Herbert Rothschild: It would be stunning if the presidential candidates were asked during a debate whether they are disturbed by the prospect of leaving office with blood on their hands.
Lorrie Kaplan: What do you want Ashland City Council candidates to be talking about as they compete for votes? That’s the question included in a “Citizens Agenda” poll available through every edition of the Ashland.news e-newsletter beginning in August. The poll closed Sept. 20. Ashland.news received 219 responses, many showing great care and thoughtfulness.
Ron Rusnak: Lithia Park is not a sports center. Lithia Park is Ashland’s heart, known for nature, culture, education, art and, at times, patriotic enthusiasm.
Herbert Rothschild: Regarding Israel’s restriction of humanitarian aid into Gaza, we now know that the administration’s report to Congress went beyond waffling to lying.
Sean F. McEnroe: In 2020 during the COVID shutdown, construction fences and flood lighting started going up around Ashland’s neighborhood schools. They never came down. What appeared to be temporary barriers became permanent ones, locking off spaces which had served as de facto public parks for generations.
Herbert Rothschild: Bad-faith appeals to national security can’t disguise the most important reality about the country we live in — that it’s a military empire and those who profit from the empire wield preeminent political power.
Gary Shaff: For many local cyclists, the Ashland bicycle scene isn’t great if you don’t head up the trails on your mountain bike, or sport Lycra shorts, or enjoy riding 50 miles and climb to the top of the Greensprings.
Viewpoint: This year, Saturday, Sept. 21, is the 40th anniversary of Peace Day and PTP is again organizing a global celebration originating again from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza. This is a big program and will be livestreamed globally,
Herbert Rothschild: Among the reasons I’ve been put off by the Kennedys is their use and abuse of women. It runs like a dominant gene through the men of the Kennedy clan.
Benjamin Ben-Baruch: So I suggest that in approaching the local problem of homelessness in Ashland and Jackson County we learn from the Israelis we admire about dealing with a problematic population and recognize that “the lawn” needs mowing.
A staff recommendation to demolish instead of repair the Community Center will we discussed at the Ashland City Council study session meeting Monday, while the council business meeting Tuesday will include a review of funding for the water treatment plant.
Pam Hammond beamed earlier this week while talking about new plans in store for downtown Ashland’s Paddington Station sister stores, The Jewel Box and Inspired By Oregon, which are consolidating and moving into the prominent Fortmiller building across the street.
Ashland councilors Gina DuQuenne and Dylan Bloom on Wednesday gave Southern Oregon University students a lesson in how to express mutual admiration even while disagreeing. The councilors met with 15 students at Britt Hall to discuss voting, Ashland-centered topics and how to bridge the communication gap between the SOU campus and Ashland.
Review: “Witch,” isn’t exactly a Halloween piece per se, but it is unsettling. And if you like stories that are distinctive, disturbing yet thought-provoking, this might be for you. This is a play where no one is as they seem; where our motives and desires can give rise to good or evil.
Bob Palermini, professional photographer, will give a presentation about photojournalism at the Southern Oregon Photographic Association meeting on October 15 in Medford. He studied photojournalism in college and has been a photographer for Ashland.news since shortly after it debuted in January 2022.
Herbert Rothschild: It would be stunning if the presidential candidates were asked during a debate whether they are disturbed by the prospect of leaving office with blood on their hands.
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