Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-26
Police say Jussie Smollett faked a hate crime for his own gain. As Larry Mendte points out, way too many major news outlets coddled the story without asking any hard questions. Just the latest real example of what Larry has been saying all along: Major network and cable news organizations have let their standards slip. News too often is clouded by bias and the opinions and the public continues to be skeptical. Larry Mendte is a television, radio, online and print anchor and reporter and a multip
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The segregation-era road-trip drama "Green Book" was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Hollywood's top award to a film seen as a feel-good throwback by some and ridiculed as an outdated inversion of "Driving Miss Daisy" by others. In a year where Hollywood could have made history by bestowing best-picture on Netflix ("Roma") or Marvel ("Black Panther") for the first time, the motion picture academy instead threw its fullest support behind
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
A new report says health care costs could be reduced by investing in nutrition, exercise, housing and education programs, and making it more expensive to smoke and drink. The Washington, D.C.-based Trust for America’s Health examined 1,500 programs and then recommended the most effective strategies states could adopt to save money and prevent illness. In 1960, health care spending in America accounted for 5 percent of gross domestic product. But that figure climbed to 18 percent of GDP in
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
A new report says health care costs could be reduced by investing in nutrition, exercise, housing and education programs, and making it more expensive to smoke and drink. The Washington, D.C.-based Trust for America’s Health examined 1,500 programs and then recommended the most effective strategies states could adopt to save money and prevent illness. In 1960, health care spending in America accounted for 5 percent of gross domestic product. But that figure climbed to 18 percent of GDP in
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Weekend storms raked parts of the Southeast, leaving deaths and injuries in their wake as a tornado smashed into a commercial district in a small Mississippi city and drenching rains fed a rising flood threat. A woman was killed when a tornado hit Columbus, Mississippi, and a man died when he drove into floodwaters in Tennessee, officials said. Columbus Mayor Robert Smith Sr. said 41-year-old Ashley Glynell Pounds of Tupelo and her husband were renovating a house Sat
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
“Spring hereabouts continues to be just around the corner of a snow flurry.” No one would ever say that Arthur Gordon Perry didn’t have a sense of humor. For nearly 36 years, Mail Tribune readers snickered and giggled their way though his column, “Ye Smudge Pot.” There, Arthur aimed his well-worn typewriter keys at everyone in sight, from the hotel shoeshine boy, to the valley “big wigs,” and even national personalities and politicians. It was good-natur
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Democrat threatened on Sunday to call special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and sue the Trump administration if the full report on Mueller's Russia investigation is not made public. Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said his committee will keep close watch on new Attorney General William Barr to see if he were "to try to bury any part of this report." Schiff, D-Calif., also pledged to "take it to court
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
A snowstorm ripping through Douglas and Coos counties has caused multiple highway closures due to landslides, downed power lines and toppled trees. Interstate 5 is closed both ways between Glendale and Cottage Grove — nearly 100 miles of freeway. Oregon Highway 42 is closed between Coquille and Bandon due to a landslide. Heavy snow that caused trees and power lines to fall into the roadway has closed Oregon Highway 138 west between Sutherlin and Elkton, and east between mileposts 17 and 60
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
Editor’s Note: Community Builder is a periodic Q & A series providing perspectives from local people who have been involved in significant change in Southern Oregon. Today’s conversation is with Debra Lee, executive director of the Center for Nonprofit Legal Services. Q: The Center for Nonprofit Legal Services has been in Southern Oregon since 1972. How does someone qualify for legal services? Debra Lee: To be eligible applicants need to live in Jackson County. They must be low incom
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
