Join us Saturday, October 4 at 10 am for Tillamook County’s version of “Civic Saturdays” with Jim Heffernan hosting. The sermons explore new and better ways to be a citizen. They are…
Category: I’ve been thinking
CIVIC SATURDAYS WITH JIM: IT’S BACK!! Saturday Sept. 27th – SERMON #13 – WHICH DREAM DO YOU DREAM?
OIOpublisher EDITOR’S NOTE: If there ever was a time that we needed civics class, it is now – and these “Civic Sermons” from Eric Lui (from 2018) are a welcome education about…
I’ve been thinking … Buffalo Cauldron
By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about a Buffalo Springfield song, “For What It’s Worth”. Buffalo Springfield was a “one hit wonder” band that was active 1968-1969. Neil Young, Stephen…
BOOK REVIEW: Coming Up Short – A Memoir of My America by Robert Reich
EDITOR’S NOTE: Where’s Jim been?? I asked myself that question a few weeks ago and reached out into the void … nothing. Then this appeared in my inbox! With this “apology explanation”…
BOOK REVIEW: Debt and Taxes – Defusing America’s Debt Bomb by Howard Mick
By Jim Heffernan This is a short easy-to-read book about a complex subject that gave me a much better understanding of the absolutely real threat that imperils all of us. It’s written…
I’ve been thinking … Real Politics, Follow the Money
By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about what passes for politics these days. It’s nothing like the contests I remember between Eisenhower and Stevenson or Johnson and Goldwater. We certainly…
BOOK REVIEW: The Death of Politics by Peter Wehner
By Jim Heffernan I’m not sure why I did not read this book three years ago when I first bought it. Maybe I was caught up in tribalism and thought a book…
WHAT DOES FREEDOM MEAN TO YOU? I’ve been thinking … Liberty to me
EDITOR’S NOTE: Given the state of federal government and the upcoming 4th of July holiday, I took a prompt that NPR sent out to readers “What does Freedom Mean to You?” and…
BOOK REVIEW: Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
By Jim Heffernan I was attracted to this book by a New York Times review with the headline, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?” I think that reviewer was wrong to…
CIVIC SATURDAYS WITH JIM HEFFERNAN –#12 “The Citizen Artist” April 12; Transcript from April 5th “A Practicing Citizen”
Join us Saturday, April 12 at 10 am for Tillamook County’s version of “Civic Saturdays” with Jim Heffernan hosting. The sermons explore new and better ways to be a citizen. They are…