By John A. Charles, Jr. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Johnson v. City of Grants Pass. The central question is whether local ordinances that prohibit people fro...
By Karen Rue Earlier this month, Cascade Policy Institute provided suggestions to the Board of Portland Public Schools to reduce costs on the Jefferson High School modernization project. The proj...
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By Kathryn Hickok This month, Cascade Policy Institute is releasing a new report explaining why government-mandated “affordable housing” doesn’t actually make housing more affordable. In Th...
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By John A. Charles, Jr. Oregon has a housing shortage, which has been known for decades. There is no single cause, but certainly a lack of buildable land is one of them. Only about 2% of Oregon�...
By Kathryn Hickok In March, Alabama became the most recent state to increase education options for students through Education Savings Accounts. Alabama’s CHOOSE Act gives families access to up ...
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By John A. Charles, Jr. Recently Gov. Tina Kotek decided to pull the plug on ODOT’s highway tolling scheme. She correctly understood that the ODOT plan was going to be all pain with no gain for...
https://oregoncatalyst.com/76360-repealing-oregons-ev-mandate-gov-koteks-list.html
By Joshua Schutte The Oregonian recently reported that “Oregon students as a whole have failed to regain either math or reading skills” lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, unlike students in 2...
By John A. Charles, Jr. On February 22, the Joint Committee on Transportation of the Oregon Legislature unanimously approved SB 1572, which would appropriate $250,000 to ODOT to study the feasibi...
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By John A. Charles, Jr. The 35-day session of the Oregon Legislature opened February 5, and a hearing was held on the Governor’s top priority, Senate Bill 1537. Her goal is to increase the supp...
By John A. Charles, Jr. The last segment of Oregon’s Interstate Highway system opened in 1982. One would think that since Oregon has a nationally prominent planning system, there would be effor...
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