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The Planning Commission will consider on Tuesday offering a "recession extension" to developers who have secured building permits but have delayed construction due to the economy. The extension would give developers 18 months, on top of…

It’s the job of the press to keep politicians and the rich and powerful on the hot seat, something the powerful don’t enjoy but should realize is a vital counter-balancing force in democracy. Sometimes their roles, as now, get reversed, and…

By John Darling For the Tidings The Rogue Creamery Audience Award for Best Feature Length Documentary was presented to “City of Joy,” the tale of oppressed women amid violence in the Congo, during the Ashland Independent Film Festival…

Joe Zavala Ashland Daily Tidings @Joe_Zavala99 Luring potential thieves with bait bikes is not entrapment, says Ashland police chief Tighe O’Meara; it’s a way to catch criminals and cut down on local bike thefts. And it’s working.…

By Jeffrey Gillespie For the Tidings "Edward III" was published anonymously, and was thought to be designed as something of a propaganda piece against the Scottish people. It was not originally included in the first folio of…

By Señora Chela Tapp-Kocks Amigo Club Two Ashland High School juniors will travel in June to Guanajuato, Mexico, as official city of Ashland participants in the Sister City’s summer festivities. The 17-year-old students, Brook Hall…

My conscious quest for inner peace began when I was 18 years old after a transcendent experience in which I spontaneously experienced a peace beyond my life circumstances. I spent the next 15 years on a spiritual quest exploring the aspects…

Five young women spent a year in a log hootch in the woods of the Cascade foothills, east of Ashland, an epic challenge designed to enrich self-confidence and connection with nature, as well as the heart of a just-released film called…

This is the second in an occasional series on Oddities & Wonders in the Ashland landscape. If you have been walking or bicycling on the Bear Creek Greenway, at the turn by the wastewater treatment plant, where it crosses Ashland…

Joe Zavala Ashland Daily Tidings @Joe_Zavala99 Southern Oregon University adjunct professor Michael Niemann had already written plenty of academic articles before arriving in Ashland in 2008, but growing inside Niemann was a budding…