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Looking Up: Comet passes by the Pleiades Suzette Martinez Standring: Chance advice was eerie Aging Happens Inner Peace Column Inner Peace Blog Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » Obituaries Photos Videos Blogs Business NEWS NOW Our View: A matter of survival ... Posters about missing teen will be distributed ... Brammo bought by Polaris ... Our View: A matter of survival ... Posters about missing teen will be distributed ... Brammo bought by Polaris ... EDITOR'S NOTES Editor's Notes: We were wrong Comment By Bert Etling DailyTidings.com By Bert Etling Posted Jan. 15, 2015 @ 12:01 am By Bert Etling Posted Jan. 15, 2015 @ 12:01 am Drop by for a cuppa --> Want to talk about the Tidings? What you like, don’t like, would like? Got a story you think Tidings readers should know about? Here’s your chance to talk about it in person. I&... » Read more X Drop by for a cuppa Want to talk about the Tidings? What you like, don’t like, would like? Got a story you think Tidings readers should know about? Here’s your chance to talk about it in person. I’ll be at the Bloomsbury Coffee House, 290 East Main St., Ashland, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. today, Jan. 15, for our third community coffee. About 10 people showed up at the first two. We talked about a wide range of topics. The one thing they all had in common was Ashland — just like the Tidings. We hope you’ll join us. — Bert Etling What do you think? Have an opinion on this story? Send a letter to the editor at www.dailytidings.com/sendletter .     » Social News We were wrong. Let’s just get that out of the way. The Tidings quoted, accurately (Jan. 6, A3) former Ashland City Councilor Eric Navickas alleging that the “entire (city of Ashland) managerial staff, every single one of them, is a white male.” We erred in not fact-checking the allegation. We knew it accompanied another allegation we did know to be accurate, that all of the city department heads are white males. But we should have either checked the allegation, not printed it or, at the least, have said what we did know to be true and what we did not. We compounded the error by repeating the allegation about managerial staff without quote marks in an editorial (Jan. 8, A16). The fact is, as a story to appear shortly in the Tidings will say, is that there are 23 male and 11 female managers or supervisors employed by the city of Ashland. That’s far from zero females, and we apologize for the error. Mayor John Stromberg called us to task for it in a guest opinion (Jan. 13, A17), and it was appropriate for him to do so. We thank him for holding us to account, just as we do him. All that said, we regret that the error detracted from the editorial’s bottom line: The city needs to make every effort to build a diverse management staff — especially, we could have made clearer — department heads. It’s great the city has made every effort, as they hasten to assure us, to recruit a diverse applicant group. Unfortunately, while the process may be laudable, the results have not yielded the hoped-for outcome. As was pointed out to us, the city’s affirmative action policy states it “will proactively recruit qualified minority candidates to fill job vacancies at all levels.” Unfortunately, it seems the emphasis has fallen on the “recruit” part and not the “fill” part of that sentence — perhaps because, in the end, the city policy also says hiring decisions must be blind to race, sex and age, among other factors. There’s no easy way to unravel sometimes competing elements of fairness — the element of looking at a snapshot of current qualifications, or the element of fairness that takes into account a history of unfairness that impeded the hiring of those who didn’t happen to be white males. On one thing, I think, we can all agree: Achieving the goal — not just pursuing it, but achieving it — of a diverse staff, including top managers, makes for a stronger, more resilient, better organization. The city of Ashland is an institution spending more than $100 million a year and employing more than 250 people. That’s a sizeable entity that has profited by the steps it’s already taken to ensure diversity, and will further benefit as it continues to do so. We support the efforts the city has taken and encourage it to not only keep it up, but to achieve what the policy is intended to achieve. Email Tidings Editor Bert Etling at [email protected] or call him at 541-631-1313. 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