Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
EUGENE — Before signing a five-year, $17.5 million contract extension, Oregon football coach Mark Helfrich said one of the topics of conversation on the recruiting trail has been the full cost of attendance for future Ducks. The Power 5 conferences, including the Pac-12, passed legislation at the NCAA convention last month which included a full cost-of-attendance measure. As a result, beginning Aug. 1, schools may opt to give scholarship athletes an additional stipend to cover cost-of-liv
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
The city of Talent is looking to take over a joint project to create a bike and walking path between Creel Road and the Bear Creek Greenway from the Oregon Department of Transportation to keep the price down. ODOT and the city are working on an intergovernmental agreement that would transfer up to $618,000 to the city. The city and partners had applied through ODOT for grant money in 2017, with the agency to handle construction. The project was originally budgeted at $500,000, with matches of $4
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
PHOENIX (AP) — A woman said to have been in a vegetative state for at least a decade at a private health care facility in Phoenix reportedly gave birth recently, triggering a police investigation and reviews by state agencies in a situation that the state governor's office called "deeply troubling.'" Azfamily.com, a news website for television stations KPHO and KTVK, first reported late Thursday that, according to sources not identified by the website, a woman gave birth Dec. 29 living at
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
Kiran Oommen stood before 60 members of the Medford Congregational United Church of Christ on Sunday and was asked by one of the children if he’s famous because he’s part of a lawsuit against the federal government over climate change. “Lots of people know our names,” responded the 22-year-old senior at Seattle University and former Eugene resident. “I am not any more important than anybody else.” Almost by accident, Oommen has become one of the “faces&r
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-14
Pacific Gas and Electric said it plans to file for bankruptcy protection amid potentially massive liabilities resulting from the deadly California wildfires. The announcement Monday follows the resignation of the power company’s chief executive Geisha Williams a day earlier. John Simon, the company’ general counsel since 2017, will serve as interim chief executive. Officials are investigating whether the utility’s equipment sparked a wildfire in Northern California in November
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-09
WOODBURN — Early on the Friday before Christmas, Zack sat in the passenger seat as he rode across the frozen grounds of MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. He had been sent to the juvenile equivalent of isolation following an outburst on his living unit. On his way, though, the 18-year-old encountered a staffer who instead took him to a less confining spot on campus to work through the trouble. He ended up in a quiet room with a counselor who probed what triggered the scene. This is STEP
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-09
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the partial government shutdown (all times local): 3:45 p.m. Top Democrats say President Donald Trump walked out of a meeting with congressional leaders as talks to end the partial government shutdown remain at an impasse. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Trump asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Wednesday's White House meeting whether she would agree to fund his wall. When she said "no," Schumer says, Trump got up and s
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-09
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall Tuesday night in a somber televised address that was heavy with dark immigration rhetoric but offered little in the way of concessions or new ideas to break the standoff that has left large swaths of the government shuttered for 18 days. Speaking to the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, Trump argued the wall was needed to resolve a security and humanitarian "crisis," b
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-09
PHOENIX (AP) — Police served a search warrant Tuesday to get DNA from all male employees at a long-term care facility in Phoenix where a patient who had been in a vegetative state for years gave birth , triggering reviews by state agencies and putting a spotlight on safety concerns for patients who are severely disabled or incapacitated. Hacienda HealthCare said it welcomed the DNA testing of employees. "We will continue to cooperate with Phoenix Police and all other investigative agencies
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-09
With his crisp beige Stetson and new white-patterned ranch shirt, Shawn Jones stood out as an atypical — yet relevant — voice in the debate surrounding a proposed gas pipeline through Southern Oregon. Jones, representing C2 Cattle Company, testified Tuesday evening to the Oregon Department of State Lands that the proposed Jordan Cove pipeline would be installed beneath four miles of the company’s property in the Upper Rogue — including meadows, pastures and under drains.
