Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-15
In 1970, the cost of a house in Ashland was likely to be less than twice the annual income of home buyers. By 2010, the gap had soared, with the median price of an Ashland home more than 10 times the median income of Ashland residents. Now, as newcomers and low-income families struggle to find available and affordable housing, the city of Ashland is working to revise its 35-year-old housing vision and is seeking public input to assist in that revision. The Housing Element is an analysis of the c
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-15
At a meeting lending an ear to Southern Oregonians’ experiences with hate, Oregon’s Attorney General heard from a pair of unwelcome voices. An audience of more than 70 people at Medford’s library — who’d applauded heartfelt stories of discrimination from members of the Rogue Valley’s Latino, LGBTQ and Jewish communities — were aghast as frequent Ashland mayoral candidate Biome Erickson told Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and her Task Force on Hate Crim
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
The Arc of History has been a catch phrase for progress for decades, but today the idea is more important as we face growing challenges on a local and global scale. In his victory speech in 2008, Barack Obama tapped the phrase often used by Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Montgomery and along the path of social progress: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Why does the arc of progress take so long? How are the citizens of Ashland bending it toward g
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-15
On Nov. 9, 1967, Dr. King gave the Annual Convocation address of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) at SUNY Buffalo. On behalf of the GSA, I was co-organizer of the event and his driver that evening. This speech was seven months after his historic “Beyond Vietnam” oration at New York’s Riverside Church in which he condemned that war. That evening, we discussed the harsh attacks he received for his opposition. King calmly and patiently explained that he opposed the Vietnam c
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-15
At the very least, John Jackson Jr. isn’t shying away from getting his name out there. It’s what the former Southern Oregon University senior defensive lineman feels is the only way that he can continue his football career beyond the season he just spent in Ashland. Jackson Jr.’s latest chance will come this weekend on the East Coast, as he will make the cross-country trip to take part in the SPIRAL Tropical Bowl in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon. “The opport
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
Kiran Oommen stood before 60 members of the Medford Congregational United Church of Christ on Sunday and was asked by one of the children if he’s famous because he’s part of a lawsuit against the federal government over climate change. “Lots of people know our names,” responded the 22-year-old senior at Seattle University and former Eugene resident. “I am not any more important than anybody else.” Almost by accident, Oommen has become one of the “faces&r
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN DAY 24 Congress returns to Washington for its first full week of legislative business since control of the House reverted to Democrats, with no end in sight for the partial closure. 2. SECRETARY OF STATE VISITS MIDDLE EAST Mike Pompeo met Monday with Saudi leaders on the latest stop of a tour that has so far been dominated by questions and concerns about the withdrawa
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
As an infant, Isabelle Prichard beat back brain cancer using a combination of western and alternative medical treatments. She had four surgeries to remove the glio blastoma multiforma, a rare form of brain cancer she was born with. But it was not until being treated by an alternative healer that her cancer went into remission. "It was the hope," Isabelle said about what she thinks is the cause of her survival. Isabelle and her family are leaning heavily on hope again. A new, unidentified mass is
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-13
“Let’s build bridges, not walls.” ~ Martin Luther King Weary of endless partisan bickering, more and more Americans are seeking a way forward. We hear about it increasingly in our media: community-based groups “bridging the divide” are springing up across the country; bi-partisan organizations are proliferating. What these groups have in common is a dedication to promoting peace through building bridges between the two sides. A fascinating new study, “Hidden T
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
Occam’s Razor, attributed to friar William of Occam, is a principle that states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. It’s also called the principle of parsimony. In other words, simpler solutions are more likely to be correct than complex ones. The trap that awaits anyone who deals with Trump is that their responses tend to be rational, grounded in reality and factually based. But the president traffics in alternative facts, is not given to introspection
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-12
