We must stop centering men, as the only voice, and open dialogue to include more women By Christy Kay I have spent the last few months working on an article, that I…
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IN GOOD HEALTH: Is it Any Wonder?
Is it weird to be healthy or are we wired to be healthy? By Michelle, Jenck, M-Ed Is it any wonder that our physical and mental health is so tragically offline? Given…
BOOK REVIEW: Tripwires by Richard North Patterson
By Jim Heffernan This is a new book that just came out in September. It’s from a popular mystery writer and I think this is his first non-fiction political book. I found…
WORDS OF WISDOM: ”It’s Fixin’ to Rain”
By Neal Lemery “It’s fixin to rain,” my grandmother would say, as she shooed the chickens out of the chicken yard and into the coop, bribed by a handful of corn. She’d…
I’VE BEEN THINKING … Max Sherman Maxes Out Mailboxes
EDITOR’S NOTE: There was a social media post that also noted the amount of postcards jamming our mailboxes these days, and most of them aren’t touting the attributes of the candidate….
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: Remembering the Andrus Legacy
“One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope.” – Wallace Stegner By Marc C. Johnson Cecil Andrus, the four-term governor of Idaho and Jimmy…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Rumblings of the American Experiment
An overdue note on family, politics, the campaign trail, and why I’m still betting on Oregon and America. EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog,…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Vote — as if your life depended on it
By Butch Freedman Existential: concerned with existence, especially human existence This upcoming election, I believe, is truly that high-stakes. The madman in the White House must be stopped. And though he…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Getting Over Myself
By Butch Freedman I was having a hard time last week. Some kind of cold or flu bug had me coughing and hacking, felt chilled, then overheated, then chilled again. You…
THE VIEW FROM HERE: In-Between
By Deb Montgomery Years ago when I was playing with my first band in Toronto, I wrote a song called Inbetween. It was a slow build in the verses describing what…
