City Government
A closer look at the proposed pay raise for city employees
What will it cost if the Ashland City Council OKs 2% annual cost-of-living adjustments for nonunion workers over the next two years?
June 22, 2025
What will it cost if the Ashland City Council OKs 2% annual cost-of-living adjustments for nonunion workers over the next two years?
The city of Ashland has added a public self service kiosk to the city’s Community Development & Engineering Services Building, 51 Winburn Way, according to a news release.
Playwrights Walk plaque at Railroad Park to honor Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ and pay tribute to those who died at the hands of police and were remembered in the park’s T-shirt memorial
Almost 30 residents showed up at Ashland’s Railroad Park Tuesday to speak their minds with city officials on a variety of issues, including contaminated land, affordable housing, wildfire evacuations — and pickleball.
The Ashland City Council voted Tuesday to further consider a 2 percent cost of living adjustment and improved benefits for non-union city employees, citing the need to seek more public input and deal with what they called misinformation about the proposed changes in compensation.
Changes in reporting policy, more police on the streets, and more arrests by officers led to a statistical increase in incidents regarded as uses of force by the Ashland Police Department, but the spike in stats is no cause for alarm, the city’s chief of police said Monday.
An Ashland advocate for the homeless alleges city police are aggressively enforcing rules and regulations at the city’s “night lawn” camping location to practice entrapment through issuing citations with expensive fines, all to harass the unhoused and possibly force them to move on elsewhere
The Ashland City Council will hear an annual use-of-force report from the city’s police chief and swear in a new council member during a pair of meetings on Monday and Tuesday.
The second of six scheduled city of Ashland “Coffee & Conversations” gatherings is set for 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, in Railroad Park. Some members of the City Council and senior city staff are expected to be on hand for the casual meet-and-greet.
Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara said kids speeding through town on electric bikes have crossed a threshold of risk where law enforcement needs to respond with speeding tickets.
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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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