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Sit back and listen to Cascade Policy Institute explain the latest research on Oregon's important issues. Cascade advances public policy ideas that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility, and market-based economic opportunity. Visit us at www.cascadepolicy.org

QP: Fudged Numbers and a Failed Response

2 mins; December 08, 2021

QP: Public School Closures Are Hurting Oregon Students

2 mins; December 01, 2021

QP: The Story Behind Thanksgiving That Every Elected Official Should Know

2 mins; November 23, 2021

QP: Everyone Is Greedy, No One's an Angel, and That's OK: Remembering Milton Friedman

2 mins; November 18, 2021

QP: Lincoln County's Harmful Blame Game

2 mins; November 10, 2021

How COVID-19 Turned 2021 into "The Year of School Choice"

5 mins; November 08, 2021

QP: Innovation, Not Regulation, Is the Most Effective Way to Control GHG Emissions

2 mins; November 03, 2021

QP: Washington County Tells Small Business Owners They Just Don’t Care

2 mins; October 27, 2021

QP: Oregon Needs More Hospital Beds and Less Regulation

2 mins; October 20, 2021

QP: Portland Officials Need an Attitude Adjustment When It Comes to Violent Crimes

2 mins; October 13, 2021

QP: ODOT's Use of Inaccurate Data Will Yield Incorrect Results

2 mins; October 06, 2021

Oregon's "Excess Revenue": Refund or Reinvest?

59 mins; October 06, 2021

QP: Save Your Money, Save the State: Keep the Kicker

2 mins; September 29, 2021

QP: A Developer's Departure Gives Portland a Chance to Reconsider Its Priorities

2 mins; September 22, 2021

Special Event: A Conversation with WSJ Columnist Jason Riley

57 mins; September 21, 2021

QP: Poll Shows a Growing Majority of Registered Voters Support School Choice

2 mins; September 15, 2021

QP: Portland Politicians Talk Tough to Texas, and No One Cares

2 mins; September 08, 2021

QP: Oregon's 2021 Energy Regulations Are Already Hurting Consumers

2 mins; August 23, 2021

QP: Dropping High School Graduation Standards Hurts Students’ Future Prospects

2 mins; August 17, 2021

QP: Big Questions for Harriet Tubman Middle School Property

1 min; August 11, 2021

Interviewing Cascade's 2021 summer interns

7 mins; August 09, 2021

QP: Portland Parks are Wrecked

1 min; August 04, 2021

Policy Picnic: Fighting Government Theft of Home Equity in the U.S.

33 mins; July 29, 2021

QP: Portland needs a trusted police force

2 mins; July 27, 2021

What do voters think of school choice?

23 mins; July 21, 2021

QP: Portland’s Housing Affordability Debacle

2 mins; July 20, 2021

QP: When the Police Go Away, the Criminals Will Play

1 min; July 20, 2021

Interviewing Micah Perry, Cascade's newest staff member

9 mins; July 14, 2021

QP: Roads, Not Light Rail, Get Us Through Extreme Weather

2 mins; July 08, 2021

QP: Portland Cannot Ignore “Low-Impact” Homeless Camps

1 min; June 30, 2021

QP: Travelers, Come to Portland... After We Clean Up the Place

1 min; June 22, 2021

Interviewing Vlad Yurlov on homelessness in PDX

27 mins; June 16, 2021

QP: The Deadly Consequences of Catch-and-Release

1 min; June 14, 2021

QP: Homeless programs are promising excuses

1 min; June 01, 2021

QP: Oregon Senate Passes Largest School Budget in State History

1 min; May 27, 2021

QP: The race is on for a reliable power grid

1 min; May 19, 2021

QP: The Reason a Non-Police Response Program for Portland Homeless is Struggling

1 min; May 11, 2021

$40 million dollars for a hotel room?

5 mins; May 10, 2021

QP: The Era of DIY Government Won't End Well

1 min; May 05, 2021

QP: Four things you should know about learning pods in Oregon

1 min; April 27, 2021

Anti-Freeway Group Clogs the Courts to Keep Congestion

5 mins; April 21, 2021

QP: Oregon currently restricts students' education options - SB240 would change this

1 min; April 20, 2021

Dams and Fish Can Live Together, Thanks to Whooshh

1 min; April 13, 2021

Are Oregon students looking at distance learning in the fall?

1 min; April 06, 2021

These bills would constantly increase infrastructure spending - why does this matter?

