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2006-7 Aug '06 Oregon's New Umbrella: The Rainy Day Amendment
2006-6 May '06 "Right" to Health Care Violates Individual Rights
2006-5 Apr '06 Taxation is Uncivilized
2006-4 Mar '06 Health Mandates Price Some Out of Insurance Market
2006-3 Feb '06 Stupid in Oregon
2006-2 Feb '06 Promoting biodiesel is easy: Set farmers free to sell it
2006-1 Jan '06 Aiding Poverty in Africa: Giving 'Til it Hurts
2005-13 Dec '05 Climate Change and the Oregon Economy:
Still Searching for the Smoking Gun
2005-12 Oct '05 The Case for Price Gouging
2005-11 Sep '05 Meth laws need a good dose of sanity
2005-10 July '05 Freedom Requires Real Free Markets
2005-9 July '05 Socialized Medicine:
A powerful symbol of the national identity?
2005-8 July '05 Forcing people to be good
2005-7 June '05 A License to Kill (Competition)
2005-6 June '05 Oregon Unemployment Insurance Overpayments
2005-5 April '05 Must this Teacher Be Fired?
2005-4 Mar '05 Deconsolidate Oregon’s School Districts
2005-3 Mar '05 Price Gouging is Not the Problem
2005-2 Jan '05 Public School Monopoly Fails Latino Children
2005-1 Jan '05 Job Seekers Need Wheels to Wealth
2004-13 May '04 PERS to Determine Oregon's Future
2004-12 May '04 Helping Poor Help Themselves
2004-11 Apr '04 The Little Buses That Could
2004-10 Apr '04 Healthy Forests
2004-09 Mar '04 I'll Take Free Choice
2004-08 Feb '04 No excuses for Oregon's achievement gap
2004-07 Feb '04 Sons of the state, or citizens of society?
2004-06 Feb '04 How to stabilize Oregon tax revenue
2004-04 Feb '04 Build community, not dependence
2004-03 Jan '04 Keep Oregon's quality of life, without new taxes
2004-02 Jan '04 Freedom in Middle-earth: A Hobbitt’s-eye view
2004-01 Jan '04 Keep politics away from money
2003-34 Dec '03 The Wright lesson
2003-33 Dec '03 Oregon tax reformers put cart before horse
2003-32 Nov '03 Steele Park: Another MAX fiasco
2003-31 Oct '03 An ounce of budget reform leadership
2003-30 Oct '03 Poverty for all?
2003-29 Oct '03 Harry Potter: The new Atlas Shrugged?
2003-28 Sep '03 Peaceful revolutions and recalling politicians
2003-27 Sep '03 Disasters are no excuse for price controls
2003-26 Sep '03 Blame politicians, not Measure 5
2003-25 Aug '03 Fair thee well!
2003-24 July '03 TOD: A solution in search of a problem
2003-23 July '03 Prosperity or Portland?
2003-22 July '03 One hundred years of Orwellian thought
2003-21 July '03 Just the spending facts ma'am
2003-20 June '03 To declare independence
2003-19 June '03 Phreemarketeers following Phish
2003-18 June '03 Equality before the law for Boy Scouts and gays
2003-17 June '03 Sailing competitive seas
2003-16 May '03 The Field of Economic Dreams
2003-15 May '03 Can we afford TriMet?
