Tag Archives: Dick Withnell

Spinning the Numbers on Public Safety

When did think tanks start doing our thinking for us? Here in Oregon, Gov. John Kitzhaber and his legislative leaders have hired the Pew Center on the States to tell them what to do about public safety. The Pew Center on the States has been getting a lot of favorable publicity since it began its […]

Put a Dollar Sign On It

It tells you something that the only public member of Oregon’s Commission on Public Safety is a car dealer. Not that there’s anything wrong with car dealers. (I’ve owned three cars in my life, and two of them were bought from car dealers.) To his credit, Dick Withnell is the only member of the commission […]