Publisher's Notebook

A year ago Americans were still caught up in the throes of the Great Toilet Paper Catastrophe of 2020. In most respects there never was an actual problem and there certainly shouldn’t have eve…

As always, this edition of Coast River Business Journal includes an inspirational variety of stories about Clatsop and Pacific county entrepreneurs bravely venturing into new businesses and ex…

More of us in coming months will succeed in getting immunized against COVID-19. This will restore a greater sense of safety for Columbia-Pacific families. But will it get us back to “business …

Many of us looked forward to the end of 2020 in hopes that turning a symbolic corner would bring real relief for all that ails us, but of course nothing is ever that simple. We still have plen…

This lamentable year will soon be over. But like a terrible undersea earthquake generating a vast set of tsunamis, destructive waves from the pandemic will ripple across our society and econom…

My cousin Bob Bell and I — like most people here — are still very much connected to our rural roots. Our conversations often revolve around the weather. While we don’t have livestock to worry …

With this issue of Coast River Business Journal we welcome Emily Lindblom as editor, working in collaboration with the Astorian, Chinook Observer and Seaside Signal newsrooms. Read about her o…

I’ve taken to calling this the “covidtime.” Although we aren’t ordered to shelter in place by health officials — at least not as I write this — the necessity of staying out of circulation as m…

Even as states begin a slug-like crawl toward a squished and twisted "normal," we're still somewhere in the between times — far from the happy semi-prosperity we took for granted, but still un…

Getting back to work: What should that start to look like here and nationwide?

The dire emergency spawned by a need to shut down wide swaths of the world economy will play out for years. How well we cope in the communities on the Columbia estuary and the surrounding seas…

One of my neighbors commented this month that this might be his last year gathering and splitting his own firewood — it's just getting too grueling to lift his arms above his shoulders and bri…

We're excited and happy in my company — EO Media Group — to be adding four more Oregon newspapers to our family of publications.

It’s partly the time of year: With few exceptions, if you intend to start a new business on this coast, it’s best to be up and running no later than July 4 — and Memorial Day weekend or even s…

There are many reasons I’m grateful to live here in this beautiful and always-interesting place.