Daily Tidings Editorial Board

The intricately filamented and connected network of mycelium under our feet looks just like the Internet or a big photograph of the universe and serves the same purpose, says famed mycologist Paul Stamets: to connect and nourish everything,…

Posted Apr. 4, 2015 at 12:01 AM The great physicist Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) thought that the age of the earth was between 20 million and 40 million years. Evolutionists like Thomas Huxley resisted this estimate because the…

Posted Mar. 28, 2015 at 12:01 AM One day I was leaving the Shop ’n’ Kart parking lot and a young man — perhaps 25 — was standing near the street holding a hand-lettered cardboard sign that said, “FAILING AT LIFE.” I gave him $5 and drove…

Posted Mar. 19, 2015 at 12:01 AM A story in Tuesday's Tidings highlighted the sizable investment in capital improvements — to the tune of $132 million — being made on the Southern Oregon University campus. A Wednesday editorial dutifully…

Southern Oregon University may be facing challenges that have led to cutbacks in some areas and the elimination of programs and faculty, but the investment the state is making in the university's buildings makes it clear SOU will continue…

With its own small-scale vineyard underway, Southern Oregon University’s Center for Sustainability (CFS) wants to nudge Oregon’s growing viticulture industry towards organic growing techniques. Although the vineyard is barren ground right…

Los Angeles, 1942. A teenage girl returns home from school one day to find her mother screaming at her father. "Pack your suitcase," mom says. "We all have to leave." Soon they’re dragging their bags down a dirt path alongside other…

Universal design is one of the most important trends in residential construction and home improvement today. Also known as disabled access or visitability, this type of design allows everyone to enter and exit a house, move from room to…

The Ashland Emergency Food Bank collected 24,500 pounds of food in February from city residents who put those bright-green food bags on their doorsteps every two months for the Ashland Food Project — but the pantry expects it still would…

There will be twice as much local produce on the table this year for the Southern Oregon University community grown by its own Center for Sustainability, which expects to nearly double its level of food production thanks to a major donation…