In 2020, Jay Inslee ran a quixotic single issue campaign for president (on the dime of Washington taxpayers) that never got off the ground, dropping out before Iowa, singularly focusing on climate change and his record as governor of Washington in fighting it. …

A plurality (38%) of American electrical consumption is residential, surpassing both the commercial (37%) and industrial sectors (25%). …

Oregon’s 2020 election can’t be easily summarized in a single sentence. No “Blue Wave” swept Republicans out of previously safe legislative seats, and no “Red Wave” produced significant GOP gains. While radical reforms to drug policy passed statewide, there was no broader left wing shift downballot. On paper, the election…

In recent years, the usage of land trusts and conservation easements as tools for land protection have grown massively. Free market organizations have touted them as a non-coercive and non-regulatory approach to land protection that protects private property rights while achieving environmental targets. A conservation easement is the sale or…

I was born and raised in Oregon. Whenever my family traveled out of state, I was never the one pumping gas. It wasn’t until I was 20 years old in a summer internship in Washington State that I pumped gas for the first time. It was slow, awkward, and my…

Where to start on the 2018 disaster for the Oregon GOP? Not only did their gubernatorial candidate riding a wave of newspaper endorsements and money from Phil Knight, lose to a scandal ridden incumbent by over six percentage points, nearly the same margin as their first time candidate 2016 nominee…

Oregon House District 23 is one of the most conservative legislative districts in Oregon. A sprawling, entirely rural district, it snakes alongside the West side of the Willamette Valley and Coast Range, bordering but never touching the towns of Corvallis, Monmouth, Sheridan, McMinnville, Salem and Junction City. The largest town…

Between 1989 and 1991, the USSR’s aid to Cuba evaporated as the empire crumbled. For the past several decades, Cuba had traded sugarcane to the USSR in exchange for oil at a subsidized rate. The USSR provided Cuba with so much oil that Cuba resold the excess oil at a…

(NOTE: This analysis was a final conducted for a cost-benefit analysis class that emphasized non-market valuation. The following is a hypothetical analysis, not intended to reflect any specific site in particular.) Energy markets in the United States are transforming. Coal fired electricity generation facilities are facing increased regulatory scrutiny from…