| Title |
Author |
Subject |
Date |
| Oregon's New Umbrella: The Rainy Day Amendment |
Steve Buckstein |
Budget |
August, 2006 |
| "Right" to Health Care Violates Individual Rights |
Michael Barton, Ph.D. |
Health Care |
May, 2006 |
| Taxation is Uncivilized |
Steve Buckstein |
Taxes |
April, 2006 |
| Health Mandates Price Some Out of Insurance Market |
Michael Barton, Ph.D. |
Health care |
March, 2006 |
| Stupid in Oregon |
Steve Buckstein |
Education |
February, 2006 |
| Promoting biodiesel is easy: Set farmers free to sell it |
Angela Eckhardt |
Environment |
February, 2006 |
Aiding Poverty in Africa:
Giving 'Til it Hurts |
Bruce Smith and Bill Conerly |
World Poverty |
January, 2006 |
Climate Change and the Oregon Economy:
Still Searching for the Smoking Gun |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Government, Science and the Environment |
December, 2005 |
| The Case for Price Gouging |
Michael L. Barton |
Free Market |
October, 2005 |
| Meth laws need a good dose of sanity |
Angela Eckhardt |
Drug Policy Reform |
September, 2005 |
| Freedom Requires Real Free Markets |
Angela Eckhardt |
Free Market |
July, 2005 |
Socialized Medicine:
A powerful symbol of the national identity? |
Steve Buckstein |
Health care |
July, 2005 |
Forcing people to be good
|
Michael Barton, Ph.D. |
Liberty |
July 2005 |
| A License to Kill (Competition) |
Bruce Smith |
Fiscal |
June 2005 |
Oregon Unemployment
Insurance Overpayments |
William B. Connerly, Ph.D. |
Fiscal |
June 2005 |
| Must This Teacher Be Fired? |
Michael Barton, Ph.D. |
Education |
April 2005 |
Deconsolidate
Oregon’s School
Districts |
John T. Wenders, Ph.D. |
Education |
March 2005 |
| Price Gouging is Not the Problem |
Nick Stearns |
Fiscal Reform |
March 2005 |
| Public School Monopoly Fails Latino Children |
Joel Campos-Alvis |
Education |
January 2005 |
| Job Seekers Need Wheels to Wealth |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Poverty, Transit |
January 2005 |
| Do Schools Need More Money? |
Steve Buckstein |
Education, Fiscal |
December 2004 |
| Better, Cheaper Health care for Oregonians |
Steve Buckstein |
Health care, Fiscal |
December 204 |
| Who Is Bankrupting America? |
Steve Buckstein |
Fiscal, Joe Scarborough |
September 2004 |
| De-politicizing
Science |
Fred W. Decker, PhD |
Government, Science and the Environment |
September 2004 |
| How Should
Oregon Pay for Its Parks? |
Tim Keller |
State Parks Funding |
September 2004 |
| Campaign Finance
Reform Won't Reform |
Tim Keller |
Campaign Finance Reform |
August 2004 |
| Making America
Safer by Making Government Smaller |
Lawrence W. Reed |
Public safety |
August 2004 |
| Super Size This |
Tim Keller |
Film review for Super Size Me as related to legislation |
July 2004 |
| A Golden Goal
for the Olympics |
Tim Keller |
Public finance of facilities for the Olympic
games |
July 2004 |
| Outforcing
Oregon Jobs |
Steve Buckstein |
Oregon budget |
July 2004 |
| Do Our Rights
Come From the Constitution? |
Jacob G. Hornberger |
U.S. Constitution |
June 2004 |
| Stadium Costs:
High and Wide |
Matt Roehr, CFA |
Portland budget, basball stadium, PGE Park |
June 2004 |
| Tame the Oregon
Budget Roller Coaster |
Steve Buckstein |
Oregon budget |
June 2004 |
| Solutions for
the Klamath Basin |
Jane S. Shaw |
Environment |
May 2004 |
| PERS to Determine
Oregon's Future |
Steve Buckstein |
PERS reform |
May 2004 |
| Helping Poor
Help Themselves |
John Blundell |
Property rights and independence |
May 2004 |
| The Little Buses
That Could |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Interstate MAX |
April 2004 |
| Healthy Forests |
Linda E. Platts |
Forest management |
April 2004 |
| I'll Take Free
Choice |
Sheldon Richman |
Free-markets and choices |
April 2004 |
| No excuses
for Oregon's achievement gap |
Abigail Thernstrom, PhD |
Minority achievement gap in public education |
February 2004 |
| Sons of the
state, or citizens of society? |
Kathryn Hickok |
Individual liberty and the proper role of government |
February 2004 |
| How to stabilize
Oregon tax revenue |
Michael L. Barton, PhD |
Oregon taxes |
February 2004 |
| Build community,
not dependence |
Kathryn Hickok and Kurt T. Weber |
Individual liberty vs. government dependence |
February 2004 |
| Freedom in
Middle-earth: A Hobbit's eye view |
Lauren Hickok |
Tolkien's illustration of freedom |
January 2004 |
| Keep Oregon's
quality of life, without new taxes |
Geoffrey F. Segal |
Oregon state budget and spending |
January 2004 |
| Keep politics
away from money |
Sheldon Richman |
Campaign finance regulations |
January 2004 |
| The Wright
lesson |
Lawrence W. Reed |
Government funding |
December 2003 |
| Oregon tax
