Ambuja Rosen: On weekends, college kids had loud parties late into the night. … Who would throw a respectable, middle-class student out of his own neighborhood, interrupting his important college education? Yet if a poor, homeless person gets three strikes for noise, he’s out.

Tom Dimitre: Will the City Council use its oversight of parks in order to rebuke Rocky Houston’s increased use of herbicides — and the increased uglification of Ashland streets with rocks?

John Frank: I want to give a special “thank you” to Ashland Fire & Rescue for providing holiday treats and kindnesses to the areas senior citizens at the Ashland Senior Center on Nov. 24. Not only were there firemen present but some brought their children to help out.  That made it special! 

John Marciano: President Donald Trump has ordered the killing of fishermen on the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean with the charge of trafficking drugs, without a shred of evidence and in violation of the Constitution and international law. At the same time, he plans to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras, who helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy that ravaged the Central American country.