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it some thought. Stove
Buckstein decided that Oregon
noedod a think tank
So he created the Cascade
Policy Institute, a Portland
based group that bill* itself as a
"non-profit, non-partisan pub
lic policy research organiza
tion."
The institute. m its second
year of operation, seeks to edu
cate and promote its philoso
phy Buckstein roughly de
scribed that as seeking private
sector solutions to public prob
lems.
"We have conservatives, Lib
ertarians, people who call
themselves liberals and neo-lib
erals," Buckstein said. "Our
mission is to explore voluntary
market-oriented answers to Or
egon's public policy ques
tions"
Buckstein is a former Port
land stockbroker who ran for
state treasurer as the Liberturi
an Party nominee in 1UHH He
also led an unsuccessful effort
to pass a statewide "school
choice" initiative measure on
the 1«9G general election bal
lot.
But Cascade doesn’t endorse
political candidates or lake po
sitions on legislation, Buckstein
said.
Cascade lias issued policy pa
pers on various subjer ts. most
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recently on analysis of the of*
forts of tho property tax limit
imposed by Measure 5
Skepticism of government Is
a Cascade theme
Tho Measure 5 report, for ex
ample. says Oregon’* problem
isn't taxes but high government
spending
Buckstein said the institute
has suggesteil turning over tho
Portlnnd-ama auto omission in
spection system to private
shops and shifting audits of
state agencies from the state to
private firms
Some lawmakers and politi
cal observers said they were
aware of the organization's
mailings hut not much else
about the group.
"I've seen their material, hut
I guess their credibility has yet
to l>e established I don't know
much ai>out them.” said House
Speaker Larry Campbell, R-Ku
geno
Buckstein said nearly all of
Cascade’s budget comes from
Individual donations and from
foundations The institute qual
ifies as a tax-exempt public
charity, so contributions are tax
deductible.
The institute was formed in
January 1991. and last year's
budget was $57,000. Better
fund-raising efforts should put
1992 revenue at morn than
SI50,000. Buc kstein said
Mo declined to identify do
nors Ho said the institute has
no allegiances to businesses
and gets little of its money from
corporations of any size
{'.nscade's directors are
Duckstein. William lidy, a
Northwest Natural Gas Go. ac
countant, and Corvallis busi
nessman David Gore
Cascade doesn't do contract
research work for other organi
zations, Duckstein said, or do
projects with the idea of mak
ing money directly from them
Most the institute's papers
hnvo been distributed free to
public officials, the news media
and other interested citl/.ons
The group charged $5 for the
full Measure 5 report, a larger
than usual effort.
Cascade has recruited about a
dozen present and retired col
lege professors and others to
write its papers They ore cho
sen for expertise in their sub
jects. Duckstein said
The author of the Measure 5
study, Vernon White, is a for
mer research director for Ore
gon Tax Research. That's a
longtime Oregon lax analysis
organization
Duckstein said the institute
shouldn't be viewed as a pro
business group.
"We are a free market group.
There's a difference," he said.
"Wo ure for market! and indi
The think tank
movement believes
it’s more important
to change people's
minds than to
change people's
votes.'
— Steve Buckstem,
creator of the Cascade
Policy Institute
victual freedom but not for sup
porting the kind of protection
ism a lot of businesses advo
cate.'’
Richard Butrick, president of
Associated Oregon Industries,
the stale's largest business lob
bying group, said he’s heard lit
tle of the institute.
However, Butrick said terms
such us "free market" often are
used casually anci don't mean
much unless an organization’s
political agenda is defined.
Buckstein said Cascade's goal
is long-range influence on (tub
lie policy.
The tax-exempt status forbids
supporting candidates, and
Buckstein said little lobbying
on issues is planned.
Harvard writers’ work hasn’t changed
(AP) — Despite the high
stakes, many former Harvard
Lampoon staffers say their
workdays 119 remarkably simi
lar to their student days.
"All these comedy writing
places, it's uma/.lng how colle
giate they are," said Kurt An
derson, editor In chief of Spy
magazine. "The way those guys
dress, the staying up all night,
the bad food It’s like the old
dining hall 20 years later "
Unlike the humorists, the hu
mor has evolved.
"We came along at a time
when for a variety of reasons
the country was extremely well
prepared for a more cutting hu
mor, more direct and sophisti
cated than it had been," says
Henry Beard, '<>7, one of the
founders of National Lampoon
"It had a lot to do with the war.
and the presence of Richard
Nixon, one of the major sources
of satin; this country has ever
produced
"Now we have The Simp
sons Then you could not
dream of having something on
television like that "
In today’s comedy, ’’the cul
ture is constantly being mined
and remined. Brand names are
at the center of every joke. Be
cause of television and mass
media, we have a shared mass
culture. Johnny says ‘Dolly Par
ton' and everybody knows. Be
fore (World War 11). few things
were totally universal.”
Because of their high rate of
media literacy, today's audi
ences are also more tolerant of
"surrealism, dream-like stuff
that doesn't make pure sense,"
says Mark O'Donnell, who has
written for Saturday Night Live.
among others. "You see it on
Letlerman. in the works of Da
vid Lynch, on shows like
Northern Exposure. Twenty
years ago, people would have
said. 'Huh?' "
At the same time, today’s hu
mor is "not os rebellious as 20
years ago,” says Stuve Young,
who writes for Late Night With
David Letterman
"In the early days of Har
vard's comedic ascendency,
there was an angry edge to ev
erything. Now, there's more of
a delight in absurdity, like The
Simpsons, pricking at stupid
Idiotic things of everyday life."
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