Letter: ‘Support stable park management’
Mark Knox: “Is this who you want to manage Ashland’s world-class park system? An often highly dysfunctional City Council versus a single-focus-minded Parks Commission?”
October 26, 2022
Mark Knox: “Is this who you want to manage Ashland’s world-class park system? An often highly dysfunctional City Council versus a single-focus-minded Parks Commission?”
John Littleon: “We’ve seen Jeff Golden’s accomplishments, and our lives are measurably better: clearer skies, fewer fires, and better preparation for the future.”
Jim Hawes: “One can be so depressed, angry, or agitated about their life that they surrender and find themselves in a different state of conscious awareness. Here at this very moment, we are the Child Awareness.”
Chris Honoré: “We are also bearing witness to the acceptance among many voters to the rise of authoritarianism amid cultural fears (especially among whites).”
Two candidates active in community engagement are seeking their first term in elected office, vying for the position held by outgoing Ashland City Councilor Stephen Jensen. Jim Falkenstein and Eric Hansen are on the Nov. 8 ballot for Council Position 6.
Vanessa Houk: “There are people in our community who would not be alive today, were it not for her tireless service.”
On Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 11:30 a.m., Claudette Elena Paige (nee Coats) made her transition to a better place. She is survived by her husband of 62 years, George; her daughter, Patricia; and her son, Gordon.
Richard Spencer: “She’ll tackle the tough issues we face: fire risk, water and housing shortages, and switching to clean energy. She believes the county has a crucial role to play coordinating emergency plans, and preventing fires by cleaning up county land.”
Emily Simon and Precious Yamaguchi: “Our community’s history of racism needs to be confronted and exposed. Without this confrontation and exposure, the work that this community and City Council have been doing to root out our racist past and embrace an anti-racist culture will fall far short.”
Lillian Buchanan: “Criticisms based on race and gender have no place in civil discussion of the merits of artistic presentations and should be opposed or omitted. I would like to see every effort made to support and protect Ms. Garrett, who is doing her job very well and to good effect.”
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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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