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…
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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…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: Following Fallows
“A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.”…
