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Oregon population is flat while WA, MT and ID grow, Starbucks removes $250k spending limit on CEO flights, Intel to contribute $1,000 to Invest America Accounts for employees, Amazon closing Go and Fresh stores, crypto platform Coinbase allows for rare earth investments, US dollar losing value, Gold still moving higher.
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(ID) Kuna names boomtown as growth reshapes city (IBR)
Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Bynum pitches patchwork ‘K-30’ plan to tackle generational affordability issues (Bulletin)
Idaho bill wants to make sure prisoners don’t profit from tell-all murder books (IDST)
Vancouver library board removes ‘equitable access’ from strategic plan (OPB)
Oregon’s population barely changes as Washington adds more than 70,000 in 1-year period (OPB)
Seattle’s job market shrunk in 2025, marking first dip since Covid (KUOW)
Montana’s tourists are getting older, richer, and rarer (MTFP)
(Salem) City Council moves Forward with Repealing the Downtown Business Parking Tax (SBJ)
Oregon population growth among slowest in the nation (ORLive)
US Takes first steps to possibly reopen embassy in Venezuela after Maduro’s ouster (ST)
Wallowa County gets $2.75M for sheriff’s equipment (LGO)
The Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 class of 2026 (BizJournals)
Amazon will close Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores (Amazon)
Micron Breaks Ground on Advanced Wager Fabrication Facility in Singapore (Micron) (For those keeping score, they are spending $100b in NY, $50b+ in ID and $24B in Singapore + more)
Intel will match $1,000 government contribution to employees’ ‘Trump Accounts’ (ORLive)
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Community Highlight
Medford removing controversial bike lanes on Main Street (OPB)
The city spent $500k installing bike lanes with federal funding. Not it has to give the money back and remove the bike lanes
James McLaughlin challenge Rupert for Deschutes County Sheriff (Bulletin)
Deschutes has a storied history of bad choices for sheriffs.
Rip’s Spotlight
For the first time in 6 years, Bend’s bus system will be charging fees
Central Oregon bus riders prepare for looming fare hike (Bulletin)
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