
A New Year’s Resolution for Oregon: A Mobile, Living Billboard
Like many others right about now, I’m drawing up my list of New Year’s resolutions. As usual, it is a long list of ways that I can be a better person.
Like many others right about now, I’m drawing up my list of New Year’s resolutions. As usual, it is a long list of ways that I can be a better person.
Imagine for a moment that every one of the almost 8,000 Oregon residents entering the freshman class at one of Oregon’s universities this fall has their tuition and fees waived for the next four years.
If a majority of the Oregon Legislature think a tax is needed to support an important program, or that a tax break for a powerful interest ought to be stopped, or that an outdated tax should be updated, lawmakers should be allowed to make the change. That’s why we elect them.
It would be good to know which Oregon businesses pay their employees so little or offer so few benefits that their employees must rely on food stamps, Medicaid, and other taxpayer-supported public services to get by.
If we lived in Maryland we’d have the same state drink (milk) and state dance (square) as Oregon. But unfortunately the important similarities would end there.
As strange as it may seem, a number of Oregon legislators are seriously discussing providing a windfall to wealthy people like Phil Knight.
Over my desk, there’s a poster dating back to the late 1970s that reads, “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”
What happens when a community foundation and an ideological political magazine jointly convene and facilitate a group of 37 Oregon business owners and CEOs to discuss the Oregon economy?
Some people joke that there was a fork in the trail that led prospectors to the nation’s West Coast during the gold rush.
Oregon competes with many other states to roll out the best red carpet for desirable companies to locate or expand here.
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