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-09
Wildfire smoke, rising interest rates and growing consumer uncertainty caused a real estate slowdown in the second half of 2018 and could continue to affect the market in 2019, according to the Rogue Valley Association of Realtors. “It really was a year of two halves,” said Colin Mullane, a Realtor in Ashland and spokesman for the association. The first half of 2018 featured a robust market that favored sellers. The market is balancing out, he said. “We’re seeing it swing
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-10
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to withhold money to help California cope with wildfires a day after new Gov. Gavin Newsom asked him to double the federal investment in forest management. Trump once again suggested poor forest management is to blame for California's deadly wildfires and said he's ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop giving the state money "unless they get their act together." FEMA could not immediately comment because of the
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-10
A Wednesday morning fire damaged a double-wide mobile home in Central Point, but no one was hurt, as the structure was reportedly vacant. Officials received a 911 call at 5:09 a.m. about a fire in the 3900 block of Tamarack Road, according to dispatch records. Jackson County Fire District No. 3 and Medford Fire-Rescue responded with two engines from each agency and knocked the blaze down within about 15 minutes of arriving, according to Fire District 3 spokeswoman Ashley Blakely. The vacant buil
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-26
Schneider Museum of Art: Schneider’s Winter Exhibitions, curated by Blake Shell, executive director of Disjecta Contemporary Art Center of Portland, will run through March 16 at the Schneider Museum of Art, corner of Siskiyou Boulevard and Indiana streets, at Southern Oregon University in Ashland. A group exhibit, “From Ignorance to Wisdom,” in collaboration with the SOU Arts and Humanities Council Campus Them, features work by art faculty Robert Arellano, David Bithell, Cody B
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-24
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar voters on Tuesday showered Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” with a leading 10 nominations to the 91st Academy Awards, while two dominant but contentious Hollywood forces — Netflix and Marvel — each scored their first best picture nomination. Though many expected “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper’s tear-inducing revival of one of Hollywood’s most oft-remade show-business
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-24
Emily Dendinger knows that her new play, “#GodHatesYou,” will ask more questions than it answers. And, that’s alright, she says. She would rather audiences script their own answers. Her goal is to create conversation about spirituality, personal moral values and the ethics of the world. “#GodHatesYou” follows the transformation of Laurel, a young woman at the center of a church that is vicious in its attempts to save sinners. When she begins posting the church&rsquo
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-24
Thanks to a Jackson County Library Services outreach program, 90-plus homebound patrons can travel the world or soar to far-off galaxies with help from a good book. The stories are time capsules with tales of days gone by, daily doses of inspiration, or a peek into global espionage. For some, it’s an opportunity to be taken places they’ve never been before. Sheila Fortman-Craun, an outreach coordinator with Jackson County Library Services, makes sure that readers are never without a
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-24
Jackson County rancher Ted Birdseye is hoping an inflatable dancing tube man of used-car-lot fame will accomplish what nothing has so far -- keeping OR-7's Rogue Pack of gray wolves from killing his livestock. Birdseye installed the inflatable contraption in his pasture Saturday after the Rogue Pack killed another calf in that field, where Birdseye has lost five cows and one dog to the pack since late September. "He’s all lit up and dancing around in the field," Birdseye said Monday. "He&r
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-24
Providence Health Services, one of the two major medical providers in the Rogue Valley, has embarked on a major overhaul of how it tracks its patients and performance. Providence, which operates 32 hospitals and employs 2,300 physicians in five Western states, is implementing a $750 million electronic health records system called Epic, along with new software and a database. The cost of health care is rising as much as four times faster than inflation, Richard Gibson, chief health care intellige
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2019-01-24
In Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming,” she writes about her mother in heart-filled and revealing ways. At one point she relates, “It’s because of my mother that still to this day, I catch the scent of Pine-Sol and immediately feel better about life.” The aroma that affects me in unexpectedly positive ways is vanilla. Not necessarily the scent that goes with a long-burning candle, but the smell that wafts up when you’re making chocolate chip cookies and you