EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a great way to start your Saturday – and then go to one of the three NO KINGS rallies in Tillamook County … as Jim noted when he…
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CIVIC SATURDAYS WITH JIM: Saturdays at 10 am – SERMON #15: Time Travel
OIOpublisher EDITOR’S NOTE: Editor error — with all the happenings this week, the internet outage (we were impacted) and multiple events, I neglected to post Jim’s announcement for today’s Civic Saturday. So,…
CIVIC SATURDAYS WITH JIM: Saturday Oct. 4 – SERMON #14: Become America
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…
CIVIC SATURDAYS WITH JIM: IT’S BACK!! Saturday Sept. 27th – SERMON #13 – WHICH DREAM DO YOU DREAM?
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 our…
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…