Testimony on HB 2700
The Cascade Policy Institute, a non-partisan free-market think tank, would like to present…
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Testimony on SB 80 and SJR 10
Before the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee on deleting the double majority voting…
Read Blog DetailDesigning the Carbon Cartel
Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced on Monday that he has joined 4 other governors…
Read Blog DetailAn inconvenient truth (about prevailing wages, not global warming)
Cascade has researched, written and testified about what’s wrong with prevailing wage laws…
Read Blog DetailEvidence-Based War on Poverty
Summary Forty-three years after President Johnson declared the War on Poverty, Americans are…
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Before the House Business and Labor Committee on certain exemptions from prevailing wage…
Read Blog DetailTestimony on SB 580
Before the Senate Business, Transportation and Workforce Development Committee on the establishment of…
Read Blog DetailLife, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wi-Fi
Summary As Thomas Sowell once wrote, “What is politically defined as economic ‘planning’…
Read Blog DetailSmith and Wyden on health care reform
Oregon’s two U.S. Senators spoke on a wide range of issues at a…
Read Blog DetailOregon Legislative Update
Summary The 2007 Oregon State Legislature is in full swing and it’s getting…
Read Blog DetailReal Leadership is More than Just Tilting at Windmills
On Monday, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman signed the nation’s first universal school voucher…
Read Blog DetailComments on the Discussion Draft Report of the City of Portland Peak Oil Task Force
Speculation about “peak oil” is an intellectual fad that has been fashionable at…
Read Blog DetailLuddites against Internet learning
Oregon currently has 70 public charter schools which provide for some diversity in…
Read Blog DetailOutline of Testimony by John A. Charles, Jr. Regarding HB 2201
Tobacco taxes present a moral hazard. By using this as a finance measure,…
Read Blog DetailOutline of Remarks on SB 187
The primary effect of Oregon’s land-use regulatory system (especially the use of UGBs…
Read Blog DetailOutline of Remarks on Measure 37 Issues
The number of claims filed under M 37 indicates a vast, pent-up demand…
Read Blog DetailTestimony on HB 2037
Before the House Education Innovation Subcommittee in favor of removing restrictions on public…
Read Blog DetailLuddites against Internet learning
Oregon’s charter school law requires 50 percent of online charter school students to…
Read Blog DetailIf Only Capitalists Weren’t So Boring: Andrew Revkin on the politics of global warming
New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin spoke in Portland on January 17th…
Read Blog DetailFarm and Freedom Friendly Policies for Oregon
Preserving Farmland Without Farmers Since 1969, Oregon has pursued a stated policy objective…
Read Blog DetailPortland’s highway system: there is no there there
The Federal Highway Administration has apparently reached its limit with Portland’s fantasy transportation…
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