PROMOTIONS In a unanimous vote at United Insurance’s annual shareholder meeting in December, Zack Frechette was elected the next president and CEO of the company. Frechette will help ensure the company’s success as the region’s fastest-growing independent and privately owned insurance agency. A graduate of the University of Maine, Frechette has served as vice president […]
SALEM â The Oregon Legislature could be cut out of drawing new legislative and congressional districts because of late Census Bureau data, lawmakers are expected to hear Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Kathleen M. Styles, chief of Decennial Communications and Stakeholder Relations for the U.S. Census Bureau is set to testify Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Redistricting Committee. According to meeting materials Styles submitted in advance, the bureau is months behind its timeline to provide the legally required data to draw maps that reflect population shifts since 2010.
The new districts would be used in the 2022 election. Oregon also is expected to gain a sixth congressional seat. In preparation for the reapportionment, the Legislature created the House and Senate redistricting committees.
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SOUTH KOREA returned to first place in the latest Bloomberg Innovation Index, while the US dropped out of a top 10 that features a cluster of European countries. Korea regained the crown from Germany, which dropped to fourth place. The Asian nation has now topped the index for seven of the nine years that it’s been published. Singapore and Switzerland each moved up one spot to rank second and third.
The Bloomberg index analyzes dozens of criteria using seven equally weighted metrics, including research and development spending, manufacturing capability and concentration of high-tech public companies.
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The cover of MultiStories: 55 Antique Skyscrapers & the Business Tycoons Who Built Them.
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Leet resident Mark Houser is the author of “MultiStories: 55 Antique Skyscrapers & the Business Tycoons Who Built Them.”
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