KG Stiles: For more than 40 years, Southern Oregon has been under Republican control, yet time and again, our needs have been sidelined in favor of tax breaks for the wealthy and deregulation that hurts working families.
Jim Nagel: I would like to invite you to join us on March 30 for a benefit concert, film and speakers at the Ashland High School’s Mountain Avenue Theatre. We will show a video interview with Sviatohirsk Mayor Rybalkin thanking the people of Ashland for the truck and the support that we have given them.
Scott Bandoroff: The humans impacted by the war in Ukraine are rightfully at the center of current news cycles. Many citizens in the Rogue Valley may not understand just how many Ukrainian refugees are here in our own community.
Michael O’Looney: In that moment, we knew our leader spoke in a way he never would with the Russian dictator or the dictators of China and North Korea. For Trump, these men somehow deserve more respect than an ally and patriot like Zelenskyy.
Riva Duncan: The Trump administration’s vaunted effort to “trim the fat” from the federal government and curb “waste and fraud” reveal one terrible — but not surprising — fact: The cost-cutters have no idea how government works or who does what in the federal workforce.
Paul R. Huard: Monday marks the three-year anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine. If it falls, Europe is next — and twice in the 20th Century the United States came to the military aid of Europe not because we were nice, but because of the hard-edged political and economic reality that a totalitarian Europe would be a danger to our nation.
Michael O’Looney: Now it’s time to think about what our democracy might look like four years from now. Will we even recognize it?
Ed Finklea: So we are off to our nation’s capital to pay our respects to a person who had a profound impact on my life by posing for a picture and everyone’s life by being himself. Rest in Peace James Earl Carter Junior.
George Kramer: We in Oregon are known for our values and our commitment to what matters, including our arts, heritage and humanities. That’s why we are also the only state to offer a Cultural Tax Credit to citizens who support cultural nonprofits.
Dean Silver: I organized the petition drive against Resolution 2024-05 in March. I was shocked that the City Council would authorize up to $75 million of debt at 4.77% for 35 years without referring the question to the people who would be paying — the voters. With the terms presented, that debt could result in over $150 million of total cost with interest.
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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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