reformers put cart before horse |
Jason Mercier and Marsha Richards |
Tax reform in Oregon |
December 2003 |
| Steele Park:
Another MAX fiasco |
Michael L. Barton, PhD and John A. Charles, Jr. |
Transit-Oriented Development |
November 2003 |
| An ounce
of budget reform leadership |
Jason Mercier |
State spending |
October 2003 |
| Poverty for
all? |
Doug Bandow |
The benefits of free-markets |
October 2003 |
| Harry Potter:
The new Atlas Shrugged? |
Eryk Boston |
Lessons in liberty |
October 2003 |
| Peaceful revolutions
and recalling politicians |
Joseph Coon and Kurt T. Weber |
Recall elections |
September 2003 |
| Disasters
are no excuse for price controls |
Jacob G. Hornberger |
Price controls during disasters |
September 2003 |
| Blame politicians,
not Measure 5 |
Jamie Voytko |
Oregon state spending after Measure 5 |
September 2003 |
| Fair thee
well! |
Joseph Coon |
Oregon State Fair subsidies |
August 2003 |
| TOD: A solution
in search of a problem |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Transit-Oriented Development |
July 2003 |
| Just the spending
facts ma'am |
Nick Weller |
Education spending in Oregon |
July 2003 |
| Prosperity
or Portland? |
Steve Buckstein |
Portland's high cost business climate |
July 2003 |
| One hundred
years of Orwellian thought |
Joseph Coon |
A centennial tribute to George Orwell |
July 2003 |
| To declare
independence |
Kurt T. Weber |
Thomas Jefferson's ideas about liberty |
June 2003 |
| Phreemarketeers
following Phish |
Aaron Davis |
Jam-band capitalists |
June 2003 |
| Equality
before the law for Boy Scouts and gays |
Clint Bolick, J.D. |
Individual liberties |
June 2003 |
| Sailing competitive
seas |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
Free trade and market competition |
June 2003 |
| Can we afford
TriMet? |
Michael L. Barton, PhD |
Transit |
June 2003 |
| The Field
of Ecomonic Dreams |
Matt Roehr, CFA, and Kurt T. Weber |
Publicly funded sports stadiums |
May 2003 |
| Chile's unemployment
insurance model |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
Unemployment insurance |
May 2003 |
| No accountability:
Portland's Mini PERS |
Matt Roehr, CFA |
Portland's FPD&R fund |
April 2003 |
| A sober critique
of the beer tax |
Joseph Coon |
Sin taxes |
April 2003 |
| Don't reward
TriMet's dysfunction |
John A. Charles, Jr. and Michael Barton, PhD |
TriMet tax increase request |
April 2003 |
| Connect school
funding to those who benefit |
Nick Weller |
School funding |
April 2003 |
| Risks of
a Multnomah County income tax |
Steve Buckstein |
Measure 26-48 |
April 2003 |
| It's time
to unlock SAIF |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
SAIF Corporation |
March 2003 |
| Let neighborhood
schools determine their future |
Nick Weller |
Educational spending |
February 2003 |
| Options increase
in local phone markets |
James Gattuso, J.D. |
Telecom industry |
February 2003 |
| Fix PERS
to fix future budget problems |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
PERS and Oregon's budget |
February 2003 |
| Flock to Hawk
Mountain |
Bart Frazier |
Protecting wildlife with private property rights |
January 2003 |
| Don't buy
the Beavers, sell the stadium |
Michael L. Barton, PhD |
Sell the city's baseball stadium |
January 2003 |
| Shop 'til
you drop, public officials |
Adrian Moore |
Competitive bidding of public services |
January 2003 |
| Oregon state
spending up even if Measure 28 fails |
William B. Conerly, PhD, and Steve Buckstein |
Oregon Measure 28 |
January 2003 |
| Shut down
PERS now |
Steve Buckstein |
PERS reform |
December 2002 |
| Spending billions
to create more congestion |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
I-5 Trade Partnership Task Force analysis |
November 2002 |
| When giving,
give wisely |
Kurt T. Weber |
Successful, compassionate charity |
November 2002 |
| HRAs benefit
employees and employers |
Kurt T. Weber |
Health Reimbursement Arrangements |
November 2002 |
| First, look
at school spending |
Nick Weller |
Education spending |
November 2002 |
| Harming those
we think we're helping |
Ayse Y. Evrensel, PhD |
Minimum wage laws |
October 2002 |
| Single
payer food |
James Frogue |
Single payer systems |
October 2002 |
| Surveillance
doesn’t end with terrorists |
Charlotte Twight, PhD |
Civil liberties |
October 2002 |
| Measure 27 clouds
otherwise clear choices |
Gregory Conko |
Mandatory labeling of genetically engineered
food |
October 2002 |
| If the
food doesn't kill you, the wait will |
Lawrence W. Reed and Kurt T. Weber |
Canadian health care |
August 2002 |
| Free the universities,
fund the students |
Nick Weller |
Higher education funding |
August 2002 |
| Workers unite!