Yes, Donald Trump is a disgusting human being. Can we agree on that and move on to some useful political analysis? Apparently not. MSNBC commentators are so fixated on his sleaze that they won’t even acknowledge, much less try to understand, that his approval rating remains above 40 percent. And I hear people say they don’t care who gets the Democratic nomination in 2020 as long as s/he can beat Trump. I suggest that we think about Trump in the context of American populism. Trump is
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
A chic, new pub — refurbished from an old gas station on Lithia Way — is open and throbbing as Growler Guys, with 46 kinds of beer, 13 kinds of kombucha, six ciders, a range of espresso drinks, root beer floats and shakes, plus pizza, wings and breadsticks of all sorts. There's also a new coffee bar, Stone Ridge Coffee. This gusher of fun pub foods and drinks may be consumed in a splendidly stylish and urban indoor-outdoor environment — that is, you can sit at tables inside
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-11
221 Fly Rock band 221 Fly will perform a stripped-down, acoustic mix of original, progressive and Southern-style rock and blues at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, at Barnstormer’s Theatre, 112 N.E. Evelyn Ave., Grants Pass. The show is part of Barnstormer’s Storyteller Music Series. Tickets are $15. Dinner and beverages will be available. See barnstormersgp.org or call 541-479-3557. Josh Turner w/Mo Pitney Nashville recording artist Josh Turner will perform traditional country music at 7:
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-11
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. ‘I WILL DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY’ The president is edging closer to that declaration in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. 2. A PAYDAY ABOUT TO BE MISSED Families are making tough decisions as 800,000 federal employees miss their first paycheck because of the three-week government shutdown. 3. ‘THIS IS JAYME CLOSS! CALL 911!
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-04
Ashland Boy Scout Troop 112 will collect Christmas Trees Saturday, Jan. 5, and recycle them into wood chips for Ashland city parks. They ask that trees be placed by the curb Friday evening. Troop 112 and its sponsor, the Ashland Lions Club, collect the trees, and then the Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission chips the trees into mulch. For the 33rd year, “This project benefits the citizens of Ashland, the Boy Scouts of Troop 12 and the environment turning hundreds of trees into mulch en
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-31
Four teens with special needs will act in an Oregon Shakespeare Festival musical in 2019 — thanks to a friendship that grew between a director and an Ashland boy with cerebral palsy. OSF director Christopher Liam Moore got to know Luke Hogan Laurenson, 14, through Project UP, a performing arts program that brings special-needs students together with peer and community volunteers. When OSF was looking for an upbeat musical to stage in its Angus Bowmer Theatre during the 2019 season, Moore t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-02
Heading into 2019, ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum Director Dan Ruby wants the facility to be a champion of science — and not just science for children. That philosophy is reflected in new vision and mission statements that emphasize “inspiring curiosity and creating meaningful science experiences for people of all ages and backgrounds” and to do it “through engaging and interactive experiences.” “We make art, and we do science. Those are things that human beings
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-29
Girls can now join an all-female Boy Scout troop in Ashland. The Boy Scouts of America is rebranding to Scouts BSA and will allow girl troops, composed of sixth- to 12th-graders, starting Feb. 1. Cub Scouts, which include kindergartners through fifth-graders, started allowing girls into its packs last year, according to District Committee Chair Ryan Schmobrich. The dens, or the separate age groups, are separated by gender. “It’s important to note that the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scou
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-31
In affluent neighborhoods around Washington, New York and Los Angeles — and, for that matter, Paris, London and Berlin — it’s common to denounce nationalism, to disdain supposedly mindless, angry populists, and to praise those with an open-minded, cosmopolitan outlook. Note that those involved are praising themselves. Lord knows, there is much to fear about nationalism. Extreme nationalism has led to fascism, war, the persecution and slaughter of minorities and the undermining
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-31
This morning, one of the last of 2018, I find myself in Salem to learn my way around the Capitol. I’ll remember 2018 as the year the people of the southern Rogue Valley handed me the honor and duty of representing them in the Oregon State Senate. The weeks since the election have been full of meetings with people who want me to know their strong views on what our district and the state of Oregon need. You won’t be surprised to hear that different people have very different ideas abou