Herbert Rothschild: “Among the many trends that began in the 1960s, our progress toward democracy is the overarching one that Republicans must reverse if their vision of America is to prevail.”
The Ashland City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to put councilor and mayoral compensation — up to $900 per month — before voters in a May 16 special election. Councilors also voted to add a referendum to the ballot to change how money from the food and beverage tax can be applied, sending nearly all of the revenue to Parks & Recreation.
Local news is critical for democracy and needs state support to continue, supporters of a legislative proposal told the Oregon House Rules Committee on Thursday. House Bill 2605 would pay for a resource center to give emergency grants and other support to local journalists and newsrooms.
Ashland has a new mayor. The Ashland City Council unanimously elected council Chair Tonya Graham as mayor Tuesday night to succeed Julie Akins, who resigned effective Jan. 27.
Mailboxes throughout Jackson County will be filled this week with a 12-page broadsheet newspaper introducing the Rogue Valley Tribune to prospective readers. EO Media Group is getting the word out about its Medford-based news site and three-times a week printed paper with a saturation mailing to 93,000 area addresses.
How can something that goes so wrong be so right? That’s the intention in “The Play That Goes Wrong,” the opening play for the 2023 season at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland. What makes the play amazing and uproariously fun is the googolplex litany of wrong things.
John Frank: “Our councilors just need to see the big picture and stop focusing on the small green stick-dots.”
How can chemistry be utilized to understand human impacts on the environment? That question will be answered during a Friday science seminar hosted by Southern Oregon University assistant professor Chris Babayco, Ph.D., organizers have announced.
Jim Hatton: “I have come to respect and honor them all. I am not here to say they are right or wrong. It is right for all individuals to seek their own path, what is right for them, and what inspires them.”
A concert Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Ashland was a landmark night for local fans of folk music. The show, featuring the Michal Palzewicz Trio and world music band Malinka, was the last to be promoted by Ashland Folk Collective founders Jacqui Aubert and Dan Sherrill before they move to the Philadelphia area.
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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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