- Against forced dues |
Jami Lund |
Unions and free speech |
August 2002 |
| Living wage
laws: Less livable than you'd think |
Joseph Coon |
"Living wage" laws |
July 2002 |
| Clean air: An
environmental success story |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Air pollution |
July 2002 |
| Improve education
by empowering parents |
Nick Weller |
Parental rights in education |
July 2002 |
| Independence
Day: Remember the reason |
Michael Barton, PhD |
Independence Day |
July 2002 |
| Wilderness Unlimited |
Joey Coon & Angela Eckhardt |
Rereation, conservation on private lands |
May 2002 |
| Check out
library fees |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Library funding |
May 2002 |
| Fix PERS
for new hires |
Angela Eckhardt |
PERS reform |
May 2002 |
| The war on
drugs is a bad investment |
Gary E. Johnson |
Drug policy reform |
May 2002 |
| CAM pushes
jobs over academics |
Nick Weller |
Oregon's Certificate of Initial Mastery |
April 2002 |
| Tax Freedom
Day |
Angela Eckhardt |
Taxes |
April 2002 |
| Let private
schools help with public education |
Brother Bob Smith |
School vouchers |
April 2002 |
| Special interests
run with faulty obesity data |
Randal O'Toole |
Obesity and urban sprawl |
April 2002 |
| Charter
forests offer public lands solution |
Randal O'Toole |
Public lands management |
March 2002 |
| School choice meets
constitutional standards |
Robert Freedman, J.D. |
Cleveland school voucher case |
March 2002 |
| Urban renewal
drains resources, confuses all |
Gregory W. Byrne, J.D. |
Urban renewal funding |
February 2002 |
| Repent from
sin taxes |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Cigarette taxes |
February 2002 |
| Time for
a tax cut |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
Tax cut |
February 2002 |
| Leave job
creation to private sector |
Angela Eckhardt and Lawrence W. Reed |
Job creation |
February 2002 |
| Say "no"
to Governor's tax increases |
Steve Buckstein |
State budget shortfall |
January 2002 |
| City officials
don't want to solve congestion |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Traffic relief |
January 2002 |
| Give Oregon
back its money |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
Federal unemployment insurance tax |
January 2002 |
| SimpleCare
helps cut health care costs |
Kurt T. Weber |
Reducing administrative costs in health care |
November 2001 |
| Rethink civic
education |
Nick Weller |
Role of schools in civic education |
November 2001 |
| Sustainability
myths |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Sustainability |
November 2001 |
| Defending whom? |
Doug Bandow |
National defense |
October 2001 |
| Improve security:
Hold airports accountable |
Robert W. Poole, Jr. and Viggo Butler |
Airport security |
October 2001 |
| Terrorism and
blind faith in government |
James Bovard |
Rising trust in government |
October 2001 |
| Wrong number |
Kurt T. Weber |
Government-provided telecom services |
October 2001 |
| Rural Oregonians
tap pioneer self-reliance |
Jeff Muir and Angela Eckhardt |
Self help for infrastructure projects |
October 2001 |
| Sensible transportation
policies for Seattle |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Traffic congestion solutions |
September 2001 |
| Initiative
under assault |
Eric Winters |
Legal challenges to voter-approved initiatives |
September 2001 |
| In search of
sutainability |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Sustainability |
September 2001 |
| Term limits
okay, smaller government better |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Term limits |
September 2001 |
| Will work
for school |
Nick Weller |
Creative ways to lower tuition costs |
August 2001 |
| Workers deserve
choice in representation |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
Labor representation |
August 2001 |
| Finding solutions
in the Klamath Basin |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Klamath Basin water crisis |
August 2001 |
| Environmentalists
can drill oil, too |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
August 2001 |
| A tribute
to brewing, a lesson on government |
Kurt T. Weber |
Brewpubs and business regulations |
July 2001 |
| Small towns
benefit through privatization |
Robin A. Johnson |
Public works privatization |
July 2001 |
| PERS reform
is overdue |
Peter J. Ferrara, J.D. |
Public employee pension reform |
July 2001 |
| Politics corrupts
money |
Paul R. Farago |
Campaign finance |
June 2001 |
| School district
troubles reveal system's flaws |
Nick Weller |
Portland Public Schools |
