by Brendan Monaghan With the presidential contests of both parties no longer in doubt, many of the headlines this Primary Season have instead been devoted to down-ballot races. Specifically, moderate incumbents and candidates in open races are being tossed out … Continue reading →

by NW Spotlight The NY Times is reporting this week that President Obama is facing criticism for shameless self promotion using the official White House biography web pages of every president since Calving Coolidge, except Gerald R. Ford. The self promotion of … Continue reading →

by Eric Shierman Like many other truths about the world we live in, you would never know this from listening to politicians’ speeches, but we are living in the golden age of American manufacturing. More products are “Made in the … Continue reading →

by NW Spotlight President Mitt Romney easily won the Republican primary with 72% of the vote, Ron Paul got 12% of the vote (with 69% of the vote counted) Portland Mayor  Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith will be in a … Continue reading →

By Quick Comment, The 2012 Primary election has brought a closing chapter to a long story about the fall of State Representative and former House Speaker Dave Hunt. The election results show that he received an embarrassing and terrible last … Continue reading →

Progressive candidates Jefferson Smith & Mary Nolan use fiscal taxpayer issues in the campaign and showed huge gains among voters. By Taxpayer Association of Oregon One of the biggest surprises of the Portland Mayor race was Jefferson Smith who received … Continue reading →

The Atlanta Journal cartoonist, Mike Luckovich, recently captured the essence of former Democrat Vice-presidential candidate, John Edwards. The cartoon shows the trial judge at Mr. Edwards’ current criminal trial addressing the jury while Mr. Edwards preens in a handheld mirror: … Continue reading →

Oregon Transformation Flash Fact: Oregon’s retired PERS members to cost over half a trillion dollars for the next 100 years Between 2010 and 2109, Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) will pay out almost $600 billion to government employees who … Continue reading →

Oregon Senate Republicans Senate Republicans to take on abuses of social safety net programs again Salem, OR – Senate Republicans will continue to push legislation that can safeguard the integrity of Oregon’s public assistance programs. Data recently released to The … Continue reading →

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker is a larger-than-life figure fighting for what he calls the “Most Important Civil Right of All–equal access to high quality education.” On May 4th Booker gave an inspiring keynote address before the American Federation … Continue reading →

by Brendan Monaghan Hello again, Tournament fans! After two weeks of voting, we’ve reached the Sweet 16 in the contest to determine who you the readers believe should be Mitt Romney’s running mate in November. This time, there were many … Continue reading →

by Dan Lucas School districts across Oregon are facing additional, painful cuts. Rising PERS costs are obviously a problem, but many of these cuts would not have to be made if the governor and the state legislature made the K-12 … Continue reading →

by Brendan Monaghan What is Hillsboro thinking? Two years after Portland chased away the occasionally mildly-popular AAA Portland Beavers, Hillsboro wants to put Oregon back in the Minor League game. The plan, according to The Oregonian, is to convert an … Continue reading →

by Eric Shierman Yesterday marked the forty-fifth anniversary of the day Lyle Tate from Portland was killed in action on Hill 778 near Khe Sanh. Having just recently survived one of the most challenging battles of the Vietnam War, Cpl … Continue reading →

by NW Spotlight The Oregonian, and a number of local TV stations – including KOIN and KGW – are reporting that in October 2010 an Oregon girls’ soccer team became violently ill with a norovirus they got from eating cookies … Continue reading →

by Bob Clark A PPS hand picked technical advisory committee for 2012 long range facility planning completed a report on May 7, 2012, providing a framework for the PPS Superintendent and PPS Board to decide on the scope and size … Continue reading →

A Monday article in the Oregonian by Harry Esteve demonstrates that once you get outside the malaise that is Portland and the “gruppensprechen” that dominates the far left politics of Multnomah County, there is clearheaded thinking and a desire for … Continue reading →

Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance On June 26, 2009, then-Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, Dave Hunt, led the House in passage of House Bill 3508, which provided for early release of some violent criminals, including some convicted of sexual abuse. … Continue reading →

By Todd Myers “From outside in the fields came a sickening smack of an axe on a tree. Then we heard the tree fall. The very last Truffula tree of them all.” –From The Lorax, Dr. Seuss This spring, a … Continue reading →

by Dan Lucas KGW reported Friday on Governor Kitzhaber’s recent trip to Washington D.C. to ask for $1.9 billion to try to reform Medicaid in Oregon. Medicaid is the government health care payment system for the poor. The KGW article also … Continue reading →