Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-08
The parents of a mentally ill man shot to death Sept. 19 by Eagle Point police inside a Carl’s Jr. bathroom have filed a wrongful death suit against the city alleging that Officer Daniel Cardenas and the city are culpable in the death of 33-year-old Matthew Thayer Graves. The lawsuit filed by Michael and Vicki Graves alleges that Eagle Point was negligent in its choice of stun gun color — black, the same as an officer’s gun — and inadequate training of officers, and that
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
Ashland’s kids took part in the town’s first decades-long economic boom, which started in 1888. Why the kids? How the kids? Think railroad. Think train passengers. I will tell you the stories of just a few of our entrepreneurial, pint-sized early 20th-century citizens. The stories start with the first passenger train from San Francisco to Portland on Dec. 18, 1887. Between 1888 and 1927, up to four passenger trains a day stopped at the Ashland Depot. Most of the passengers arrived hu
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
The Grizzlies dug themselves an early hole that they were never able to get out of. Roseburg’s senior-laden squad scored nine straight points to open things up and never looked back, leading start to finish in a 77-53 win over Ashland at Mountain Avenue Gymnasium on Tuesday night. “That team is full of seniors and they’re playing really sharp early in the season,” Ashland head coach Sam Osofsky said. “We didn’t execute some of our major points early and it bec
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
Stop feeding the mouse. Shop locally and build your own community instead of somebody else’s. That pretty much sums up the case made by members of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce Retail Task Force in support of doing business with local merchants instead of shopping online. Money spent locally recirculates in the community, and local taxes support local institutions, they argue. “All our local businesses — employers and employees — give back to the community,” said
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-07
At 6-foot-6, 305 pounds and with a wing span that seems to go on forever, Josiah Maglente-Tonu is hard to miss. This weekend, the Raiders’ all-conference right tackle is hoping it’s his play — and measurables — that get him noticed. While the Southern Oregon University football team hasn’t played a game in nearly a month, Maglente-Tonu is set to take the field one more time before the calendar year comes to an end. The senior offensive lineman from Hawaii has been s
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-08
Under every President since the end of World War II, the CIA and its corporate beneficiaries have meddled unscrupulously in the affairs of Second and Third World nations. George H. W. Bush, however, was the only president who was personally engaged. And his engagement didn’t begin when Gerald Ford appointed him to head the CIA, although at the time Bush claimed that he had had no prior connection with the agency. He almost certainly was recruited no later than when he was an undergraduate
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-08
BEND — An Oregon proposal to expand alternative treatments for certain chronic pain conditions while limiting the use of opioids has moved forward with minimal changes, despite outcries from chronic pain patients and criticism from pain experts across the country. The Bulletin reports that the state's Chronic Pain Task Force, an ad hoc committee providing recommendations on treatments for chronic pain under Oregon's Medicaid program, backed a proposal Wednesday to provide coverage for five
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-08
The 17th annual Abundance Swap is set for 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak St. in Ashland. Doors open at 1 p.m. for set up. The Abundance Swap has become a holiday tradition since it came out of Thanksgiving week discussion on JPR’s Jefferson Exchange in 2002. To counter the frantic consumerism of Black Friday’s shopping stampedes, host Jeff Golden looked for an alternative that would preserve the gifting aspect of the holidays. Two weeks later t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-05
A local church has grown exponentially since its inception in Lithia Park last summer. The group is challenging the connotations associated with the word “church,” Lead Pastor Xavier Brasseur said, partly by its name: The Story. In a minimalistic office with views of the Railroad Ristrict and Grizzly Peak, Brasseur pulled up a chair. “You want me to tell you the story of The Story?” he asked. The 30-year-old says it started as a group of about 20 people congregating near
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-05
“The big fish eat the little fish.” My grandfather’s words ring truer today than when he spoke them in 1956. The metaphor, meant as instruction, was the final sentence in the final chapter of our lives as dairy farmers, ending our independent struggle for market share against the dominant dairy producers. The phrase haunts me every time I see a big fish make a big splash in the news, for example, Jeff Bezos’ recent selection of Long Island, New York and Crystal City, Virg
