2-27-23 Newsletter

 

ONE WORD "One person can only do so much."  "One person can do so much." YES OR NO? There are 26 new bills pending COIN endorsement after the February 20th COIN Legislative Watch Team meeting. Topics include housing, forestry, climate change, and other concerns.  After you've read more about these bills on the COIN website, please send your feedback to incoregon@gmail.com. We'll forward your comments to COIN. Legislators won't know what you want unless you tell them. Please take a moment to comment on at least one of these bills. TRUST - MISTRUST “In a 1994 study designed to determine which Americans were more concerned with matters of security, those tending towards misanthropy were less inclined to favor tighter measures. Typically it was the respondent who felt ‘most people are trustworthy and helpful’ who favored stronger protection.  ... the results make sense if you postulate that the subjects were thinking more about the persons who would be providing the security than about those who would be breaching it.  Depending on the direction of his mistrust, a misanthrope makes the best kind of civil libertarian or the worst kind of fascist.”  - - -Garret Keizer, “How the Devil Falls in Love,” Harper’s, August, 2002 DEMOCRACY KEEPS MOVING "The great virtue (or perhaps curse) of democracy is that it doesn’t settle — it keeps moving. There are no final victories, but there are no final defeats either. There is only the struggle for a more humane world or, for some among us, a more hierarchical one." --Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, February 24, 2023  SPECIAL DISTRICT ELECTIONS  You can make a meaningful impact by serving as a board member of a Special District in Clatsop County. Special Districts are a form of local government created by a local community to meet a specific need. Special districts in Clatsop County include schools, Clatsop Care and Union health districts, rural fire protection, and others. Countywide special districts are the Port of Astoria, Sunset Empire Transportation, and Clatsop Community College. You can volunteer to serve by running for office in the Special District elections on May 16.Information about local positions and filing is on the Clatsop County website. The County Clerk's office at 503-325-8605 has details. Filing deadline for the May election is March 16. HAPPENINGS Thursday, March 9 - INCO Community Meeting, via Zoom. Social time at 6 pm; meeting is 6:30-7:30 pm. All INCO members are invited to attend. We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month. Link to join Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87835618044  Meeting ID: 878 3561 8044 One tap mobile +12532050468,,87835618044# US +12532158782,,87835618044# US (Tacoma) INSIGHTS Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down on all before it, and it brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. --Andrew Hamilton Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter       February 27, 2023 Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Indivisible North Coast Oregon (INCO) defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Our mailing address is: 766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list