Herbert Rothschild: Faced with a crisis in funding transportation, Oregon lawmakers should abandon the gas tax and levy a per-miles-traveled fee on passenger vehicles and trucks as well as heavy commercial trucks. That is, the OReGO program, now voluntary, should be made mandatory.
Herbert Rothschild: To give so much leverage over us to a country we regard as the chief threat to our national security makes little sense. But so does treating China as if it is identical to Stalin’s U.S.S.R.
Herbert Rothschild: What does it matter to us that thousands of black Muslim children in Africa die? Perhaps the deaths of some 30 white Christian girls in Texas, however, will force us to reconsider our collective priorities.
Denise Krause: A group of advocates visited shelters around the state and found that the best shelters were run by nonprofit organizations, often with public-private partnerships, contracting with their county to include dog control services, which counties are mandated to provide.
Herbert Rothschild: Here in the U.S., Zionists are intensifying their efforts to silence opposition to Israel’s cruelties. Their easiest targets have been pro-Palestinian advocates who are in this country legally but aren’t citizens.
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Alan Journet: It is noteworthy that Congressional District 2 Rep. Bentz was not a leading critic of this proposal and, in fact, stated: “To be clear — I do support and encourage sale or exchange of parcels of federal land….”
Herbert Rothschild: There’s little chance that our conduct will change. We must stage periodic displays of our might to justify our huge annual expenditures on the military and to give the young men in their pickup trucks some reason to be proud of a country where their chances of thriving diminish year by year.
Michael O’Looney: Checking in on Donald Trump and sometime friend Elon Musk.
Herbert Rothschild: Birth rates have fallen throughout the industrialized world. In addition to the general concern the declines have caused, they are of special concern to nativists everywhere because immigration is the obvious fix for the problem.
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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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