June 2001 |
| The false
promise of accountability testing |
Nick Weller |
Standards and testing |
June 2001 |
| Congestion
pricing is inevitable |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Congestion pricing |
June 2001 |
| New math at
Metro: Buy high, sell low |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Transit-oriented developments |
May 2001 |
| Price caps
would become the problem |
Lynne Keisling, PhD |
Electricity price caps |
May 2001 |
| Certification
doesn't equal teacher quality |
Matthew J. Brouillette and Aaron W. Davis |
Teacher certification |
May 2001 |
| Prohibition's
over, the OLCC should go now |
Aaron W. Davis and Angela Eckhardt |
Oregon Liquor Control Comm. |
May 2001 |
| Civil vs. political
society: Reflections on tax day |
Kurt T. Weber |
Morality of taxation |
April 2001 |
| Earth Day 2001:
It's time to move on |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Earth Day |
April 2001 |
| Private scholarships
expand school choice |
Nick Weller |
Scholarship foundations |
April 2001 |
| Taking care
of ourselves |
Kurt T. Weber |
Responsibility |
April 2001 |
| School tax
credits: Lessons from Arizona |
Thomas C. Patterson |
School tax credits |
March 2001 |
| Build it
(privately), and they will come |
Zenon X. Zygmont and Aaron W. Davis |
Subsidized stadiums |
March 2001 |
| Moving forward
with charter schools |
Thomas C. Patterson |
Charter schools |
March 2001 |
| Adam Smith
revisited |
Chana B. Cox and Joseph J. Cox |
Free markets |
February 2001 |
| Repeal Little
Davis-Bacon, reduce government fat |
Kurt T. Weber |
Prevailing wage law |
February 2001 |
| MSAs are
good medicine |
Angela Eckhardt |
Medical savings accounts |
February 2001 |
| Don't blame
deregulation for dark days |
Angela Eckhardt |
Electricity deregulation |
January 2001 |
| Cutting the
budget? Cut corporate welfare |
Zenon X. Zygmont, PhD |
Corporate welfare |
January 2001 |
| It's time
to serve students, not schools |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Universal education tax credit |
January 2001 |
| Simplistic
views about majority rule |
Chana B. Cox, PhD |
Majority rule |
January 2001 |
| Return
to charity, rediscover community |
Angela Eckhardt and Tamar Hare |
Private philanthropy |
January 2001 |
| Money on Portland's
livability: Right conclusion, wrong reasons |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Portland livability |
December 2000 |
| The environmental
benefits of globalization |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Globalization |
December 2000 |
| Property
rights trump petitioners' convenience |
Steve Buckstein |
Initiative petitioning |
September 2000 |
| School funding
model won't improve education |
Richard K. Vedder, PhD |
School funding |
September 2000 |
| This Labor Day,
celebrate the worker, not the union |
Paul R. Farago and Angela Eckhardt |
Unions |
August 2000 |
| Celebrating
the irrelevancy of politics |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Civil vs political society |
August 2000 |
| What happened
to personal responsibility? |
Caroline Allen |
Responsibility |
August 2000 |
| Microsoft: Latest
target in the litigation lottery |
Bill Mankin |
Antitrust |
July 2000 |
| Planning for
the past |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Urban Growth Boundaries |
July 2000 |
| Train drain: Why
transit users should oppose light-rail expansion |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Light rail v. buses |
July 2000 |
| Children not
mere creatures of the state |
Steve Buckstein |
Diversity, parental control in education |
June 2000 |
| It's time for
a new system to pay for road work |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Road pricing |
May 2000 |
| School finance:
It's not a revenue problem |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
School funding |
May 2000 |
| Looking for
money in all the wrong places |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
School funding |
April 2000 |
| Is mankind
a titanic failure? |
Fred L. Smith, Jr. |
Environmental quality |
April 2000 |
| Citizen 'suggestion
box' can inspire better government |
Angela Eckhardt |
Better Government Competition |
April 2000 |
| Death tax
kills family farms and wildlife |
Clay J. Landry and J. Bishop Grewell |
Estate tax |
April 2000 |
| Abolish the
OLCC? We'll drink to that! |
Angela Eckhardt and Kurt T. Weber |
Oregon Liquor Control Commissi |
April 2000 |
| Technology
is changing the face of government |
Phil Keisling |
Better Government Competition |
March 2000 |
| Booker T.
