“I was surprised at the professionalism of the staff, apparently many are college student interns. These people take research seriously. They want to know the facts behind public policy issues. The information they have is eye-opening. Talk to Steve Buckstein or John Charles. They have solid info.
In particular, ask about light rail or minimum wage or about current issues or ballot measures. These folks lean Libertarian but they seem to back up their positions with lots of research. They are well connected to other public policy researchers in various specialty areas such as urban planning.
It was especially interesting to ask them about counter opinions and their research. They seem to take all research into account. ”
10/17/2016

I only wish that the Cascade Policy Institute existed when I was in Oregon. Had [Cascade] and Steve Buckstein been around to educate me then, I wouldn’t have wasted so much of my and my viewers’ time, talking about the wrong threats.

I’ve come to understand just how fortunate you are having a premier free-market think tank like Cascade fighting for your rights and your liberty. I travel around the country and around the world. I meet with think tank leaders and analysts all the time, and I can say that no think tank is more committed, and none is more consistent in support of liberty than Cascade.

I have had contact with the Cascade Policy Institute in the past and have always found them to be a thoroughly respectable, highly reliable nonprofit policy institute pursuing worthy causes.

There’s no question about it: Cascade is the premier think tank in Oregon.

Cascade Policy Institute is clarity of thought in a sea of chaos that calls itself Oregon.