Paul Evans

Paul Evans is the managing partner for Northwest Passage Trading Company (an import/export company dedicated to marketing Oregon products throughout Asia), an author (VeteranSpeak: An Introduction to the Language of Veterans), and an adjunct professor of public policy and speech.

Paul served as a senior policy advisor to Governor Ted Kulongoski for military and veterans’ affairs from 2007-2010 after running for the Oregon State Senate in 2006. He served his community as a city councilor, mayor, and school board member. Paul is a 20-year veteran with overseas service in Central/South America, Europe, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other “hot spots” throughout the Middle East. He graduated from Oregon State University (MAIS) in 2001, and Western Oregon State College (BS) in 1992.


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Jun. 16, 2013Endgame at the Legislature 2013: A Special Time
Jun. 10, 2013Help! Lucy Must Be Stopped! It is Time for a New Game...
Jun. 02, 2013Cops, Firefighters, Teachers, Public Employees... Lend Me Your Ears
May. 27, 2013A Memorial Day Wish: And a Plan to Make it so
May. 11, 2013It's Election Time: Vote Now!
May. 08, 2013Hallelujah: Mark Sanford and the Abolition of GOP “Family Values” Trojan Horse
May. 07, 2013Gun Violence Control: An Argument for a Comprehensive Strategy
Apr. 30, 2013A Free Press and an Expensive Dinner
Apr. 26, 2013If There Be War, Then Let Us Do It Right This Time... PLEASE...
Apr. 15, 2013A Letter to US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
Apr. 11, 2013Whipped Cream atop a plate of Haggis
Mar. 14, 2013Something Big Lurks Just Ahead...
Mar. 07, 2013A Win/Win for Oregon: Chandra Brown to the US Department of Commerce
Mar. 05, 2013With the Big Rock in play - Let the Games Begin
Mar. 02, 2013Sequestration Is On Us... Until We Demand REAL Change
Feb. 27, 2013An Open Letter to US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
Feb. 22, 2013The War We Don’t Have to Fight… Hopefully…
Feb. 18, 2013More Than a Bumper Sticker or a Kind Word... Please
Feb. 05, 201321st Century Politics: America Divided by a Common Language
Feb. 04, 2013A Veterans' Agenda for 2013 - Together We Can Make This Happen
Jan. 19, 2013Our American Inaugural
Jan. 11, 2013Absurdity on The Hill
Dec. 27, 2012Grab Your Preservers, We're Gonna Go Over the Cliff...
Dec. 23, 2012We Don't Need to be Stupid, Really We Can Be Better...
Dec. 04, 2012A Treaty Lost
Dec. 03, 2012Saxby Chambliss Retreats To Save His Skin
Nov. 15, 2012More than meets the eye: Tribal Politics and the DoD
Nov. 13, 2012President Obama should ask Hillary to stay for another year
Nov. 10, 2012Another Possible Lesson from Vietnam?
Nov. 08, 2012A Request from Rural Oregon
Nov. 07, 2012The Day After
Nov. 01, 2012Our President and the lessons of Sandy
Oct. 29, 2012Superstorm Sandy, Mitt, and US
Oct. 26, 2012Hometown Heroes Return
Oct. 24, 2012An Ironic Court Case, Only in Oregon...
Oct. 22, 2012A Few Things Obama Should Remind America - Tonight
Oct. 15, 2012Enough! We Can and Must Do Better...
Oct. 11, 2012A Step (or two) to the Right: Betsy Close appointed to Frank Morse's seat
Oct. 10, 2012Genesis: Back to the Future, Again...
Oct. 02, 2012A Lot of Sizzle, Likely Not a Lot of Steak...
Oct. 01, 2012Kate Brown Is Special, Oregon Needs Her
Sep. 18, 2012Hurricane K-12
Sep. 17, 2012A Difference between Strong and Stupid
Sep. 12, 2012Tragedy in Libya, Challenges in Egypt
Sep. 11, 2012We Must Not Forget, We Must Act
Sep. 07, 2012The Makings of a Majority Party...?
Aug. 21, 2012A Dream Comes True in Vernonia
Aug. 20, 2012What was Todd Akin thinking...? Really.
Aug. 12, 2012A Fine line between Irony and Hypocrisy
Aug. 10, 2012Local Politics and Education Reform... It Still Matters

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