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The State of Oregon will sell 84,000 acres of the Elliott State Forest…
Read Blog DetailThe State of Oregon will sell 84,000 acres of the Elliott State Forest…
Read Blog DetailPlease join us for our monthly Policy Picnic led by Cascade President and CEO John A….
Read Blog DetailBy Randall Pozdena The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) fund is, once…
Read Blog DetailThe U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments this morning in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case aimed at protecting the First Amendment rights of free speech and free association for public employees nationwide, including Oregon.
Read Blog DetailFilm and stage legend Peter O’Toole died December 14, 2013, at age 81….
Read Blog DetailThe Portland City Council has decided to allocate $20 million to solve a…
Read Blog DetailPlease join us for our monthly Policy Picnic led by Cascade guest speaker Herb Grey…
Read Blog DetailA national education journal, EducationNext, has just released results of its annual poll…
Read Blog DetailBy the time the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Friedrichs v. California…
Read Blog DetailBy Anna Mae Kersey Oregon House Bill 2300 gives terminally ill patients access…
Read Blog DetailBy Maxford Nelsen A version of this article by Freedom Foundation labor policy…
Read Blog DetailJune 12, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. 503-242-0900…
Read Blog DetailCascade Policy Institute hosted a debate on the topic of donor privacy versus…
Read Blog DetailWould you like to pay $284 less in Oregon personal income tax next…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon Supreme Court last week struck down key 2013 legislative reforms to…
Read Blog DetailTax Freedom Day arrives this year on April 24, six days later than…
Read Blog DetailState legislatures across the country have piled on the tobacco taxes over the…
Read Blog DetailGovernor Kitzhaber wants you to drive less, and he knows that the best…
Read Blog DetailDecember 3, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. 503-242-0900…
Read Blog DetailGovernor John Kitzhaber released his proposed 2015-17 budget this week. Critics were quick…
Read Blog DetailPORTLAND, Ore. – A new report released by Cascade Policy Institute suggests numerous…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently issued a report describing the deteriorating…
Read Blog DetailMany politicians on the West Coast have fallen in love with untested policies and programs they say will help solve global warming. Many of these policies are mind-bogglingly complicated. What, after all, is a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), or clean fuels program? And how exactly do programs like “cap and trade” work? And, perhaps most importantly, how do these policies impact you, the consumer?
Read Blog DetailPlease join us for Cascade’s monthly Policy Picnic led by founder and senior policy analyst Steve…
Read Blog DetailCascade Policy Institute’s Board of Directors recently voted to support the latest marijuana…
Read Blog DetailEighty-four percent of Oregonians support allowing union employees to leave their union without…
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 DetailIf every penny earned since the beginning of the year went to pay…
Read Blog DetailPlease join us for Cascade’s monthly Policy Picnic led by Cascade Policy Institute President and CEO…
Read Blog DetailLast week I wrote about the problems TriMet is having with its constantly…
Read Blog DetailOregon Governor John Kitzhaber, fresh off his early October special legislative session “Grand…
Read Blog DetailA City Club of Portland research panel has concluded that property tax limitation…
Read Blog DetailBy Sally C. Pipes What was the worst product launch in history? New…
Read Blog DetailWelfare currently pays more than a minimum-wage job in 35 states, according to…
Read Blog DetailBy Erin Shannon In March, Portland’s City Council unanimously voted to enact mandatory…
Read Blog DetailLast week the Metro Council unanimously approved two resolutions in favor of subsidizing…
Read Blog DetailBy Brandon Maxwell Behind Oregon’s cultural mystique lies a troubling truth: Compared with…
Read Blog DetailBy William Newell Oregon’s 2013 legislative session ended with the passage of the…
Read Blog DetailBy Brandon Loran Maxwell What’s not to love about Oregon? It’s green. It’s…
Read Blog DetailBy Brandon Maxwell The Founding Fathers emphasized the vital need for the rule…
Read Blog DetailBy John Glennon President Obama said it himself: “If people cannot trust the…
Read Blog DetailBy Doug DeFilipps Education writer Betsy Hammond recently reported that, according to a…
Read Blog DetailSince 1995, Metro has been steadily buying up thousands of acres of undeveloped…
Read Blog DetailIn 2007 Governor Ted Kulongoski appointed me to represent taxpayers on the legislatively…
Read Blog DetailCongress is poised to raise taxes again, this time by allowing states to…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon legislature is struggling to balance the state budget while meeting the…
Read Blog DetailBy Doug DeFilipps Ending “housing discrimination” against holders of Section 8 rent assistance…
Read Blog DetailFor Immediate Release April 8, 2013 PORTLAND, Ore. – Americans for Prosperity-Oregon and…
Read Blog DetailIn the late 1990s Oregon voters approved measures that require envelopes containing certain…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon legislature is once again trying to raise the cigarette tax, this…
Read Blog DetailOn Monday, the Oregon Senate passed House Bill 2800, the new Interstate 5…
Read Blog DetailIn a misguided attempt to save us from ourselves, Oregon legislators have become…
Read Blog DetailBy Marc Kilmer On March 6 the Portland City Council may vote on…
Read Blog DetailBy Benjamin Zycher Charities and other nonprofit institutions perform a vast array of…
Read Blog DetailA state legislator from Milwaukie, Carolyn Tomei, has introduced a package of bills…
Read Blog DetailGovernor Kitzhaber has called a special session of the Oregon legislature to enact…
Read Blog DetailWith just weeks to go before America slides off the so-called Fiscal Cliff,…
Read Blog DetailWith less than a week to go in this election cycle, Oregonians are…
Read Blog DetailBy Thomas Dulcich and Michael Barton Oregonians are most fortunate to border the…
Read Blog DetailLast week another publicly subsidized “green business” company filed for bankruptcy in Portland….
