Meredith Page: I do not want this to get lost in the news. The U.S. Army has been planning its 250th birthday celebration for two years; it’s on June 14. This day has been stolen from the brave women and men who defend this country and our freedoms.
James Lobsenz: There is a difference between a protest and a rebellion. Hundreds of thousands of people protested the Vietnam War. But the fact that they marched, carried signs, chanted, engaged in sit-ins, and burned their draft cards, does not mean they engaged in a “rebellion” against the United States.
KG Stiles: We are a community rooted in compassion, dialogue, and collective responsibility. And that’s why this is the moment for every citizen — regardless of party, age, or background — to speak up.
Herbert Rothschild: My contrasting experiences at Yale and LSU explain why I have mixed feelings about the multibillion-dollar legal settlement between the NCAA, its most powerful conferences, and lawyers representing all Division I athletes.
Eric Navickas: In Ashland, the policy of cordoning off parts of town to remove people is aimed at a class of homeless people suffering from poverty.
Ashland Together and Ashland Sunrise Project: This moment calls for a deeper kind of reckoning — one that moves beyond individual intentions and invites our community to confront the discomfort that often surfaces when race, power and harm are named in public.
Herbert Rothschild: According to a 2020 report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, “Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 82 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen.”
Leda Shapiro: No, Navickas did not actually say that all Black people are criminals. But after a lifetime lived amid racism, of stereotyping Black people in this way, a sentence that puts Black people and criminals in the same sentence does imply that Black people are criminals, whether it is said explicitly or not.
Although recent changes to FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant may have raised concerns, the project is fully funded through a long-term, low-cost federal loan. Additional grants are still being pursued.
Joseph Vaile: The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife carries the primary responsibility for managing Oregon’s native plant and wildlife species, but it has never had reliable, sustained funding to do this work effectively.
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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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