What We Don’t Have Are Gauges. Everyone has driven a car that still runs but tells a...
Ben's Viewpoint
I am the writer behind Ben’s Viewpoint — a no-nonsense political commentary hub where Oregon’s bureaucratic haystacks get picked apart strand by strand. A sales and marketing pro by trade and a civic troublemaker by habit, I like to mix data, dry humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism to expose the policies, players, and processes shaping life in Oregon.
Whether digging into housing policy, government spending, ballot-measure battles, or the latest “progressive” misadventure, I hope that I deliver the same approach: cut through the spin, follow the facts, and tell it straight — even when it stings.
Now who counts the ballots? Oregon has a voter apathy problem. Not a mystery. Not a conspiracy....
Why Your 401(k) Lives Under a Microscope While the Healthcare Bills Like a Pit Boss Twenty-five years...
Why We Keep Funding Expensive Experiments Instead of What Actually Works Oregon keeps insisting it can innovate...
Governor Tina Kotek rolled out Oregon’s Prosperity Roadmap this week with the kind of fanfare you’d expect...