In 2011, as part of my nine years in the U.S. Air Force, I deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Part of our mission was humanitarian care of wounded and il...
Since the 1940s, Oregon cities have required landowners to build a minimum amount of parking when they developed their land. This is known as “government mandat...
Chances are, if you own or have owned a business, been involved in sales, finance, management or any other position of responsibility, you have a lot to share i...
President Joe Biden likes to say there’s nothing (“and I mean nothing” he adds when he wants to underscore the point) that we can’t do in this country if we rea...
I saw Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden’s most recent political ad on television regarding the forest fires in Oregon. I was encouraged to find that he supports increasing ...
In November, the Medford City Council will consider improvements to the OR 99 corridor through Medford. Part of this corridor has been scheduled for repaving ov...
There is a good deal of pain involved in the removal of Chad McComas as executive director of the remarkable organization he co-founded, Rogue Retreat. For anyo...
There has been much talk lately about having a budget for the city of Ashland that is sustainable. What is a sustainable budget?
Sustainability is defined as “t...
I believe in the golden rule to treat others as we want them to treat us.
This means building people up, not tearing them down. It means giving people the benef...
Conservative pundits who revel in ridiculing “hyper-liberal” California culture have had a field day of late. On Aug. 25, a state agency officially banned the s...
The Bear Creek Greenway is a treasure, extending for 20 miles through the heart of our valley, from Ashland to Talent to Phoenix to Medford to Central Point. It...
As children across Southern Oregon begin the new school year, it is a reminder that we all have a responsibility to support the health and well-being of the chi...
This is in response to the column “Teachers should be free to teach” that ran in the Mail Tribune on Friday, Aug. 5.
As a local area teacher (Crater High School...
A number of years ago when I was living in another community, I was a volunteer for a nonprofit that served homeless and unsheltered people. One day when I was ...
In 1990 a majority of Oregon voters decided to pit all the jurisdictions that deliver public services into a free-for-all mud wrestling brawl for money. Passage...
I have been designing, building, and testing all-welded aluminum boats for 40 years. It is my life’s work. My love of the outdoors motivated me to dedicate my l...
The day after the nation celebrated its independence, the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildland Center (KS Wild) continued the fireworks by notifying the Bureau of Land Man...
In the 1970s through the early 1990s, many Jackson County rural landowners requested rezoning of agriculturally zoned land that had what they called “poor soils...
There has been a persistent, albeit narrow, stream of criticism concerning how the Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission manages its finances. I believe tryin...
Sexuality education is more than just putting condoms on bananas. And it’s even more than preventing sexually transmitted infections and avoiding unintended pre...
