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Meredith Page: I do not want this to get lost in the news. The U.S. Army has been planning its 250th birthday celebration for two years; it’s on June 14. This day has been stolen from the brave women and men who defend this country and our freedoms.
KG Stiles: We are a community rooted in compassion, dialogue, and collective responsibility. And that’s why this is the moment for every citizen — regardless of party, age, or background — to speak up.
Joseph Vaile: The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife carries the primary responsibility for managing Oregon’s native plant and wildlife species, but it has never had reliable, sustained funding to do this work effectively.
Ambuja Rosen: Knowing Eric, I highly doubt that he meant to slur another group of people who are often picked on: our Black fellow citizens. I think he was saying: “Just like you wouldn’t exile a Black person for littering three times, you shouldn’t do that to our unhoused neighbors.”
Tom Dimitre: Police Chief Tighe O’Meara’s aggressive race-baiting of Eric Navickas is reprehensible, unprofessional and should require the city to take a long, hard look at who their police chief is.
Cori Frank: Why? When we are trying to encourage young families to move to Ashland (help our schools, etc.), you raise the (parks participation) fees?
Ann Gaffney: Congratulations to Jordan Rooklyn on the outcome of the election. I wish her success in her role, and hope our shared love for this community can be a foundation for future collaboration.
Benjamin Ben-Baruch: Biden, who professed to want to spread democracy, was a significant figure in the rise of fascism in the US.
My husband and I have been members of the Collaborative Theatre Project in Medford for several years. It’s a small space where there are no bad seats. The plays never
Jeffrey Pike: Patty believes, passionately, that libraries are places where all people are welcome to explore, learn, participate, understand, interact, and grow, however they decide.
It’s a small space — 9.5 by 9.5 inches, 90.25 square inches — but many of the nearly 900 Southern Oregon University graduates in attendance at Saturday’s commencement ceremony took advantage of the moment, perched on the cusp of finishing one of life’s chapters with beginning another, to do some succinct summing up atop their mortarboards.
Southern Oregon Climate Action Now launched its premier Green Business Recognition ceremony on Thursday, June 12, with a “green ribbon cutting” at a four-plex built out of straw bales on Wightman Street in Ashland.
The production runs through July 6 at Camelot Theatre By Lucie K. Scheuer for Ashland.news You might say that domestic, comedic dramatist and playwright Del Shores’ successful life as a
Meredith Page: I do not want this to get lost in the news. The U.S. Army has been planning its 250th birthday celebration for two years; it’s on June 14. This day has been stolen from the brave women and men who defend this country and our freedoms.
James Lobsenz: There is a difference between a protest and a rebellion. Hundreds of thousands of people protested the Vietnam War. But the fact that they marched, carried signs, chanted, engaged in sit-ins, and burned their draft cards, does not mean they engaged in a “rebellion” against the United States.
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.
(It’s free)
