Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-03-06
Rhode Island bill would impose fee for accessing porn online Monday Mar 5, 2018 at 10:45 AM Money collected through the fee would go to the Council on Human Trafficking. By Jacqueline TemperaGatehouse Media Rhode Island PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island residents will have to pay a $20 fee to access sexually explicit content online if a recently introduced bill passes the General Assembly this session. A bill introduced by Sen. Frank Ciccone, D-Providence, and Sen. H
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-03-07
Memorial service plans announced Malcus Williams Tuesday Mar 6, 2018 at 5:16 PM Mar 6, 2018 at 5:16 PM Local report A memorial service for Malcus Williams, an longtime Ashland Police Officer who died of a “major medical event” Friday while on duty, is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, March 17, in the Ashland High School Gymnasium at 201 South Mountain Ave. in Ashland. Williams, who was in his early 50s, was a 21-year veteran of the police
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-14
It’s a sumptuous, magical home of 8,800 square feet with lots of marble and blue-grey stucco, a stunning spiral staircase, many wood carvings on Native American themes, pervasive shapes from nature and virtually no straight lines — and it recently went on the market for $8.2 million, making it one of, if not the, most expensive homes in the Rogue Valley ever. It’s on 700 acres, above Payne Cliff, across the freeway from Ashland, and is the creation of Genesis and Sulara, pre
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-14
Ashland Independent Film Festival’s director Richard Herskowitz believes that filmmakers’ exposure to classic films inspires them to question and reinvent filmmaking conventions, he says in a press release. The emphasis on classic film is highlighted in this year’s AIFF poster, based on images from the animated films of Colorado artist and filmmaker Stacey Steers. Steers’ trilogy of animated films features collages of silent film actresses. Her 19-minute film “
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-09
We all generate clothes and shoes that we have outgrown, worn out or grown tired of (which is a luxury in most parts of the world). It’s what we do with them at this juncture that determines whether we will create unnecessary waste. The quote: “use it up, wear it out, pass it on, or do without” is very apropos for clothes and shoes and one of the easier “reduce and re-use” choices. Just for your reference, clothing and other fabric may be referred to as textile
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-10
In "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World," author A.J. Jacobs recounts his experience in tackling his intellectual Mount Everest — reading all 33,000 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He takes on the challenge for a variety of reasons. Beating his lawyer father, who attempted the same feat but stopped in the mid-Bs. Outsmarting his brainiac brother-in-law. Most importantly, filling in his knowledge gaps and trying to stuff some of the fact
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-09
When Michael Arciniega was a child, his mother caught him drawing all over the walls of their home. "But she didn't get mad, she always encouraged me," says the 44-year-old Arciniega, whose latest creation — a 3-D mural of rock icons on the walls of Martolli's Hand-Tossed Pizza at 38 E. Main St. — will be officially unveiled Aug. 2 during Ashland's First Friday art walk. The mural features Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-09
Owners of passive solar, off-grid home in Ashland share their secrets — Story and photos by Melissa Schweisguth Passive Solar During the weekend’s triple-digit heat, Risa Buck and Pam Lott’s house was cool and comfortable with only a 12-volt ceiling fan and no air conditioning. This almost energy-free cooling is possible through the home’s passive solar design, which uses simple building features to put the sun to work most effectively. Most windows are located on the hom
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-09
A Community Emergency Response Team will re-emerge in the Talent area after a two-and-a-half-year absence. A previous Bear Creek CERT disbanded in August 2013. Ashland Fire & Rescue will support the new team in coordination with Jackson County Fire District 5, said District 5 Chief Darin Welburn. “They will join Ashland CERT under the city umbrella,” said Ashland team coordinator Terri Eubanks. “Hopefully, it will morph into them someday being able to tear off and
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-10
Anti-abortion activists protested in front of Ashland's Planned Parenthood clinic Tuesday afternoon, decrying the use of an abortion pill that's been available at the clinic since March. Mifepristone, formerly known as RU-486, became available at Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon's Ashland and Eugene clinics in early March, said Cynthia Pappas, executive director. In the first three months of the drug's availability in Ashland and Eugene, 109 women received it, she said. "It's very sad.
