
Metro Nature Parks: Inaccessible by Design
By John A. Charles, Jr. Last month Metro auditor Brian Evans released an…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Last month Metro auditor Brian Evans released an…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. In June the elected Auditor for Metro published…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. ‘Tis the season for holiday wishes. And, toward that…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. If the Oregon Department of Transportation has its way,…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. This Thanksgiving let’s give thanks to the Pilgrims who…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. It’s the day after Election Day and the votes…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Yet again, Metro is asking for more money for…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Last week, an Oregonian story reported that for years,…
Read Blog DetailBy Taylor Marks Starting July 1, Portland property owners will have new choices…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry According to a revised report from economic consulting firm ECONorthwest,…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. For more than a year, Cascade Policy Institute has…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. People in the Portland area love their parks and…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry Land use regulations in Oregon are adversely impacting the state’s…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. February 3, 2022Senate Natural Resources CommitteeState CapitolSalem, OR…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry In December 2021, Metro, the Portland-area regional government, opened Newell…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Testimony of John A. Charles, Cascade Policy InstituteBefore…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry It’s been more than six years since Portland declared a…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. The Tigard City Council is going through the…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. With the retirement of Bob Stacey earlier this month,…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry Over the course of more than 25 years, Metro’s parks…
Read Blog DetailBy Micah Perry At a time when many Portlanders are sleeping on sidewalks,…
Read Blog DetailBy Mia Tiwana Portland’s Harriet Tubman Middle School might be on the move….
Read Blog DetailBy Stew Robertson The City of Portland’s housing state of emergency, first declared…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Portland’s housing crisis is now in its sixth year….
Read Blog DetailA proposed ordinance aims to deprioritize some homeless camps considered “low impact” By…
Read Blog DetailPortland’s policy of Inclusionary Zoning makes housing less affordable for families. By Vlad…
Read Blog DetailDoubling down on failing policy puts both homeless residents and taxpayers at risk…
Read Blog DetailApril 29, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cascade Policy Institute4850 SW Scholls Ferry Rd.,…
Read Blog DetailVia Email April 29, 2021 Metro Council600 NE Grand Ave.Portland, OR 97232 Re: …
Read Blog DetailVia emailMarch 30, 2021 Portland City Council, I’m Vlad Yurlov, policy analyst at…
Read Blog DetailSubjective rules reduce the supply of housing By Vlad Yurlov Portland City Council…
Read Blog DetailBy Vlad Yurlov and Eric Fruits, Ph.D. A recent Oregonian/OregonLive editorial criticizes Metro’s…
Read Blog DetailBy Vlad Yurlov Why is “affordable housing” so expensive? Many politicians, bureaucrats, and…
Read Blog DetailJanuary 22, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Eric Fruits, Ph.D.Office: (503) [email protected]…
Read Blog DetailBy Helen Doran In Metro’s latest quarterly newsletter, “Our Big Backyard,” the reader…
Read Blog DetailBy Vlad Yurlov Would you like to have a nice picnic near a…
Read Blog DetailBy Vlad Yurlov While many people in the Portland region value efficient governments,…
Read Blog DetailBy Helen Doran Did you know that more than three-fourths of Metro’s park…
Read Blog DetailBy Helen Doran A scenic drive through the country does not usually call…
Read Blog DetailBy Helen Cook On June 25th, Metro approved $700,000 in taxpayer money for…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Metro has a history of breaking promises to voters. This…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Portland’s housing crisis isn’t unique to the Metro region. Other…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. At the first—and likely only—public hearing on Metro’s “supportive…
Read Blog DetailTransparency is critical as Metro asks voters to trust the agency with billions…
Read Blog DetailPress Release: Eric Fruits, Vice President of Research of Cascade Policy Institute submitted testimony…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson There is a homeless crisis in Portland. According to a…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. By now, Oregon voters have received their ballots for…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. By now Oregon voters have received their ballots for…
Read Blog DetailOctober 15, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: John A. Charles, Jr. Eric…
Read Blog DetailBy Vladislav Yurlov, Helen Cook, and Micah Perry with Eric Fruits, Ph.D., research…
Read Blog DetailBy Helen Cook This summer, I was walking on an old logging road…
Read Blog DetailBy Vlad Yurlov In the 2018 general election, voters approved a bond measure…
Read Blog DetailBy Miranda Bonifield There’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government program, and…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. This week our State Treasurer, Tobias Read, issued…
Read Blog DetailBy Miranda Bonifield Remember that emotional final episode of the now-classic sitcom Friends?…
Read Blog DetailFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. 503-242-0900 [email protected] PORTLAND, Ore….
