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Summary Oregon’s teacher certification process keeps accomplished individuals from teaching their subjects in…
Read Blog DetailSummary Oregon’s teacher certification process keeps accomplished individuals from teaching their subjects in…
Read Blog DetailThe opposition to globalization and free trade is now evident in a new…
Read Blog DetailNot too many years ago, the Public Broadcasting Service asked this provocative question:…
Read Blog DetailSummary Consolidating school districts sounds like a good idea, but in reality costs…
Read Blog DetailSummary Imposing price controls to protect consumers is one of the worst things…
Read Blog DetailIt’s not hard to understand why many parents and students believe that Oregon’s…
Read Blog DetailThe U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case that will…
Read Blog DetailOregon’s Education Service Districts administer state and federal programs and provide services such…
Read Blog DetailA new national report card funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts finds that…
Read Blog DetailSummary Both nationwide and in Oregon, Latino students score far below their white…
Read Blog DetailIf no changes are made to the Social Security system, it will be…
Read Blog DetailEveryone agrees that the Oregon Legislature has a credibility problem. The Oregonian described…
Read Blog DetailSummary Many public policies are designed to “get people out of their cars,”…
Read Blog DetailClick here to read the report in PDF format The most pervasive…
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Read Blog DetailTest scores are one way to judge our public schools. But no one…
Read Blog DetailSummary This report updates and expands on a previous Cascade Policy Institute report…
Read Blog DetailClick here to read the report in PDF format Conventional wisdom tells…
Read Blog DetailPoliticians often use science as a source of statements to place their policy…
Read Blog DetailProperty rights — and liberty — were victorious on July 30th when the…
Read Blog DetailA new tool for helping the poor is proving effective around the world….
Read Blog DetailIn 2003, Portland and Multnomah County politicians cried crisis and pushed a new…
Read Blog DetailMany public school supporters blame poor academic results on stingy taxpayers. On July…
Read Blog DetailOn Thursday, July 8, a Metro committee will finalize the funding plan for…
Read Blog DetailLast Monday, an historic event occurred in the skies over the Mojave Desert….
Read Blog DetailRecent revelations about SAIF Corporation have caused some to demand that the state…
Read Blog DetailLast week, the Portland City Council adopted a plan to build and finance…
Read Blog DetailWe should applaud the demise of an Oregon Legislative Special Session for one…
Read Blog DetailPeople who argue that Oregon’s public schools need more tax dollars lost another…
Read Blog DetailOn May 1, Portland’s North Interstate light rail line opened for business. The…
Read Blog DetailIn April, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) announced a two-year pilot project…
Read Blog DetailEven after voters soundly rejected a government takeover of Portland General Electric, Portland…
Read Blog DetailBob Williams, president of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, once served as a Washington…
Read Blog DetailFor the 2004-05 city budget, Portland Mayor Vera Katz proposes hiring 20 police…
Read Blog DetailOregon finds itself in the middle of one of this year’s hottest presidential…
Read Blog DetailEarlier this month, Portland was designated by Inc. magazine as the eighth worst…
Read Blog DetailFederal job retraining programs ended up helping only 44 percent of the Oregonians…
Read Blog DetailWhile the D.C. school system spends more per pupil than most US cities,…
Read Blog DetailOregonians are busy debating whether the state should approve same-sex marriages. The better…
Read Blog DetailPaul Allen owns the Portland Trail Blazers and has privately funded the team…
Read Blog DetailThe Portland Development Commission (PDC) just rejected the only Convention Center hotel proposal…
Read Blog DetailPublic health nannies complain that the defeat of Measure 30 reduced Oregon’s tobacco…
Read Blog DetailVarious groups are organizing tax reform meetings throughout the state. The big question:…
Read Blog DetailVoters did more than reject a big tax package on Tuesday, they gave…
Read Blog DetailLast week we discovered that the Washington County commuter rail line, which is…
Read Blog DetailSome folks are pushing higher taxes in Oregon as a way to strengthen…
Read Blog DetailOregonians will soon vote on the legislature’s $1 billion tax package. Because this…
Read Blog DetailSharon Kitzhaber was interviewed for the Dec. 24, 2003 Willamette Week. The former…
Read Blog DetailUnion workers in Patient Business Services at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU)…
Read Blog DetailDo you believe in Santa Claus? By the time most of us stop…
