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BREAKING: June PPI Inflation falls to 5.5%, below expectations of 6.2%.

Core PPI Inflation fell to 4.7%, below expectations of 5.2%.

Month-over-month PPI inflation fell -0.3%, the biggest decline since April 2025.

The odds of rate hikes are declining further.

[Central Oregon Daily News @CODaily]

The Bureau of Land Management is planning to hire 130 people and is holding a job fair this week with the goal of boosting domestic timber production.
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Nickel Mine Coming to Oregon, Intel expanding in Ireland

Semi stocks down, Montana Governor pushes for flat tax rate of 4.7%, oil futures up on continued conflict in mid east, Washington ranks 11th for best states for business, Intel to invest in Ireland expansion, Amazon et al plan to fight electric rate increase.

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Oregon's Intel choosing to invest in Ireland and not Oregon should be seen as commentary on how hard it is to be in business in Oregon

that $5.7 Billion could have made a huge difference here.

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Kiweit getting absolutely torched by the Oregon DJC.

scored a -36 on their last performance review for their issues on Abernethy Bridge.

"Kiewit initially earned a -8 score on ODOT’s evaluation for 2022-23. That was followed by a -31 score for 2023-24, a -21 for 2024-25 and a -36 for 2025-26. On ODOT’s scale — developed in collaboration with the Associated General Contractors more than a decade ago — -50 is the worst score possible."

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Seahawks Fetch Nine Billion

National housing affordability bill passes, Seattle’s Starbucks promised $250m in salaries to Tennessee, US and Iran trade attacks (again) in the war (not war) in Straight of Hormuz, Jefferson County receives $28m in transportation funding, Oregon Health Authority awards $175m in grants to rural health providers.

[Savage Citizens @savagecitizens]

“”To get Downtown Seattle’s office market back to 9% vacancy requires 14,000,000sf of office space to be leased, which is 70,000 jobs, or 35 Starbucks Nashville’s”

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There are no adults.

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@torontomusicguy @SirajAHashmi guess this settles it. I'm now officially out of the loop.

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Every male trail runner in Bend looks like this.

[R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore]

I’m afraid we’re cooking now…

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@KGWNews crazy that health insurance has gotten so expensive and yet providers are still unable to be solvent without issues.

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Costco being sued and announcing June sales 10% higher than last June on the same day is somehow very on brand for Costco.

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Spokane Valley gets $21 million for road interchange project

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@fabricegrinda $30k / month in utilities is insane. Are you running a castle?

are utilities 100x more expensive in Turks?

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Bend based Platformr raises $2.75M in new funding