Letter: An update from Gaza
Brenda B. Gould: Nine months of war! Your Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Cliff Bentz, by their silence, remain complicit in the killing and starvation.
June 25, 2024
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Brenda B. Gould: Nine months of war! Your Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Cliff Bentz, by their silence, remain complicit in the killing and starvation.
Herbert Rothschild: Were there no Ten Commandments, our laws would look no different than they are, but they are unimaginable without the Corpus Juris Civilis of Roman law and Blackstone’s “Commentaries on the Laws of England.”
Chris Honoré: The ultimate and essential arbiter of the law is the Supreme Court, the inviolable third branch of our government that should be free of the whims of politics, bias, or greed but guided by our Constitution — and, yes, decency.
Herbert Rothschild: Our intelligence community conflates threats to U.S. national security with threats to U.S. global hegemony and consequently misallocates its concern. In turn, it encourages our national leaders to misallocate the resources available to protect us.
Michael O’Looney: The former president blame everyone but himself…. A sportsman like Yogi Berra would say such a person lacks character.
Alan Journet: Do local Republican candidates reject democracy and the rule of law? Do they support Trump and authoritarian rule?
Herbert Rothschild: I’m not interested in weighing the relative savagery of Hamas and the Israelis. I’m concerned to end it.
Mayor Tonya Graham: While we can’t keep wildfire from coming, we can narrow its path of destruction by reducing wildfire risk around our homes before it arrives.
Herbert Rothschild: Familiarity with obstetric wards or even animal husbandry would quickly disabuse people of the belief that each of us is born into the gender decreed for us by God and/or nature.
Sarah Paul: I hope there will be vegetable and flower stands at every Saturday market this summer.
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
(It’s free)