Michael O’Looney: If only our current president could reflect on our history; if only he could govern with malice toward none. If only he would try to govern all of America instead of only those who voted for him.
Tome Dimitre: How many times will the chief come back to the dupes on the City Council to push his illegal agenda to deny citizens their due-process rights?
Selene Aitken: I reflect on the folks I’ve served that morning, students, families, old folk and young, friendly, sour, elegant or ragged. All need food. I am grateful to be part of the team providing sustenance and support.
Herbert Rothschild: Like a mob boss, Trump has a highly developed sense of what he thinks people owe him, and he’s willing to rough them up when they don’t pay up. Regarding NATO, he was clear from the start that he believed its European members were getting much more than they were paying for.
Alan Journet: The Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment seeks to overcome this omission in our state by proposing a ballot measure for fall 2026 that would insert into our Constitution the right to a healthy environment.
Skeye Hridayam: There has been more than enough data collected, studies done, and reporting on the subject of policing over the last few decades at least to show that what better improves the safety and health of a community is not intensified policing that emphasizes stricter laws and punishments, but looking to mitigate the circumstances that create the conditions for crime in the first place.
Mayor Tonya Graham: We have seven unions as well as a group of city employees who are not represented by unions. That group is called the “management pool.” It includes general clerical workers, parks employees, supervisors, department heads, our city manager, and our city attorney, among others.
Herbert Rothschild: The gender gap in LGBTQ self-identification has exploded since 2015, when 10% of females and 6% of males ages 18-29 identified that way. In 2024, it was 31% of females compared to 12% of males.
Wendy Eppinger: I’ve known Eric Navickas for such a long time. He’s no racist, and he apologized to Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara for his emotional moment, and I appreciate Tighe and his interactions with our Ashland community.
James Lobsenz: The same government officials who praise the religious organizations that provide relief simultaneously adopt laws and regulations that make it more difficult for them to do so, because many residents are unhappy about long lines of poor people gathering at churches or the offices of charitable food distribution centers.
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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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