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Recent Posts
- A 100% business income tax rate in Oregon? Watch your ballot
- Say her name
- Portland in 1921: Professor Einstein yields to the Bolsheviks
- Happy 96th birthday, Professor Lehrer
- The hidden economics of working from home
- If the opposite of a shout-out is a shout-back . . .
- An unexpected use for the Portland arts tax: enforcing the short-term rental license regulations
- Judge Engoron was the Trump fraud trial judge, but he wrote for the court of appeals
- The Laquedem Plan to Improve the Discourse of Ideas - also, happy 20th to me
- The Supreme Court keeps Donald Trump on the ballot. Facebook crumbles
Recent Comments
- Old Northeastie Moved to Clackistan on An unexpected use for the Portland arts tax: enforcing the short-term rental license regulations
- Dan a Wasil on Fulton County's indictment of Donald Trump and friends, analyzed
- Chris Snethen on 2022 Endorsements II: NO on Measure 113 (truant legislators), YES on Measure 114 (gun regulation)
- Allan L. on Endorsements III: The race for Governor
- Isaac Laquedem on Why forgiving student loans makes the republican party's indentures fall out
- Diana H. on Why forgiving student loans makes the republican party's indentures fall out
- MrFearless47 on Clarence Thomas points the way to the future - and to the past
- bojack on Is William Baxter (1929-1998) the culprit behind today's shortage of baby formula? History and economics say "yes"
- Allan L. on Is William Baxter (1929-1998) the culprit behind today's shortage of baby formula? History and economics say "yes"
- Helena on Another story of government thrift with information
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