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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us March 22, 2005 Tidings ignores I wish to congratulate our community for pulling together and establishing lines of communication to support activists taken hostage by Josephine County sheriffs. Though 30 people, mostly from Ashland, sat in jail, some in solitary confinement, others being denied basic necessities such as blankets, the Daily Tidings chose to evade reporting on this community crisis. While dozens of our community members suddenly went missing from their jobs and community circles, Ashlanders remained uninformed of their whereabouts except by grassroots phone trees and the independent media collective. It is clear that the Daily Tidings is failing in its role as a community information source choosing rather to report on the corporate tabloid items of choice, such as the outcomes of bizarre murder trials. A large encampment of forest defense organizers, which our local paper is ignoring, remains near the area of the 17 million board foot Fiddler Mountain old growth timber sale. As of Wednesday, at least six people remain in custody of the Josephine County sheriffs, an organization with such close ties to the timber industry, patches bearing log trucks are sewn above the American flag on their uniform sleeves. It is likely the Tidings ties with big media which cause them to remain silent. The resistance building to the Bush agenda promises to continue to engage our citizens and we will continue to stay informed with or without the Tidings. Ryan Navickas Ashland Kudos to OSW I'd like to publicly applaud Oregon Stage Works for their generosity and community spirit. On Friday, they are staging a performance of the musical "The Boy Who Talked to Whales" and donating the proceeds to Friends of the Animal Shelter, the volunteers who help homeless pets find a loving home. If you love animals and love theater, then please consider joining me at what is sure to be a good time for a good cause. For tickets please call Oregon Stage Works at 482-2334. Cara Wade Ashland Support ASF I have just returned from a delightful dance performance presented by the students of Lincoln School. I had gone to watch my first-grade grandson and was amazed at the joyful participation by all of the students. Thanks to the public contributions to the Ashland Schools Foundation, funding is made available for the artistic teaching of Miss Tina. What a gift she is to the school in what she brings out in the feet, heads and hearts of her students. Kudos to the Ashland Schools foundation and all who have made this kind of program possible. Let us all keep up the good work of support. Gail Zaro Ashland Barone's Bush worship a bore How long, O Lord, how long must we suffer the obsequious lap dog maunderings and numerological musings of Michael Barone (March 10). He writes insipidly in praise of George W. Bush on March 4, Bush's inauguration day. Lo and behold, he finds that on the same date in American history 72 years ago FDR took office, and 72 years before that Lincoln was inducted, and then 72 years before that auspicious date Washington took the oath of office. This triple coincidence is alone enough for Barone to elevate Mr. Bush to the top of Mount Rushmore; it must be "alone" because there is nothing in Mr. Bush's presidency so far that promises any greatness. Yes, "he has transformed American foreign policy" but in ways that make America hated and despised as well as weaker. And he has "proactively" - Barone means preemptively, unilaterally, and imperiously - used American power "to advance democracy and freedom," in places like Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Ignoring the nation's impending bankruptcy, Barone admits that it is too soon to judge this president. No, it isn't: Mr. Bush will be known as the most unworthy and destructive president in our history. Gerald Cavanaugh Ashland Social Security plan isn't a threat The nearly 600,000 Oregonians currently receiving Social Security retirement payments can be assured that nobody wants to change their benefits. As President Bush has clearly stated, anyone over 55 will continue to see the program operate exactly as it does today. Establishing voluntary personal retirement accounts would go a long way toward providing the economic security future retirees will need. Without prompt action, younger generations will find themselves without the Social Security retirement benefit they think they are already paying for. Danna Gustafson Ashland Bush's SS plan shows leadership President Bush has demonstrated real leadership by identifying the problem of Social Security's financial problem. He clearly understands that the program design that worked half a century ago when there was 16 workers for every living retiree cannot function properly when there are just 3 workers financing the Social Security payments to every retiree. In just 13 years, Social Security will begin to pay out more than it takes in. The crisis could not be clearer. That is why Congress must take steps now to adopt personal retirement accounts now to provide true retirement security to all generations of Oregonians. 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