2003-14 May '03 Chile's unemployment insurance model
2003-13 Apr '03 Risks of a Multnomah County income tax
2003-12 Apr '03 No accountability: Portland's Mini PERS
2003-11 Apr '03 A sober critique of the beer tax
2003-10 Apr '03 Don't reward TriMet's dysfunction
2003-09 Apr '03 Connect school funding to those who benefit
2003-08 Mar '03 It's time to unlock SAIF
2003-07 Feb '03 Let neighborhood schools determine their future
2003-06 Feb '03 Options increase in local phone markets
2003-05 Feb '03 Fix PERS to fix future budget problems
2003-04 Jan '03 Don't buy the Beavers, sell the stadium
2003-03 Jan '03 Shop 'til you drop, public officials
2003-02 Jan '03 Flock to Hawk Mountain
2003-01 Jan '03 Oregon state spending up even if Measure 28 fails
2002-32 Dec '02 Shut down PERS now
2002-31 Nov '02 Spending billions to create more congestion
2002-30 Nov '02 When giving, give wisely
2002-29 Nov '02 HRAs benefit employees and employers
2002-28 Nov '02 First, look at school spending
2002-27 Oct '02 Harming those we think we're helping
2002-26 Oct '02 Single payer food
2002-25 Oct '02 Surveillance doesn’t end with terrorists
2002-24 Oct '02 Measure 27 clouds otherwise clear choices
2002-23 Aug '02 If the food doesn’t kill you, the wait will
2002-22 Aug '02 Free the universities, fund the students
2002-21 Aug '02 Workers unite! —Against forced dues
2002-20 July '02 Living wage laws: Less livable than you'd think
2002-19 July '02 Clean air: An environmental success story
2002-18 July '02 Improve education by empowering parents
2002-17 July '02 Independence Day: Remember the reason
2002-16 May '02 The war on drugs is a bad investment
2002-15 May '02 Wilderness Unlimited
2002-14 May '02 Fix PERS for new hires
2002-13 May '02 Check out library fees
2002-12 Apr '02 CAM: Reading, writing and arithmetic Jobs
2002-11 Apr '02 Tax Freedom Day
2002-10 Apr '02 Let private schools help with public education
2002-09 Apr '02 Special interests run with faulty obesity data
2002-08 Feb '02 Urban renewal drains resources, confuses all
2002-07 Feb '02 Repent from sin taxes
2002-06 Feb '02 Time for a tax cut
2002-05 Feb '02 Leave job creation to private sector
2002-04 Jan '02 Say "no" to Governor's tax increases
2002-02 Jan '02 City officials don't want to solve congestion
2002-01 Jan '02 Give Oregon back its money
2001-38 Nov '01 SimpleCare helps cut health care costs
2001-37 Nov '01 Rethink civic education
2001-36 Nov '01 Sustainability myths
2001-35 Oct '01 Rural Oregonians tap pioneer self-reliance
2001-34 Oct '01 Defending whom?
2001-33 Oct '01 Terrorism and blind faith in government
2001-32 Oct '01 Improve security: Hold airports accountable
2001-31 Oct '01 Wrong number
2001-30 Sep '01 Initiative under assault
2001-29 Sep '01 In search of sustainability
2001-28 Sep '01 Term limits OK, smaller government better
2001-27 Aug '01 Will work for school
2001-26 Aug '01 Workers deserve choice in representation
2001-25 Aug '01 Finding solutions in the Klamath Basin
2001-24 Jul '01 A tribute to brewing, a lesson on government
2001-23 Jul '01 Small towns benefit through privatization
2001-22 Jul '01 PERS reform is overdue
2001-21 Jun '01 The false promise of accountability testing
2001-20 Jun '01 Politics corrupts money
2001-19 Jun '01 School district troubles reveal system's flaws
2001-18 May '01 Prohibition's over, OLCC should go now
2001-17 May '01 Certification doesn't equal teacher quality
2001-16 May '01 Price caps would become the problem
2001-15 May '01 New math at Metro: Buy high, sell low
2001-14 Apr '01 Civil vs political society: Reflections on tax day
2001-13 Apr '01 Private scholarships advance school choice
2001-12 Apr '01 Earth day 2001: It's time to move on
2001-11 Apr '01 Play ball Portland! But fund it yourself
2001-10 Apr '01 Taking care of ourselves
2001-09 Mar '01 Build it (privately), and they will come
2001-08 Mar '01 School tax credits: Lessons from Arizona
2001-07 Mar '01 Moving forward with charter schools
2001-06 Feb '01 MSAs are good medicine
2001-05 Feb '01 Repeal Little Davis-Bacon; reduce government fat
2001-04 Feb '01 Adam Smith revisited
2001-03 Jan '01 Deregulation not to blame for dark days
2001-02 Jan '01 Cutting the budget? Cut corporate welfare
2001-01 Jan '01 It's time to serve students, not schools
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