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-10
By Bill Choy and Steve Zimmerman — — Tragedy struck an Ashland family this weekend, leaving — middle school students and staff coping with grief today. — Tracy Dewey, a 7th grade student at Ashland Middle School, — died over the weekend in a fall at Fort Rock Park in Central Oregon, middle — school principal Dale Rooklyn announced in an e-mail today. — Rooklyn said Dewey, 13, was with her father and another — student when she fell. — A counse
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-10
The city of Ashland will host a reception next week so the public can meet finalists for the position of city administrator. The gathering is set for 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, in the Siskiyou Room and the lobby of the Community Development & Public Works Administration Building at 51 Winburn Way. At Mayor John Stromberg’s recommendation, city Administrator Dave Kanner was discharged in November 2016. Ashland Fire & Rescue Chief John Karns served as acting administrator from December 2016 thro
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
An Imperfect Truth Mr. Gore’s movie on Global Warming implies a scientific unanimity that does not exist, as one can see at <http:www.envirotruth.org/myth_experts.cfm>, which also provides links to evidence against “certainties” such as melting ice caps and rising seas. Mr. Gore asserts that we are experiencing the “warmest decade in a millennium.” But, the well-documented “Medieval Warm Period” (1000-1400) was warmer than anything we are experienc
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
‘Watch list’ animosity The APD “watch list” may be good policing, within certain restraints, but when it is used as a community tool to frighten, intimidate and humiliate it needs to be controlled and explained. How do you get on the “list”? By being a law-breaker? Being in need of some personal hygiene and grooming? Beinga young male'Surly? Smart-mouthed? Or maybe mentally ill? The “list” contains at least one person who is mentally ill and is not
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
Cockburn column biased, hateful I think thatAlexander Cockburn’s column (June 28) condemning Israel was the most biased, one sided and hateful condemnation of Israel I’ve ever read in the western press. Cockburn’s obsession with andhate of Israelare surpassed, in my opinion, only by the Arab press. Cockburn isn’t bothered by the Chinese occupation of Tibet, or the threat by Iran to wipe Israel off the map, or political oppression throughout the Arab world, or persecution
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
Something worse than a giant flag Jason Spevak argues that Ashlanders should boycott Premier West Bank because of their enormous flag (“At Length,” 6/13). Regardless of how you feel about the flag, there’s another reason to take your business elsewhere. Premier West supports animal abuse in the form of rodeos. They’re brutal, but on televised rodeos, the cameras usually cut away at the worst parts. One study found that in over half the rodeos surveyed, the animals had inj
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
Why assault weapons? Can someone, anyone, explain to me why assault weapons are readily available to the general public? I don't seem to get it. What is it again that these weapons are designed for? John Kloetzel Ashland Part of the problem With the Paris climate summit focusing the world’s attention on controlling carbon emissions, it is a particularly appropriate time to point out to Ashlanders a sobering and unfortunate fact. We contribute disproportionately to carbon emissions. This i
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
The Future of Employment The most recent Bureau of Labor statistics tell us that a mere 75,000 jobs were created by the so-called “Bush Boom” in the last reported month (March) of this year. This number is far below the number of potential workers who naturally enter the labor force and nowhere near the number of new jobs required monthly to begin replacing all of the American jobs lost since 2001. But, wait, there is more. In China, 4.13 million university and college graduates will
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
Thanks to community The Ashland Police Department and Ashland Fire and Rescue would like to give thanks to the entire Ashland community for a job well done over the weekend. There is an ever-increasing risk of fire due to the heat and dry conditions present in our area. Prior to the weekend APD and AFR asked all members of the community to be extra diligent in helping guard against fires resulting from the use of illegal fireworks. There were no fires reported to have started from fireworks this
Ashland Daily Tidings (Ashland, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-06-05
Definition of 'ecocide' John Anastasio described “ecocide” in his guest opinion column of July 8. My letter provides a definition of the term and introduces the Earth’s Lawyer. The term was first recorded in 1970 at the Conference on War and National Responsibility in Washington, where a new international agreement to ban ecocide was put forward. The legal definition of ecocide proposed, to the United Nations in 2010 by UK lawyer Polly Higgins, was: "The extensive damage to,