Portland’s Clean Energy Tax: A High Cost with Low Benefit
By Rachel Dawson In January 2019 the City of Portland implemented a voter-approved a 1% tax on certain “retail sales” within Portland to fund clean...
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Public Debt for Public Housing
By Vlad Yurlov In the 2018 general election, voters approved a bond measure that enabled Metro to borrow about $652 million for low-income public h...
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Portland’s Ill-Considered Climate Action Tax
By Micah Perry Last fall, Portland voters approved a new 1% tax on large retailers to help the city achieve the goals of its Climate Action Plan. T...
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Metro Wants More Money—For Parks You May Never See
By Helen Cook How much would you be willing to spend to buy parkland that would ban your dog? Metro hopes Portland area taxpayers will spend $47...
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Oregon Legislator to Oregon Business: “Let ‘em Leave!”
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. “Let ’em leave. Someone else’ll come in.” That was Oregon state senator James Manning’s response when told that new business ...
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SW Corridor Project: A Net Negative for the Environment
By John A. Charles, Jr. Portland politicians claim to be concerned about carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. That’s why so many of them su...
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The New Sellwood Bridge: Promises Unfulfilled
By John A. Charles. Jr. Executive Summary Portland has an international reputation for successfully integrating land-use and transportation plan...
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Press Release: Multi-year case study of Multnomah County’s Sellwood Bridge explains the history behind worsening traffic congestion in the SE Portland bridge corridor
June 6, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: John A. Charles, Jr. 503-242-0900 john@cascadepolicy.org PORTLAND, OR - Today Cascade Po...
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Testimony of Kathryn Hickok Before the Senate Education Committee Regarding SB 668 Education Savings Accounts
June 5, 2019 Chair Wagner and Members of the Committee, my name is Kathryn Hickok. I’m Executive Vice President at Cascade Policy Institute, a nonp...
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Metro Transportation Funding Task Force Testimony
By John A. Charles, Jr. At the last meeting, there was a fair amount of discussion about how the proposed bond measure should be structured to redu...
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