WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The American Trucking Associations issued the following news release: By a vote of 357-70 last night, the House passed a bipartisan, bicameral compromise tax package authored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Missouri). The bill must now be considered by the Senate before heading to the President's desk to be signed into law. The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 restor  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- The American Trucking Associations issued the following news release: Today, the American Trucking Associations welcomed five major new federal investments by the Department of Transportation that will add approximately 1,000 truck parking spaces and make it easier for drivers to locate parking along key freight corridors in Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. "The severe shortage of truck parking continues to rank among drivers  more

EUGENE, Oregon, Feb. 3 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on Feb. 2, 2024: * * * Conservation Groups Prepare for Legal Action * * * The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("Service") announced today that it will not list gray wolves in the western U.S. under the Endangered Species Act ("ESA") finding them "not warranted" for federal protection. Today's decision will allow Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana to continue their widespread killing of these intelligent,  more

SALEM, Oregon, Jan. 31 -- The First Liberty Institute issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Today, the Oregon Court of Appeals again heard oral arguments in the case of Aaron and Melissa Klein, former owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa. Last June, the Supreme Court of the United States vacated an earlier decision by the state court that effectively forced Aaron and Melissa out of business for refusing to create a message that conflicted with their sincerely held religious beliefs. I  more

SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 3 -- The Humane Society of the United States issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2024: Wildlife-advocacy and animal-protection groups sent an urgent letter (https://biologicaldiversity.org/programs/environmental_health/pdfs/2024-01-31_Letter-To-Gov-Kotek_Farmed-Mink.pdf) today calling on Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and state officials to address mink fur farms' escalating threats to public health and wildlife. The groups are asking the governor to fast-track phasing out  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on Feb. 1, 2024, to the New York Post: * * * Family Flees Us after Teacher Spurs, Hides 10-Year-Old Daughter's Gender 'Transition' By Michael Torres In June 2022, two Centennial Elementary School students in Olympia, Wash., disappeared. Their parents, Indian immigrants, had quietly driven them out of state, to Oregon, before they eventually decided to fly back to their former home country. No one in O  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 1 (TNSres) -- The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Much anticipated each year, results of the 27th annual Western Monarch Count have been released by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Scientists and volunteers counted a total of 233,394 butterflies at 256 overwintering sites to track the threatened butterfly's population levels. The count is slightly lower than last year's total of over 330,00  more