This week’s crossword: 5 musicals from 2025 season. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next week’s crossword: “Coastal Curmudgeons #02.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
George Kramer: We in Oregon are known for our values and our commitment to what matters, including our arts, heritage and humanities. That’s why we are also the only state to offer a Cultural Tax Credit to citizens who support cultural nonprofits.
Herbert Rothschild: The corporate integration of the largest pharmacy benefit managers, drug retailers and health insurers offers many opportunities to maximize profits at consumers’ expense.
Chris Adams: It is being sold to the public as a cost that the producers need to absorb. Make no mistake, that is not what will happen. Those costs will be passed on to the consumers.
Repeat offenders can be banned from a second area in Ashland after the City Council on a 5-1 vote Tuesday approved the second reading of an ordinance establishing an Enhanced Law Enforcement Area on the south side of town along Ashland Street, and Ashland’s historic Community Center could reopen as soon as the spring of 2025 after council voted 5-1 to approve an advisory committee’s recommendations to proceed with the original plan with minor modifications.
Amid the struggles of poverty in the Rogue Valley, there is an organization offering a unique lifeline — not to people, but to their pets. With spay-neuter programs and vital support services, Rogue Valley Street Dogs is transforming lives, one paw at a time.
Members of Ashland City Council and the Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission voted into office in the November election were sworn in Monday afternoon in Ashland Council Chambers. Terms for the new council and mayor officially begin Jan. 1, 2025, but they are not expected to convene for the first time until the Jan. 21 council business meeting.
At the final Ashland City Council study session of the year Monday evening, the city’s many committees and commissions shared their recent accomplishments and plans for the coming new year as part of an annual review.
KS Wild Side: As 2024 comes to a close, it’s always nice to reflect on the year, so we bring you a 2024 highlight reel featuring good news and positive updates for public lands and all that live in and enjoy them all across the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion across Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Ask Strider: In this column, our advice columnist urges a frazzled volunteer to slow down and enjoy the winter. He also celebrates the holiday season, which for Strider and Woody is every day they are with their loved ones.
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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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