Read Blog DetailRecently, The Oregonian published a feature story about the Portland Seed Fund. This…
Read Blog DetailPORTLAND, Ore- The eight members of Cascade Policy Institute’s Board of Directors have released the…
Read Blog DetailThe League of Women Voters of Portland hosted a debate on local ballot…
Read Blog DetailBy Shane Young In 2008, the Portland public safety fund realized it had…
Read Blog DetailBy Shane Young The “Arts Education and Access Income Tax” proposed by Portland…
Read Blog DetailBy Shane Young Did you know you need a license to braid hair…
Read Blog DetailBy Sven R. Larson, Ph.D. By now, I am sure you have heard…
Read Blog DetailBy Eric Revell As the state of Oregon struggles to ignite an economic…
Read Blog DetailWho wouldn’t want to live in the Pacific Northwest? According to the 2010…
Read Blog DetailWe sat down with Senior Policy Analyst, Steve Buckstein, to talk about government trying to do efficiently that which it shouldn’t be doing at all. SEE THE VIDEO
Read Blog DetailGovernor John Kitzhaber has called for transforming state government, in part by proposing…
Read Blog DetailAs a founder of Cascade, I was asked to speak at the fourth…
Read Blog DetailBy Trent England On April 19, 1775, a group of ordinary, small-town Americans…
Read Blog DetailHit hard by the national recession, Oregon lawmakers started the regular 2011 legislative…
Read Blog DetailNobody likes pain, but we need it. This may sound counterintuitive or cruel…
Read Blog DetailRecently, I had a long conversation with an owner of a bakery near…
Read Blog DetailI read with a tinge of dismay that the U.S. Postal Service is…
Read Blog DetailSometime in the next three months, the Multnomah County commissioners will decide whether…
Read Blog DetailThe Occupy movement is encouraging people to take their money out of “big…
Read Blog DetailPresident Obama proposed once again that Congress reduce the federal itemized tax deduction…
Read Blog DetailThe Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Portland crowds are demanding that “rich people” pay their…
Read Blog DetailBy Christopher Robinson, John A. Charles Jr., and Kathryn Hickok When Jackson County,…
Read Blog DetailAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor, almost $19 billion in state unemployment…
Read Blog DetailThe politics of envy is alive and well. Too many Americans, including President…
Read Blog DetailOne silver lining of the burst housing bubble has been the increase in…
Read Blog DetailPoliticians and pundits upset that tax increases were not part of the recent…
Read Blog DetailAt the July 14, 2011 JPACT meeting, accusations were made about John Charles…
Read Blog DetailBy Christopher Robinson The Federal Government isn’t the only one with a spending…
Read Blog DetailBy Michael Bastasch Congress is still debating raising the federal debt ceiling. This…
Read Blog DetailHit hard by the national recession, Oregon lawmakers started the 2011 legislative session…
Read Blog DetailBy Christopher Robinson Mediation continues in Salem between two major labor unions and…
Read Blog DetailOn 6/2, John Charles was an invited witness before the House Committee on…
Read Blog DetailBy Michael Bastasch Governor John Kitzhaber’s new “green” energy ploy, the Oregon “Cool…
Read Blog DetailA statistic commonly used to highlight the economic hardship Oregonians bear is that…
Read Blog DetailOn May 10, Karla Kay Edwards testified before the Senate Environment and Natural…
Read Blog DetailThree common sense firearms bills passed the House of the Oregon Legislature and…
Read Blog DetailDan Lucas discusses the Oregon Other Funds Budget, from the origins of the…
Read Blog DetailMany factors go into determining if a state is business friendly. A recent…
Read Blog DetailWatch part II of Dan Lucas’s Oregon Budget 101 series. This episode discusses…
Read Blog DetailPart I in the Oregon Budget 101 series by Cascade Research Associate Dan…
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