Letter: Bentz is out of touch, out of step at town hall
Alan Journet: At his Jackson County town hall, Congressman Cliff Bentz revealed misunderstanding of science and rejection of public opinion.
August 28, 2023
Alan Journet: At his Jackson County town hall, Congressman Cliff Bentz revealed misunderstanding of science and rejection of public opinion.
Michael O’Looney: Sometimes I wonder about what was in Trump’s mind before he placed his ill-advised call to Georgia’s Secretary of State on Jan. 2, 2021.
In the face of recently discovered accounting mistakes leading to over $1 million in changes to the 2023-24 fiscal-year budget for Southern Oregon University, President Rick Bailey delivered a candid assessment Monday: the university can and should do better.
An air quality alert for much of Southern Oregon, including Ashland, was extended yet again by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Sunday afternoon. Wildfires burning in the region will continue to cause air quality levels to fluctuate into, at times, unhealthy levels. While the DEQ cautions that the alert may be further extended beyond 5 p.m. Tuesday, it sounds an optimistic note in that wind patterns are expected to change Monday night, and the area of the alert may change.
Plans to reopen Highway 199 on Monday have been called off after severe weather and aggressive fire behavior from the Smith River Complex, with the blaze moving further into Josephine County. The California Highway Patrol and California Department of Transportation have tentative plans to reopen Highway 199 on Wednesday, with hopes that the roadway will be safe for travel by then.
‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ opens Sept. 13 at Grizzly Peak Winery. The play features a cast of veteran Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors playing five very different people, brought together in a Vermont small-town community center for a theater workshop, who learn more about themselves and one another than they do about acting.
The Talent Historical Society will host an event commemorating the Almeda fire’s third anniversary from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, at the Talent Museum, 105 N. Market St., Talent.
A three-day event on workplace safety and health will be held Tuesday, Oct. 17, through Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites, 2525 Ashland St., Ashland, according to news release.
Philanthropist James “Jim” M. Collier, who was laser-focused on supporting and promoting the performing arts in Jackson County, died Thursday, Aug. 24, at the age of 85. Over the years, Collier’s patronage has helped support a variety of dance and theatrical performing groups as well as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Craterian Theater at The Collier Center for the Performing Arts in Medford and Camelot Theatre in Talent, which also bears his name.
Walloped by wildfires that have shut down power and closed an important highway link, the residents of Crescent City and Del Norte County got a bit of good news Wednesday. Lt. Pete Roach of the California Highway Patrol in Crescent City announced a tentative plan to partly reopen Highway 199 Monday by using a “way out of the box” idea to escort big caravans of vehicles twice daily through the fire 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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