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Ashland inventor drives solar van, makes renewable energy products Brett Belan says he can get around a 50-mile average on one charge from his converted solar power VW van. [Mail Tribune/Jamie Lusch] Saturday Feb 18, 2017 at 2:00 AM Feb 18, 2017 at 9:36 AM By Julie Akins for the Mail Tribune ASHLAND — A rickshaw motoring down a busy, bumpy street in Mumbai and an old VW van taking the hairpin turns around the Oregon Coast have something in
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Lumber companies file lawsuit over monument expansion Pilot Rock is located in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, which was expanded by President Obama to protect its unique biological diversity. A lawsuit filed Friday challenges that expansion. Mail Tribune / file photo Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 7:27 PM Feb 18, 2017 at 9:37 AM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous Two lumber companies filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the legality of Presi
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ODFW expects to make competitive hatchery bid Jim Grieve, hatchery foreman at Cole Rivers Hatchery, works with Coquille River fall chinook. [Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch] Saturday Feb 18, 2017 at 2:00 AM Feb 18, 2017 at 12:03 PM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman One of Oregon's top fish managers says he's confident the state will not get squeezed out of managing Cole Rivers Hatchery but acknowledges "uncertainty" whether a private contract
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ODFW expects to make competitive hatchery bid Jim Grieve, hatchery foreman at Cole Rivers Hatchery, works with Coquille River fall chinook. [Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch] Saturday Feb 18, 2017 at 2:00 AM Feb 18, 2017 at 12:03 PM Mark Freeman Mail Tribune @MTwriterFreeman One of Oregon's top fish managers says he's confident the state will not get squeezed out of managing Cole Rivers Hatchery but acknowledges "uncertainty" whether a private contract
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Talent council sends diesel tax to voters Saturday Feb 18, 2017 at 12:01 AM Tony Boom for the Mail Tribune Voters will be asked whether they want to enact a tax of 3 cents per gallon on diesel fuel in the city after the City Council approved putting the measure on the May 16 ballot. Potential redevelopment of the former Talent Truck Stop along West Valley View Road and a need for money to repair roads led to the decision, city leaders said. “There’
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Other Views: Richardson is right about his office Saturday Feb 18, 2017 at 12:01 AM The Bend Bulletin Dennis Richardson, Oregon's secretary of state, wants the Legislature to make his office a nonpartisan one. There are good reasons for making the shift. The Secretary of State's Office is part of the executive branch of Oregon government. The state constitution requires it to act as record keeper for both the Legislature and executive branch, to act as the state's audito
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Since You Asked: Medford didn't have 100-degree February record Saturday Feb 18, 2017 at 12:01 AM During the first week of February, the weather chart showing record highs and lows had one day above 100 degrees. Was that a mistake? Can't imagine that could ever be in February. — Colleen, Trail   We were unable to find a 100-degree record temperature listing for the Medford area in our newspaper weather charts from Feb. 1 through Feb. 14. However, you piqued o
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Closing bell: Stocks inch to new records; S&P 500 up 4 straight weeks Trader Frank O'Connell works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 2:12 PM Feb 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM Stock indexes inched ahead to record highs Friday, barely, after a late-afternoon push erased losses from earlier in the day. The Associated Press NEW YORK — Stock indexes inched ahead to record
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Homeless, he helps himself, others by knitting 'Compassion Hats' Trinidad Flores, 40, makes a hat Wednesday at Medford's Alba Park. Flores started knitting the hats last year for homeless people and for babies. [Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch] Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 2:51 PM Feb 18, 2017 at 9:27 AM Buffy Pollock for the Mail Tribune While he began knitting three years ago as a way to combat depression and find a sense of purpose, Trinidad Flores took
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Southern Oregon Home Show is on tap this weekend October Grossnickle, 3, of Grants Pass tests out a hot tub Friday from Orley's Stove and Spa Center during the Southern Oregon Home Show at The Expo, which continues Saturday and Sunday. [Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch] Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 5:25 PM Feb 17, 2017 at 5:25 PM Greg Stiles Mail Tribune @GregMTBusiness Do you own a place where you love to hang out, but you don't see yourself building on the
