All Episodes

QP: Local Celebrations Highlight All the Ways Oregon Students Learn

QP: Three Ways Oregon Can Help Kids Get the Education They Deserve

QP: Oregon’s Reliance on Fossil Fuels Is Growing, Not Shrinking

QP: Pennsylvania’s Christmas Gift to K-12 Students

QP: Why 2023 Is the “Year of Universal School Choice”

Student-Focused Solutions Can Address Pandemic Learning Losses

QP: Why More Money Won’t Solve the Problems in Portland Public Schools

QP: TriMet’s Existential Crisis

QP: Oklahoma’s Education Tax Credit Puts Families First

QP: What The New Homeschool Demographic Means For School Choice

QP: We don’t need a Ministry of Truth

QP: It’s Time to End Home Equity Theft in Oregon

QP: School Choice Programs Don’t Cause Tuition Inflation

QP: North Carolina Becomes the 9th State to Offer Students Universal School Choice

QP: Offshore Wind Takes a Blow

QP: It’s Time to Bring Transit into the Twenty-First Century

QP: Portland Students Could Strike Out Because of Teachers’ Union

QP: Westside MAX, Still a Dream at 25

QP: Parents Say They Want More School Options for Their Children

QP: 2023 – An Outstanding Year for School Choice

QP: RealClear Opinion Poll Shows 71% of Registered Voters Support School Choice

QP: Let Oregon Voters Reconsider Nuclear Power

QP: Making Driving More Expensive Won’t Fix Oregon’s Congested Roads

QP: Cascade Policy Institute’s Bill Expanding Access to the GED Exam Is Signed into Law

QP: The Ghost Train

QP: The Memory Problem of Portland Public Schools

QP: Oregon's 2040 Electric Utility Mandates Rely on Future Technology--or Buying Electricity from Other States

QP: Metro Nature Parks are Hidden by Design

QP: Portland Needs More Than a Small Tax Break

QP: School Choice States Open Doors of Opportunity for Generations of Children

QP: A Nightmare Waiting to Happen: Parking at 3000 SE Powell

QP: The Oregon Senate has been shut down for a month. Does anyone care?

QP: More Money, Same Result

QP: A Failure of Political Leadership

QP: Money for Nothing

QP: With New Laws in Florida and Indiana, 7 States Have Universal School Choice

QP: Homeowners, Business Owners, and Retirees: Multnomah County is Coming for Your Life Savings

QP: Oregon’s Last Mask Mandate Has Been Lifted, But State Policy Guarantees More Lockdowns in the Next Pandemic

QP: Oregon Legislature Lines Up a Spending Blow-Out

QP: Portlanders Are Voting with Their Feet

QP: Educational Freedom: A Tale of Two Governors

QP: HB 3068 Allows Students to Take the GED for a High School Diploma

QP: Snowstorm Shows Taxpayers the City of Portland’s Dystopian Side

QP: ODOT Says Households Will Pay $575 a Year in Its First Round of Tolls

QP: When the State Stays Silent, It’s Easy to Assume the Worst

QP: Oregon Must Stop Outsourcing Policymaking to California’s Unelected Bureaucrats

QP: Report shows ESA programs can give students the options they need, while increasing per-student funding for those remaining in district schools

QP: Education Savings Accounts Would Make Oregon Students Better Off

QP: 3 Ways Oregon Legislators Can Expand Options for K-12 Students Today

QP: Small Steps Toward the Stone Age: Biden’s Gas Stove Ban

QP: ODOT Is Gassed Up and Ready to Go on Tolling: But They Don’t Know Where They’re Going

QP: A Holiday Wishlist for Oregon

QP: Tolling’s Political Pile-Up

QP: Multnomah County Is Going “Ban”-anas

Education Freedom in New Hampshire: How Education Savings Accounts Are Expanding Opportunities for K-12 Children

QP: Education Group Works to Put School Choice on the Ballot in Oregon

QP: Private Property Saved the Plymouth Pilgrims

QP: For Oregon’s New Governor, Great Power Comes with Great Responsibility

QP: Oregon Needs a Free-Market Makeover

QP: Portland’s “Moon Shot” to Solve Homelessness: Lessons from Apollo 13

QP: Yearning and Burning on the November Ballot

QP: Walk Away from Measure 113

QP: Kate Brown's Parting Gift

QP: Oregon Ranks 40th on Heritage Foundation’s “Education Freedom Report Card”

QP: Arizona Offers All Children School Choice; Oregon Should, Too

QP: PCC Wants More of Your Tax Dollars to Spend Its Way out of a Slump

QP: 3 Ways New Oregon Leadership Can Improve K-12 Education Fast

QP: Biden’s Student Loan Bailout Brings Chaos to College Students

QP: Oregon’s Budget: Out-of-Control Spending and Misplaced Priorities

QP: Biden May Control School Suspensions

QP: Gotta Get Rid of the GET Green Energy Boondoggle

QP: TriMet's Electric Bus Plans Could Burst into Flames

QP: Local Governments Must Change Course to Fix Their Policy Crises

QP: This Green Fund Doesn't Deserve a Green Light

QP: Welcome to Portland, Where Getting a Job Is Easy but Staying Safe Is Hard

QP: Portland’s all-or-nothing city charter ballot measure may add up to no reforms at all

QP: Lights Out - A Lesson in Local Government

QP: Portland’s “EV Ready Code” Isn’t That Electric

QP: Portland Needs More Than Zoning Changes to Increase Housing Supply

QP: A Boring Budget Item Highlights Public Safety Dysfunction

QP: Portland Public Schools Needs a Plan for Declining Enrollment

QP: The MAX Yellow Line Doesn’t Deserve a Green Light

QP: It’s Election Night—Do You Know Where Your Ballot Is?

QP: Portland’s Self-Inflicted Rental Housing Shortage

QP: Lift the Cap on Oregon Charter Schools

QP: Nostalgia and NIMBYism Stand in the Way of Sheltering the Homeless

QP: 72% Believe Parents Should Have School Choice

QP: Better Late Than Never at the Expo Center

QP: Roads Are Infrastructure Worthy of Investment

QP: Are Taxes Driving People Out of Portland?

QP: Oregon Secretary of State Says No “Clear Purpose” for Mortgage Tax Deduction

QP: Oregonians Want More Hospital Beds. The Oregon Health Authority Is Standing in the Way.

Part 2 - Portland's Homelessness Crisis: Straightforward Solutions to a Complex Problem

Part 1 - Portland's Homelessness Crisis: The History of Homelessness in Portland

QP: Portland’s Parking Price Hike Proves City Council Hates You

QP: Legislators Can Work Less Instead of Asking for More Pay

QP: Metro’s Playing Farmville With Taxpayer Money

The Elliott State Research Forest: Big Win or Breach of Trust?

QP: Why is Oregon One of the Last States with a Mask Mandate?

QP: Oregon’s Land is Overregulated