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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January 27, 2016Lottery Bill to Benefit Veterans
October 23, 2013An Open Letter to Senators Wyden and Merkley
October 21, 2013An Open Letter to Senator Murray and Congressman Paul Ryan
October 11, 2013Recall, Reframe, and Reform: Our Republic Needs You!
October 04, 2013A Summit May Be Just What The Doctor Ordered…
September 30, 2013Don’t Blame Frankenstein… The Monster is Doing What Monsters Do!
September 17, 2013Know the Game You're Trying to Play: Kitzhaber 1, Challengers 0
September 09, 2013Things to Consider Beyond a Special Session
September 02, 2013President Obama's Moment: Yes, He Understands The Stakes
August 29, 2013Today The Work to Refresh The Dream Begins Anew
August 28, 2013Wyden Deserves Our Support on Surveillance Reforms
August 26, 2013An American Dream: In Progress
August 16, 2013Appropriateness in Foreign Policy is a Virtue, Really
August 13, 2013Somewhere the ghosts of Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, and Zebulon Baird Vance are smiling...
August 12, 2013Chicken-hawks, Clowns, Corporatia, and Curmudgeons... A National Big Tent Strategy for 2016
August 02, 2013The Cautionary Tale of Rudy Crew
July 29, 2013A Speech that Changed America
July 23, 2013Sad Time for Motor City...
July 18, 2013A Time to Serve...
July 08, 2013Go Team Sherwood...!
July 02, 2013Energy-Independence Day 2013
June 16, 2013Endgame at the Legislature 2013: A Special Time
June 10, 2013Help! Lucy Must Be Stopped! It is Time for a New Game...
June 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
April 30, 2013A Free Press and an Expensive Dinner
April 26, 2013If There Be War, Then Let Us Do It Right This Time... PLEASE...
April 15, 2013A Letter to US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
April 11, 2013Whipped Cream atop a plate of Haggis
March 14, 2013Something Big Lurks Just Ahead...
March 07, 2013A Win/Win for Oregon: Chandra Brown to the US Department of Commerce
March 05, 2013With the Big Rock in play - Let the Games Begin
March 02, 2013Sequestration Is On Us... Until We Demand REAL Change
February 27, 2013An Open Letter to US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
February 22, 2013The War We Don’t Have to Fight… Hopefully…
February 18, 2013More Than a Bumper Sticker or a Kind Word... Please
February 05, 201321st Century Politics: America Divided by a Common Language
February 04, 2013A Veterans' Agenda for 2013 - Together We Can Make This Happen
January 19, 2013Our American Inaugural
January 11, 2013Absurdity on The Hill
December 27, 2012Grab Your Preservers, We're Gonna Go Over the Cliff...
December 23, 2012We Don't Need to be Stupid, Really We Can Be Better...
December 04, 2012A Treaty Lost
December 03, 2012Saxby Chambliss Retreats To Save His Skin
November 15, 2012More than meets the eye: Tribal Politics and the DoD
November 13, 2012President Obama should ask Hillary to stay for another year
November 10, 2012Another Possible Lesson from Vietnam?

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