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-05
There are many more resources here locally than you’re probably aware of, and you might need to access them at some point. In the last column I introduced a variety of these. Once more, we enter the realm of vital services for aging adults. All these are offered and managed by Senior and Disability Services (SDS) through the Rogue Valley Council of Governments (RVCOG; rvcog.org ). Let’s start with the housing topic. As you can imagine, most people want to age in their current homes f
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-05
I have a goal each day when I sit down at my drawing table. “How can I bring a smile or, better yet, some laughter to the folks who are faithful newspaper comics readers?” I have had the goal for as long as I have been drawing my daily cartoon. With so much bad news, I think it’s a pretty worthy goal. So imagine my surprise when I received an email from a Daily Tidings reader accusing me — and this is putting it very mildly — of promoting misogyny and domestic viole
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-05
Walking while black I read with dismay Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara’s apology for the arrest of an innocent young man. While the apology was in order, the arrest was not. The man, walking near a store that had reported a disturbance, vaguely fit the description of the suspect — an African American male in a sweatshirt. He spent the night in jail. Only after his father called the police department the next morning did the police review the surveillance video and see that t
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-05
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. PROSECUTORS RECOMMEND NO JAIL TIME FOR FLYNN Citing “substantial” cooperation by Michael Flynn in its Russia investigation, the special counsel recommends no jail time for Trump’s former national security adviser. 2. A NATION BIDS FARWELL TO BUSH A funeral service in Washington for the 41st president draws together world envoys, Americans of high office and a handyman from
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-06
In times of war, the same themes seem to recur. In the fall of 1968, hundreds of Southern Oregon residents wanted to show their support for the American troops overseas in Vietnam. They did so by sending them what they hoped was the world’s longest Christmas card. The Eagle Point Boosters Club came up with the idea. A large roll of white paper served as a long card that was unrolled and slowly filled with messages of goodwill. As it traveled to Medford, Grants Pass, Ashland and Central Poi
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-06
In the end, he lost only 10 hours of freedom. It could have been worse. A 20-year-old Ashland man wrongly arrested for creating a disturbance in a Siskiyou Boulevard store spent 10 hours behind bars before a call from his father prompted officers to perform “basic follow-up police work,” in the words of Chief Tighe O’Meara. A check of the store’s surveillance video clearly showed the perpetrator was not the man they had arrested. The only description police had of the per
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-05
Dog owners who showed up before the Parks Commission last week to argue for keeping the Ashland Ponds a dog-friendly area made a strong case, and commissioners appeared to recognize that. We’re on the side of the dog-walkers on this one. For now, the suggestion to ban dogs in favor of a designated wildlife refuge is off the table until after a 24-inch pipe is installed to carry outfall from the sewage treatment plant. That’s the only rational decision, given that everyone agrees the
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-19
About 85 members of the Rogue Valley Mountain Bike Association (RVMBA) packed into a classroom at The Grove spilled out into the hallway as they turned out in force to make the case for a bike park to Ashland Parks and Recreation commissioners. About a third of those in attendance were kids. They want a bike skills park in Ashland, according to RVMBA board member Casey Botts. Although that topic wasn’t on the Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission meeting agenda for Dec. 10, the group spo
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-17
MEDFORD — The Grizzlies made their final tune-up before Midwestern League play begins quite the thriller. KJ Pippa scored what proved to be the go-ahead basket and Nate Desmond split a pair of free throws to put his team up two as the Ashland High boys basketball team held on to beat South Medford 61-59 in overtime on Tuesday night. “One of our assistant coaches said in the huddle (before overtime) to go get 10 points and win this thing — and we got 10 points,” Ashland he
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-12-17
Time magazine has chosen “The Guardians” as its Person of the Year for 2018, spotlighting a handful of journalists around the world linked by the fact that their work has been targeted not because it’s “fake news,” as it has been characterized by authoritarian leaders, but because it is dedicated to reporting the truth. Consider the context: In 2017, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 46 journalists were killed doing their jobs. In the first nine mon