Top 5 headlines 1 Kotek gives IP-28 statement 2 Fox News: Hunting, fishing ban faces backlash 3 Unions slam Kotek’s economic council 4 Kotek bragged on grad rates. There’s a big problem 5 7,000 Lose Oregon SNAP Benefits Bonus $10M to reduce barriers to housing New Oregon law closes interest rate loophole LaPine rejects data […]

By Jason Williams Oregon250.com Website dedicated to celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. Peter Salem, who was born a slave, quickly became a Revolutionary War hero. At twenty-five, his owner sold him to Lawson Buckminster, a major in the Continental Army, who loaned the slave to fight in the war for independence. At the Battle of Bunker […]

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, The Foundation of Government Accountability had this chart showing in one state the luxury vehicles owned by food stamp recipients.

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.    

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 […]

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 […]