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0 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? e-edition | subscribe | newsletter | deals Home News Latest Stories Talent woman recovering after alleged vicious assault by two men Medford police track down New Year's Eve car crash suspect Emergency services Public meetings for Jan. 5-9, 2014 Head first Crime, Courts and Emergency Services Talent woman recovering after alleged vicious assault by two men Medford police track down New Year's Eve car crash suspect Emergency services Emergency services Sheriff's deputies arrest two after pursuit on Table Rock Road Politics and Elections Councilman stirs online dust-up with anti-marijuana post State certifies recount showing failure of GMO-labeling measure Time running out for O&C funds GMO vote recount still shows little change Education Ashland schools to implement chickenpox precautions Traveling artist sets the stage for Ruch School amphitheater Ruch school class focuses on the natural environment Bethel Church helps families at McLoughlin Middle School Logos may offer students 'fifth year' at RCC or SOU Environment Monument expansion expected to increase tourism, protect resources Biologist resigns over LNG reporting failure Bird flu discovered in Winston backyard flock Jackson County holds back on enforcing GMO ban for now No fish, no funding for problem dams State News Seabird die-off puzzles scientists Oregon fans get married Rose Bowl parking lot Earthquake off coast shakes Humboldt County Stranded sea turtle recovers at Oregon aquarium Oregon minimum wage rises to $9.25 Nation - World Obama makes Maduro’s ‘insolent Yankees’ line harder to sell Obituaries Philip Richard Lind Howard S. 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Sports Latest Stories No. 10 Utah humiliates UCLA Romo, Cowboys rally past Lions in wild card Colts pull away from Bengals Getting defensive No more questions: TCU gave all the right answers Varsity 541 College Sports No. 10 Utah humiliates UCLA Getting defensive No more questions: TCU gave all the right answers Before leading Ducks, Young studied Mariota Big rally gives SOU men road triumph Pro Sports Romo, Cowboys rally past Lions in wild card Colts pull away from Bengals Kelly’s move was as quick as his offense Michigan’s Harbaugh attacking recruiting in dead period Kaepernick needs solid QB coach with new hire Community Sports Business Latest Stories Irrigation system upgrade gets a forum Ride & Drive: 2015 Honda Crosstour Positive Steps Rising prices bear fruit for local pear growers Dear Monty: Best start for 1st-time homebuyers Real Estate News Dear Monty: Best start for 1st-time homebuyers Rental owners group reports 2.48 percent vacancy rate People In Business Transportation Falling gas prices help spur travel at Medford airport Agriculture Rising prices bear fruit for local pear growers K-BAR ignites agriculture boom beneath Table Rocks Opinion Latest Our View: Waiting a little longer for the bus Letters to the Editor, Jan. 4 Eugene Robinson: Economic facts get in the way Guest Opinion: Get the best deal on pipeline Guest Opinion: Say yes to clean energy jobs, no to the LNG project Editorials Our View: Waiting a little longer for the bus Other Views: Oregon's GMO battle is far from over Our View: Meeting in the middle keeps a mill open Our View: Help clear the air for the new year Our View: Caves expansion worth the wait Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor, Jan. 4 Letters to the Editor. 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Ashland Ski Area about loan Columnist for a Day Rogue Healthy Aging Tempo Latest stories Live Music in Local Clubs Generation Jones plays Paddy Brannan's Pete Herzog and Dennis Walker play 2Hawk Winery Paul Turnipseed Trio at Belle Fiore Jefferson State Choral Coalition presents 'Reason for the Season' Theater Camelot's 'Fiddler' is a charmer ACT presents reading of 'The Quality of Life' Meet the real Jacob Marley This Nutcracker ballet will have a superhero twist Plumbing the depths of meaning Music Live Music in Local Clubs Generation Jones plays Paddy Brannan's Pete Herzog and Dennis Walker play 2Hawk Winery Paul Turnipseed Trio at Belle Fiore Jefferson State Choral Coalition presents 'Reason for the Season' Community Events New Schneider Museum exhibits highlight First Friday Celebrate winter solstice with the Bad Film Society Tomaseen Foley's "A Celtic Christmas" returns to the Craterian Theater Stefan Baumann and Eugene Bennett highlight Third Fridays Dancing People Company celebrates the solstice Dining Jackson Creek Pizza Co. is a good downtown haunt Dobra Tea menu offers hundreds of brews Food for Thought: Wintertime wining and dining Coffee shops roll out holiday-inspired drinks Over Easy serves 'pop-up' brunch Sundays Tempo Videos Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » Obituaries Blogs TV Listings Movie Listings Oregon Outdoors Oregon Healthy Living Magazines & Special Sections NEWS NOW Talent woman recovering after alleged vicious assault by two men ... Our View: Waiting a little longer for the bus ... Drought-plagued reservoirs need the white stuff to recover ... Talent woman recovering after alleged vicious assault by two men ... Our View: Waiting a little longer for the bus ... Drought-plagued reservoirs need the white stuff to recover ... