Louise D. Shawkat: “Jeff Golden’s work with both conservationists and the timber industry as Natural Resources Committee Chair passed the Private Forest Accord and created the Elliott State Research Forest. In addition, Senate Bill 762, which will provide more than $220 million to help improve wildfire preparedness, was passed with bipartisan support.”
Chris Honoré: “Followers of Q believe that they, with the support of a second-term Trump presidency, will conduct mass arrests and execute thousands of cabal members (politicians, Hollywood actors, high-ranking government officials who are named) on a day called ‘the Storm.’”
Sally McKirgan: “It was ‘I’ who had judged these people so many years ago. Before I left, I decided it was time to drop all former judgments. I should call them misjudgments or missed judgments. We cannot really judge, because we don’t really know.”
KS Wild Side: “States and local municipalities need to start addressing issues facing home and business owners in the Wildland-Urban Interface by imposing tighter restrictions on future development to ensure greater protections for communities against wildfire when it does arrive. These restrictions might include mandatory “defensible space” and updating building codes.”
Pericles: “We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.”
As part of an approach to address a multi-million-dollar shortfall, and to invest in projects hoped to lead to revenue boosts and more housing opportunities for Southern Oregon University students, the university plans to demolish Cascade Hall and solicit proposals for building senior housing units as part of a new, mixed-use complex.
After a two-year hiatus, The Hearth will gather in-person at Temple Emek Shalom in Ashland on Thursday evening, Sept. 22, to celebrate the release of “Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us,” a book by The Hearth’s founder, Mark Yaconelli.
Ashland Parks & Recreation Commissioners unanimously voted Sept. 14 to formally oppose two measures headed to the November ballot that they believe would negatively impact the commission’s role and relevance, and voted 4-1 to approve a 4% cost of living adjustment for parks employees that the commission plans to pay for through payroll savings from leaving some positions unfilled.
Pepper Trail: “I’m not ready to declare myself a citizen of the post-apocalypse. We don’t have to live there. Instead, let’s accept that humanity and the whole planet are ‘apocalypse-adjacent.’ The apocalypse is before us and we can see it clearly. But the world is not yet ruined.”
The city of Ashland’s current 16 citizen commissions will be pared down to just three under a streamlining plan discussed by the Ashland City Council at its regular study session meeting Monday and approved Tuesday. Another 12 panels would be set up as either standing advisory committees or management advisory committees, for a total of 14 panels.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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