Kurt Weber
For more than 24 years Kurt T. Weber has been an activist for liberty. During his undergraduate and graduate school years he organized student groups, ran an active campaign for the Kalamazoo City Council in Michigan, spent a summer petitioning in several states to get a third party on the ballot and was a regular columnist for college newspapers.
Mr. Weber spent a decade of service with Cascade Policy Institute in Portland, Oregon. He joined the Institute in 1993 as its program director and was eventually promoted to vice president. Among his responsibilities as vice president were budget and strategic planning and staff management.
Mr. Weber has worked with a number of state, national and international classical liberal organizations, including the Institute for Humane Studies, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty. In 1992 he traveled throughout Latin America, consulting with think tanks in six countries. Mr. Weber also helped organize an institute in Ecuador and worked with Junior Achievement Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Mr. Weber has over 80 published newspaper commentaries, which have appeared in The Oregonian and numerous other Oregon publications, as well as The Orange County Register (California) and The Houston Post. He also has 150 radio commentaries to his credit.
Mr. Weber was graduated from Western Michigan University with dual degrees and honors in finance and public administration. He holds a masters degree in international relations from the University of Virginia.
Thursday, May 31, 2007North Dakota’s Free Market Think TankFiled As: Economic principles, PrivatizationNorth Dakota's state government owns a bank. And a grain mill. Sure sounds like socialism to me. Thankfully, the North Dakota Policy Council is there. Send them ... more »»
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Thursday, May 31, 2007Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Party!Colorado think tanks hosts June 23, 2007 shindig Filed As: EventsThe Independence Institute bills its Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Party as the “most politically incorrect event of the year.” And they sell “limited edition” T-shirts as proof you were there, even if you weren’t. ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007Terminate Taxpayer-funded PrimariesFiled As: General, PrivatizationPolitical pundits are tongue-wagging concerned about the mad dash to be the first state to hold a presidential primary. The real concern should be: Why are taxpayers paying for primaries? Party activists should select their national standard-bearer at privately-funded state conventions, or in some ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007Up to $100,000 for Liberty LiteratureFiled As: Events, GeneralThe Freedom in Fiction competition seeks unpublished, nonfiction manuscripts that extol liberty. You can find details at www.mackinac.org/freedominfiction. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a promoting sponsor ... more »»
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Monday, May 21, 2007Taxing CleavagePro-low tax English commercial scores points with humor Filed As: Budget and Tax, GeneralLaughter. We need more of it. A lot of government is a joke. So why is the pro-liberty camp so serious? This humorous low tax ad from The TaxPayers' Alliance helps set a new course. (Watch to the end and you’ll get the blog’s ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007School Choice has Saved $444 millionState and local taxpayers benefit from reduced expenses Filed As: Budget and Tax, Education (k-12), PrivatizationA just-released Friedman Foundation report confirms another pro-school choice argument: Reduced costs. According to “Education by the Numbers,” choice ... more »»
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Monday, May 14, 2007Marketing Freedom Over MythStudent symposium seeks pro- and anti-market pop-culture examples Filed As: Economic principles, GeneralCan you spare a pop-culture example? The Mackinac Center’s Isaac Morehouse would like pop-culture examples of anti- and pro-free market ideas. Why? He's organizing a college student symposium on “marketing freedom over myth.” Send your ideas to: ... more »»
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007Stamp Out Hunger Year-roundCounterproductive laws, quotas and subsidies must go Filed As: GeneralSaturday, May 12 is the National Association of Letter Carriers national Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. To help reduce hunger year-round in America, let’s get government out of the food business. For example, let’s eliminate the legally-imposed floor, ... more »»
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007Missourians Embrace School ChoicePoll shows dissatisfaction with government K-12 schools Filed As: Education (k-12)A poll commissioned by the Show-Me Institute has found that 63 percent of Missourians think the state’s K-12 schools are “in a crisis” or have “serious problems.” But, more »»
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007WikiFoia.org: Freedom of Information How-to WebsiteFiled As: GeneralThe Lucy Burns Institute seeks to help keep government open and accountable. One of its projects isWikiFoia, think the Freedom of Information Act. WikiFoia‘s homepage ... more »»
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