Stuart Douglas: “What a gift my life has been, always to see the glass half full, to buck the trend and be a believer that peace is not only possible but that it pervades the vast majority of every culture. I have easily found peace in all phases of my life.”
Jim Hatton: “I have come to respect and honor them all. I am not here to say they are right or wrong. It is right for all individuals to seek their own path, what is right for them, and what inspires them.”
Lucie K. Scheuer: “We can teach ourselves to focus on lovely things.”
Sally McKirgan: “We don’t have to judge or reject someone because they are different. It’s impossible to love someone you have condemned.”
Janai “Grandma Boom” Mestrovich: “Connection, kindness, and goodwill — with a touch of magic — were woven together in the shelter that night, creating an Inner Peace that was palpable.”
Richard Carey: “I was never much of a believer in angels. Particularly, when it comes to the sweet and sappy variety who come to make our moral booboos all better, you could peg me as the tattooed sailor in Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood. But an experience at a children’s playground changed that.”
Jim Hatton: “People tend to worship the material as if the material had power in and of itself. Nothing can be further from the truth.”
Victoria Leo: ‘If you think that you are the career, and you feel the power over your life choices that getting those monthly earnings gives you in a market economy, the future generates fear, and fear is not conducive to inner peace.’
Janai “Grandma Boom” Mestrovich: “Play is said to be active meditation for being in the present moment.”
Jim Hatton: “The key is to stop, be silent, and listen. Only then can the answer to the question or the problem arise.”
If passed as is, an ordinance put forward by the Rogue Action Climate Team on Tuesday would prohibit the construction of any new buildings with fossil fuel infrastructure in Ashland. If passed, the ordinance would require the city to deny any permit applications that include piping for fossil fuels, primarily natural gas.
As a bipartisan $200 million package intended to help hundreds of homeless Oregonians find housing heads to Gov. Tina Kotek for her signature, state lawmakers say they’re shifting focus from triaging a homelessness emergency to building more homes.
The Rogue Valley Times has filled two important roles with the hiring of a publisher and an advertising sales manager. Long Beach Post publisher David Sommers will take the helm as the first publisher of the Times, while Cheryl McKenzie, a former advertising executive with the former Mail Tribune, will build the ad department “from the ground up.”
Ashland New Plays Festival will launch its 31st season with spring workshops of two new plays Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26 and April 29-30, at Southern Oregon University’s Main Stage Theatre, 491 S. Mountain Ave. in Ashland.
Following a presentation of the budget realignment plan by Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey on Friday at SOU, the university’s governing board questioned him on details of the plan, which he says will eliminate a multimillion-dollar structural deficit and change the fiscal model for the university moving forward.
Reader photo: Rain, rain go away, so we can play pickleball another day. Douglas R. Smith captured this photo of the courts in Lithia Park between February storms.
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