Testimony before the Portland City Council on The Great Duct Tape Controversy
This testimony was in response to a proposed ordinance by Portland City Commissioner…
Read Blog DetailThis testimony was in response to a proposed ordinance by Portland City Commissioner…
Read Blog DetailThe 100th Portland Rose Festival has come and gone, but the great duct…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregonian’s front page feature on lobbyist Mark Nelson is a revealing insight…
Read Blog DetailThe conventional wisdom in Oregon is that we’ve been “disinvesting” in public schools…
Read Blog DetailSummary Low-income workers need access to higher-skilled jobs to increase their income and…
Read Blog DetailTestimony before the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Transportation and Economic Development…
Read Blog DetailAlthough the phrase “light rail” wasn’t even mentioned in the hearing, it seemed…
Read Blog DetailFrom the 1840s through the 1860s more than 80,000 pioneers walked beside their…
Read Blog DetailGood afternoon Chair Roblan and members of the Committee. My name is Steve…
Read Blog DetailSummary One third of the legislature supported the Freedom to Choose My School…
Read Blog DetailOregonians sometimes forget how we got here. The Oregon Trail was an important…
Read Blog DetailHouse Education Committee votes on our school choice proposal On Friday, May 11,…
Read Blog DetailLast week the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation released a landmark study…
Read Blog DetailWhile waiting to testify on another bill before the House Consumer Protection Committee,…
Read Blog DetailGood afternoon Chair Holvey and members of the Committee. My name is Steve…
Read Blog DetailSummary Microenterprises have much to offer to the poor in this country, but…
Read Blog DetailSummary Protecting the earned income of low-income families is a proven method of…
Read Blog DetailHomelessness has become a pressing concern in Central Oregon. The number of people…
Read Blog DetailResponse to “A Second Look at Microfinance: The Sequence of Growth and Credit…
Read Blog DetailThe mix of traditional school closures, charter school openings, and transfers out of…
Read Blog DetailSummary Public policy advocates often find that spending extended periods at the Oregon…
Read Blog DetailThursday, April 5, 2007, was a great day for me personally. I was…
Read Blog DetailFunding for the Oregon State Police has been so scarce in recent years…
Read Blog DetailGood afternoon Chair Barnhart and members of the Committee. My name is Steve…
Read Blog DetailGood afternoon Chair Beyer and members of the Committee. My name is Steve…
Read Blog DetailOregon presently has eight destination resorts that employ approximately 2,100 people. Destination resorts…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon legislature is about to create a new entitlement program for consumers….
Read Blog DetailMy name is Kathryn Hickok, and I am director of the Children’s Scholarship…
Read Blog DetailMy name is Matt Wingard and I appreciate the opportunity to testify in…
Read Blog DetailWhen Sally C. Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco gave…
Read Blog DetailSummary The growing number of low-income workers in Oregon’s rural counties calls attention…
Read Blog DetailSummary Government health insurance mandates intended to increase health care coverage for all,…
Read Blog DetailSummary Central economic planning suffers from the fallacy of composition: assuming that what…
Read Blog DetailSally C. Pipes is President and CEO of Pacific Research Institute in San…
Read Blog DetailFinally, low-income students and their parents will be able to see the Oregon…
Read Blog DetailHB 3244 is similar to HB 3948, which was enacted during the 2001…
Read Blog DetailElectronic waste is a challenge, not a crisis. Disposing of e-waste in a…
Read Blog DetailMy name is John Charles, president of Cascade Policy Institute. Cascade is a…
Read Blog DetailTo fit in with the latest federal requirements set by Deficit Reduction Act…
Read Blog DetailFor immediate release, March 19, 2007 Cascade Policy Institute released a report today…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction School funding has become one of the most intractable policy issues of…
Read Blog DetailEnding Oregon’s War on the Poor 10 Strategies for Reducing Economic Barriers Cascade…
Read Blog DetailOne of the governor’s top priorities is SB 373, a bill mandating that…
Read Blog DetailThe legislative debate on whether to finance a rainy day fund by ending…
Read Blog DetailVirtually everyone agrees that the state of Oregon needs a rainy day fund;…
Read Blog DetailThere’s no one right or wrong way to hold an election in a…
Read Blog DetailThe Cascade Policy Institute, a non-partisan free-market think tank, would like to present…
Read Blog DetailBefore the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee on deleting the double majority voting…
Read Blog DetailGov. Ted Kulongoski announced on Monday that he has joined 4 other governors…
Read Blog DetailCascade has researched, written and testified about what’s wrong with prevailing wage laws…
Read Blog DetailSummary Forty-three years after President Johnson declared the War on Poverty, Americans are…