Washington: Up from slavery |
Kurt T. Weber |
Entrepreneurial spirit |
February 2000 |
| A vision that
seems stuck in the 20th century |
Steve Buckstein |
Oregon budget |
January 2000 |
| Let's start
over on our national health-care debate |
Stephen A. Gregg |
Health care reform |
December 1999 |
| That fellow
behind the tree |
Paul R. Farago |
Taxation |
December 1999 |
| Is this Poland,
cir. 1966, or Portland approaching 2000? |
Zenon Zygmont |
Utility deregulation |
November 1999 |
| Metro Fatigue |
Paul R. Farago |
Metro regional government |
November 1999 |
| Making
it easier for companies to be 'green' |
Lynn Scarlett |
Flexible environmental permits |
September 1999 |
| Water markets
work for the west |
Clay J. Landry |
Water quality |
September 1999 |
| Warning: Tobacco
lawsuits may be habit forming |
Angela Eckhardt |
Tobacco lawsuits |
September 1999 |
| A college
fund on the Social Security model |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
Social Security reform |
August 1999 |
| Cure for
the post-April 15 blues? |
Paul R. Farago |
Taxation |
May 1999 |
| More money won’t
help Oregon education |
Steve Buckstein |
School funding |
March 1999 |
| Charter schools
Kiwi-style |
The Hon. Maurice P. McTigue, Q.S.O. |
Charter schools |
March 1999 |
| Stopping
sprawl: A solution in search of a problem |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Urban Growth Boundaries |
March 1999 |
| Arizona's message
to Oregon: Charter Schools Now! |
Lisa Graham Keegan |
Charter schools |
February 1999 |
| End Portland's
war on private transit |
Kurt T. Weber & Angela Eckhardt |
Taxi regulations |
January 1999 |
| Light rail was
never the answer |
Gerard C.S. Mildner |
Light rail |
November 1998 |
| Victory for
the Government Party |
Paul R. Farago |
Elections |
November 1998 |
| Pave eastside
MAX line, run buses on it |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Light rail v. buses |
September 1998 |
| Why conservatives
should oppose the drug war |
Steve Buckstein |
Drug policy |
August 1998 |
| None of the above |
Steve Buckstein |
Elections |
May 1998 |
| Oregon employers'
hidden taxes cost jobs |
Dean Stansel |
Taxation |
April 1998 |
| Don't
subsidize assisted suicide |
Ron Adkins |
Assisted suicide and taxpayer funding |
April 1998 |
| Cities can
compete |
William B. Conerly |
Competitive contracting of local services |
March 1998 |
| Keeping the
promise & changing the future |
Oregon St. Rep. Patti Milne |
Social Security reform |
January 1998 |
| Let library
users pay |
Kurt T. Weber |
Library user fees |
August 1998 |
| Charities
should give thoughtfully |
Kurt T. Weber |
Guidelines for effective charities |
August 1998 |
| Opt out
no cop out |
Randall J. Pozdena, PhD |
Social Security reform |
July 1997 |
| Get ready for
Social Security reform |
William B. Conerly, PhD |
Social Security reform |
May 1997 |
| Let's Unleash
Growth's Benefits |
John A. Charles, Jr. |
Urban Growth Boundaries |
April 1997 |
| Be thankful the
OLCC doesn't regulate and sell milk |
Kurt T. Weber |
Oregon Liquor Control Commission |
April 1997 |
| Tobacco taxes:
Not what the doctor ordered |
Paul E. Smith, MD |
Sin taxes |
October 1996 |
| Why I'm leaving
school |
Jerome Cole |
Student perspective on school system |
August 1996 |
| There's
gotta be a better way |
Kurt T. Weber |
Criminal justice, prison reform |
January 1996 |
| Imagine a
world… |
Steve Buckstein |
School choice |
January 1992 |
