Building on the success of 2022, the Rogue Theater Company will extend runs of plays this year, with five shows a week for three-week runs. The four-show season kicks off Feb. 22.
Larry Cooper: “Here is an accessible link to that very important speech: … I encourage everyone to read it in full as its words resonate yet today as fully as they did 55 years ago.”
John Marciano: “Beyond Vietnam” is arguably (King’s) greatest speech, although virtually unknown to most Americans compared with his ‘I Have a Dream’ oration at the August 1963 March on Washington.”
A November trial has been scheduled in a federal lawsuit filed by former JPR reporter April Ehrlich against the city of Medford over her 2020 arrest while covering the evacuation of a homeless camp in a public park. The trial is scheduled for Nov. 14 before U.S. District Court Judge Mark Clark.
On the evening of a day when the struggle to secure civil rights for all is front and center, Bloomsbury Books will host author Herbert Rothschild Jr. reading from his new book, “The Bad Old Days: A Decade of Struggling for Justice in Louisiana.” The book reading and signing is set for 7 to 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, at Bloomsbury Books, Ashland.
The life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be commemorated Monday in Ashland. A celebration of the slain civil rights leader’s life and legacy will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on the Ashland Plaza.
Herbert Rothschild: “Why should a state like South Carolina or Alabama or Tennessee, where Democrats consistently fail to deliver their electoral votes to their party’s presidential candidate, proportionately have as much say in selecting the nominee as California or New York or swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin?”
Faculty jobs will likely be lost, programs will likely be cut, and tuition at Southern Oregon University will likely continue to rise incrementally. Those are among expected impacts to be announced later this spring as the university works to “right-size” the approximately $66 million budget, according to SOU President Rick Bailey.
Chris Honoré: “When I think of life as it was before the unexpected arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and all that entailed, what comes to mind is the year 2019.”
Obituary: Mollie Fuller Haskell passed away on November 10, 2022, at the age of 42. A memorial celebration was held on December 28, her birthday, via Zoom.
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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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