Commissioner Bob Main perfectly demonstrates some of the difficulties contained within a representative democracy. Main, as reported in The World report “Ballot tactics target LNG plan” says he will not defend, if necessary, a democratically enacted local ordinance, namely Measure 6-162. The Coos County Right to a Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance “doesn’t appear like it […]
So far in 2016 an energy expert insists Jordan Cove will very likely receive its Record of Decision and described FERC as “a rubberstamp agency”. The World reported that from the State’s perspective if the project’s application meets all criteria “it gets the permit.” A Veresen representative added brutal emphasis to these harsh realities speaking […]
Listening to John Sweet’s campaign stump it seems that he often conflates the sovereign municipal government of Coos County, and myriad services it provides with the broader socioeconomic issues facing the county. The two biggest issues facing the county, he claims, are child poverty and unemployment but are these issues really the purview of a […]
The Federalist Papers #10 published November 22, 1787, addresses how to guard against “factions”, the subject of paper #9. Founding father, James Madison defines faction as “…a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse […]
We’ve had a long and pleasant reprieve but it appears, unfortunately, that the mathematically challenged Jon Barton has regained his mojo. The Walrus is once again weighing in and sharing his regressive views in the local paper regurgitating industry talking points on fossil-fuel development and now blathering on about county governance. Barton has offered us […]
Groups affected by groupthink ignore alternatives
The World acknowledges the geographic limitations that will forever prevent Coos County from being a major cargo handler
Catch my story about ORCCA and the SCFS deficit in The Sentinel today
The paper gets to sound all patriotic and pro-democracy without actually being patriotic or engaging in democracy… in other words, cheap grace.
Claims made by ORCCA executive director Mike Lehman and published in The World newspaper are false. The agency which manages several different aid programs that include the region’s Food Bank has admitted the SCFS (South Coast Food Share) is operating with a six figure deficit. Budget documents provided to MGx show that SCFS will have […]