Fewer workers commute from out of state, another sign of Oregon’s soft labor market
Source Scout · The Oregonian / OregonLive reports: Oregon’s data centers always seem to be one step ahead. With lawsuits, lobbying, nondisclosure agreements, cozy relationships with public officials and well-timed tax filings, tech companies have hidden details of their operations, locked in billions of dollars in tax breaks and beaten back efforts to regulate or rein them in. “At this point it looks very much like the data centers, the companies behind the data centers, are winning at the expense of the public interest,” said Kate Titus, executive director of the good governance organization Common Cause Oregon.