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WORDS OF WISDOM: What I Learned This Summer
OIOpublisher By Neal Lemery The calendar and the changing light in the mornings and evenings tells me that this season is in transition. We are leaving summer and moving into fall. Perhaps…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Small Business, Carp, and Crabs
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Hello Neighbors and Friends, Oregonians are starting new small businesses. Especially in the wake of the pandemic, more of us are staying home, caring for…
VIEW FROM HERE: No One Chooses Homelessness – Misconceptions about Complex Issue Requires Empathy, Understanding to Work Toward Solutions
By Christy Kay “It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God’s will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and…
NEWS UPDATED FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Art Bus, Fire Spotting, and Housing Shortages
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Hello Neighbors and Friends, Drive down the roads or through the streets of Lincoln County and you might pass a colorful school bus. The Oregon Coast…
WORDS OF WISDOM: Listening Can Be The Change
By Neal Lemery When life gets chaotic and painful, I try to simply take a breath and become a better listener. Most of us don’t feel like we are being heard, that…
Politics at Play in Manzanita; “Mudslinging” Begins with Questionable Questions about Mayoral Candidate’s Business Dealings
EDITOR’S NOTE: The post on the North Coast BBQ didn’t name names (or include the name of the author), but as Deb Simmons explains below, she is the only candidate for Manzanita…
I’ve Been Thinking: History is Bunk
By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about history. I was around for a fair amount of recent history, but the day job distractions kept me from really understanding what was…
POEM: I Wait
by Neal Lemery 8/13/22 Possibilities arise in this space of time and place unfilled, unscheduled. I breathe with no expectation of production, accomplishment, success. No score keeping, no quotas no reports to…
BOOK REVIEW: A Politics of LOVE
By Jim Heffernan This book just kind of caught my eye somehow like a bright, shiny object. I’m glad I knew nothing of the author. I’m afraid that my biases might have…