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School Choice Equals Confidence and Success
In 1999 local Oregon donors pledged one million dollars to begin the Children’s…
Read News DetailHidden in Plain Sight: Portland’s Disappearing Street Maintenance Fund
Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams and Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler have proposed…
Read News DetailEnd Oregon’s Capital Gains Tax
Summary The more something is taxed, less of it is produced. The capital…
Read News DetailCollect signatures, go to prison
Last week the state of Oklahoma indicted national political activist Paul Jacob for…
Read News Detail“The Most Important Guarantee of Freedom”
Summary Milton Friedman wrote: “Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he…
Read News DetailAre Government Schools Safer Than Private Ones?
Last summer the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation released a study entitled…
Read News DetailPouring Good Money after Bad
For eighteen years we’ve heard that The Oregon Convention Center needs a headquarters…
Read News DetailFlexible Transit? Lessons from Bend
Summary A committee representing the three Central Oregon Counties has created a regional…
Read News DetailTestimony before the Metro Council on Resolution No. 07-3868 authorizing creation of a finance plan for the development of a Convention Center Headquarters Hotel
President Bragdon and members of the council, for the record my name is…
Read News DetailThe “Perfect Logic” of Taxing Smokers
Summary Measure 50 on the November ballot would lock a tobacco tax into…
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