Dean Silver: I organized the petition drive against Resolution 2024-05 in March. I was shocked that the City Council would authorize up to $75 million of debt at 4.77% for 35 years without referring the question to the people who would be paying — the voters. With the terms presented, that debt could result in over $150 million of total cost with interest.
Bob Kaplan: Tucked into a narrow canyon, our current drinking water plant is vulnerable to floods, landslides and wildfire, and there’s no space to treat harmful toxins that are more frequent as our summers get warmer and drier.
Lorrie Kaplan: What do you want Ashland City Council candidates to be talking about as they compete for votes? That’s the question included in a “Citizens Agenda” poll available through every edition of the Ashland.news e-newsletter beginning in August. The poll closed Sept. 20. Ashland.news received 219 responses, many showing great care and thoughtfulness.
Sean F. McEnroe: In 2020 during the COVID shutdown, construction fences and flood lighting started going up around Ashland’s neighborhood schools. They never came down. What appeared to be temporary barriers became permanent ones, locking off spaces which had served as de facto public parks for generations.
Gary Shaff: For many local cyclists, the Ashland bicycle scene isn’t great if you don’t head up the trails on your mountain bike, or sport Lycra shorts, or enjoy riding 50 miles and climb to the top of the Greensprings.
Viewpoint: This year, Saturday, Sept. 21, is the 40th anniversary of Peace Day and PTP is again organizing a global celebration originating again from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza. This is a big program and will be livestreamed globally,
Michael O’Looney: Project 25 intends to deconstruct the federal government, deport undocumented migrants. abolish the Department of Education, prosecute liberal judges, nullify Biden’s orders on climate change and ‘Christianize’ every facet of our government.
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.
Conde Cox: These deer also destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of landscaping in our city every year.
There are no good reasons to remain one of the 3 Oregon cities that elect its recorder; there are plenty of reasons to vote for change By Brian Almquist and
An enhanced law enforcement area for the south side of Ashland was approved Tuesday by Ashland City Council with one nay vote. The second ELEA for the south side, which will need a second vote before going into effect, was established under the same existing rules as the downtown ELEA.
Herbert Rothschild: It’s time to hear a Mexican perspective on immigration and drug trafficking. President Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s threats.
The Mississippi-based media chain that recently bought more than three dozen newspapers in Oregon and Washington has spent the two months since its acquisition pursuing job cuts and exploring other steps to save money. Five employees of the Rogue Valley Times were told Tuesday their last day of work would be Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the newspaper’s operations.
A tsunami warning was in effect for the Oregon coast from south of Florence and into northern California as far south as just north of Santa Cruz after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake was detected 45 miles southwest of Eureka, California, at 10:44 a.m. Thursday, according to the National Tsunami Warning center
It’s not a question of if water rates will go up, it’s a question of how much. Ashland City Council reviewed a study of the finances of its water system with an eye for how much rates will need to rise in the face of various coming changes during its Monday evening study session.
When you are not ready to adopt a dog but you miss dogginess, fostering is the perfect solution. And for folks who might want to take a smaller step than fostering, there is the Field Trip program: Take a foster dog for the day, or maybe just a hike.
(It’s free)
