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.
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.
Skeye Hridayam: Is this how a “peace officer” behaves and supports peace within our community, by acting self-righteous and prejudicially confronting people?
As “Monumental Beauty” reminds us, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, from Pilot Rock and Grizzly Peak to lesser known areas, includes more than 200 species of birds, at least 120 species of butterflies and a rare combination of trees and wildflowers from multiple ecosystems.
James Lobsenz: King Donald now claims that he can ignore a right that no English king has dared to ignore since King John. The only people with the authority to stop King Donald are the justices of the Supreme Court. Writing your representatives in Congress won’t do any good. Write the justices.
Paul R. Huard: On this day, which might be the last day during your life that anyone raises the importance of VE Day to you, remember that they died for you. They died so the United States — and the world — would be governed by the rule of law and the consent of the people, not by strongmen and oligarchs
Michael O’Looney: When he was campaigning, Trump tried to disassociate himself from Project 25, claiming he had nothing to do with it, that some of its ideas were “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” But he has been complicit in implementing Project 25’s playbook to the letter.
Robert Delsman: If Trump/the administration defies the district court’s order as affirmed 9-0 by the Supreme Court in the Abrego Garcia case or any other case, the issue before the court will (be) whether defying the legitimate order of a coequal branch of government is an exercise of core presidential powers. The answer to that question must be a resounding “No,” because the alternative would be the utter collapse of our constitutional order and the institution of a dictatorship.
We have the numbers — if we speak up now and support the organizations and people who stand up for the rule of law By Tonya Graham We, as Americans,
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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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