Emerging Leader: July 2022
Name: Alex Ferry Title (Include Company): State Farm Insurance Agent How do you define leadership? Someone who is disciplined in their craft that influences others around them without trying. They lead by example in a humble manner that encourages an environment of servant-based leadership. Leadership also characterizes someone who prioritizes …
Salem Coffee Roasters Lifts Up Other Coffee Growers Around the World
Local Business is Blowing Up!
SALEM- Rose City Balloons started as a passion and turned into a business for entrepreneur Betsy Vega.
Technically, her creativity and business began in 2007 when she began decorating her kids’ birthdays. Her son wanted a Spongebob theme for his seventh birthday and so her passion was born.
At the time, Vega had a full-time job at a cancer center in …
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Change of Use is the New Theme in Commercial
Mortgage Market Offers a Lending Hand
Salem Is the 9th Most Dependent Midsize U.S. Metro on Small Businesses
You can see in a new report from Smartest Dollar looking at which U.S. locations are most dependent on small businesses, despite representing 99.9% of all businesses in the country and generating nearly half U.S. annual GDP, the role of small businesses in the economy has been on a decline for several decades. In the late 1980s, small businesses employed 54.…
Oregon’s Latest Stab at Single Payer Health Care
Be Bold, Be Aware.
Nonprofit Organization: Be Bold Street Ministries International Overdose Awareness Day Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022 In the United States drug overdose has continued to skyrocket; From Dec. 2020 to Dec. 2021, the AMA reported more than 107,000 deaths in our nation due to this crisis. With the drug Fentanyl driving this epidemic, record highs …