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QP We Can't Afford Metro's Affordable Housing

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QP IP28’s Radical Attempt to Kill Oregon’s Way of Life

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QP PPS’ Failed Equity Policy: No Evidence, No Results

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QP The False Promise of Portland's "All Electric" High Schools

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QP New York Says Yes to Scholarships--Oregon Should Too

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QP Defeating M120 is a Win for the Oregon System

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QP Oregon Metro's War on Cars

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QP The $60 Million Question: Where Did the CBSE Go?

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QP 42k Texas Parents Apply for School Choice

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QP Portland Ends School Choice for Jefferson High

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QP "Oregon System" Sends Governor Back to Square One

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QP Shrinking 82nd Avenue for People in Cars

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QP A Better Direction for Oregon's "Prosperity Roadmap"

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QP "Fully Funded" Schools are a Moving Goalpost

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QP Portland Public Schools Risky Real Estate Gamble

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QP Oregon's 19th Century Energy Strategy

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QP "Inspire Oregon" Tackles Rural Housing Crisis

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QP TriMet Should Focus on Crisis, Not Expansion

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QP $2 Trillion for Transit and No One Aboard

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QP: Dear PPS Bond Committee: Please Tell the Taxpayers

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QP: Decision Time for TriMet’s 82nd Ave. Road Diet

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QP: Over-sized and Over-priced Schools

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QP: Center for Black Student Excellence Should Be a Private Venture

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QP: Why Affordable Housing is Unaffordable

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QP: Improve Education Outcomes by Removing Barriers

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QP: Oregon’s Electric Vehicle Policy Fail

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QP: Student Excellence for Every Portland Public School

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QP: Separate But Equitable at Portland Public Schools

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QP: Spending Solutions for ODOT's Spending Problems

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QP: The Tapeworm Eating ODOT's Record Gas Tax Revenue

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QP: Special Session Should Use Emergency Funds

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QP: Tina Kotek’s Energy Policy: Whichever Way the Wind Blows

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QP: Metro’s Ballooning Bond for Road Diets

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QP: Metro Should Reject the Burnside Bridge "Road Diet"

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QP: TriMet’s Plan for 82nd Avenue “Road Diet”

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QP: HB 2089 Brings Oregon into Compliance with the Supreme Court’s Tyler Ruling

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QP: Voters Aren't Interested in New Transportation Taxes

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QP: New Hampshire Is First in New England to Enact Universal School Choice

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QP: Jefferson High School's Dual Enrollment Dilemma

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QP: Educational Choice for Children Act Would Expand Private Scholarship Options

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QP: SB 1182 - The New Racism

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QP: Metro Should Scrap Visioning and Long-Range Planning

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QP: House Bills on Oregon Water Resources to Double Dip Taxpayers

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QP: Oregon Department of Forestry’s Bad Habit: Over Promise, Under Deliver

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QP: School Choice is Bigger in Texas

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QP: Tri-Met's Death Spiral

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QP: North Dakota Legislature Passes ESA and Charter School Bills

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QP: Race Based School Funding

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QP: School Choice Options Now Reach More Than 40% of American Children

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QP: Amending the Constitution Is Not a Children’s Game

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QP: New Law Expands School Choice to All Wyoming Children

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QP: Education Funding Should “Follow the Child” When Parents Choose Oregon Charter Schools

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QP: WES Commuter Rail Should be Shut Down, Not Expanded

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QP: A Failure to Launch at PPS

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QP: Oregon’s Neighbor Idaho Passes a School Choice Tax Credit

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QP: Restructuring Oregon's Death Tax Would Benefit the State

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QP: In 2025, School Choice Comes First to Tennessee

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QP: More School Choices Mean Better Opportunities for Oregon Students

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QP: The Government Should Try to Do a Few Things Well In 2025

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QP: Annual Celebration Highlights Importance of Effective Educational Opportunities for All

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QP: Trust is Earned, Not Given

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QP: School Choice – A Gift That Fits Every Family

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QP: Extending the Yellow MAX Line to Vancouver Is TriMet’s Worst Idea Yet

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QP: Why are Portland School Construction Projects So Expensive?

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QP: Limits on School-Day Phone Use Will Free Students to Learn

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QP: Portland to Expand Streetcar, Riders Not Included

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QP: Three Ways Oregon Can Help Students Get Back on Track in 2025

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QP: DEQ’s plan to raise the cost of driving should be cancelled

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QP: Oregon Ranks 35th Nationally in Return on Investment for Education Spending

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QP: The Siren Song of Free School Meals

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QP: The Nuclear Comeback Skips Oregon

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QP: Oregon: Improvement Needed on “Education Freedom Report Card”

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QP: DEQ's Plan to Suffocate Oregon's Economy

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QP: More Humility Needed

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Metro, Please Learn from Past Mistakes

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QP: Rising Costs and Diminishing Returns

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QP: With Declining Enrollments, Why Is Portland Building Bigger High Schools?

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QP: Why the American Dream Is Just a Dream for Many in Portland

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QP: Is Affordable, Reliable Electricity a Service of the Past?

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QP: Liability, Not Reliability: Solar Panels in Oregon Schools

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QP: Zero-emissions? Not Really

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QP: There is no Field of Dreams at the Expo Center

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QP: What If Every Child Could Find the Path to Academic Success?

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QP: Portland Public Schools’ Building Costs Are Shaking Up Budgets

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QP: Universal School Choice Comes to Louisiana

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QP: Is a New, Earthquake-Ready Burnside Bridge Necessary?

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QP: EVs = Bad Business

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QP: School Choice Expansion Continues with Missouri Education Package

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QP: More Money Needs to Mean More Roads

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QP: PPS Climate Policy Is All Cost, No Benefit

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QP: Will School Choice Be on Oregon Ballots Soon?

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Do People Have a Right to Camp on Sidewalks?

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Providing Homes Oregon Families Can Afford Should Not Be a Problem

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QP: The prudent person principle should be applied to all publicly funded projects

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QP: By 2027, All Alabama Students Will Have Educational Choice

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QP - More Money is Not the Solution

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Legislative committee wants to extend commuter rail to Salem at a cost of $118 per ride.

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QP: Oregon Needs More Than Tiny Homes

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QP: Oregon’s highway freeze is not about the weather

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QP: Survey: 72% of Parents Said They Considered a New School Last Year