Herbert Rothschild: Like a mob boss, Trump has a highly developed sense of what he thinks people owe him, and he’s willing to rough them up when they don’t pay up. Regarding NATO, he was clear from the start that he believed its European members were getting much more than they were paying for.
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.”
After a stop-and-start winter season, Mt. Ashland Ski Area reopened this morning with limited terrain and reduced lift tickets following new snowfall.
Ask Strider: A wife worries she was being rude in asking her waiter his name when she just wanted to be friendly. And a reader suggests a canine chorus for Ashland.news. Another reader sends praise to Strider. Our advice columnist loves being told he’s a good boy. As who doesn’t?
A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that an Ashland man was improperly removed from a public meeting after he criticized the city’s tougher exclusion laws and called the police chief a “fascist.”
John Marciano: The U.S. government, the most violent rogue nation on Earth, continues its illegal and unconstitutional war against the people of Venezuela with military attacks and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro.
Amy Bowers Cordalis, an Ashland attorney and key figure in the world’s largest river restoration project, will speak Saturday at the Ashland library about her memoir, “The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life.” The book documents her family’s long legal and cultural struggle to remove four dams from the Klamath River, a fight that culminated in their removal in 2024.
The Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission will provide updates on the closure of the Ashland Rotary Centennial Ice Rink and discuss a proposed safety project for Winburn Way in Lithia Park during its study session at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7.
(It’s free)
