New Study Shows that Selling the Elliott State Forest Could Double the Common School Fund
For immediate release, March 19, 2007 Cascade Policy Institute released a report today…
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Another Option for School Funding: Selling the Elliott State Forest
Introduction School funding has become one of the most intractable policy issues of…
Read Blog DetailLegislative Leadership Forum – March 16, 2007
Ending Oregon’s War on the Poor 10 Strategies for Reducing Economic Barriers Cascade…
Read Blog DetailThe Great Green Power Swindle
One of the governor’s top priorities is SB 373, a bill mandating that…
Read Blog DetailEconomists DO NOT AGREE about elimination of the corporate kicker
The legislative debate on whether to finance a rainy day fund by ending…
Read Blog DetailThe business of a rainy day fund
Virtually everyone agrees that the state of Oregon needs a rainy day fund;…
Read Blog DetailProtecting the "victims"
There’s no one right or wrong way to hold an election in a…
Read Blog DetailTestimony on HB 2700
The Cascade Policy Institute, a non-partisan free-market think tank, would like to present…
Read Blog DetailTestimony 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…
Read Blog DetailTestimony on HB 2557
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…
Read Blog DetailInvited Testimony on HB2201: “Oregon Healthy Kids Program”
Presented to a Joint Hearing of the House Committee on Health Care and…
Read Blog DetailWill taxing smokers make kids healthy?
Governor Kulongoski wants the state to offer free or highly subsidized health insurance…
Read Blog DetailMaking more health insurance premiums tax-deductible
Why are your health insurance premiums tax deductible if paid by your employer,…
Read Blog DetailAn Inconvenient Comparison: Should Oregon Trust Europe’s Model of CO2 Trading?
Introduction Carbon trading programs have recently been implemented in Europe, and proposals for…
Read Blog DetailReduce the burden of the Business License Fee
Testimony before the Portland City Council January 18, 2007 I’m Steve Buckstein, Senior…
Read Blog DetailForward into the Past
This week TriMet began construction on its next light-rail project which will shut…
Read Blog DetailSustainability without education won’t work
An influential group of business and political leaders just completed their fifth annual…
Read Blog DetailWake up and Smell the Ammonia
In another one of its hyper-ventilating editorials on global warming, The Oregonian today…
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