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Path Home’s Model for Addressing Family Homelessness

January 03, 2024
This story began in 1994 when the First United Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon, opened the Goose Hollow Family Shelter for homeless families with children in response to families with children being found camping in Forest Park and the Goose Hollow neighborhood. The church ran the shelter for over a decade in the building’s basement. […]
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Clean Energy and the Inflation Reduction Act

April 18, 2023
When the U.S. Senate passed my Clean Energy for America Act last year as the centerpiece of the Inflation Reduction Act, I had to pinch myself after the floor vote. After all, Big Oil and other powerful special interests zealously guarding their precious and outmoded privileges don’t get defeated so resoundingly and deservedly every day back in Washington, […]
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The Whys and Wherefores: Failures of Governance and Imagination [1]

April 07, 2023
How did progressive Oregon, and the country, get to stasis on climate change? Other countries have not locked up on the issue. Even the Brexit-inflected and flustered United Kingdom has a coherent and determined if stumbling-toward-solutions policy approach. Even China, as dependent as it is on coal, acknowledges its obligation to exit that fuel and […]
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Principled Bipartisanship

February 19, 2019
We at Open Spaces asked Senator Ron Wyden to share his thoughts on principled bipartisanship with us and our readers. We appreciate his willingness to do so. They are presented here. A phrase that Oregonians attending my town halls in each of our state’s 36 counties each year will often hear is “principled bipartisanship.” As I […]
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Retaining the Federal Estate Tax*

April 16, 2017
I have been campaigning for the retention of the Federal Estate Tax. Some would wonder whether the repeal or retention of a tax which is currently only a modest part of total federal revenues merits discussion among the profound subjects which are treated in this publication. My view is that the issues test some fundamental […]
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