February 2025

Theater

Review: What’s ‘The Price’? That takes some sorting out

There’s a scene in Arthur Miller’s “The Price” in which the exasperated wife of a New York city policeman turns to him and says, “It is like we were never about anything; we were always about to be!” There you have the crux of Miller’s two-act, two-hour portrait of a husband, his wife and his brother, caught up in in a classic, emotionally triggering family situation, which forces them to finally face the life choices they’ve made.

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Latest news

SOU freshman joins Board of Trustees

Southern Oregon University freshman Ryan Goodrich, a business administration student who graduated from North Medford High School, has been appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek and confirmed by the Oregon Senate to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees.

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City Corner

City Corner: Feeding two birds with one bag

Mayor Tonya Graham: I take my green bag from the Ashland Food Project to the store and fill it with emergency food. When I get home, I rotate my stock by putting the new food in the back of the emergency supply section of my pantry like grocery stores do.

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Health

Providence nurses across Oregon approve deal to end strike

After 46 days on strike, nurses at Providence hospitals across Oregon have approved a deal that will see them return to work. The strike, which is one of the largest health care worker labor actions in state history, included thousands of nurses at all eight Providence hospitals in the state, including Medford.

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Housing

Oregon lawmakers target high screening fees, deposits for renters

State lawmakers last week considered proposals to ban landlords from charging screening fees and charge landlords who take a holding deposit and then fail to actually rent the apartment, as well as a bill tenant advocates objected to that would allow landlords to charge monthly fees instead of a security deposit.

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Viewpoints

Viewpoint: Mass firings cut the muscle, not the fat

Riva Duncan: The Trump administration’s vaunted effort to “trim the fat” from the federal government and curb “waste and fraud” reveal one terrible — but not surprising — fact: The cost-cutters have no idea how government works or who does what in the federal workforce.

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Ask Strider: Advice for big brothers

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!

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