Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-26
I know many people think the Tidings and the Trib offer only liberal voices (never mind Ed Rogers, George Will and Jay Ambrose). A recent letter writer wanted the paper to stop giving out propaganda. I’ve come to the conclusion that Orwell had it right. He was just off by a few years. In today’s America, up is down, black is white and two plus two equals five. I read both local papers and the New York Times every day. And I watch MSNBC and sometimes CNN until they put on the fact-f
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-27
Kelly Madding is the first to admit she has a lot to learn about being Ashland’s new city administrator. We’d suggest she start by brushing up on Oregon public meetings law. Maybe she and Mayor John Stromberg could study together. We’re generally encouraged by Stromberg’s selection of Madding from a strong field of five candidates for the job left vacant when Dave Kanner was dismissed in 2016. She brings a wealth of local experience, including the city of Ashland, Talent city manager, code enfor
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-27
Food vs. yachts A 7-year-old boy recently informed me that “Trump lies.” He was right. But our problems extend far beyond Trump’s deceit and manipulations. Our nation is under attack by corporate-funded, greed-driven thieves and thugs, who have clearly taken over the GOP. Case In point: On June 21, every Republican in the House voted for HR 2, a bill that would adversely affect children, seniors, 1.5 million veterans and low-income families by reducing SNAP benefits by $23 billion. This is a hug
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-28
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Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-27
The public is invited to a free Medicare workshop at 2 p.m. July 18 at the Ashland Senior Center, 1699 Homes Ave. The hour-long workshop will be presented by Cheryl Harrison and Melissa Mlasko of Futurity First Insurance Group to help explain to anyone who will soon turn 65 the complicated federal health insurance program. “Medicare 101” will touch on the Medicare enrollment process, review Medicare Part A and Part B, as well as Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans and Medicare Supplement health in
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-27
Nick Sterling of Texas, a combat-wounded veteran, comes to Ashland tonight, June 27, as part of his tour benefiting the veteran’s charity Lone Survivor Foundation. The nationally touring guitarist will be accompanied by his fiddle player promoting Sterling’s album, “Stand Your Ground.” Proceeds benefit the Lone Survivor Foundation. The duo combines a mix of vocals and musicianship to perform a blend of Americana/Country as well as everything from roots/folk to bluegrass and blues. For more, go t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-25
President Trump has a special animus toward immigrants, but the children of those crossing our borders are not the only vulnerable people in his sights. His administration is waging a less visible war on our nation’s poorest citizens, with the complicity of its Republican allies in Congress. We can welcome the fact that the president’s family-separation policy aroused the indignation of a broad empathetic majority. This instinct for compassion and justice should also be mobilized to stop efforts
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-26
The proposed extension of the Bear Creek Greenway from the Dog Park to North Mountain Park Nature Center is desirable, but will take a lot of time, will cost a lot of money (especially for proposed footbridges and access to private land), likely will use busy and dangerous city streets, and appears to slice through one neighborhood off Oak Street, an unwelcome prospect. Such were the responses of two dozen well-informed residents and Greenway insiders, as they heard on Thursday a “feasibility an
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-23
Ashland and Guanajuato are continuing a 49-year-old tradition of back-to-back Sister City visits during June and July. Ashland sent a delegation a week ago to Guanajuato to participate in its festivals of San Juan (St. John the Baptist) and the annual cleaning of the Presa de la Olla reservoir that dates from the 18th century. No sooner had the group reached Guanajuato than a heavy downpour caused flash flooding of three major streets and into the central business district. Some vehicles, reside
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-25
This columnist does not often launch into full-throated discourses to the benefit of the top 1 percent. As a staunch left libertarian with a socialist bent, the emphasis is usually on the plight of the underdog. But it is important to voice concern when the general public takes up the torch of self-righteousness and starts to march on a private residence, in an attempt to burn down, with rhetoric, a house that has not even been built yet. Over the past couple of weeks, much has been made of a de
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-26
