Letter: Ashland educators need living wages
Steven Essig: Sixty-five percent of our classified school employees are eligible for food stamps as individuals, and a staggering 93% are eligible as a family of three.
August 9, 2024
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Steven Essig: Sixty-five percent of our classified school employees are eligible for food stamps as individuals, and a staggering 93% are eligible as a family of three.
Herbert Rothschild: For corporations, investor-state dispute settlement provisions of trade pacts like NAFTA were the fulfillment of their dreams. They were a mechanism to defy governmental restriction of their predatory behavior.
Chris Honoré: I am certain that over the coming decades and beyond, scholars and journalists will study this divisive period which, I would judge, began with the 2016 grievance-saturated election to the presidency of faux populist Donald Trump.
Herbert Rothschild: In 2023, the nine nuclear-armed states spent $91.4 billion on their nuclear arsenals. Our country led the way, spending more than all the others combined.
Councilor Bob Kaplan: Did you know that Ashland is one of just 12 Oregon municipalities that owns its electric utility? Ashland households pay significantly less for electricity than our neighbors in Talent, Phoenix and Medford.
Michael O’Looney: And to Biden’s credit, he was able to see that for the good of the country he would have to come to terms with Father Time and settle for being a one-term president.
Herbert Rothschild: Just as Christian nationalism is a distortion of the universalist character of Christianity, so Jewish nationalism is a distortion of the universalist character that Judaism acquired when it developed into a world religion.
John Marciano: Violence at home and abroad is not antithetical to America, it has been its very nature since the founding.
Herbert Rothschild: What may best explain our national divides are the differing institutions, cultural norms and ideas about freedom, social responsibility and the provision of public goods that the original settlers of various parts of our continent laid down and which later arrivals would encounter and, by and large, take as their own.
Chris Honoré: Donald Trump simply cannot win the presidency. He must not return to the White House. Perhaps he can last four more years, but our Democracy won’t. With a mixture of regret and urgency, the number of elected Democrats calling for President Biden to step down grows.
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.
A quarter-mile stretch of Walker Avenue between the railroad tracks and East Main Street will be closed Friday, Oct. 11, and Monday, Oct. 14, so roadwork can be done,the city of Ashland announced Thursday. Profiling and grinding work is planned for 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, while overlay is set to be laid down Monday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m
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