Read Blog DetailBefore the House Business and Labor Committee on certain exemptions from prevailing wage…
Read Blog DetailBefore the Senate Business, Transportation and Workforce Development Committee on the establishment of…
Read Blog DetailSummary As Thomas Sowell once wrote, “What is politically defined as economic ‘planning’…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s two U.S. Senators spoke on a wide range of issues at a…
Read Blog DetailSummary The 2007 Oregon State Legislature is in full swing and it’s getting…
Read Blog DetailOn Monday, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman signed the nation’s first universal school voucher…
Read Blog DetailSpeculation about “peak oil” is an intellectual fad that has been fashionable at…
Read Blog DetailOregon currently has 70 public charter schools which provide for some diversity in…
Read Blog DetailTobacco taxes present a moral hazard. By using this as a finance measure,…
Read Blog DetailThe primary effect of Oregon’s land-use regulatory system (especially the use of UGBs…
Read Blog DetailThe number of claims filed under M 37 indicates a vast, pent-up demand…
Read Blog DetailBefore the House Education Innovation Subcommittee in favor of removing restrictions on public…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s charter school law requires 50 percent of online charter school students to…
Read Blog DetailNew York Times science writer Andrew Revkin spoke in Portland on January 17th…
Read Blog DetailPreserving Farmland Without Farmers Since 1969, Oregon has pursued a stated policy objective…
Read Blog DetailThe Federal Highway Administration has apparently reached its limit with Portland’s fantasy transportation…
Read Blog DetailPresented to a Joint Hearing of the House Committee on Health Care and…
Read Blog DetailGovernor Kulongoski wants the state to offer free or highly subsidized health insurance…
Read Blog DetailWhy are your health insurance premiums tax deductible if paid by your employer,…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction Carbon trading programs have recently been implemented in Europe, and proposals for…
Read Blog DetailTestimony before the Portland City Council January 18, 2007 I’m Steve Buckstein, Senior…
Read Blog DetailThis week TriMet began construction on its next light-rail project which will shut…
Read Blog DetailAn influential group of business and political leaders just completed their fifth annual…
Read Blog DetailIn another one of its hyper-ventilating editorials on global warming, The Oregonian today…
Read Blog DetailThe biggest question confronting private-sector industries in Oregon is how they will replace…
Read Blog DetailSummary Public benefit programs to support families in crisis have become distorted into…
Read Blog DetailAfter spending the first sixteen years of its existence located in downtown Portland,…
Read Blog DetailA great champion of human liberty passed away on November 16th at the…
Read Blog DetailOne result of last week’s election is that we may finally achieve tax…
Read Blog DetailSummary In his 2006 Action Plan for Energy, Governor Ted Kulongoski says he…
Read Blog DetailThe most recent downtown employer survey by the Portland Business Alliance contains important…
Read Blog DetailSummary While instrumental in maintaining some degree of stability for lower-income persons, the…
Read Blog DetailAn Oregon Senate commission decided last week to introduce legislation that would centralize…
Read Blog DetailSummary Lack of reliable transportation is a crucial barrier for low-income and welfare…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction Metro has placed a $227.4 million bond measure on the ballot for…
Read Blog DetailSummary Metro’s $227.4 million bond measure on the ballot this November (Measure 26-80)…
Read Blog DetailSummary Oregon’s carbon dioxide emissions are already so low that voluntarily participating in…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland Development Commission (the semi-independent economic development arm of the Portland City…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction The subject of health care reform in the United States has become…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction The subject of health care reform in the United States has become…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction In the United States, most health insurance coverage is obtained either through…
Read Blog DetailOregonians will vote on ten statewide citizen initiatives this November. One Willamette University…
Read Blog DetailSummary Oregon’s cigarette tax has become an “essential” source of funding for government…
Read Blog DetailSummary The ways in which Oregon judges are selected and held accountable lead…
Read Blog DetailCrisis of Legitimacy In recent years, the spectacle of Oregon courts overturning citizens’…
Read Blog DetailHow many of us remember the scenes of young East Germans risking their…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon House Select Committee on Education, chaired by Representative Linda Flores, is…
Read Blog DetailFederal tax credits for hybrid-electric vehicles manufactured by Toyota will be cut in…
Read Blog DetailSummary Prevailing wage laws discriminate against one group of workers in favor of…
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