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Recent Posts

  • Salem city officials are refusing to enforce the city’s own requirement to be a city councilor
  • If Betsy Vega didn’t live in Ward 6 for a year before the May 19 election, she is ineligible to be a city councilor
  • Looks like progressives have gained one seat on the Salem City Council
  • Chernobyl is a HBO miniseries with a lot to say about truth in these Trumpian times
  • Election for Salem mayor and city council turned out well for progressives, but not perfectly

Recent Comments

  1. Alan Holland on Looks like progressives have gained one seat on the Salem City CouncilMay 27, 2026
  2. Susann Kaltwasser on Looks like progressives have gained one seat on the Salem City CouncilMay 26, 2026
  3. Looks like progressives have gained one seat on the Salem City Council - Salem Political Snark on Election for Salem mayor and city council turned out well for progressives, but not perfectlyMay 26, 2026
  4. Truth-telling is difficult. Lying is easy. Which explains popularity of religion. on Chernobyl is a HBO miniseries with a lot to say about truth in these Trumpian timesMay 25, 2026
  5. Dan Sisken on Israel commits sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners, says Nicholas KristofMay 13, 2026

Books

Brian Hines: Break Free of Dogma: Churchless sermons preaching the gospel of spiritual independence

Brian Hines: Break Free of Dogma: Churchless sermons preaching the gospel of spiritual independence
Brian Hines: Life is Fair: The Law of Cause and Effect

Brian Hines: Life is Fair: The Law of Cause and Effect
Brian Hines: God's Whisper, Creation's Thunder: Echoes of Spiritual Reality In the New Physics

Brian Hines: God's Whisper, Creation's Thunder: Echoes of Spiritual Reality In the New Physics
Brian Hines: Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization.

Brian Hines: Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization.
About Brian Hines

I’m a retired health policy analyst in Salem, Oregon, with three blogs and four books, including Break Free of Dogma.

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  • Salem city officials are refusing to enforce the city’s own requirement to be a city councilorJune 3, 2026
  • If Betsy Vega didn’t live in Ward 6 for a year before the May 19 election, she is ineligible to be a city councilorMay 30, 2026
  • Looks like progressives have gained one seat on the Salem City CouncilMay 26, 2026
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