EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s been lots of talk about the lack of “civics education” that a lot of people don’t even really know how our government structures operate and serve us, or how…
Category: Guest Column
WORDS OF WISDOM: The Kindness of Others
OIOpublisher By Neal Lemery “Every time you do a good deed, you shine the light a little farther into the dark,” — Charles DeLint. My world recently brightened up, all due to…
THE OCEANSIDER: Oceansiders Come Through! Fundraising Goal Exceeded for New Emergency Generator; Turtle Rescue at Short Beach
By Jerry Keene, Editor, The Oceansider The Oceanside Protection Society and OVERT have announced that they received donations totaling $7075 over the past two weeks, exceeding the $6000 fundraising goal in its year-end drive to…
BOOK REVIEWS: Jim Heffernan’s Top 20 (22) Books for 2024
By Jim Heffernan I take it as point of pride that I’m promiscuous. Not that way. I’m very proud of 58 years as a faithful husband, but I am promiscuous for books. …
I’ve been thinking … Working Families Party & Civics Sermons in 2025
By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about the Working Families Party and what it represents. My historic affiliation is to the Democratic Party and will remain so. But it’s plain…
THE OCEANSIDER: Yuletide in Oceanside
By Jerry Keene, Editor, The Oceansider This modest bit of holiday doggerel was well-received last year, so we’re offering it again. Two years makes a tradition! EDITOR’S NOTE: And a tradition we…
THE OCEANSIDER: An Update from Chief McBrayer regarding Emergency Services in Oceanside while Highway 131 is Closed; Emergency Preparedness & More
By Jerry Keene, Editor Dear Oceansiders: Some Oceanside residents have expressed concerns about the impact on emergency responses in light of ODOT’s closure of Highway 131 between the Village and the main Fire Station in Netarts….
BOOK REVIEW: Mental Immunity – Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think by Andy Norman,
By Jim Heffernan Our country is being torn apart by opposing ideas that sit upon uncertain foundations of fact and logic. Our collective consciousness is infected. I always have to wonder if…
THE OCEANSIDER: ODOT ANNOUNCES EXTENDED CLOSURE OF HIGHWAY 131 JUST NORTH OF HAPPY CAMP ENTRANCE STARTING AT 10 A.M. TOMORROW (DECEMBER 20) THROUGH AT LEAST JANUARY 6, 2025
By Jerry Keene, Editor Tillamook County Public Works Director Chris Laity just contacted The Oceansider with advance word that ODOT will close Highway 131 to all traffic starting at 10 a.m. on December 20 through at least January 6, 2025….
BOOK REVIEW: Become America by Eric Liu
By Jim Heffernan This book is a collection of 19 “Civic Saturday” sermons given by Eric Liu in Seattle between November 12, 2016 and August 4, 2018. Like it says on the…