Read Blog DetailPreface Watershed events often become dividing lines in history. Twenty-five years ago, Californians…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) just announced its intention to increase traffic…
Read Blog DetailUntil the February 3, 2004 vote on recalling the legislature’s $1 billion tax…
Read Blog DetailDespite reform efforts, school performance is improving slowly, if at all, and continues…
Read Blog DetailAs Yogi Bera said, “this is like deja vu all over again.” Last…
Read Blog DetailOn October 23 the Attorneys General for 12 states, including Oregon, joined with…
Read Blog DetailA movement is afoot that is driving health care costs down. Among the…
Read Blog DetailAt 70-years old, Bob Lowery isn’t anxious to sell the home he and…
Read Blog DetailOregon can no longer claim the dubious honor of being the “hungriest state…
Read Blog DetailPeople are becoming smart shoppers when it comes to health care. That’s helping…
Read Blog DetailWho is responsible for your children’s education? One hundred fifty years ago the…
Read Blog DetailLast week the Texas Transportation Institute released its annual congestion rankings, and named…
Read Blog DetailCompetitive bidding has been successfully employed around the world to help reduce the…
Read Blog DetailThe Small Business Survival Committee just released its 2003 Small Business Survival Index,…
Read Blog DetailDuring the 2003 session of the Oregon legislature, TriMet submitted legislation authorizing the…
Read Blog DetailIntroduction During the past decade, Portland-area planners have embraced Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) as…
Read Blog DetailOn September 9, Alabama voters rejected a $1.2 billion tax increase. Some 67…
Read Blog DetailWhen goods don’t cross borders, armies will, warned 18th Century French statesman Frederic…
Read Blog DetailIf numbers don’t lie, Marie and her two little boys should be going…
Read Blog DetailWhat do you think about the recent politician-approved three-year “temporary” state income tax…
Read Blog DetailThe tragic deaths of eight young firefighters this week on Highway 20 near…
Read Blog DetailAdvocates of government regulation are crowing over last Thursday’s biggest-ever electricity blackout in…
Read Blog DetailThe Statesman Journal has a counter on its website tallying the taxpayer burden…
Read Blog DetailThe mass exodus of Oregon public employees—due to pending changes in the Public…
Read Blog DetailJohn F. Kennedy once remarked, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make…
Read Blog DetailWhy should doing something that is legal today land you in jail tomorrow?…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon Board of Higher Education approved a change that allows state universities…
Read Blog DetailSalem-Keizer School District board members just learned that they could have reduced expenses…
Read Blog DetailFormer Oregon Gov. Vic Atiyeh just testified in Salem about fixing the state’s…
Read Blog DetailA June 22 Oregonian story reported that a significant number of Oregon middle…
Read Blog DetailThe legislature and governor have signed off on reforms to Oregon’s extravagent Public…
Read Blog DetailOn June 12 a powerful Metro committee, JPACT, will decide how to spend…
Read Blog DetailA move is afoot in the Oregon legislature to increase taxes by watering…
Read Blog DetailA recent document from the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators (COSA) trumpets that…
Read Blog DetailMultnomah County voters just approved Oregon’s only local income tax, primarily to help…
Read Blog DetailProponents of a taxpayer-supported baseball stadium in Portland argue it and a team…
Read Blog DetailAs Multnomah County voters make up their minds about the new county income…
Read Blog DetailWilsonville Mayor Charlotte Lehan and Metro President David Bragdon are both complaining. Why?…
Read Blog DetailAccording to a United States Department of Agriculture survey, Oregon is the hungriest…
Read Blog DetailExecutive Summary During the past decade, Portland-area planners have embraced Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)…
Read Blog DetailThe Oregon State Senate recently advanced education freedom by eliminating mandatory testing of…
Read Blog DetailWith April Fool’s Day just passed, Governor Kulongoski is poised to break his…
Read Blog DetailThe Mayor of Oregon’s largest city delivered her annual State of the City…
Read Blog DetailThe Sandy, Oregon, Planning Commission held a hearing last week on a proposal…
Read Blog DetailSome assumptions concerning public policy are false. “If government doesn’t do it, nobody…
Read Blog DetailTriMet, Portland’s transit agency, is seeking authorization from the state legislature to raise…
Read Blog DetailMore Oregonians should be able to afford health insurance. To help achieve that…
Read Blog DetailThe recent deal between the city, county and school district and teachers’ union…
Read Blog DetailA Portland newspaper editor recently implored in print, “We need a plan, people,…
Read Blog DetailClose on the heels of Measure 28’s failure Portland and Multnomah County officials…
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