Herbert Rothschild: The corporate integration of the largest pharmacy benefit managers, drug retailers and health insurers offers many opportunities to maximize profits at consumers’ expense.
Relocations: “I don’t think there are any other artists (besides Richard Serra) who worked with the level of ambition, exactness and vision to create something on such a magnificent scale that changes human experience.” — Sarah Roberts, head of painting and sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Herbert Rothschild: It’s time to hear a Mexican perspective on immigration and drug trafficking. President Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s threats.
Herbert Rothschild: The killing will continue unabated, unless Donald Trump actually does have a magic wand with which he’ll fix all the world’s problems. He can hardly do worse than Biden has done.
Herbert Rothschild: During his campaign Trump pledged to renew his efforts to destroy the federal civil service.
Herbert Rothschild: Neither mitigating climate change nor averting nuclear catastrophe had any salience during the presidential campaign.
Herbert Rothschild: I never know what people mean when they talk about living life to the fullest. But if we don’t both hold tight and let go, grieve and give thanks, say no and say yes, I’m quite sure we haven’t.
Herbert Rothschild: The sanctions we impose on other countries have never achieved our stated aims — usually regime change. They have succeeded in inflicting suffering and death on the resident populations.
Herbert Rothschild: For what an insistent and violent imposition of religious nationalism on a multicultural country looks like, the India of Navendra Modi and his Indian People’s Party provides a current example.
Herbert Rothschild: The double whammy of hurricanes Helene and Milton may not have convinced their victims in Florida that the scientific community was right all along about global warming, but it convinced some of them that they have seen the future of their state.
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)
