Lucie K. Scheuer: Healing arts are interesting because they meet you where you live…. I realized if I was going to be able to do any of the classes offered, I would have to humble myself, be willing to make some mistakes and take some risks.
Herbert Rothschild: Suffering isn’t just the experience of pain. Suffering is unchosen passivity in the face of avoidable or remediable wrong.
There are plenty of misconceptions about labor trafficking: Trafficking involves movement. Trafficking only happens in developing countries. Trafficking victims are immigrants. That’s how Alhena Herrera Martin of the Oregon Department of Justice began the second day of the Southern Oregon Human Trafficking Disruptors Summit at Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites.
An anonymous individual or individuals sent a threatening email to Ashland City Council and Mayor Tonya Graham Wednesday afternoon with a “demand that you declare a moratorium” on a telecommunication ordinance up for a second and final vote Tuesday.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street (In-Person or Zoom Meeting Access) Live stream viarvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime.
Monday, April 1, 2024. Council Chambers, 1175 E Main Street. Live stream viarvtv.sou.edu select RVTV Prime. Recorded meetings are available on our website.
Human trafficking “is a public health issue that impacts individuals, it impacts families, (and) communities across generations,” said one of a dozen speakers at the Southern Oregon Human Trafficking Disruptors Summit at Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites last Friday and Saturday. The summit also featured 16 agencies aiming to combat the human trafficking industry from every angle.
A Medicaid insurer released a report this week on homelessness in Southern Oregon that exposes the roots of the problem in rural communities. Based on its findings, AllCare is urging Oregon lawmakers to ease zoning restrictions so that it’s easier for rural communities with fewer than 10,000 people to build affordable housing.
Andy Seles: We must end our complicity in a war that has killed more than 26,000 people and pushed two million more to the point of starvation.
Obituary: Mary Jo (Clover) Jones, 64, passed away peacefully at home after a sudden decline in her health, on March 24, 2024. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 1, at Mountain View Cemetery, Ashland, Oregon.
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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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