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the Editor, Dec. 30 Comment MailTribune.com Writer Posted Dec. 30, 2014 @ 12:01 am Posted Dec. 30, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Social News Have cake, eat it too Jacksonville has enacted building codes that will ultimately create a high-density, high-population, pseudo-historic landscape for archaeologists to excavate in the future and find the original town. Building codes, chapters 18.11.20 and 17.36.040, are at the center of the debate of whether Jacksonville preserves historic integrity or, as the city wishes, continues with these building codes, collecting new fees and taxes and allowing developers, investors and Realtors to capitalize. After high-density development, we will move to expand our urban boundaries. The only obstacles to the city's success with this are the "Historic Charter" and HARC committee, which reviews new construction for compliance with the charter. Unless these are eliminated, the City Council will continue to be placed in an embarrassed, compromised and contradictory position. Obviously our goal is development, and history has no place here. Our leaders tell us that the majority of the people demand development; that plentiful water and a solid infrastructure can easily handle urban sprawl. I propose that we remove this albatross around our necks, namely, the National Historic Landmark of Jacksonville. Then, we can truly have our cake and eat it too. Steven A.Gardner, Jacksonville Ashland Kiwanis says thanks Ashland Kiwanis placed its Christmas giving trees at the Ashland Bi-Mart store and at the Ashland Tennis and Fitness Club again this year. Trees were decorated with the names of children recommended by South Valley Community Human Services in Ashland. Additional gifts that were needed to complete the gift-giving were shopped for by AHS Key Club members, and purchased by Kiwanis. All gifts were wrapped by Kiwanis members, “friends of Kiwanis” and AHS Key Clubbers, and delivered before Christmas.. Kiwanis sends a big thank you to the Ashland community for taking the name tags and buying the special gifts requested by these children. Your generosity helped make Christmas for these kids a little brighter this year. To learn more about Kiwanis, call (541)488-0532 or visit our website at ashlandkiwanis.org. Ron Parker, Ashland Kiwanis Club Training needed We went out to check our mailbox on Christmas Eve and there was our 2014 tax booklet. The Oregon Department of Revenue played its part in the Christmas story from Luke Chapter 2 with perfect timing: "For in those days there went out a decree into the land, that all the people should be taxed." Someone in Salem needs to have some sensitivity training. Oscar Zuniga, Medford 'Interview' not worth watching My wife and I started watching “The Interview” on YouTube last night. Sadly, we agree with North Korea, the movie should not have been released — to anyone. It was soooo bad that, had we been paying customers in a movie theater, we would have walked out after 15 minutes. Indeed, we almost walked out of our house! Too bad this sophomoric attempt to make murder humorous could not have distracted us from our international realities: the complete waste of thousands of U.S. soldiers in our current and preceding “wars” du jour (from Vietnam to the Middle East), the loss of trillions of war dollars from our country’s treasury to engorge the wallets of our corporate war profiteers, the deaths of and “collateral damage” to hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings at our hands, the diverting and irreplaceable loss of funds necessary to salvage our country’s collapsing infrastructure, and the embracing by the majority of our citizens (51 percent according the a recent Pew survey) of torture. Given the unparalleled successes of our torture and weapons of mass destruction, perhaps sequels to “The Interview” would also be appropriate until they, too, get things right. 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