EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
Category: Op-Ed
Manzanita Bait and Switch on Classic Street Project Outlined in Letter to Business Oregon
OIOpublisher Ms. Sophorn Cheang Director of Business Oregon Ms. Cheang, The Manzanita Mayor and City Manager in describing to State officials the City’s need for funding the reconstruction of Classic Street specifically…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Immigrants Aren’t the Problem. Our Denial Is.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: How to Make Compassion Sound Naïve and Cruelty Sound Responsible
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege.” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
City of Manzanita Declines to Disclose Total City Hall Costs
By Randy Kugler Total City Hall Project Cost $5,922,852. That is the conclusion of the City Manager’s presentation which omitted inconvenient costs that would complicate the “under budget” mantra that City officials…
DREW’S EDITORIALS: THERE IS NO FOOTBALL ON SATURDAYS
By Andrew Jenck So, it’s been two years now, and we’re all still getting used to the Ducks playing in the Midwest every other Saturday. The Pac-12 is set to become a…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Can the President Send Troops? Yes, and No. But mostly No.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: People Haven’t Changed. And That’s the Point.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
READING RECOMMENDATION – David Brooks column “The Era of Dark Passions”
By Jim Heffernan David Brooks, a conservative columnist for the New York Times, has just written a terrific column that explains the state of our politics better than anything I’ve seen recently…
There is no them, just us; What can I – what can we – do?
EDITOR’S NOTE: I follow several journalists on Substack (Dan Rather’s “Steady” is a favorite) and also local author and journalist Marc C. Johnson (you’ll recognize his name from the Neahlem Bay Health…