Rogue Theater Company Artistic Director Jessica Sage said “Off Peak” and other plays being offered this season reflect an effort to “raise the bar for ourselves at RTC.”
Since time immemorial, oral tradition has been a traditional way of teaching from generation to generation within Indigenous communities — language, ways of knowing, methodologies, pedagogies, medicine, culture, spirituality and tradition. That was one of the messages relayed by David West on Saturday, Feb. 17, at a community event sponsored by the Social Justice and Action Committee of the Rogue Valley Universalist Fellowship at its church on Fourth Street.
Oregonians are cynical about state politics and open to government reforms including campaign finance limits and open primaries, a new report from the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center found.
Lucie K. Scheuer: The concert contained the poetry, angelic voices and visions of several local and Oregon-based artists and composers, evolving into a transformational experience.
For the first time in eight years, Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara recently requested an additional bed for city use at the Jackson County Jail after an officer informed the chief they were having trouble with arresting people for disorderly behavior only to see these offenders almost immediately released.
Representatives of classified employees at all seven state public universities, including Southern Oregon University, declared Friday they have reached an impasse in negotiations with the universities and will vote soon on whether to strike statewide.
Southern Oregon University has a new advocate in Salem and Washington, D.C. Marc Overbeck has been hired as SOU’s director of government relations, the university’s primary liaison with state and federal lawmakers, and advocate for the university on matters involving higher education policy and funding.
Saturday, Feb. 24, marks the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The following is an account by Ashland resident Susan Lloyd, who was there in January, accompanied by her photographs.
Tonya Graham: We are clear about one thing — engaging in magical thinking doesn’t help. Ignoring this problem will not make it go away. Instead, it will make it worse — for young families, elders, teens, and people with mental illness who find themselves surviving on the streets, as well as for the quality of life in Ashland.
Jim Hatton: The third self … has been termed the “greater self” or “inner self” or “true self.” Unlike the physical self or altered self, it has no ego, no personality, no beliefs, and its existence is not limited to this lifetime. It is eternal.
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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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