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Freeway stop leads to money-laundering charges Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 4:46 PM Feb 17, 2017 at 4:55 PM Nick Morgan Mail Tribune @mtcrimebeat One man has been arraigned and another is being sought following a January traffic stop on Interstate 5 that led to the seizure of marijuana and $25,000 in cash by the Medford Area Drug and Gang Enforcement task force. Jairo Francisco Farias-Valdovinos, 21, and Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Ceja, 31, both reportedly f
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Lawmakers propose state control of public land Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 5:24 PM Feb 17, 2017 at 5:24 PM The Associated Press SALEM — More than half the land in Oregon is owned by the federal government, but Republican lawmakers there have raised the possibility of transferring it to state control. A bill sponsored by Grants Pass Republican Rep. Carl Wilson and three other lawmakers would create a task force to analyze the costs and benefits
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Florida pair face forgery, ID theft charges Yvonne Guzman, left, and Lisbeth Gallego Friday Feb 17, 2017 at 12:53 PM Feb 17, 2017 at 4:01 PM Nick Morgan Mail Tribune @mtcrimebeat Two Florida women allegedly caught cashing a forged, four-figure check at a Medford bank face felony identity theft charges after nearly a dozen more stolen checks were found in their car. Yvonne Guzman, 35, of Miami, and Lisbeth Gallego, 25, of Orlando, allegedly cashed
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Battle brewing over Oregon Health Plan Thursday Feb 2, 2017 at 2:43 PM Feb 2, 2017 at 2:43 PM Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune @VickieAldous A battle over health care is brewing in Oregon after the state's expansion of health insurance coverage blew a $1 billion hole in the state's budget. Democratic Gov. Kate Brown is proposing even more spending on health care, while Democratic leaders in the Legislature are saying cuts to the Oregon Health Plan and
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‘John Wick 2’ director Chad Stahelski talks about making the action real Monday Jan 30, 2017 at 8:43 AM Jan 30, 2017 at 8:43 AM Ed Symkus More Content Now Chad Stahelski and David Leitch have been pals since the days they both worked as stuntmen on “The Matrix” series. But being on those — and many other — sets, got them interested in directing. They started working toward that by landing gigs as second u
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New lawsuit alleges OnTrack counselor kicked and hit client Travis Cavalli, center, shown during a discussion at OnTrack's Dad's Program, is accused in a $2 million lawsuit of physically abusing a client. Mail Tribune / file photo Thursday Feb 2, 2017 at 4:58 PM Feb 2, 2017 at 6:04 PM Damian Mann Mail Tribune @reporterdm A $2 million lawsuit alleges a former OnTrack Inc. counselor, who was known as "The Nightmare" in mixed martial-arts circl
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Pot shops say testing rules are hurting extract sales Brie Malarkey of Breeze Botanicals in Ashland holds a marijuana extract that has recently come under stricter testing regulations for residual solvents and pesticides. Mail Tribune / Denise Baratta Wednesday Feb 1, 2017 at 7:24 PM Feb 1, 2017 at 7:24 PM Damian Mann Mail Tribune @reporterdm Local cannabis dispensaries have denounced strict new state testing standards for extracts that
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Religion News: Jewish centers target of bomb threats On Jan. 31, more than a dozen community centers in the U.S. and one in Canada were threatened with bomb attacks. (Photo by YAHWEH (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons) Thursday Feb 2, 2017 at 12:01 AM More Content Now WEEK IN RELIGION Jewish community centers around the United States received bomb threats for the third time In January last week. On Jan. 31, mo
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Court clears way for Costco in Central Point Thursday Feb 2, 2017 at 11:49 AM Feb 2, 2017 at 1:46 PM Greg Stiles Mail Tribune @GregMTBusiness It looks like the road is clear for Costco Wholesale to build a new store in Central Point. The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal of the Land Use Board of Appeal's decision to allow the city of Central Point to permit Costco to build a new store. The appellate court affirmed LUBA's September de
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Oregon immigrant rights' group files lawsuit against Trump ban Wednesday Feb 1, 2017 at 7:17 PM The Associated Press PORTLAND  — Immigrants rights' groups have filed a federal lawsuit in Portland seeking an injunction against President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. Unite Oregon filed the suit Wednesday, asking the court to prohibit the government from "unconstitutionally banishing" lawful immigrants or refugees who seek to return to their hom