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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us Planning manager Bill Molnar looks over one of many applications on his desk Thursday. Molnar will work on as many as 10 projects a day The city hopes to hire a new director and add more people to the department in coming months. October 28, 2005 Planning piled up In need of a new director and staff, department tries to juggle demand To the untrained eye, the Ashland planning department isn’t any different than any other city department. There aren’t stacks of files strewn around the office or baggy-eyed employees complaining about their jobs. But it’s an open secret that the planning department is operating with a reduced staff at a time when planning issues and actions have an increased importance in city government and politics. Front page of today's printed Daily Tidings Parking on Emigrant dam to be banned soon Round up the usual suspects. For reasons of national security, the top of the dam at Emigrant Lake will soon be closed to vehicular traffic. Who exactly the usual suspects of terrorist acts in southern Oregon are is less than clear however, but that hasn’t stopped the dam’s closure. Planners OK front porch plan TALENT — Realizing snout-nosed houses may be a thing of the past, the Talent Planning Commission said yes to front porches, postponed making a decision about code exemptions for houses with specific architectural features and approved the design of the new Talent Library on Thursday night. Portland for a weekend sanity break After traveling twice to the Orient during my high school athletic career — including three weeks in communist China in 1984 — I decided that while I still loved traveling, I wanted to stay home for a while. Mon: Essentially Ashland The Powell Doctrine of eating well Mon: Tales From The Crib Toddler time can begin in Terrible Tens Tues: Off The Vine Advice for those sick of Chardonnay Weds:Food & History Crisco gets a leg up by being kosher Commentary A dilemma for the religious right Fri: Healthy Pets Know about toxins around your property Sat: Marketing Today In business of selling, there are X’s and Y’s Hemphill does it all at AHS Ashland cross country coach Robert Julian isn’t one to single out a link in a chain that has the Grizzlies favored to win the final Southern Oregon Conference girls team championship, but Natalie Hemphill is special. Special for what she does for the girls team as its lead runner; special for what she does when she’s not tearing through the terrain. Raiders brace for high-scoring Baker team Even though an 0-7 record suggests otherwise, the Southern Oregon University football team has shown flashes of its old NAIA playoff-caliber self throughout the 2005 season, and the Raiders hope their offense and defense click simultaneously for the first time Saturday evening. — No letters today. — Guest Forum — Responses to "From the RIGHT side" Mr. Green is right ... The glorification of "Lolita" is just another example of our voyeurism as a people as we allow ourselves to be titillated rather than appalled by the premise of this story. As a people we prefer to look away from the ugly truth of pedophilia and call such vehicles of it such as "Lolita" artistic or poetic. From the Right Side Mike Green Updated Tuesdays: The irony in Iraq In stark contrast to our current keen sense regarding the welfare of Muslims in Iraq, the U.S. government must have been oblivious to the oppressive status of the Iraqi people when it befriended Saddam Hussein in 1980, helped him invade Iran from 1980 to 1988, and provided him with chemical weapons of mass destruction while extending billions of dollars in credit to him as late as 1990. Today, president Bush believes that a “free” Iraq will make the world a safer place. Unfortunately, his father did not believe that when he was sending representatives to bow at the palace of Saddam. We know the pretext. But the ends do not justify the means. Updated Mondays: — CASE IN POINT : Religions enjoy the myth of escape Eschatology is that part of theology that is concerned with final events in the history of the world, often referred to as the “end times.” In many religions, the end times means the destruction of the planet (or of all living things), but with humans surviving in some altered form, signaling the end of one age and the beginning of a new one. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, to name just a few religions, make reference to the end times in some form. As does Norse mythology, Zoroastrianism and the belief systems of some Native Americans. — No obituaries today. — Police 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. 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. The impact of the Gulf Coast tragedy on Native Americans Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 5 p.m. Thursdays ( Back issues available ) By kids, for kids… of all ages The Snow White project The Snow White Project opens for “kids of all ages” on Friday at Oregon Stage Works. Six performances will run Friday through Nov. 6, with early curtains at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. matinees on Sundays. Tickets will be available at the door, $10 per person for all ages. Artist incorporates experiences from Brazil, India and New York’s Greenwich Village Local Entertainment Much of the action in “Who’s Happy Now?” takes place in a honky-tonk bar in East Texas. The play has been described as a “cockeyed comedy.” Who’s Happy Now?’ opens SOU Theatre season, Nov. 3 more entertainment Movie Reviews: Now playing Grace Lutheran Church in Ashland welcomes new pastor Church Listings DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Deep Muscle Stimulator Ceramic Piggy Banks FREE Entertainment Guide Women's & Men's Slippers Accelerate Weightloss Products Backpacks Generic Viagra Vegas Travel Guide Search Engine Optimization Sportsbook Absinthe Supply Student Loans Hotel & Airline Reservations African Safari Hammocks Helzberg Diamonds Online Casinos Community Bonus Casino King of Spirits ink cartridges Mortgage Calculator Security Systems Mailing Lists Click Here Advertisement .:Advertisements:. Site Search: RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams