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May 21, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 21

Bentz and the Jan. 6 commission On Wednesday, Congressman Cliff Bentz joined several dozen other GOP representatives to vote to form a special 9/11-like co...
May 20, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 20

Hanks should not be made permanent Ashland’s temporary City Manager Adam Hanks should not be made permanent manager. Voters made clear that they want chang...
May 19, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 19

Water crisis The article “Water crisis couldn’t be worse” should give us all pause to reconsider water usage during this time of drought, which may be with...
May 18, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 18

Hire Hanks permanently Adam Hanks started working for the city of Ashland at the age of 19. He was the Code Enforcement officer for several years and knows...
May 17, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 17

More explanation, please Whatever is going on in our Ashland City Council (Tidings front page stories by Damian Mann, May 15, is not well explained in the ...
May 15, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 15

Jensen’s budget math is off In his guest guest opinion in Sunday’s paper, Ashland City Councilor Stephen Jensen incorrectly states that the city government...
May 14, 2021 08:50 AM

Letters, May 14

Jobs I’ve read many opinions on the different reasons so many job openings are going unfilled, and I agree it’s a combination of things. However, one I hav...
May 10, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 10

Commissioners need to be proactive Our Jackson County commissioners have sent a proclamation to Salem to seek an end to state-imposed COVID-19 restrictions...
May 07, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 7

Jill Franko for School Board Jill Franko puts her heart into everything she does and serves the community with compassion. She’s also not afraid to dig int...
May 06, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, May 6

Thanks to donors 1st Phoenix Community Center’s Free Food Pantry thanks so many donors! 304 Ray’s Stuff the Truck donors: we’re down to the last of the pre...
May 05, 2021 03:25 PM

Letters, May 5

Don’t penalize our businesses Our news reports regarding COVID-19 are so upside down. The statistics they should now be reporting are how many of the hospi...
Apr 28, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, April 28

Don’t blame the governor Gov. Kate Brown has moved Jackson County into the extreme category, changing protocols that will affect the economy. Don’t blame t...
Apr 27, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, April 27

Dyson for Ashland School Board I am pleased to see so many qualified candidates running for the open positions on the Ashland School Board. Out of all the ...
Apr 26, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, April 26

The rest of the picture Your April 18 coverage of current campaign finance reform bills had me saying that “we will squander (people’s) trust if we pass a ...
Apr 19, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, April 19

Could have been a feel-good story This could have been a plot for a children’s book. A good, kindly fireman is told about a roaming one-year-old bear who a...
Apr 14, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, April 14

Anti-vaccine? Check Grandma’s arm Your parents and your grandparents bear a small scar on their shoulder that they might survive, and your mere survival is...
Apr 01, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, April 1

Who slept through civics? On Sunday, Jim Tribbey’s letter criticized State Sen. Jeff Golden, contending that majority rule is “running roughshod over every...
Mar 31, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, March 31

Consider sewage treatment options I’m trying to find out why there has been no cost-benefit analysis of abandoning the Ashland wastewater treatment plant ...
Mar 24, 2021 06:07 PM

Online letters

Racial definitions lack rigor. When I was a teen growing up near Los Angeles, I used to watch weekly The Pabst Blue Ribbon boxing matches. One match that stood ...
Mar 23, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, March 23

Racist incident in Talent. One of our daughters lives in Talent. On Saturday she and our 5-year-old granddaughter, both Asian American, were in their front yard...