For years, Portland residents have dealt with homeless individuals parking cars and RVs along neighborhood sidewalks, bringing garbage, drug usage, and even blazing fires along with them. This illegal parking has drastically reduced the safety and cleanliness of the city. In late 2020, the City of Portland and Metro began to consider a simple solution: […]
When Disney turns 100 next year, there could be a lot of empty seats at the party. Americans — who had plenty of reasons to be suspicious of the company before Florida’s law — are furious with Bob Chapek’s kingdom now. After decades of pushing the LGBT envelope, Disney is finally reaping the whirlwind for […]
The Oregon Transportation Commission recently decided how to allocate $412 million in discretionary federal funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The commission’s plan, though, was quickly criticized by a coalition of environmental and transportation groups. The coalition complained that the spending plan prioritizes “highways over community safety,” even though about half of the […]
Clackamas County boasts ten percent of Oregon’s population. According to the design of our representative democracy, Clackamas County should have ten percent of the thirty Oregon Senate seats. But, the people of Clackamas County do not have that distinction. Instead, there are eight Oregon Senate Districts that touch Clackamas County. Most of them are a […]
Given the high-profile nature of goings-on in the U.S. Congress, it can be easy to lose track of legislative developments in the states. However, the U.S. Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has recently drawn many people’s attention back to state laws and legislative efforts, as the prospect of states regaining their […]
The Census just released the latest population estimates and, for the first time in nearly two decades, Multnomah County’s population has dropped. From 2020 to 2021, the county’s population decreased by more than 12,000 people, or 1.5%.Neighboring Washington and Clackamas counties reported almost no change, while Clark County in Washington saw a 1.3% increase in […]
Text messages from Virginia Thomas show arrests were made in November 2020 including Biden and his crime family! Conspiracy or truth? Those of us who have been shouting about doubles and an empty White House, and empty chambers in Congress sure look like they are about to be validated that they were reading all the […]
The death toll from COVID-19 is staggering. So far a million Americans and more than six million people worldwide have perished. Even though the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, is far from the most populous nation on earth, we have experienced, by far, the greatest number of reported deaths. […]
During a speech by Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, in the Hillsdale College reception in Overland Park Kansas on November 18, 2021 he posed the question: How would you reduce the greatest free republic in history to despotism in a short time? He promptly answered the question by saying it has been provided […]
This time they’re coming for your home. Earlier this month, Oregon’s Secretary of State released an audit of Oregon’s mortgage interest tax deduction. According to the audit, the tax deduction is “regressive and inequitable.” This audit is unusual in that it calls into question policy decisions made by the legislature. In particular, it claims that […]