Folks, look at what’s happening right across the Pacific Northwest. Oregon is blessed with incredible land, hardworking people, forests, farms, and tech talent, yet our streets are a disaster, families are struggling, and government keeps making things worse with one bad decision after another. We don’t need more fancy studies or progressive experiments...

In 1955, a Detroit factory worker earning about $5,000 a year could support a family of four on a single income. He could buy a new house for $7,000, a new car for $2,000, put food on the table, save money monthly, and still ensure his wife never needed to work outside the home. This wasn't a rare success story—it was the norm. That era defined the American middle class...

As a former Clackamas County Commissioner who consistently supported our Sheriff’s Office while championing smarter, more efficient government, I view the recent budget challenges not as a crisis of despair but as an opportunity for innovation and renewed commitment to the safety of our families and communities. The defeat of the public safety levy in May underscores the very real pressures facing taxpayers rising costs, economic uncertainty, and skepticism toward new tax bur

The American Dream of homeownership is under immediate, systemic assault from both Wall Street capital and predatory foreign investments, and it requires an urgent, structural policy response before our neighborhoods are permanently stripped from American family property owners. As a retired military officer, former county commissioner, and family man, I have spent decades defending our nation and managing local governance. Today, I am speaking out as a deeply concerned citiz