Seniors struggling to find affordable housing could find relief under legislation sponsored by Oregon Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland. House Bill 3589, which received unanimous support in the House Monday and is now before the Senate, would put $24 million toward affordable housing projects for seniors and the disabled.
This week’s crossword: some apt roles and quotes to reappear in future OSF productions? Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next Friday’s crossword: “Turkish Delights #02.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
Oregon lawmakers’ latest attempt to prop up the state’s struggling retail pharmacies by regulating middlemen companies has died amid uncertainty over the legislation’s complexity and pushback from insurance companies.
The Portland Tribune is ending its print publication starting next week and will continue as a digital-only news service, according to the paper’s publisher.
Dozens of people packed a room at the Capitol for the lone public hearing on a new proposal to raise taxes and fees on gas, car sales and payrolls and invest $11.7 billion over the next decade into roads, bridges and public transit. A 155-page amendment to House Bill 2025 advanced from the Joint Committee on Transportation Investment on Thursday afternoon on a 8-4 vote, teeing up a Friday vote in the state House with a do pass recommendation.
Ashland resident Lola Jackson is scheduled to attend a hearing and pre-trial conference Monday, June 30, following a June 12 arrest where police allege she struck a pedestrian in a motorized wheelchair with her vehicle, according to an Ashland Police Department press release.
The second annual Mural Fest took place June 21 and 22 at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum in Ashland. Produced by The Brothers Grime, a Southern Oregon trio, the event brought together 17 artists from across the Rogue Valley to create 8-foot by 8-foot murals in the ScienceWorks plaza.
A locally-based travel intensive care unit nurse since 2015, Sonia (Munoz) Santiago is also a self-published writer.
Poetry Corner: Poets often look to nature when seeking order, meaning, and answers to difficult questions. Sometimes nature reflects back what we know or offers new questions and new worlds to explore. What do we really see in our own reflection in a placid lake? How might clarity be found in a random puddle? David Zaslow and Lynn Hill offer their own answers.
Southern Oregon University’s Board of Trustees has tasked SOU President Rick Bailey with recommending $5 million in budget cuts by the next board meeting on July 31 — $1.8 million more than previously anticipated to account for significantly low reserves in its $84 million budget for fiscal year 2025-26.
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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.
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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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