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.

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is needed to support an important program, or that a tax break for a powerful interest ought to be stopped, or that an outdated tax should be updated, lawmakers should be allowed to make the change.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.

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.