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson Whether or not you have ever visited a national park,…
Read Blog DetailBy Randall Pozdena, Ph.D. Executive Summary So-called smart growth policies are advocated as…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Summary of Conclusions Across the Western States, approximately 80…
Read Blog DetailBy Justus Armstrong Wildfires in Oregon this summer have burned thousands of acres,…
Read Blog DetailBy Jakob Puckett How much do we have to tax something to make…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson The Metro Council voted June 7 to place a housing…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Metro recently decided to refer a $652.8 million…
Read Blog DetailBy Rachel Dawson The Metro City Council voted June 7 to place a…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Oregon owns 1.5 million acres of School Trust…
Read Blog DetailFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. 503-242-0900 [email protected] PORTLAND, Ore….
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. In November the regional government, Metro, released the…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Oregon’s economy seems to be chugging along, yet many…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Earlier this year the state legislature passed a…
Read Blog DetailBy Lydia White Affordable housing advocates are quick to criticize Portland City Council’s…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. On October 19 the Metro Council adopted an…
Read Blog DetailBy Lydia White Last week the Idaho Department of State Lands and the…
Read Blog DetailTO: Members of the Oregon Legislature FM: John Charles for Cascade Policy Institute…
Read Blog DetailBy Lydia White At a time when Legislators threaten to slash government services…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. State Treasurer Tobias Read has announced that he…
Read Blog DetailBy Lydia White The City of Portland’s inclusionary zoning* requirements have turned a…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. At the February 14 meeting of the State…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. On February 14 the Oregon State Land Board…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Advocates of public schools frequently complain about the…
Read Blog DetailBy Lydia White The masterminds behind Portland’s newest inclusionary zoning recommendations have proven…
Read Blog DetailBy Randall O’Toole Executive Summary Portland, Bend, Medford, and to a lesser degree…
Read Blog DetailFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. [email protected] 503-242-0900 PORTLAND, Ore….
Read Blog DetailThe Portland City Council has approved a plan for the Housing Bureau to…
Read Blog DetailLast week the Oregon Department of State Lands announced the “fair market value”…
Read Blog DetailFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. 503-242-0900 [email protected] PORTLAND,…
Read Blog DetailIn August 2015 the Oregon Land Board (Governor Kate Brown, Secretary of State…
Read Blog Detail“Wretchedly did [Sir Thomas] feel, that with all the cost and care of…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland City Council has decided to allocate $20 million to solve a…
Read Blog DetailBy Anna Mae Kersey When Oregon joined the Union in 1859, it…
Read Blog DetailBy Anna Mae Kersey When Oregon joined the Union, the U.S. Congress granted…
Read Blog DetailFebruary 25, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. 503-242-0900…
Read Blog DetailBy Jordan Lofthouse, Randy Simmons, and John A. Charles, Jr. With Oregon’s schools…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s political leaders have the chance to do what they frequently ask of…
Read Blog DetailIn 1976, Congress changed its “policy” regarding our public lands (Federal Lands Policy Management Act, or FLPMA). This “policy” change sought to retain public lands in federal ownership―ignoring the 200-year-old obligation of Congress to transfer title to our public lands.
Read Blog DetailToday, the Cascade Policy Institute released a report analyzing the range of policy…
Read Blog DetailA new issue faces Portland. City Hall is considering waiving development fees for developers of market-rate housing in the Old Town Chinatown district.
Read Blog DetailOn July 2, the Portland City Council held a hearing on proposed amendments to the Zoning Code concerning short-term rentals. The council chambers were packed with citizens who support legalizing renting one or two bedrooms from a primary residence.
Read Blog DetailBy Everet Rummel An emerging sector of many local economies is “homesharing,” or…
Read Blog DetailBy John A. Charles, Jr. Last year the S&P 500 Index had a…
Read Blog DetailBy William Newell Portland is brainstorming regulations for temporary lodging made possible by…
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