Clatsop County Matters

A sovereign nation of aboriginals were given checks for lands stolen that have never been cashed. In their pride they refused, a deep understanding that by cashing those checks they would have accepted to become a part of this government. They hadn't. They were independent. They were free. And they knew it. Eighty years later this same nation has a new generation, so dislocated from its heritage,...

Either by turns in the economy or by personal misfortune, we often find ourselves in a pickle while trying to maintain a life style; even modest life styles. There are very few people that are able to walk through life without financial care. Americans have always been known to lift themselves up by their boot straps and this is commendable, however one could wonder if this is the most civilized...

In four years approximately two hundred people have spoken out at local hearings and in letters to the paper against siting LNG holding tanks at either Skipanon or Bradwood. Two hundred people told the media, their legislative representatives, the governor and the Federal Energy Regulation Commission that the local board of county commissioners in Clatsop County refuse to listen to the majority...

There has been self indulgent back patting sessions at the Daily Astorian and the East Oregon Publishing Company over their series on climate change and the environment. It seems disingenuous for a business that uses gross amounts of pulp, fuel and natural resources to call all the other kettles black. If the Daily Astorian wanted to walk the walk they should reduce their newspaper to a weekly...

Political blackmail has been discussed since there has been politics, essentially since man has begun living in tribes. Human relations, being what they are, power is hungered for often more than wealth. The meaning of wealth changes. Power is power and the weaker then human being is that seeks power the more often the tool that human will use is fear. Much like an animal, the weak human has...

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,“ wrote Benjamin Franklin. Attempting to gain security by sacrificing liberty is also a foolish action, is ACLU“s stance, because it only increases the potential for harm. A short while ago a very dangerous action took place right under the noses of the people of...

People have remarkable memories. Some memories and bitterness linger on for generations. Armenians to this day have strong dislike and or hate for the Turks. There have been factions in the Arab world who have a thousand plus years of hating their neighbors. The Jews have been the whipping post for generational hate as well. The French and the English have been at odds for years. Closer to home,...