By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com The City of Portland is considering banning drivers from turning right at a red light for over 200 intersections. The ban is designed to reduce pedestrian accidents. It just may be that Oregon has a pedestrian-auto-accident problem because Portland has a massive population of homeless and drug-intoxicated addicts walking […]

by Randal O’Toole Affordable housing projects funded with Metro’s 2018 housing bond have wasted more than a billion dollars due to bad decisions made by Metro on how to spend that money. Metro’s single-minded focus on increasing the population density of the Portland urban area led it to mostly fund projects that are three to […]

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If Oregon adopted every Prosperity Council recommendation, would a growing employer finally choose the state? By Economist Dr. Eric Fruits, See his Oregon Ledger podcast   When Oregon Governor Tina Kotek rolled out her Prosperity Roadmap, I wrote that it misdiagnosed the problem: The Roadmap misdiagnoses the state’s crisis by treating structural pathologies—rooted in high […]

By NW Spotlight, Independent journalist and homeless advocate Kevin Dahlgren shows a video of one homeless camp where new tents and tarps were unstopped.  View the post below, then follow Dahlgren and financially support him. Tents, tarps, harm reduction and lots and lots of sandwiches all funded by the county. That is not the permanent […]