As of July 1, James “Jim” Risser and his fellow Ashland New Plays Festiva l board members are accepting new plays for ANPF’s 2019 Fall Festival. Risser, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in National Reporting, served as director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists and Director of the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University, and on the Pulitzer Prize Board for 10 years in the 1990s. He also played a key role in the selection of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer-winni
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-23
Several months ago, friends and fans of Trium wines in Talent were saddened by owner Laura Lotspeich’s announcement that this highly respected Rogue Valley label would be retired due to the passing of her husband, Kurt . Lotspeich’s decision limits the family business to production of wine grapes from their Pheasant Hill Vineyard. Trium has been a top-drawer brand ever since its inaugural vintage, the 2003 Growers’ Cuvee, won a platinum medal at the 2005 Greatest of the Grape competition. With i
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-25
Pioneer Hall will likely not open as homeless shelter next winter as the Ashland City Council weighs whether to spend about $400,000 to bring the building up to code. The council on Monday agreed that it wants to keep supporting the winter shelter program, but councilors struggled to agree on whether renovating the 97-year-old building is the right answer. The hosted four nights of shelter a week during the recently concluded shelter season from November through mid-April. Churches hosted anothe
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-24
Motorists zipping north on Interstate 5 pass through Siskiyou County, over the Siskiyou Summit, at an elevation of 4,310 feet, and cruise into Oregon, going at least 55 mph. Few realize that they are traveling over much of the original Siskiyou Trail, which once extended from Fort Vancouver and the Hudson’s Bay Company headquarters south to the San Francisco Bay Area. The trail followed beaten footpaths tromped by generations of Native Americans. In 1834, Ewing Young herded horses and mul
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-26
PORTLAND & Brian Giblin had an offer that was hard to believe and even harder to refuse. Giblin, 41, told a group of wrestling coaches and parents that he had created a company that raised money for scholarships. The North Portland man claimed he got $150,000 from one business, almost $70,000 of which was pledged as scholarship money for seven wrestlers at Mountain View High School in Vancouver, Wash. "Honestly, from the day we found out, it seemed like it was too good to be true," said Kourosh
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-23
Friday, June 15 Jeff K & The Overtones: The band — guitarists Jeff Kloetzel and Jeff Stanley, bassist Donnie Yance and drummer Dave Bolen — will play a mix of original rock and cover songs at 6 p.m. Friday, June 15, at Roxy Ann Winery, 3285 Hillcrest Road, Medford. Admission is $7. See roxyann.com or call 541-776-2315. Holly Gleason: Singer and songwriter Holly Gleason will perform original folk music at 6 p.m. Friday, June 15, at South Stage Cellars, 125 S. Third St., Jacksonville. See southsta
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-23
In the immortal words of Tom Petty, “You belong somewhere you feel free.” For the Duluth, Minnesota, sextet Trampled by Turtles, finding that freedom meant taking a risky approach. Rather than continuing full speed ahead with a band that had successfully toured, wrote and recorded music together for the past 15 years, they pumped the breaks and brought the tour bus screeching to a halt. By the time Trampled by Turtles announced their hiatus in the fall of 2016, the success they’d experienced as
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-23
Davie Carmichael had every intention of staying at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and the splendor of Southern California beyond the early months of 2018. But that all changed when he saw a job opening at Southern Oregon University and started to do a little research on the Rogue Valley and everything it has to offer. It was the area that got him interested. It was the people he now works alongside that sealed the deal. “It was the athletic director, the administrative staff, the coaching staff and
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-23
For the second consecutive season, Kelsey Randall was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America softball second team Thursday to make more history on her way out of Southern Oregon University. Randall, a senior from Concord, Calif., is the second individual at SOU to hit a CoSIDA Academic All-America team two years in a row, joining Trevor Palmer, who made the track/cross country third teams in 2006 and ‘07. Last year, she became the first Raider softball player to garner the honor. Voted on by t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-23
TEMPE, Ariz. — The Intercollegiate Tennis Association released its list of All-Americans for all five divisions of collegiate tennis, and Ashland High grad and Whitman College (Wash.) senior Hanna Greenberg was named as a member of the doubles All-American team for NCAA Division III institutions. The duo of Greenberg and Andrea Gu went 15-6 overall for Whitman this year, recording wins in all of their Northwest Conference matches as they helped the Blues upset Linfield College to earn a berth in