5 mins; March 31, 2021

Beware the Four Day School Week

1 min; March 30, 2021

Every Oregon student deserves a quality education

1 min; March 23, 2021

Oregon Transportation Policy Needs to Learn From Its Mistakes

5 mins; March 19, 2021

Green Shoots of Business Need Room to Blossom

1 min; March 16, 2021

Should Oregon Punish Hotels for Price Gouging?

1 min; March 10, 2021

Policy Picnic: Oregon's War on Driving Failed. Now What?

52 mins; March 10, 2021

Hydroelectric power is renewable, it's time legislators recognize that

2 mins; March 02, 2021

Why is "Affordable" Housing So Expensive?

5 mins; February 25, 2021

Oregon legislators should vote yes on nuclear power

1 min; February 23, 2021

Legislators want to ban bacon...

1 min; February 16, 2021

Make Oregon the Opportunity State

2 mins; February 11, 2021

"Pay for Delay: Compensating Parents for Prolonged School Closures" - February 4th Policy Picnic

47 mins; February 08, 2021

Take stock, then take action on Portland's Homelessness Crisis

1 min; February 04, 2021

Portland is Ill, but Not Dying

1 min; February 03, 2021

This is National School Choice Week!

1 min; January 28, 2021

Reduce Homelessness by Reusing the Expo Center

2 mins; January 26, 2021

Metro needs to break down its barriers to nature

1 min; January 20, 2021

Would you picnic near a garbage dump?

1 min; January 13, 2021

Oregon's new cigarette tax will hurt residents

1 min; January 05, 2021

Employers are paying the bill for the pandemic

2 mins; December 29, 2020

Where can the homeless go? Portland still doesn't know

4 mins; December 21, 2020

Pay an expensive electricity bill in Oregon? Here's one way legislators could provide relief.

1 min; December 15, 2020

TriMet's zombie light rail project

1 min; December 08, 2020

Shopping in a shutdown

3 mins; December 04, 2020

Government should pay the price for the lockdowns

1 min; December 01, 2020

Oregon is suppressing hospital capacity

5 mins; November 30, 2020

The first Thanksgiving's free market lesson

1 min; November 27, 2020

Renewable Energy Source or Bird Chopper?

1 min; November 23, 2020

Should restaurants and bars be forced to lockdown?

1 min; November 17, 2020

What is going on? School restrictions relax as cases go up

1 min; November 10, 2020

Prevailing wages have a dark history and poor results

1 min; November 03, 2020

It's Creepy Season: Metro's Haunted Lands

1 min; October 27, 2020

Measure 26-218's Ridiculous Flaws

5 mins; October 21, 2020

Oregon's Boardman Coal Plant closed. Now what?

2 mins; October 20, 2020

Parents support school choice. Here is why.

1 min; October 14, 2020

Governments can't solve homelessness alone

1 min; October 06, 2020

I was homeschooled. Here is why I support school choice.

3 mins; October 01, 2020

Your local government: Deep in debt and getting deeper

1 min; September 29, 2020

Education reform that gives parents responsibility

46 mins; September 25, 2020

Oregon has a chance to adopt the newest in clean, renewable energy

1 min; September 22, 2020

Here's an idea: why not a money-back guarantee for Oregon public schools?

1 min; September 16, 2020

Adversity introduces us to ourselves - honoring 9/11

1 min; September 11, 2020

Metro’s transportation measure will cripple Portland's COVID-19 recovery

4 mins; September 09, 2020

Pinocchio Politics on the November Ballot

5 mins; September 02, 2020

California's blackouts could come to Oregon

1 min; August 26, 2020

Special Edition: Metro predicts the future?

8 mins; August 19, 2020

Oregon students deserve stability

1 min; August 18, 2020

Texas is stealing Oregon jobs and for good reason

1 min; August 11, 2020

Oregon is pushing itself into a deeper housing crisis

1 min; August 04, 2020

School Choice means equitable funding

1 min; July 29, 2020

TriMet needs to look at the numbers

1 min; July 27, 2020

Cascade testimony on Metro's Get Moving 2020 Measure

2 mins; July 27, 2020

Charter schools could save the fall semester

1 min; July 14, 2020

Friedrich Hayek and Oregon's COVID-19 response

57 mins; July 13, 2020

Metro's $700,000 Sentiment

1 min; July 07, 2020

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