By Butch Freedman I’m having a hard time focusing these days, feeling too distracted by the awful events continually fired at our collective consciousness every day. It feels like a nightmare I…
Category: Op-Ed
NORTH COUNTY RESISTANCE ROCK STARS WEEKLY PROTESTS IN NEHALEM, SATURDAYS NOON TO 2PM (VIDEO)
By Laura Swanson “We just have to be activists, we’re called to raise awareness about issues that impact us all,” said one of the North County Resistance unofficial organizers. It takes a…
When Death Hits Close to Home …
By Watt Childress My people have served bereaved families for over a century. Papaw co-founded a funeral home in Kingsport, Tennessee. Mom grew up around the business, and Dad started working there…
MURDER BY ICE – CALL TO ACTION
By Ruth LaFrance Hey, Representative Cliff Bentz and all of your Republican House buddies: Know this — The blood on your hands will never wash off. Your complicity in the year-long reign…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: The Wrong Question
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…
OP/ED: Allies Are Not Assets
By Roland Hughes I’m genuinely troubled by recent reporting around U.S. communications regarding Greenland. Not because foreign policy is beyond debate—it isn’t—but because a few basic lines that have long anchored American…
BUTCH’S BLOG: How is this Person Our President?
By Butch Freedman … and other impossible to answer questions. It’s by now an old refrain: “I didn’t think it could get any worse, and then it did.” No point in even…
OP/ED: Freedom Under Fire
By Roland Hughes I don’t even know where to begin. My entire body is hoping this is all just a bad joke or a dream. How did we get here? We have…
MURDER OF RENEE NICOLE GOOD – WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO EVERY WOMAN WHEN YOU DON’T COMPLY
EDITOR’S NOTE: I saw the first video when I accidentally clicked on it just hours after it happened, and I was stunned. Then came the onslaught of fake, AI, edited videos. When…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Community Counts
By Butch Freedman I grew up in a big city (Philadelphia) and spent most of my life as an urban dweller. And, for the most part, I enjoyed city life, even with…