Herbert Rothschild: The gender gap in LGBTQ self-identification has exploded since 2015, when 10% of females and 6% of males ages 18-29 identified that way. In 2024, it was 31% of females compared to 12% of males.
Herbert Rothschild: Faced with a crisis in funding transportation, Oregon lawmakers should abandon the gas tax and levy a per-miles-traveled fee on passenger vehicles and trucks as well as heavy commercial trucks. That is, the OReGO program, now voluntary, should be made mandatory.
Herbert Rothschild: To give so much leverage over us to a country we regard as the chief threat to our national security makes little sense. But so does treating China as if it is identical to Stalin’s U.S.S.R.
Herbert Rothschild: What does it matter to us that thousands of black Muslim children in Africa die? Perhaps the deaths of some 30 white Christian girls in Texas, however, will force us to reconsider our collective priorities.
Herbert Rothschild: Here in the U.S., Zionists are intensifying their efforts to silence opposition to Israel’s cruelties. Their easiest targets have been pro-Palestinian advocates who are in this country legally but aren’t citizens.
Herbert Rothschild: There’s little chance that our conduct will change. We must stage periodic displays of our might to justify our huge annual expenditures on the military and to give the young men in their pickup trucks some reason to be proud of a country where their chances of thriving diminish year by year.
Herbert Rothschild: Birth rates have fallen throughout the industrialized world. In addition to the general concern the declines have caused, they are of special concern to nativists everywhere because immigration is the obvious fix for the problem.
Herbert Rothschild: My contrasting experiences at Yale and LSU explain why I have mixed feelings about the multibillion-dollar legal settlement between the NCAA, its most powerful conferences, and lawyers representing all Division I athletes.
Herbert Rothschild: According to a 2020 report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, “Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 82 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen.”
Herbert Rothschild: I hope Navickas will summon the humility to apologize to O’Meara and O’Meara will summon the grace to accept his apology and let the whole matter drop. Millions of people around the globe are being violently assaulted and crying out for our help. Mere misbehavior shouldn’t divert our attention from evil.
Ashland School District plans to contract with a Eugene-based firm to “shore up” the 1948 wing of the shuttered Lincoln School building, which the city fire marshal ordered shut days before the beginning of the school year in August.
The Rogue Theater Company will bring to life Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” opening Thursday, Oct. 16. The production features a cast of celebrated Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors.
After having to adapt on the fly during the Almeda Fire five years ago, agencies across Jackson County now have a shared wildfire evacuation plan that spells out each group’s duties. Law enforcement leads the way In the event of a citywide wildfire evacuation, while local fire departments and the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) will focus on fighting the fire.
Jim Hatton: There is only one thing that causes unhappiness: attachment. Attachment comes when we hold on to something for fear of losing it because we believe that we can’t be happy without it.
Herbert Rothschild: Is it possible to write columns about torturing people in Guantanamo or eliminating the U.S. Agency for International Development without alienating those who are OK with such actions?
Nearly 600 people packed the Angus Bowmer Theatre in Ashland Monday for a talk by internationally recognized civil rights expert john a. powell and the launch of a new local initiative aimed at fostering collaboration.
(It’s free)
