Julia Sommer: “We want city services maintained, if not enhanced, and are willing to pay for and support that. We do not want ACES-driven budget-cutting to be the sine qua non.”
When prisoners yearn to start a new chapter in their lives or turn the page on unproductive behavior or attitudes, free books from Ashland can be just the catalyst they need.
For more than 10 years, Oregon governors have enforced a moratorium on executions. In one of her last acts as governor, Kate Brown went a step further, announcing Tuesday that she will commute the sentences of the 17 people on Oregon’s death row.
A Jacksonville woman is facing multiple charges after allegedly causing a disturbance at a warming shelter run by the city of Ashland, as well as previously at downtown businesses. Ramona Rachel Williams, 46, was arrested Friday, Dec. 9, by the Ashland Police Department after they received reports of a disturbance at Pioneer Hall on Winburn Way.
Gov.-elect Tina Kotek plans to visit all 36 Oregon counties over the next year in an effort to build trust in the state government, she announced during an annual business gathering Monday, Dec. 12.
Richard Carey: “I was never much of a believer in angels. Particularly, when it comes to the sweet and sappy variety who come to make our moral booboos all better, you could peg me as the tattooed sailor in Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood. But an experience at a children’s playground changed that.”
An emergency severe weather shelter that opened Saturday, Dec. 10, downstairs at the Ashland Public Library, will be open there again tonight, then move to Pioneer Hall Monday night through the morning of Friday, Dec. 16, the city of Ashland has announced.
After two years of not being able to have an in-person Chanukah Fair, the fair returns from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, at Temple Emek Shalom, 1800 E. Main St., Ashland.
First-year students at Southern Oregon University will likely bear the brunt of the impact to students from upcoming cuts to programs and staffing in 2023, university President Rick Bailey said in an interview with Ashland.news Thursday.
Herbert Rothschild: “What many commentators cited as evidence of Trump’s eroding control over his party — the Republican losses in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania — actually demonstrated his clout.”
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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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