Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-09
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter $10 Million In Training Funds For Oregon’s Semiconductor Industry Promises New Opportunities For Workers By Diane Megaw on March 9, 2024 With a growing need for workers in the semiconductor industry, Oregon’s lawmakers have passed House Bill 4154 (HB 4154) which establishes a $10 million Semiconductor Talent Sustaining Fund. The bill supports workforce training at pu
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-09
Oregon’s Soft Approach to Drug Possession is Officially Over Top Stories By Edith M. On Mar 9, 2024 Lawmakers, the police, and the criminal justice department can collectively sigh with relief that Oregon’s soft approach to drug possession is over. The majority decision by the House of Representatives and the Senate to recriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs like fentanyl, cocaine, and meth has been given the nod by Oregon Governor, Tina Kotek. The State’s Drug Experiment Backfire
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-08
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Oregon Wildfire Survivors Will Not be Taxed but Wildfire Funding Solutions Fail By Edith M. on March 8, 2024 Only one of four proposals was unanimously approved in the Senate and House this week. Senate Bill 1520 ensures that survivors of wildfires do not pay tax on funding settlements and compensation for losses. The three bills that failed addressed wildfire preven
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-11
Oregonians Face Crippling Power Costs Top Stories By Edith M. On Mar 11, 2024 Last updated Mar 11, 2024 Oregonians have voiced dismay in the wake of a new round of energy price increases announced by three power utilities. The proposed new rate hikes add 40% to power bills for some customers of Portland General Electric (PGE) since January 2022; the Pacific Power increase translates to a 50% total hike for energy supply payable by consumers since January 2023; and the Idaho Power company wants t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-10
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter State Funding of $2.5 million+ is a “Big Win” for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival By Edith M. on March 10, 2024 ASHLAND, Ore. — “This is a big win for us” is how the delighted interim executive director, Tyler Hokama, described the $2.5 million+ funding for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) approved by the State Legislature last Thursday. Oregon Governor Tina Kot
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-10
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter DINO-LIGHT Set To Delight Klamath Falls For A Day At Ross Ragland Theatre By Diane Megaw on March 10, 2024 KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Internationally recognized Lightwire Theatre Lightwire Theatre- a semi-finalist on season 7 of “ America’s Got Talent, ” is bringing their futuristic meets prehistoric production, DINO-LIGHT, to the Ross Ragland Theatre in Klamath Falls for
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-10
State Funding of $2.5 million+ is a “Big Win” for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival News By Edith M. On Mar 10, 2024 ASHLAND, Ore. — “This is a big win for us” is how the delighted interim executive director, Tyler Hokama, described the $2.5 million+ funding for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) approved by the State Legislature last Thursday. Oregon Governor Tina Kotek must now approve the $2,555,175 funding. The large financial contribution was approved by the state after Hokama and other OS
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-12
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Grants Pass Restricts Charitable Work Among the Homeless Living on Public Property By Edith M. on March 12, 2024 GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Grants Pass City Council has approved a new ordinance restricting charitable organizations and nonprofits from helping homeless people who live on public property. The ordinance stipulates that permits will now be required to distribute
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-08
Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . Daily Tidings Daily Tidings Sign up for the Morning Brief Newsletter . facebook twitter Oregon Forest’s Habitat Conservation Plan Ready To Move Forward Despite Objections By Diane Megaw on March 8, 2024 A controversial plan that will change the way the state’s logging activities comply with the federal Endangered Species Act is moving ahead but will reduce logging on Oregon’s state lands west of the Cascades. Oregon forestry officials are moving ahead w
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-12
Grants Pass Restricts Charitable Work Among the Homeless Living on Public Property News By Edith M. On Mar 12, 2024 Homeless encampment, Grants Pass, Southern Oregon. GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Grants Pass City Council has approved a new ordinance restricting charitable organizations and nonprofits from helping homeless people who live on public property. The ordinance stipulates that permits will now be required to distribute clothing and food in city parks and other public homeless sites. It also pro
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2024-03-12
