News Oregon Capitol News, an offshoot of the Cascade Policy Institute, the local free-market think-tank is shutting down. OCN provided a useful service by spending the time and money to assemble databases of public contracts, salaries and other information. Cascade President John Charles says in a statement (below) that information will migrate to the parent organization's website.Here's the statement Charles ...   More

News Oregon Capitol News today added new information to its database of public employees' salaries, listing for the first time the wages at Portland Public Schools, the state's largest school district. The database, based on information given to the Oregon Capitol News by the school district, appears to have a few glitches. For example, it lists a physical education social studies teacher at Lincoln ...   More