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.
| Published | Title |
| January 27, 2016 | Lottery Bill to Benefit Veterans |
| October 23, 2013 | An Open Letter to Senators Wyden and Merkley |
| October 21, 2013 | An Open Letter to Senator Murray and Congressman Paul Ryan |
| October 11, 2013 | Recall, Reframe, and Reform: Our Republic Needs You! |
| October 04, 2013 | A Summit May Be Just What The Doctor Ordered… |
| September 30, 2013 | Don’t Blame Frankenstein… The Monster is Doing What Monsters Do! |
| September 17, 2013 | Know the Game You're Trying to Play: Kitzhaber 1, Challengers 0 |
| September 09, 2013 | Things to Consider Beyond a Special Session |
| September 02, 2013 | President Obama's Moment: Yes, He Understands The Stakes |
| August 29, 2013 | Today The Work to Refresh The Dream Begins Anew |
| August 28, 2013 | Wyden Deserves Our Support on Surveillance Reforms |
| August 26, 2013 | An American Dream: In Progress |
| August 16, 2013 | Appropriateness in Foreign Policy is a Virtue, Really |
| August 13, 2013 | Somewhere the ghosts of Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, and Zebulon Baird Vance are smiling... |
| August 12, 2013 | Chicken-hawks, Clowns, Corporatia, and Curmudgeons... A National Big Tent Strategy for 2016 |
| August 02, 2013 | The Cautionary Tale of Rudy Crew |
| July 29, 2013 | A Speech that Changed America |
| July 23, 2013 | Sad Time for Motor City... |
| July 18, 2013 | A Time to Serve... |
| July 08, 2013 | Go Team Sherwood...! |
| July 02, 2013 | Energy-Independence Day 2013 |
| June 16, 2013 | Endgame at the Legislature 2013: A Special Time |
| June 10, 2013 | Help! Lucy Must Be Stopped! It is Time for a New Game... |
| June 02, 2013 | Cops, Firefighters, Teachers, Public Employees... Lend Me Your Ears |
| May 27, 2013 | A Memorial Day Wish: And a Plan to Make it so |
| May 11, 2013 | It's Election Time: Vote Now! |
| May 08, 2013 | Hallelujah: Mark Sanford and the Abolition of GOP “Family Values” Trojan Horse |
| May 07, 2013 | Gun Violence Control: An Argument for a Comprehensive Strategy |
| April 30, 2013 | A Free Press and an Expensive Dinner |
| April 26, 2013 | If There Be War, Then Let Us Do It Right This Time... PLEASE... |
| April 15, 2013 | A Letter to US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel |
| April 11, 2013 | Whipped Cream atop a plate of Haggis |
| March 14, 2013 | Something Big Lurks Just Ahead... |
| March 07, 2013 | A Win/Win for Oregon: Chandra Brown to the US Department of Commerce |
| March 05, 2013 | With the Big Rock in play - Let the Games Begin |
| March 02, 2013 | Sequestration Is On Us... Until We Demand REAL Change |
| February 27, 2013 | An Open Letter to US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel |
| February 22, 2013 | The War We Don’t Have to Fight… Hopefully… |
| February 18, 2013 | More Than a Bumper Sticker or a Kind Word... Please |
| February 05, 2013 | 21st Century Politics: America Divided by a Common Language |
| February 04, 2013 | A Veterans' Agenda for 2013 - Together We Can Make This Happen |
| January 19, 2013 | Our American Inaugural |
| January 11, 2013 | Absurdity on The Hill |
| December 27, 2012 | Grab Your Preservers, We're Gonna Go Over the Cliff... |
| December 23, 2012 | We Don't Need to be Stupid, Really We Can Be Better... |
| December 04, 2012 | A Treaty Lost |
| December 03, 2012 | Saxby Chambliss Retreats To Save His Skin |
| November 15, 2012 | More than meets the eye: Tribal Politics and the DoD |
| November 13, 2012 | President Obama should ask Hillary to stay for another year |
| November 10, 2012 | Another Possible Lesson from Vietnam? |