By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com   The Problem: Portland has too few police officers for a city our size. The same number of officers as the early 1990s, with 175,000 more people. The Solution: Initiative petition (#1PDX2026) lets voters change Portland for the better.       Ÿ More Safety: Establish a city policy of 2.0 […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, The City of Sherwood has just installed new speed cameras in this small town. Within its first week the speed cam captured 1,040 violators. Those 1,040 represent 5% of the town’s population.  Although surely many out-of-town drivers made up that sample.    

I recently finished reading Barbara Tuchman’s classic history of the First World War, The Guns of August. It contains a passage that reminds me of the state of European military readiness in our day. Regarding Belgium in 1914: Socialism was the raging issue. Public apathy to what was happening abroad and a Parliament obsessed by […]

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Drazan: Denying Parole for Convicted Child Killer Is the Right Outcome, But Oregon Law Must Change By Oregon State Senator Christine Drazan,   SALEM, Ore. – Following the parole board decision denying parole to convicted child rapist and murderer Dustin Wallace, Senator Christine Drazan (R-Canby) released the following statement.   Wallace was convicted for the […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com This year, Governor Kotek and liberal lawmakers voted to disconnect Oregon from three of Trump’s big tax cuts from last year.   This included not applying business depreciation savings and car loan deductions from the newly enacted federal tax to Oregon tax law.  Because of this, many small businesses will […]