Rick Landt: “Using this ‘stranded’ money for park CIP projects would be totally consistent with the original intent of voters and would move cash-starved projects forward without resorting to property tax dollars.”
Ellen Craine: “All of us are impacted by the fire danger, limited water supplies, homelessness, lack of affordable housing — the list goes on and on. To address these crucial issues we need fresh leadership on the county level.”
Julie Akins: “I live in Ashland. I love the parks. I use them almost daily. No one is against parks. Save our parks by voting “yes” on 210 and 211.”
A concert featuring Grammy-nominated Imani Winds that was scheduled last spring at the Ashland Railroad Park but was cancelled because of Covid-19 has been rescheduled for 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at First United Methodist Church, 175 N. Main St.
Beginning downhill skiers and snowboarders will have an easier time learning and honing their skills when the Mt. Ashland Ski Area opens this winter. The area will open a new learning center featuring a “magic carpet,” a conveyor belt that will allow skiers to slide onto the belt and move up a portion of the hill while standing still.
Oregon has been in a housing crisis for years. The next governor will set the state’s housing policy, wielding significant influence over whether current residents and their children can remain in the state and whether employers will be able to recruit workers needed to maintain or grow their businesses.
Rogue Grapevine: “This is a story about journeys that start in one direction and end up going in another, where both choice and accident play a part and deviations along the path turn out to be positive. It involves winemakers Brian Gruber and Vince Vidrine.”
Marni Koopman and Jim Hartman: “What does climate action look like? It’s pretty spectacular, actually. Clean energy for renters and low-income residents. … Our hard-earned dollars going to local companies for clean energy, and circulating within our local economy.”
Community leaders are partnering with city officials in Ashland to craft an economic revitalization plan after the recent completion of an economic diversification study commissioned by the Ashland Chamber of Commerce. Chamber representatives and members of ECONorthwest presented their findings and recommended next steps at the Oct. 3 City Council study session.
Steve Haskell: “If you have Tina Kotek as governor and still have a commissioner who doesn’t want to work with Salem, you will miss out in many ways. You need Denise Krause in office. She will work with Salem and the other local jurisdictions in our area in a way not seen presently.”
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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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