By Jason Williams,  Oregon 250.com, celebrating America’s 250th Founder of Taxpayers Association Oregon International visitors for the World Cup games are posting on social media their praise for America. Here is one French woman’s social media post: “There’s something I deeply love with the Americans is their mindset of we don’t care. Do whatever you […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com There were 6 states that refused to be in the national state fair which celebrates our nation’s 250th.   Oregon was one of those states that declined to be present.  Each state is given a large exhibit space to showcase their features.   This comes across as partisan and political, where […]

By Jason Williams Founder of Taxpayers Association of Oregon, A friend’s granddaughter drew this sweet scene of America just for me which includes an American flag, a bald eagle and even mentions the 250th Birthday (she spelled it 2050).  This is a good reminder than many children are embracing the 250th moment and expressing their […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com Friday, July 3rd, is the final deadline day for state petitions to submit signatures to qualify for the Oregon November ballot. Based on a scan of news reports and on people in the field working the petitions, it appears that almost all the petitions making the news in 2026 […]

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 […]