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Category: Commentary

A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: How to Make Compassion Sound Naïve and Cruelty Sound Responsible

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Editor

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…

City of Manzanita Declines to Disclose Total City Hall Costs

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Editor

OIOpublisher By Randy Kugler Total City Hall Project Cost $5,922,852. That is the conclusion of the City Manager’s presentation which omitted inconvenient costs that would complicate the  “under budget” mantra that City…

A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Can the President Send Troops? Yes, and No. But mostly No.

Posted on September 29, 2025September 29, 2025 by Editor

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…

A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: People Haven’t Changed. And That’s the Point.

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Editor

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…

There is no them, just us; What can I – what can we – do?

Posted on September 16, 2025September 17, 2025 by Editor

EDITOR’S NOTE: I follow several journalists on Substack (Dan Rather’s “Steady” is a favorite) and also local author and journalist Marc C. Johnson (you’ll recognize his name from the Neahlem Bay Health…

Honoring Chuck and Bob

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Editor

By Lianne Thompson We’ve lost two notable community icons so far in 2025:  Chuck McLaughlin and Bob Tarr.  Writing about them daunts anyone who doesn’t use AI, either in part or in…

A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Had Enough? I Have.

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Editor

BREAKING NEWS! Tillamook County’s Representative (and Clatsop County’s, too) has switched parties by the September 4th deadline, so he will be running as a Democrat in the next election. See his statement…

THE OCEANSIDER Commentary: A Tale of Two Oceansides … Views on Proposals to Curb Development Break Down Along Familiar Line

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Editor

VS.   While Oceansiders share many values and viewpoints, there is one issue on which the gap could not be wider … building standards. Since the 1990s, the same dynamic has played…

COMMENTARY: Community Trail or Tourist Train?

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Editor

By Bill Baertlein My political journey started almost 15 years ago when I applied for a commissioner appointment to the Port of Tillamook Bay Board. My reason for applying was that I…

COMMENTARY: New Nestucca School Board Members Pushed Superintendent Out; Community Shows Support for Wonder Woman Wharton

Posted on August 20, 2025 by Editor

By Zackery Smith Let’s hear it for the (mostly) newly elected Nestucca School Board! A BIG congratulations to this new team of caring locals who have just succeeded in their main (and…

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