Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Gov. Kate Brown says part of the process of preventing more summers of smoke in Southern Oregon is to make sure the rest of the state knows just how many people were affected and for how long. “It’s critically important that there be some better cross-fertilization,” Brown told a room of regional leaders in tourism, firefighting, wine and theater Thursday morning in Ashland. “I don’t think in Portland — we had some weeks of impact during the Eagle Creek fire, but I don’t think there’s a clear se
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Liquor licenses are up for renewal at two businesses in Ashland with a history of being related to problematic downtown behavior, according to city police. The Ashland City Council decided to endorse renewal for one, the Stop N Shop Market, but not the other, Vinyl Club , at its business meeting Tuesday. Looming large in the council decision was an incident in November 2017 when a Vinyl Club doorman seriously injured a 22-year-old patron, in addition to a number of other situations in the last f
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
World Film Week The 29th annual World Film Week will feature 13 films representing 18 countries, including China, Mexico, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Egypt, Norway, Argentina and the U.S. The films will be shown Friday through Friday, Oct. 5-12, at the Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St, Ashland. Look for opening and closing night festivities, including Q&As with film directors and after-screening parties. Tickets for the opening and closing night films and parties are $15 and can be purchased at ashl
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-06
A non-partisan Ashland City Council candidates’ forum is set to start at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall at 87 Fourth St., Ashland. Pam Marsh, Ashland’s 5th District representative in Salem, will moderate. The forum is presented by Mountain Meadows Democrats Plus and the RVUUF . Eleven candidates are running for four Ashland City Council seats . Running for council position 2 are incumbent Michael Morris and challengers Theodore White and Tonya
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-10-05
Re-elect Morris I have had the opportunity to know Mike Morris for over 40 years. I have followed and admired his dedication and commitment to our city through his long service on the Planning Commission, and more recently on the Ashland City Council. Mike Morris was born in Ashland, and has a deep appreciation for its history and diversity. He is exactly the kind of big-picture councilor we need to address the many challenges facing our city government. He is also a listener, and one who will a
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-19
The state Elections Division has thrown out a complaint by Ashland Parks & Recreation Commissioner Jim Lewis against recall petitioner Mary Sundberg, deciding that her statements in the recall petition were either “opinions” or were not knowingly false when made. Sundberg and others last year mounted an unsuccessful recall election against Lewis and two other commissioners after a major reorganization of the Ashland Senior Center and the firing of its longtime director, Chris Dodson, by the APRC
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-19
Solo hiker Karen deSousa will share photos, stories and tips from her 1,100-plus miles of section hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24 at the Ashland Outdoor Store. DeSousa’s always had the hiking bug. She was in a high school hiking club with big old boots she’d never wear now and has always loved the outdoor life. For a couple of years she took time out for life and work, marriage and kids and then deSousa discovered the Pacific Crest Trail and was back on tra
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-18
City Councilor Rich Rosenthal wrote a Tidings Council Corner article on Aug. 22 titled “The worst thing about the recall.” The worst thing about the article is that he got everything wrong! The group known as SOS (Support Our Seniors) ranged from 30 to over 200 people, who did not know each other but attended city meetings and eventually joined to gather signatures for the recall petitions. The public learned, without prior notice, that the Senior Center programs were to be shifted to the Grove,
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-20
Title IX was the first comprehensive civil rights federal law passed that prohibits gender discrimination in education. An Oregon representative, Edith Green, received the credit for introducing the first bill in Congress that eventually became Title IX. This federal statute was an enormous victory for women, eliminating separate admission criteria and quotas for women. Those of us attending school when the law was passed in 1972 remember this law as finally providing athletic opportunities for
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-19
The city of Ashland and homeless action groups are still working on permitting the empty Rogue Valley Church on East Main Street as a seven-day-a-week winter homeless shelter — so, in the meantime, they will go with Pioneer Hall four nights a week (Monday through Thursday) and the large annex of the Presbyterian Church three nights a week (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) during the five-month “shelter season” from November through April. The main players in the project are due to meet with Jackson
