Again Oregon is #1

Have you noticed that when businesses with multi-state operations announce a Closure their Oregon branch is almost always the first to get the axe.

Here we go again with book distributor Baker & Taylor Inc. closing its recently-acquired Lake Oswego offices of Blackwell Book Services North America Inc., resulting in the eventual layoff of 139 workers.

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/12/07/daily17.html

Wasn't it only yesterday that Weyerhaeuser announced the sale of their Warrenton mill and that will result in it being closed for up to a year and laying off 94 workers.

Golly, if I didn't know that Ted the Red was leading Oregon on to a New Green World I might guess that a negative pattern was developing here.