Touching grass is harder than it sounds for some of us. Here’s what has motivated me to get my daily dose of nature. By Michelle Jenck, M Ed Thanks to my quirky…
Category: Guest Column
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: One Congressman’s Viktor Orbán Mind Meld
“Should Viktor Orbán be offered asylum in the U.S.?” – Utah Senator Mike Lee By Marc C. Johnson Elements of the American far right felt a shudder down their weak spines recently….
BUTCH’S BLOG: Regrets, I’ve Had a Few
By Butch Freedman I’m very happy with the life I now have — a wonderful partner, a great place to live, relatively good health for a guy my age. But, as grateful…
CALL TO ACTION: End Potluck Prohibition; Bring Back Community – Send Letters to Governor
EDITOR’S NOTE: For those of you that misssed Watt’s guest column about Oregon’s outlawing of potlucks… here’s the link https://www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/guest-column-oregon-should-be-a-sanctuary-for-potlucks/ Here’s his latest – a letter to Governor Kotek, and if you’d…
ASK A COMMISSIONER: How Do I Support Local Businesses and Stimulate the Economy?
By Mary Faith Bell, Tillamook County Commissioner Recently a constituent asked me on Facebook to provide examples of things I have done in my current term to stimulate the economy and support…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: The Bootlicking Will Continue Until Democracy Doesn’t
“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”― Christopher Hitchens By Marc C. Johnson The gauge the full extent…
BOOK REVIEW: For the Love of Men by Liz Plank
By Jim Heffernan A casual mention in a Bill McKibben article led me to this book. He was explaining the current insanity in the Middle East as a by-product of “petro masculinity”….
BUTCH’S BLOG: On The Road (with apologies to Jack Kerouac)
By Butch Freedman It’s good to get away; it’s even better to get back home. Bev and I returned yesterday from a trip to southern Mexico—Oaxaca, Puebla, and Mexico City were on…
I’ve been thinking … “An American Tune”
By Jim Heffernan I find it very strange that a song that came out in 1973 became an anthem for me somewhere around 2015. The song is “An American Tune” and it…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: The Rot Runs Deep, Very Deep
“We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis By Marc C. Johnson…