EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tillamook School District #9 School Board meeting is Monday September 9th at 5:30pm. There is NOT an agenda item about reversing the ban on “How the Garcia Girls Lost…
Category: Books
Request for Reversal of Tillamook School Board Decision to Remove Book
I do not currently have children or grandchildren in the Tillamook School District, but I pay taxes in this district, and I care deeply about the quality of education the students TSD…
Local Organizations Against Book Bans: Neah-Kah-Nie Coast Art & Music Cultural Foundation – Banning Books Threat to Free Expression and Public Access to Information
EDITOR’S NOTE: Neah-Kah-Nie Coast Art & Music Cultural Foundation (NCAM) is a newly formed 501c3 non-profit supporting all forms of art based in Rockaway Beach, serving the Neah-Kah-Nie Coast, and creating scholarships…
BOOK REVIEW: The Anxious Generation – How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
By Jim Heffernan While we were talking about the current censorship at Tillamook High School, Laura recommended the book, “The Coddling of the American Mind”. I saw that the same author had…
BOOK REVIEW: The Truths We Hold – An American Journey by Kamala Harris
By Jim Heffernan The Los Angeles called this book, “A life story that genuinely entrances.” They were certainly right about that. This book grabbed me from the beginning and held my attention…
BOOK REVIEW: The Lies of the Land – Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t (2023) by Steven Conn
By Neal Lemery A “piercing, unsentimental” history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis. (The New Yorker) One of the popular concepts about current American politics and culture is…
Questioning the Need for Explicit Content in Required Reading
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez is a novel that tells the story of the García family, who flee the Dominican Republic for the United States in the…
BOOK REVIEW: The True Patriot – A Pamphlet by Eric Liu & Nick Hanauer
By Jim Heffernan I was drawn to this book by familiarity with one of the authors and a healthy respect for patriotism. It’s a book that I wish I had discovered long…
Tillamook School Board Votes to Ban Book – “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”
By Laura Swanson When this situation was first brought to our attention, the initial reaction was “Are you kidding me?” And then we are reminded that there is a small group of…
Letter to the Editor: How Our School District Lost Its Books
I’m a parent of three students who attend Tillamook school district. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been following the process the district has used to review the book How the Garcia…
