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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us Dena Adame, a telecommunications technician for AFN, installs a new filter for cable service in March 2005. March 18, 2006 * updated by 5 p.m. daily Winners and losers $10 fee would provide for universal basic cable TV, 256K Internet access Residents who want only basic television and Internet services would get a good deal under an Ashland City Council plan to provide those services to everyone for $10 to $21 a month. But people who want a full range of cable television channels likely would face higher monthly bills. See the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings Search widens for missing 6 Family that disappeared two weeks ago is now an APB nationwide; regional efforts fruitless Hanson quitting ski area Jeff Hanson, a longtime employee and former general manager of the Mt. Ashland Ski Area, will announce on Monday that he is resigning, according to a member of the board of directors. His current job is overseeing the resort’s expansion plans. Elementaries topic of next school session The Ashland School Board will hold a special session on Monday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Ashland Middle School library, 100 Walker Ave. Volkart reverses stance, takes new assignment Derek Volkart will leave for a Peace Corps assignment in Paraguay this fall. The Ashland environmental activist-turned-carpenter was pulled from a two-year volunteer position in Morocco on Feb. 15 after Peace Corps officials read an article in the Daily Tidings about Volkart’s impending departure. Polling complete on school bond; public session upcoming Public input in as many forms as possible has been a crusade of the 17-member Bond and Facility Committee over the past seven months. FRIDAY Search for family, RV called off The active search for the Ashland family missing since March 4 has been suspended due to a lack of investigative leads, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department reported late Thursday. City prepares to defend levy In the best-case scenario, the Oregon Supreme Court will overturn tax court ruling that a youth activities levy in the city of Eugene is unconstitutional, Ashland City Attorney Mike Franell told a joint meeting of the city’s elected officials on Thursday night. Renaissance of risk Two climbers, using ice axes and wearing sharp-cleated crampons, make their way up the sheer face of a frozen waterfall, hammering in pitons and hooking their ropes to carabiners as they go, foot by foot, slowly, carefully. A hundred feet below, jagged, snow-covered rocks await. Mon: Essentially Ashland City politics strangles an ambulance Mon: Tales From The Crib Why we don’t live in the city anymore Mon: From Denmark Cartoons shatter Danes’ feeling of safety Tues: Off The Vine Wine snooping doesn�t always result in a find Weds: Food & History Vice-presidential comments Thurs: Commentary A lust for competition is key to success Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This Drop to drop comes wisdom Fri: Healthy Pets Royal Canin recalls some lines of pet food Sat: Marketing Today Understand your motivations first FRIDAY Grizzlies rally to knock off defending 3A champs The Grizzlies didn’t want to have to prove they could perform under pressure, but since they did, they did. Opinion & Editorial — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — EDITORIAL — OPINION PAGE POLICY Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green The blind leading the deaf and dumb This year, George Bush did what no other president in history has ever done. He became an instant spokesperson for a Middle Eastern company and nation, in opposition to his own countrymen. When Bush screamed at Congress and the American people that he would fight us all to ensure that Dubai Ports World was able to own the operations of numerous U.S. ports after its purchase of a British company that currently owns such operations, did any of us notice that our president was batting for the visiting team? Instead of USA, the letters on his jersey were UAE. CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — Case In Point : Administration forges flexibility in law As a nation, we live by the rule of law, guided by our Constitution and its amendments. It is one of our most fundamental tenets, one that we strive to make inviolable. It is because of that tenet that the Bush administration faced a dilemma shortly after 9/11. Clearly, the images and stories since told of that day will never pass from our collective memory: airliners, held in relief against a clear morning sky, flying directly into the twin towers; the towers burning, then falling; hundreds, nay thousands, of people were in corridors, in stairwells, rushing downward to escape. Firefighters, laden with hoses and equipment, axes in hand, were on their way up. Ever upward. We watched in stunned disbelief as the towers fell in plumes of billowing, swirling dust and smoke. Later, we saw the savage, smoldering gash in a farm field in rural Pennsylvania, and the ruined, blackened Pentagon. — No obituaries today. — Police reports click here to see print version The magic ... it’s what films are about Each year as the curtain goes up on the Oscars, we hear the oft repeated claim that there are a billion people watching. Clearly this is a bit of hyperbole. But no one doubts that millions around the globe tune-in. In the U.S. alone, the show garners some 45 million viewers. In Review Transamerica Huffman shines as a conflicted personality Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) Camelot Theatre Company opens the first musical of its 2006 season, the Tony Award and Grammy Award winning “A Little Night Music.” Teaching with drums Ryan M. Camara, artistic director of Denbaya Drum & Dance, the Ashland-based school of West African drumming and dancing, was packing for his 11th annual trip to Guinea on the West African coast when he took time out for a phone interview. LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing Visiting poet may leave you with desire to ‘shift ’ In “A Letter From Naomi Shihab Nye To Any Would-be Terrorist” the poet asks, “Have you noticed how many roads there are? Sure you have. You must check out maps and highways and small alternate routes just like anyone else. There is no way everyone on earth could travel on the same road, or believe in exactly the same religion. It would be too crowded, it would be dumb. I don’t believe you want us all to be Muslims.” She is a poet obsessed by roads. Church Listings Ashland residents traveling nationwide and around the globe provide first-person accounts of their travels, complete with pictures to share their adventures with the Tidings' readers. * Note: The stories below are submitted by local residents, and are not changed on a regular basis, but will be replaced as other submissions are received. FEMA Experience in Texas, September 2005 I was invited by FEMA to act as a Public Information Officer (PIO) in a volunteer capacity. Mis queridos This is my first e-mail and I write it not from Syria but from South Lebanon. New Orleans: Up Close and Personal I returned to my hometown of New Orleans on Oct. 6 to view the devastation and assist my displaced family. 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