying to make
up any missed rent payments.
Oregon Housing and Com-
munity Services, the state
Oregon, followed by the combined
category of “professional,” scientific
and technology, which includes law-
yers and doctors, according to the
state’s most recent tax data from 2018.
The current proposal, Senate Bill 139,
would eliminate the tax break for own-
ers of businesses with more than $5 mil-
lion in annual profits. For partnerships
and S corporations with $251,000 to
$500,000 in income, including lawyers
and doctors, it would lower the tax rate
from 7.2% to 7%. By way of compari-
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Nairobi
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Oslo
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gible for aid. That’s standard
practice during normal eco-
nomic times, but Congress
allowed states to suspend
that requirement during the
pandemic.
While the jobless rate
hasn’t moved much in re-
cent weeks, other economic
barometers suggest thou-
sands of Oregonians are
indeed going back to work.
The number of people col-
lecting state unemployment
benefits plunged by 80,000
in the first five months of
the year.
“Oregon is still seeing a
tremendous amount of hir-
ing,” employment depart-
ment economist Gail Kru-
menauer said Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the depart-
ment said six broad labor
categories — trade, trans-
portation, finance, infor-
mation, construction and
professional services — are
within 3% of returning to
their pre-pandemic levels.
The company filed for its
IPO confidentially, meaning it
has started the regulatory pro-
cess of going public but isn’t
ready to disclose financial re-
sults and other corporate infor-
mation required of public com-
panies.
The state’s last major IPOs
were 17 years ago, when Cascade
Microtech and McCormick &
Schmick’s went public. McCor-
mick & Schmick’s sold in 2011,
Cascade Microtech in 2016.
A succession of relatively
small Oregon companies have
sold stock to the public in sub-
sequent years with mixed re-
sults, among them Erickson Air
Crane, Laird Superfood and
electric vehicle manufacturer
Arcimoto.
A Wilsonville battery inno-
vator, ESS Tech, plans to go
public in September by merg-
ing with an investment fund in
a deal valued at $1.1 billion.
agency administering the new
rental assistance program,
had received more than 8,000
applications from renters re-
questing more than $56 mil-
lion for rent and utility assis-
tance as of June 7.
A separate rent assistance
program, the Landlord Com-
pensation Fund, is currently ac-
cepting applications for a third
round of funding. Landlords
will be able to submit applica-
tions until June 18 to receive as-
sistance from that fund to cover
their tenants’ past-due rent.
Landlords who accept as-
sistance from that fund will
receive money to cover 80%
of their tenants’ past-due rent
and will be required to forgive
the other 20% of missed rent.
Landlords can access the appli-
cation at lcf.oregon.gov.
The state provided more
than $113 million in rental as-
sistance to help nearly 21,000
households through two previ-
ous assistance programs created
during the pandemic, according
to Oregon Housing and Com-
munity Services spokesperson
Connor McDonnell. McDon-
nell said those numbers could
include some overlap
The state has also allocated
about $73 million to landlords
to forgive the rent of approx-
imately 22,000 households
through the Landlord Com-
pensation Fund, according to
the agency.
son, people’s wages are taxed at 8.75%
for a single filer with $9,200 to $125,000
of income and 8.75% for joint filers with
$18,400 to $250,000 of income.
Senate Bill 139 would also tighten
employment requirements businesses
must meet to qualify, with an increas-
ing ratio of employees to owners the
more profits a business makes. For ex-
ample, business owners with $250,000
to $500,000 in profits would have to
employ one Oregon worker per owner
of the business, according to a legisla-
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tive document. Currently, the state al-
lows businesses to qualify if they have
at least one employee other than the
owner who works at least 1,200 hours a
year. Businesses that could not meet the
tighter requirement could still qualify
for the special business tax rates, if they
plow a large portion of their profits —
75% — back into the business.
Lawmakers on the Senate Com-
mittee on Finance and Revenue voted
along party lines Monday to send the
proposal to the full Senate for a vote.