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-19
In another step toward de-fossilization of energy fuels, the city of Ashland has started a plan, the Empower EV Incentive, that will pay electric utility customers for the first year of their electric vehicle (EV) power — or for a workplace charger. “What we’re trying to do is incentivize any city electric customer to get an EV or get workplace chargers for their company fleet or vehicles of employees,” says Stuart Green, Ashland city climate and energy analyst. The program started Sept. 1 and c
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-18
Elect Bill Froehlich Bill Froehlich is the best choice for Jackson County sheriff. The current sheriff was appointed without a vote of the citizens after the departure of Corey Falls. Falls left this county halfway through his elected term. It’s appalling the appointed sheriff took an endorsement from Falls. Corey Falls ditched our community after taking campaign donations. Since then we’ve seen lack of tangible action and planning for two years. Bill truly understands strategies for planning, p
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-18
Marijuana growers intent on flouting Oregon’s legal recreational cannabis rules for higher profits are less likely to get away with it thanks to state and federal grants to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. That’s good news for Oregon, which is under federal pressure to stop the flow of black-market marijuana into other states, and for the majority of licensed growers doing things by the book while facing stiff competition. An existing $250,000, three-year federal grant pays for two sheriff’s
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-18
Jackson County commissioner candidate Amy Thuren will meet with residents from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Ashland Public Library, 410 Siskiyou Blvd., as part of “listening tour” of the county, which started in Central Point last Thursday. Thuren is currently executive director of The Valley School in Medford, and has been active in the community for more than 16 years, according an event announcement released by her campaign. For more, go to www.amythuren.com or www.facebook.com/El
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-05
Calling this summer’s wildfire and smoke “emotionally and financially devastating,” state Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, is organizing a Smoke and Fire Summit to help shape strategies for forest management, health impacts, economic remedies and climate change. The three-hour cram-course on smoke problems and possible responses is set to offer views of 15 local and statewide speakers from government agencies, universities, nonprofits and forestry, tourism and business interests, including legislator
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-04
ASHLAND — Kristi Mastrofini stared down the roaring gun barrel of the deadly Klamathon fire that was ready to burst through Oregon’s southern door. In just its second day, the 9,600-acre fire had killed one man in Northern California and swept through 40 structures. Now, shifting winds hurtled flames northward toward the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and the communities around it. If left unchecked, the fire could swallow rural homes, destroy key power lines, and surge through the Soda Moun
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-04
BOSTON — Two Labor Days into Trump’s presidency, what has happened to the working class? After Election Day 2016, we heard again and again about how Trump had thrilled those who labor and are heavily burdened, particularly those among them who are white. There was nonstop commentary on just how out of touch citizens in the big and prosperous metropolitan areas had become. At times, you might have imagined that Trump had been the Marxist candidate running against a creature of Wall Street named H
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-04
According to Professor Allan Lichtman, author of “The Case for Impeachment,” Trump’s “war on women is coming back to haunt him” (The Real News, July 28). But Lichtman does not mean the actual war against women and children now being waged in the greater Middle East and Africa; he refers to the vile president’s deeply misogynist attitudes and actions. If anti-Trump activists among Democrats are genuinely concerned about a real war against women and children, why not protest his military support o
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-04
It doesn’t have to be this way. Even if the climate is warming, we still don’t have to breathe smoke and watch our forests burn for months. Keep the faith, hire scientists, tighten zoning and building codes and build good backcountry roads. Above all, keep those fire crews on the job year-round, thinning and burning the understory so flames don’t climb high and “crown.” No one can put those fires out. That’s the view of Rich Fairbanks of the Applegate, a 32-year veteran with the U.S. Forest Serv
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-09-04
In an event called “Bring Back the Hippies to Ashland,” some two dozen homeless people and their supporters protested Friday evening on Ashland’s Plaza about the city’s camping ban and frequent ticketing for infractions such as smoking, trespassing, dog issues or, as one put it, “they’re targeting us for hanging out, for loitering, is what it comes down to.” The event was organized by 26-year resident Daniel Rueff, who said, “Peace and love was the best idea anyone ever had. This once was a frie