University of Oregon Finds Wildfire Smoke Warnings Need Improvement Education By Diane Megaw On Mar 12, 2024 Ashland, Oregon EUGENE, Ore. — College Officials from the Univerity of Oregon (UO) recently presented a study suggesting that warnings on wildfire smoke-choked air quality to the public often don’t reach residents until after the smoke has already swept into the area. Published in a public health journal in February 2024, the UO researchers set out detailed recommendations in the study in
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2016-05-19
Students learn by telling personal truths Digital storytelling program polishes diamonds in the socioeconomic rough News By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On May 19, 2016 Last updated Dec 31, 2023 Jenny Steiner doesn’t like the stereotype, but the truth is that the boy was a jock. “Kind of defensive,” she said, “kind of too cool for school on the front.” But like many children navigating the choppy waters of adolescence, the seventh-grader at Ruch Community School had another, more sincere, dimen
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2016-10-17
Renters protest the high cost of a home in Ashland News By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On Oct 17, 2016 Last updated Dec 31, 2023 Protesters gathered outside a property management company in Ashland Monday to demonstrate against rental price increases that they say amount to greed. “I say greed is horrible,” said McKenna Smith, a student at Southern Oregon University who held a sign demanding an end to frequent rent increases. She marched at Commercial Property Management along with a dozen oth
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2015-04-28
SOU hosts Foreign Language Film Festival this weekend Movies & TV By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On Apr 28, 2015 Last updated Jan 18, 2024 A festival that will celebrate cinema in a variety of languages, including American Sign Language, is coming to Southern Oregon University. SOU’s inaugural Foreign Language Film Festival runs Friday through Sunday, May 1-3, on campus. Hosted by SOU’s Foreign Language Department, the festival will feature eight films in five languages, including French,
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2015-03-15
Prisoners in their own home SOU professor Yamaguchi pens book about Japanese-American internment camps News By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On Mar 15, 2015 Last updated Dec 31, 2023 Los Angeles, 1942. A teenage girl returns home from school one day to find her mother screaming at her father. “Pack your suitcase,” mom says. “We all have to leave.” Soon they’re dragging their bags down a dirt path alongside other families, trailed by the yelping of dogs left to fend for themselves. They board a b
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2015-03-18
Our View: SOU’s economic clout Opinion By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On Mar 18, 2015 Last updated Jan 18, 2024 Southern Oregon University may be facing challenges that have led to cutbacks in some areas and the elimination of programs and faculty, but the investment the state is making in the university’s buildings makes it clear SOU will continue to be a major component of Ashland’s economy for years to come. In all, projects beginning in 2010 and continuing well into next year total $132 mi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2012-10-02
Debate-watching parties Leaving your home comfort zone News By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On Oct 2, 2012 Last updated Jan 20, 2024 Southern Oregon University political science professor Bill Hughes won’t be watching tonight’s presidential debate at home. Instead, the keen-eyed researcher will be hanging out at a bar or another public space, observing people as they watch the two candidates make a case for votes. Hughes says he won’t be paying attention to what’s said on air. “The candidates w
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2016-05-24
SOU’s ‘The Comedy of Errors’ a spoof of Ashland Revels By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On May 24, 2016 Last updated Jan 25, 2024 Southern Oregon Theatre Arts sets its production of Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” in Ephesus — a place that looks a lot like Ashland — and the play’s Syracuse takes on the quality of Medford. “The set is sort of a mash-up of Ephesus and Ashland,” says Director David McCandless. “Syracuse, of course, is not represented as a locale. Our production is set entirely
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2015-11-16
Sister-city relationship celebrated at ‘Guanajuato Nights’ News By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On Nov 16, 2015 Last updated Jan 20, 2024 Guanajuato signature chef Bricio Dominguez took Ashland by surprise Saturday, serving a five-course gastronomic delight for 126 guests at the Ashland Amigo Club’s Guanajuato Nights dinner and silent auction fund-raiser. Civic leaders and other Ashlanders lauded the gathering for bringing people together to mix with friends in an atmosphere supportive of a com
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2016-06-02
Third presidential candidate makes her case News By Daily Tidings Editorial Board On Jun 2, 2016 Last updated Jan 11, 2024 Southern Oregon University’s search for its next president is about to enter the final phase after the third of three finalists arrived on campus Thursday for a tour and a town hall-like forum. Like the other two finalists, Linda Schott’s forum, held in the campus Science Auditorium in Ashland, was open to the public. It lasted a little less than an hour, starting with a 20-