Monday: Library Story Time: Story times for babies, toddlers and children are available Mondays through Fridays at branches of Jackson County libraries. See jcls.org. Ashland Seniors Activities: A variety of activities and services are available to adults 50 and older Mondays through Fridays at the Ashland Senior Center, 1699 Homes Ave. See ashlandseniorcenter.org or call 541-488-5342 for full listings. Color Mondays: Coloring sessions for adults will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays at the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Don Metheny began preparing for the Cascadia earthquake seven years ago when he moved to Florence, the Lane County coastal town facing the double danger of a powerful quake and a devastating tsunami. He moved to Eugene a year later, but he hasn't stopped preparing for the earthquake that could wreak havoc on the southern Willamette Valley. A retired engineer and member of the Southeast Neighbors neighborhood association in Eugene, Metheny already has "go-bags" packed fo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
Through the economic ups and downs and twists and turns of succession, Metal Masters has endured and prospered for half a century. The original metal masters — Ed Shipley, Loren Severson and Dick Shorb — pooled their expertise and resources to found a heating, ventilation and air conditioning firm in 1968, a period of economic expansion and national travail. Fifty years later, against a similar backdrop, Metal Masters has grown to a regional HVAC player, handling thousands of commerc
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
Every so often, you come across someone or a group of someones who, when faced with deciding how to act in a particularly difficult situation, says the following: “Don’t just sit there ... do something. ANYTHING!” (Yes, these folks always speak in capital letters.) Lately, it seems that this group of someones has converged in Salem and piled out of an Uber the size of one of those cars that brings the clown act into the center ring of the circus. (I know it sounds like it shoul
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
Should there be an amendment to the Constitution to forbid voting rights discrimination on the basis of age? Should the legal age be lowered to age 16? The argument that youth are vulnerable to adult influence, coersion and mistreatment by adults to make us unable to vote independently was the same argument used to keep minorities and women from voting until the late 20th century. Recent actions by this administration, legislators, the president and our recent Supreme Court judge, demonstrate ou
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
Climbing Britt hill in Jacksonville, home of the music festival of the same name, serves as a sort of time machine passage for me. It’s been a few years since I spread a blanket on the lawn overlooking the stage and lugged a cooler full of supper, a prelude to joy. To kick off my sandals, stretch out and wait sweetly for the engaging notes to carry me back — then lie back and look up through towering pines as the air cools, the sun sets and turns the trees to silhouettes against an i
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
Three babies born at Mauthausen Concentration Camp in the final days of World War II are the Holocaust’s youngest survivors. Today, they are 70. Older survivors — those who remember — are dwindling in number. On Tuesday, one of those survivors, who became a spy for France working against the Nazis, will speak at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. She will turn 99 in March. One day, there will be no one left to describe what happened. That’s why it is essential to cont
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-25
A Saturday night carjacking at a Roseburg Red Robin turned into a police pursuit that extended into a neighboring county and left a man seriously injured from gunshot wounds. An occupied child’s car seat, commercial vehicle and an Oregon State Police patrol car were also struck by bullets during the pursuit. Police originally responded to the carjacking at 5:30 p.m., according to an OSP news release. Police arrived on scene and learned that a suspect had fled in another vehicle. Another su
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-23
Barnstormers Theatre : 112 Evelyn Ave., Grants Pass. See barnstormersgp.org or call 541-479-3557 for tickets. Group discounts are available. ‘Marvin’s Room’: Bessie is facing continuous challenges as the caregiver for a pain-ridden aunt and an ailing father, Marvin. Bessie decides she needs help, so she embarks on a humorous and courageous exploration of family. Her journey becomes heroic and one that celebrates a family’s commitment to love. Performances are set for 7:30
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-23
Barnstormers Theatre : 112 Evelyn Ave., Grants Pass. See barnstormersgp.org or call 541-479-3557 for tickets. Group discounts are available. ‘Marvin’s Room’: Bessie is facing continuous challenges as the caregiver for a pain-ridden aunt and an ailing father, Marvin. Bessie decides she needs help, so she embarks on a humorous and courageous exploration of family. Her journey becomes heroic and one that celebrates a family’s commitment to love. Performances are set for 7:30
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-02-24
Marthe Cohn’s perilous account of sneaking behind enemy lines in World War II while concealing her identity as an Orthodox Jew seems ripped from the pages of a spy novel. Now 98, Cohn had the chutzpah to mingle with German troops to gather the intelligence the Allies needed to stage bombing runs and change the course of the war. “When your life is at stake, you do everything you need to do to survive,” said Cohn, who lives in Palos Verde, California, and wrote about her experie